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20

Nov

myAKU gallery update!
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Thanks to Tomek, Phil and Andre!

 

15

Nov

AKUmotor rebels available now
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Time for another commercial break folks!
AKUmotor rebels hits our store today, limited to 250 shirts.
Awesome!

 

13

Nov

Tiki Modern by AKUs Thorsten Hasenkamm
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Aloha,

this is Thorstens awesome piece for the "XMAS LUAU"-Group Show @ Strychnin Gallery in Berlin in December...
Hope to see you there!
 

20

Oct

AKUwear and McDonald's present: BASHMENT NEWS 2
bashment_14_11 Das zweite „Bashment“ (wie die Jamaikaner zu sagen pflegen) wird wieder unter dem Motto „Jamaican Vibez meets Black Beats“ im „The Auld Triangle“ dem Irish Pub Paderborn (direkt an der Libori-Galerie) steigen.

Das beste aus Black, Reggae & Dancehall gibt es an diesem Abend auf die Ohren! Mit dabei ist „SIR BENNY STLYES“. Der Paderborner Kult DJ wird die Partygemeinde wie gewohnt mit feinster Black Musik verwöhnen. Fette Reggae & Dancehall Beats dürfen in dieser Nacht auch nicht fehlen, deshalb gesellen sich „DA KILLA“ & „MAD MIKE“ zu später Stunde mit an die Turntables und werden es ordentlich krachen lassen.

Außerdem, live on stage „OGE“! Die aus Nigeria stammende, in Paderborn lebende 25-Jährige präsentiert erstmals Songs aus Ihrem demnächst erscheinenden Album und wird uns richtig einheizen!

Also, auf keinen Fall verpassen!
Samstag, 14.11.2009
Ab 21.00 Uhr

Cool Drinks Spezial Prices

Strawberry Dream 2,00 €
Irish Dream 2,00 €
Vodka Mix 2,50 €



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15

Sep

Attention Surf Warriors!!! New Shirt online NOW!
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Commercial Break!

AKUsurf warriors hits stores today.
More stuff coming up!
 

11

Sep

AKUwears Thorsten Hasenkamm @ Harold Golen Gallery
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Aloha,

we' re proud to announce that AKUs Thorsten Hasenkamm will have his first US-Solo-Exhibition @ Harold Golen Gallery in Miami, from Sept. 12th-Oct. 3rd...If you're in the area go check it out...here's the flyer...to check out the gallery go to www.haroldgolengallery.com! Thanks!
 

15

Aug

New Arrival: AKUexotica ... limited to 250 shirts
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Aloha,
order our latest shirt AKUexotica NOW. Only 250 shirts available.
Take care!
 

06

Aug

Craig "Skibs" Barkers first solo show coming up!
Aloha folks,

our friend Craig "Skibs" Barker has his first solo art show coming up!!!!
It's on Saturday, August 15th at Neue Transit Studio in Santa Ana, CA. 7-11pm.
Hope to see you there!

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More about Craig and his awesome work @ Skibs website !
 

01

Jul

Shipping Worldwide!!!
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Aloha folks,
just a short reminder!
AKUwear is shipping WORLDWIDE!  Check our rates in the FAQs!
Grab your shirt or print whereever you are!

 

18

Jun

New Arrival - AKUwings
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Commercial Break: New Arrival- AKUwings, only 250 shirts available... ORDER NOW !
More shirts coming soon!

 

14

May

Robots & Donuts... The Art Of Eric Joyner
Link_ericjoynerAloha folks,

check out our friend Eric Joyner.

He enjoyed a rather uneventful childhood in the rather unremarkable town of San Mateo, California in the 1970s. Like many kids of that time, he enjoyed reading comics, playing sports, and making gunpowder … wait. Gunpowder? Oh, that’s right. This is the 1970s we’re talking about. Kids were doing all sorts of dangerous things back then, and nobody ever blinked an eye.

Joyner’s mother was a Methodist who would bribe her young son with donuts to go to Sunday school. His father, an atheist, said mean stuff about Jesus behind his wife’s back. Despite their differences of opinion on God, the Joyners built a loving home for their children and nobody grew up to be too weird.

And, as if guided by the unseen hand of an all-knowing consciousness (but probably not Jesus), at some point in his very young life, someone took Joyner to view an exhibition of Van Gogh’s paintings at the De Young museum in San Francisco. This experience greatly impressed the child, and he soon began taking painting lessons with his older sister. By the time he was in the first grade, classmates and teachers started to notice the compelling work he was creating, and the life of an artist began to take its shape.

After high school ,Joyner attended the Academy of Art in San Francisco. Later, under the influential teaching of Francis Livingston, Kazuhiko Sano, Bill Sanchez, and Robert Hunt, his work greatly improved and he began to work professionally as an artist.
For the next decade, Joyner was a hired-gun for various publishers, high-tech companies, and advertising agencies; he also was a digital animator and provided other artistic services for a variety of companies before rediscovering his original love of drawing and painting and returning to that medium.

The year 1999 was a big one for Joyner He began entering his paintings into various juried shows in the Bay Area and his efforts were well received. That inspired him to focus his paintings only on subjects he truly enjoyed painting–urban San Francisco landscapes, Mexican masks, cartoon characters, and Japanese toy robots. Eventually, the majority of his focus shifted to the robots, and he began to place them in settings more appropriate to their nature, namely outer space.

It wasn’t until 2002 that Joyner realized something was missing from his paintings, that his lusciously rendered protagonists might need something to contend with … perhaps a nemesis. Shortly thereafter, which watching the movie Pleasantville, in which Jeff Daniels’ character paints a still life of donuts, Joyner’s ultimate vision took shape. With thoughts of donut inventor Wayne Thiebald’s miraculous pastries always close at hand, it wasn’t difficult for Joyner to envision a battle scene of robots retreating from 300 foot-tall donuts. The rest, as they say, is history.

Visit his website  www.ericjoyner.com !

Yours
Sepp

PS: New shirts coming soon....


 

11

May

Thumbs up! AKUanalog available NOW!
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Click here and order your limited AKUanalog shirt NOW. 250 shirts available!
 
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