NEWS & EVENTS ::: GLOW! full moon art festival

come out friday, sept 9th to GLOW! a moonlit nighttime glow artfestival under the desert stars <3
i will be showing a few pieces from my new series of illustrations HOME and have outfits in the fashion show too :D tell your friends and hope to see you there, its looking to be quite the magical night. 



lets rage, team tigerblood!

more info at: http://trianglelranch.com/glow.htm 

or at the GLOW! FACEBOOK PAGE:  http://www.facebook.com/pages/GLOW/124545914252493

TICKETS
$10 adults
$5 under 18 with guardian
under 3 free
Advance tickets now at
Bohemia Artist Emporium
2920 E. Broadway or cash at the GLOW gate
Join us in the moonlit desert of Oracle's Triangle L Ranch for a two night extravaganza of illuminated sculpture, multi-media installations, video projections, performance art, live music and food.
Walk the road to the GLOW gate under a galaxy of color changing lanterns created especially for the event. Stop by the "star party" to view the Moon, Jupiter and deep space objects through telescopes in an art/science exhibit sponsored by the U of A Astronomy Dept.Orbital Evolution will light up the performance stage with beautiful flowing hoop dancers, impressive glowing hoops, and a tantalizing display of their latest invention. Poi-Zen illuminates the night with fire dancing, Saguaro Strutters line dance and Flight School Acrobatics dazzle with their correographed moves. The a cappella quartet, Chile Con Carne, performs their song on the hour from their festive alcove.  Watch Blacksmiths hammer steel by the light of the forge near the old corral.
Everyone is invited to join in the fun and participate by wearing GLOWing outfits. At 8 pm on Friday evening there will be an illuminated runway fashion show featuring the looks of Arizona designers. Immediately following there will be a costume contest for attendees to strut their stuff.
Interactive exhibits for kids and adults include The Physics Bus- presenting physics experiments and demos featuring lights, colors and electrical discharges. Ironwood Ridge High School students help you create your own fluorescent painted paper flying saucer to take home. Design your own cardboard puppet cut-out and join in the spontaneous shadow puppet theater. A big red LED TV screen allows visitors to play games of PONG.Tarot Card readers and astrologers have set up a "gypsy camp" where you can get your fortune told.
Stroll the sculpture path and five acre GLOW grounds and discover Illuminated sculpture and multi-media creations by dozens of artists. Move through a land of mixed-media and poetry to a place of illuminated respite created by Ruth Hillman. Karen Medleys' fluorescent clay desert botanicals come to life under blacklight. View light shows and projections combined with live music by Jim Hewitt, Drumscape and Oracle Art Ensemble. Hadji Banjovi projects vintage 16mm cartoons and educational shorts from his extensive film collection.  Visit the ADOBE barn for an exhibition of GLOWing artwork. 
The Triangle L Gift Shop will be open with a limited number of GLOW t-shirts and other items available. Embellish yourself at the GLOW products booth with lots of glowsticks for sale. BICAS will have a merchandise table along with their illuminated bikes and sculpture.
There will be food and soft drinks available for sale. Oracle's Casa Rivera has mexican dishes, - Nonna Maria's pizza by the slice - Sweet treats and Coffee available. Stop by the Main Ranch house and enjoy a piece of pie on the porch. 

FRIDAY NIGHT SEPT. 9, 2011 MAIN MUSIC STAGE  7 Billy Sedlmayr 8 Rey 9 Kevin Pakulis Band PERFORMANCE STAGE 7 The Cardells 8 GLOWing Fashion Show followed by a costume contest for attendees. 9 Flight School Acrobatics	SATURDAY NIGHT SEPT. 10, 2011 MAIN MUSIC STAGE SCHEDULE 7 DJ Kidd Squidd 8 Imperial Blue Bloods 9:30 Carnivaleros PERFORMANCE STAGE 7-7:30 Saguaro Strutters 7-30-8 Hoopers glow and hoopers fire 8-9 Fire by Poi-Zen 9-9:30 Hoopers glow and Hoopers fire 9:45 Danielle Chavez

The Solar Store from Tucson is one of the most sought-after renewable energy suppliers in the Southwest and generously provides solar power from their mobile cart for GLOW.
FOOD
Oracle's Casa Rivera serves Mexican Food
Nonna' Maria's Pizza
Sweet treats, Pies and baked goods
Coffee, soft drinks, water and non-alchoholic beverages
RULES OF GLOW
Bring a flashlight. Stay on designated pathways, wear comfortable walking shoes and watch your footing! Under 18 must be accompanied by an adult. Follow signs to parking on Oracle Ranch Road and walk in to the GLOW grounds. We reserve the right to remove anyone at any time for any reason. You may BYOB.

NO PETS!!! Be safe and have fun!

ART SHOW: ART & ALE @ THE TEMPE TAVERN, JULY 19TH

i will be showing select pieces from my new series of illustrations called HOME: INTERGALACTIC LANDSCAPES at the tempe tavern in tempe,az next week on july 19th. custom pieces from my jewelry line JUNKERJEWELS & my accessory line DOOMBLUMEN will be available for purchase as well, you can catch a preview of the illustrations & check out the wearables at: http://www.kafkavodkalovesyou.​com/ 

FB EVENT PAGE HERE: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=123627514391285

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FREE Group Art Show at TEMPE TAVERN on the North/East corner of McClintock and Apache in Tempe, AZ. Conveniently located across the street from Metro Bus and Light Rail stops.

Tuesday, July 19th at 8:00 PM

WHAT TO EXPECT: A diverse and highly talented group of local artist's, live music and/or DJ's, lavish libations, and a whole lot of inspiration!

::CONFIRMED ARTISTS::

BUNNY

CANO

DEBRA LEE MURROW

EDGAR CANO LEYVA

ERIKA JAYNES

GEOFF GILDNER

HEATHER EDGAR

JAMES B. HUNT

JAMESON LINGER

JEAN-PAUL MANZANARES

JULES DEMETRIUS

KAFKA ZVEZDANA VODKAA

MATT CRUX

RAY RIVAS

SAM NELSON

SEAN DAVID WRIGHT

SINCE DAY ONE

STEVE CABALLERO

TRACY PERDUE

::MUSIC::

CECILA SATORI - opening acoustic set.

DJ ALEX HINTZ 

DJ BRADLEY RODGERS

::INFORMATION DISTRIBUTION/VENDORS::

ELENA THORNTON - Arizona Consortium For the Arts.

KATIE DIGAN - hand made jewelry.

KERI MOSIER - hand made jewelry.

TAYLOR GRACE - Tarot readings, crafts.

fading away

new photo: plastic shamans of a synthetic nature, playgrounds of infinite treasure. step forward and fade away.

also on twitpic... and forever always on www.kafkavodkalovesyou.com <3

its not very often, if ever, that i post photos on here of myself. this is the first one i've had taken in at least 4-5 months and i must say i'm very pleased with it. energetically, visually, aesthetically...its all where i'm at right now in these wonderful galactic times! hope you all have a magical 12.12 tomorrow and i'll catch you crazy creatures on the other side ;)

xoxox
-kafka

boys and girls, boys and bows.

pretty monsters, beautiful creepers.

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STREET ART/installations.

Impact point, soul star: a splattering of interglactic tidalwaves & braindance sonatas

mmm, brains.....hungry yet? :p

HOME

A mixed media series of otherworldly landscapes and celestial illumination: the meaning of life is the evolution of consciousness.

MEMORYCLOAKS, starstruck....in progress?

(full size on twitpic)

LIGHTBODIES, final.

view the rest so far on my website and on facebook.

xo
kafka

UNDER CONSTRUCTION!

now available on www.kafkavodkalovesyou.com

<3

May Mixtape: CHAKRA

CHAKRA mixtape set to drop from the higher dimensions of non-linear time and space to blast you straight through the astral plane! Check out a sneek peek of the cover art and tracklist here, it will be the first installment of a mixtape series called NEON ICONS:

CHAKRA MIXTAPE

Little Boots - New In Town (A1 Bassline Attack Mix)

Robyn - Konichiwa Bitches (Lanzier & Lemethy Remix)

Fukkk Off - Famous (Dirty Disco Youth Remix)
Alex Kidd - Unholy Grail (Lazy Rich Remix)

Fedde le Grand - Put Your Hands Up For Detroit (DJ Sidney Edit)

Nujax - Super Duper Fly (Barletta and Ernold Sane Edit)

Simian Mobile Disco - Hustler (Dirty Noise Remix)

The Disco Villains - We Just Came To Get The Party Started (Night Drugs Remix)

Lolene - Sexy People (Static Revenger Club Mix)

Urchins and Spoek - Tickets (Blatta & Inesha mix)

Aquaksy feat Sporty O - Outta Control (Kelevra Remix)

Udachi - Pfunk Skank (Original Mix)

Bryan Cox - All You Bitches

The Rogue Element - Panic Attacks (Arrow's Jack Tech Remix)

Sawtooth Sucka - Letting Go (Mick Matias Boom Tee Boom Booty)

RAGE!

Love/LIGHT,
-kafka

MORE NEW NEW NEXT LEVEL SHIT!

WELL.

I've been keeping busy lately and I'm excited to tell you my new website is up at www.kafkavodkalovesyou.com!

Its part resetcouture/fashion work but also includes my new jewelry line JUNKER JEWELS, my new series of wearable toxic flowers DOOMBLUMEN (both are up for sale now too so head on over and pick up a gorgeous neon explosion of toxic blooms!)....plus lots of other fun things like drawings and illustrations. Soon enough I'll have even more epic madness which will include a shitload of raging electro tracks and videos for you filthy pretty things! But until then check out this teaser of one of my up and coming music projects:
Two previews of album artwork from my next level electro dj/performance duo project with my homeboy Spencer, who is also IDM artist Ersatz Modem. We're called ICONOPLASTIX and we make skanky filthy basslines. The end.

Preview #1: Ninjas vs. Velociraptors

Preview #2: Fluorescent Facades Slutty Money re-fix

Comin' straight at you from the dirty south, you can expect our demo and mixtapes to drop before the month is over. Your ears are safe until then!! 

Love/Light xoxo

-Kafka

New Jewelry and Accessory Lines: Junker Jewels & DOOMBLUMEN

Project 1: DOOMBLUMEN

This is my new accessory line.

Flowers of Doom: A series of wearable, perilous perennials from the apocalypse. 

Flowering toxicity with blossoms of circumstance and pockets full of paragons!

DOOMBLUMEN Groupshot

Nonpareil Paragon Pin

Junglechrome Syndromes Pin

Effloresce Medusae Hairclip

Currently available in two styles: Hair clip/Barrette and Pins.


Project 2: JUNKER JEWELS: A Meditation on Opportunity and Potential

This is my new jewelry line.

These pieces are made mostly from found objects. What began as making cute "junk necklaces" turned into so much more: a question on the nature of value, an elaborate meditation on mental illness and a dialogue on the emotional life of attachments. 

  

Counterclockwise from top:
Junker Jewels 011: Mystical Vertebra and Junker Jewels 010: Prophetic Capacitor with Earthbound Repeaters Hairclip from my accessory line DOOMBLUMEN

Junker Jewels 0 0 3: Medusa Labyrinth Necklace

Junker Jewels 0 0 8: Redemption Uninhibited Necklace

Junker Jewels 0 0 5: Mainframe, Multidimensionality Necklace

Junker Jewels 0 0 2: Release Current Necklace

Junker Jewels 0 0 1: Monarch Project

Hoarding is "a mental disorder marked by an obsessive need to acquire (and failure to use or discard) a significant amount of possessions, even if the items are worthless, hazardous, or unsanitary."

My mother is a hoarder. 

With every trip to her house over the past few years I began to collect bits and pieces of her "collections." Hoarders seem to create their own value systems, one where a rusty old paperclip or a beat up sweater have just as much value as objects socially accepted to be valuable. Discount outlets, thrift stores and television shopping channels are havens for compulsive purchasing; not because the items are actually needed but because they are on sale or a good deal.

I wanted to question this idea of "value" and how these alternative systems are created. Here I create my own system but one where the objects live up to their inherent "potential" (although subverted). Where is the line drawn between "usefulness" and "excessive"? I sought to question the nature of emotions and possessions: how a mother could deprive a daughter of natural emotional development but attribute emotional lives to objects otherwise incapable of experiencing them? When you grow up with mental illness, everything is backwards. There is no normal. My mother's ownership and possession issues have extended beyond a house full of stuff into a full blow other world built around the emotional lives of objects. Its a delicate dance between these worlds...and I ask you: Where's the line drawn between beauty and squalor? Treasure, trash, its all perspective. Where's yours?

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More photos and information on both lines can be found on my site: Junker Jewels Official

and 

DOOMBLUMEN Official

Love and light,

Kafka Vodka

resetcouture featured in Cry Havoc Mag: the LA Fashion Issue

What was Kill/Destroy is now Cry Havoc!
(really hoping that name change is a warcraft reference...yeah i'm a super nerd at heart (:

Check out our new feature in Cry Havoc Mag #1: LA fashion issue with Destroy Inc & Glamourkill Studio

Get it at www.cryhavocmag.com! or click the previews below to go to the site: