Christmas card 2008

Not among the all time greatest Xmas cards I've done, but it worked...

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Big image of Alex's Bar shirt, True Blood, Fangtasia, HBO

I've mentioned and posted photos of this shirt design I did years ago for Alex's Bar.

I'm bringing it up again because:
a) Alex's Bar has been appearing on TV lately. Scenes from the new HBO vampire series True Blood were filmed there. If you watch the show, then you'll know the vampire bar called Fangtasia. The Fangtasia scenes, with the red walls and curtains, velvet paintings, etc.; those were filmed at Alex's Bar. Pretty Cool.
b) A decent sized image of the shirt design has never been shown online.

...and so, here is the front...(click thumbnail to enlarge)



...and here is the design on the sleeves...(click thumbnail to enlarge)



Sorry, I don't have an image of the back of the shirt on hand at the moment, but it says the name of the bar in a nice-campy-60's-Mexican-horror-movie-kinda-typestyle

Again, these shirts are only available at the bar itself:
Alex's Bar
2913 E. Anaheim St.
Long Beach, CA 90804
(NE corner of Anaheim & Gladys, next to the Auto Zone, entrance in the back)
562-434-8292

More "album art"

From my music page blog:

I uploaded another song to my music profile player:

The Heart Motorik



My son laid down a track for this one, en utero.

Enjoy

~BK

...and also...

Menthol Ziggurat art...
...enlarged.

The Long Beach Loop

I designed a logo for The Long Beach Loop.
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The LBL is a monthly event involving 3 bar/venues (Alex's Bar, The Prospector & The Pike) with bands playing every hour and a big, red double decker bus carting folks to and fro (in, of course Long Beach, CA).

For more info, see the official MySpace page for The Long Beach Loop.
There you can find the next Loop event, what bands are playing, how to get tickets, etc. Plus a bunch of photos of people having a blast at previous events.

If you're one of those anti-MySpace folks, you can get info at the Alex's Bar website.

BK shop is now online

As of today, the shop page is up and running.

I still have a few minor things to add/subtract/improve, but it's there for anyone wishes to purchase any of my wares.

:-)

Art show/Rock show Tonight in Long Beach

I will have posters hanging/for sale & my other band is playing at this...

Art show / rock show tonight!



Friday, Sept. 5th
at Nino's Italian Restaurant
3853 Atlantic Ave
Long Beach, CA 90807
(562) 427-1003

6-8pm:
Art Reception
Original ink drawings for flyers by Paul Sharar, artwork by Tom Vadakan, poster prints by Bob Kurthy, and more (I'm not sure who/what else will be up).
(allegedly free appetizers floating around)

Bands:
8:30-9:30pm - The Fifth Story Tenants (playing their final show...for awhile at least)

9:45-10:30pm - The Bolides

10:45-11:30pm - Not From The Jam (band playing cover songs of The Jam)

[ Special thanks to Julie Nishikawa for framing & hanging Paul & Bob's artwork ]

BK Shop under reconstruction

My online shop is being reconstructed and relocated.
I should have it up before the end of Sept. '08.

The "shop" was formerly the merchandise page for my band BlowUpBlow.
We disbanded in Summer '08, and I have since leveled the website, leaving the BlowUpBlow MySpace page as the only official website for the band.

Since I did the artwork for all the BlowUpBlow releases, T-shirts, flyers, etc., along with some other items involving other band members (such as the Potato Mummy comic I did with guitarist Eric Dunn) made available on the BUB merch page, I linked it to the 'shop' button on bobkurthy.com.

In the meantime, posters can still be ordered through the portfolio section.