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Wood YOD 2

Thanks to our friends at One Gram in Japan for getting together with Landscape and creating another hand modeled wood YOD, this time in walnut. They come in an edition of 50 pieces in total and as far as I know these have sold out in Japan. But we'll have a (very small) handful available through our European online store sometime in the new year.

New Graphics

New graphics uploaded on the Amos Website.

I'll Be Your Mirror - London 2012

Amos will be working on the visual designs for the I'll Be Your Mirror event at Alexander Palace in May 2012.

James Jarvis at The Standard NY Tonight

I will be at The Standard Hotel Shop tonight, Thursday November 10th from 1800-2000. I've also made a big drawing on the window which might be worth checking out. Please come along and say hello.

KAWS, PictureBox & The Standard present

James Jarvis book signing, exhibition and live drawing in celebration of his new book De Profundis

November 10th, 6-8 p.m.

The Standard Shop (442 W. 13th St., NYC)

De Profundis UK Special Edition Now Available

The 20 UK special editions of De Profundis are available now from the Amos Store. (It's a lucky dip - you can't choose which page of artwork you receive with the book, but they're all pretty good!)

Click here to visit the store.

De Profundis at the Amos Store

On Friday October 14th the new James Jarvis book, De Profundis, will be available for sale on through the Amos Online Store.

 The store will also have some copies of a special edition. This comes with a signed original black and white brush and ink drawing from the book. There are just 60 of these available worldwide and we will have 20 for sale at the Amos Store on a first come first serve basis.

 The price for this edition of the book with drawing is £95.00. Strictly one copy per person of the special edition.

De Profundis

James is very pleased to announce his new graphic novel, De Profundis, published by PictureBox of Brooklyn, USA.

A PictureBox special edition is on sale now. This is a limited edition of 20: De Profundis accompanied by a randomly selected original drawing from the book itself. You can buy the PictureBox editions here.

The Amos Stores in the UK and Japan will also each have 20 special editions up for sale later this month, making a total of 60 worldwide. More details on the Amos editions soon.

The wood is YOD!

Following on from our post on June 24th we now have more information on the wood YOD. These were made by our Japanese licensee, One Gram, and interior design company, Landscape Products.

They are beautifully hand carved from polished solid beech and come in separate parts which join using steel magnets. They are produced in Japan so as you would imagine the quality is excellent. The edition is very small, only 30 pieces worldwide.

They sold out instantly when they went on sale in Japan. Due to their high price and scarcity we have only been able to get a tiny quantity for Europe from which we will have just 5 available for sale through store.amostoys.com. From this Saturday we will be offering these to Gold store members. Details will be emailed soon.

Unfortunately we do not expect to be able to offer the wood YOD for sale to any other membership level.

Online AMPW store now open to all

Shop here at store.amostoys.com. At the time of writing there was one of the special edition Caleb's Adventures in Wonderlean comic book, still available. This very exclusive set has the comic with a one off James Jarvis hand painted cover and a 2 piece Caleb figure set with plain t-shirts (as in the strip). This is the last one available of this very limited edition of 16!



There are still a handful of James Jarvis drawings available from the 2011 gallery shop.



And please check the Wisdom of Caleb blog for the recent strips based on reader contributions. We will get the personalised original line drawings out to the contributors soon. It's not too late to send us your suggestions and receive your own dedicated hand drawn strip. Details here.

Thanks to all those who have already shopped at the store and JJ's Gallery. As always your support is very much appreciated.

Home of Metal

On Thursday afternoon James and I made the trip up to Birmingham for the opening of a major exhibition at Birmingham Museum. Home of Metal is based on the city's undeniable links with the birth and propagation of Heavy Metal. The exhibition is curated by the wonderful women at Capsule, longtime local music promoters and organisers of the excellent Supersonic music festival. It covers the rise of Black Sabbath through to the birth of Grindcore, and all inbetween. The attention to detail is excellent and the execution is super slick. We thoroughly recommend making the effort to check this out if you get the opportunity.



The meagre Amos contribution to the Home of Metal exhibition.




JJ with his more considerable contribution to the event. This was taken from a cover he drew for the Face Magazine, back from who know's when.




Part of the excellent Grindcore/Anarcho Crust exhibit, dealing with the birth of the genre in the early 1980s. This is largely created from a small selection of Napalm Death founder member, Nic Bullen's personal collection. This includes actual photos, letters, original scribbled lyrics and Punk/Anarchist 'zines he both collected and worked on at the time, together with Miles Ratledge (another Napalm Death founder member).




Nik Napalm himself, probably slightly confused by my gushing enthusiasm for his contribution to the exhibition.




Kriz and Zip, Birmingham skateboard legends, owners of long running West Midlands institution Ideal Skates, and all-round top blokes. They are pictured here in front of a 1980s scene from the Mermaid, a venue they regularly frequented in its heyday. They may well have been at this particular show.

Wooden YOD business...

Contrary to what has been written on other blogs our online store (store.amostoys.com) will not have these for sale on July 2nd. However they will go on sale through the Japanese Amos online store from that date and it will be possible to buy direct from Japan.

However, we will be getting some sent to Europe, from Japan, for our online store, but not many as they are very expensive. We'll post full information here as soon as we have it.

Happy Summer Solstice 2011

Online AMPW delay

Unfortunately, due to a couple of technical problems, we’ve had to delay the launch of the Online Amos Miniature Public Workshop.

Everybody will now be able to access the James Jarvis Gallery and the new Gallery store from Wednesday June 22nd.

Gold members will soon receive a further invite and more information about the special AMPW online store. More invites will be sent out to other membership levels when appropriate.

Thanks to all those who have already sent us suggestions for Wisdom of Caleb comic strips. We have definitely received some nice ideas. We will post the first new strip, and announce the first gift winner, next Wednesday on the Wisdom of Caleb blog. Please keep the ideas coming.

Keep checking back here for more info.

Apologies for any inconvenience.

Amos Online Miniature Plastic Workshop

Amos Online Miniature Plastic Workshop

After our successful workshops in Tokyo and London we welcome you to the Amos Online Miniature Plastic Workshop.

From Wednesday June 22nd we will offer for sale some of the products that were available at the previous workshops in Tokyo and London. This will include the limited Caleb’s Adventures in Wonderlean comic book. This is an online store exclusive as it is not available anywhere else in the world. The store will also carry a few long sold out specials, and other items that have been unavailable for general sale in Europe.

There will also be an online gallery of original James Jarvis drawings which will be available for sale through store.amostoys.com

Keeping in spirit of the workshop we would also like you to help us with a special series of Wisdom of Caleb comic strips that we will post through the Wisdom of Caleb blog. We want suggestions of objects or subjects that we can use in the new strips. We will credit the author of any suggestions that we use and, if they forward us their postal address, we will send them a special thank you gift. If you would like to offer ideas then please email caleb-at-amostoys-dot-com.

Watch this blog for more details soon.

Stoner Radio on Demand

For anyone who may have wanted to hear my show for Domino Radio, but couldn't make the anti-social scheduling, you can now listen to it on demand at the following address:

http://dominorad.io/show/russell_waterman_stoned_rock

I reckon it's worth a listen if you like a slightly heavy stoned rock/psych sound. I'm getting some nice feedback too!

And the chap from Norfolk who I forgot to name is Luke Abbot.

Radio Change

In the unlikely possibility anyone is interested, I've just been told that my radio show will now go out a couple of hours earlier at 1am. I've corrected the time in my earlier post.

www.dominorad.io

On the radio...

I recorded a radio show for Domino Radio which you can hear live if you happen to still be up in the early hours of Thursday morning June 9th at 1am BST. You can actually hear it on a radio (97.7 FM) if you're within a few miles of Wandsworth, South London, and they can bleed out the local pirates.

Or you can stream it online, direct from the Domino Radio website.

If the show gets archived I'll post the link at a later date.

More info on my show here.

yet more of 16

still another of 16

SHIFT | PEOPLE | JAMES JARVIS

SHIFT | PEOPLE | JAMES JARVIS

and another of 16

another of 16

one of 16...

Today at AMPW JJ did these...

Back at the Outlet.

James and I will again spend a Saturday afternoon at the AMPW at KK Outlet. We'll be there this Saturday, May 29th, from 2pm-5pm. If you happen to be in town then please pop by and say hello. Maybe even help us with another Wisdom of Caleb cartoon.

Hope to see you there.

KK Outlet
42 Hoxton Square
London
N1 6PB

+44 20 7033 7680

AMPW - Workshop week 1

Thanks to those who came to see us at KK Outlet earlier today. James and I had a great afternoon.

And a special thank you to Blossom Mills for her inspiration for our AMPW Wisdom of Caleb strip. Sorry about the naughty word!!!



You can view the full strip for a short time at www.wisdomofcaleb.blogspot.com

We'll do it again next Saturday.

and there's this...

Russell as Rufus.



The result of a long weekend at the very last May, Minehead, All Tomorrow's Parties festival.

It will be missed!

AMPW Update Part 2

James and I will put in some personal time at KK Outlet this Saturday. Like we did in Tokyo, we will attempt to produce a Caleb comic strip with the help of who ever is around at the time. We will also be available for questions, general ridicule and abuse.



We will sign any copies of the Wonderlean comic presented to us and James will be available to sign other product bought from the store at KK Outlet.

Jarvis and Waterman will be in the house from 2pm until 5pm on Saturday 21st May.

KK Outlet
42 Hoxton Square
London N1 6PB

AMPW Update Part 1

In conjunction with the event at KK Outlet we've been doing various bits of press and interviews.

Here's a link to a couple of my recent online efforts (with a more personal touch).

The 405

Dazed Digital

Amos Porter II

Once again we've collaborated with Japanese premium luggage and accessory brand, Porter. This time with the help of our friends at One Gram they've produced a wallet, hip/shoulder bag and a pen case.

Unfortunately the relatively high product price and weak GBP prevents us from importing these into Europe. However they can be bought directly from amostoystore.jp.

Amos x Porter Pen Case

Amos x Porter Hip/Shoulder Bag

Amos x Porter Wallet

Caleb's Adventures in Wonderlean.

16 page printed mini-comic book. Edition of 300



Numbers 1 to 16 will come with the plain "comic strip version" Caleb and Bare Lean Caleb figures, and an original James Jarvis hand painted cover.



On sale now at the Amos Miniature Plastic Workshop.

The London Amos Miniature Plastic Workshop is now open...

Photos of the event and a few of the opening here.

And the Calebs are here!