Galerie F

08/06/2024

Word is Bond, James Bond

Limbus presents: Wu​-​Tang Clan – Enter the 007 Chambers – Full AlbumA blend between John Barry's musical score for the James Bond franchise and selected tra...

08/06/2024

Only Built for Doom pt.2 [guest starring: GHOSTFACE KILLAH] by SOZEMANIA

Only Built for Doom pt. 2 (guest starring: GHOSTFACE KILLAH)Mashup Album produced by KHAMBERZco produced ...

03/18/2024

“Hit me baby…” is Goth

02/14/2024

Dig this super special Valentine’s Day 2024 Release from Gerald “The Man of Many Weapons” Okamura
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Tikumo [Super Tiki Sumo] Sofubi [Japanese Soft Vinyl]
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Blind Bagged | Edition of 15 | Signed by
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Chromed-Out Variants | [6] Green [6] Teal [3] Pink
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Drop Date: Wednesday, Feb 14th [11am CST] galerief.com
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Sculpt .m.sculpts
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Paint by
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02/05/2024

Chunky Boy by JC RIVERA
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Produced by UVD TOYS
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4” Tall | Soft Vinyl
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Designed to be displayed sitting, on your or on the edge of your shelf
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02/03/2024

Chunky Boy by JC RIVERA
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Produced by UVD TOYS
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4” Tall | Soft Vinyl
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Designed to be displayed sitting on the edge of your shelf
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02/01/2024

The Record Player by Rudderless Designs
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Version [2022]
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2-Color Screen Print on French Paper’s Recycled White
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Signed by Artist | Open Edition | 18” x 24”
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Rudderless Designs is a design studio in Chicago, Illinois specializing in screen printed gig posters and art prints.

“Mike Schwindenhammer (aka Rudderless Designs) is from the Midwest. He likes hot dogs. Artist bios are probably supposed to be a little more informative, but this is probably all you really need to know to understand both me and my screen printed gig posters and art prints.”
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01/13/2024

Chicago Gang Business Cards from the 1970s & 1980s
Author: Thee Almighty & Insane Books
3rd Printing | Clothbound
96-Full Color Pages
Size: 5.5” x 8.25”
After many requests over the years, it’s back! This new edition once again includes a selection of Chicago gang compliment cards but with a handful of swap outs from the original, and is now ordered geographically (more or less) winding from south to north to reflect both the fundamental link of these organizations with physical locations and their interactions with others nearby. The essay has also been updated to reflect new information and perspectives introduced since the last edition was published.

From the Author: Thee Almighty & Insane: Chicago Gang Business Cards from the 1970s & 1980s by Brandon Johnson is an ode to an idiosyncratic print subculture that arose in Chicago just prior to the digital age when street gangs made business cards displaying their symbols, nicknames, territories, and enemies as a means to assert their pride, recruit new members, and serve as general tokens of affiliation. Less intended, but maybe more significant is the role of these cards as historical artifacts—not only documenting the specific histories of these gangs and their members, but also the larger social dynamics of a contentious time period in the city of Chicago. With enlarged reproductions of 70+ original and reprint cards and an introductory essay by collector Brandon Johnson, this book is an appreciation of Chicago gang “compliment cards”: their hand-drawn graphics, their blackletter typefaces, their outlandish names and clever slogans.

01/13/2024

Letters To Chicago by Sir Charles
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Published by Almighty & Insane Books
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Paperback| 54 Pages | 6” x 9”
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“After the limited hand-made first edition sold through a couple months back, we decided to print a more versatile second edition to keep this book alive and circulating. Generally, it is the same content but in a smaller format with a couple artwork updates. The digital printing allowed us to reproduce the lettering colors as Sir Charles originally conceived.

Sir Charles is a pseudonym born from the gang violence that began to plague not only the streets in his own neighborhood of Brighton Park, but also many other neighborhoods in Chicago. A drive-by shooting that occurred in 2015 at Shields Elementary School fueled his mission to combine Chicago gang lettering and culture with a personal twist of empowerment, forgiveness, and growth. This mission simultaneously documents personal struggles and battles with alcoholism and drug abuse as Sir Charles, or Life of a Busy Dad as he’s also known, started a new chapter as a sober father for his daughter that continues to this day. In this publication Sir Charles’s letters are paired with mid 20th century photographs from the archives of Chicago’s Urban Renewal Department. Documenting the process of identifying “blighted” buildings/neighborhoods, and targeting them for destruction/replacement, these photos preserve images of bygone structures in the oldest parts of the city. This initiative displaced many from their homes for the sake of municipal infrastructure projects, a new university campus, public housing, and private real estate developments. With a mind to contemporary parallels, Sir Charles’s letters, symbols, and messages float through this history as a disembodied voice while demonstrating a new lettering mode combining calligraphy with graffiti handstyles that is both deeply indebted to, and an integral product of, his native city of Chicago.”
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