Pandora's Box Giveaway

I've just sent off the approval for the next ad in Hi-Fructose Magazine. It plugs the site as well as the Pandora's show.

There are 28 artists committed to the line up. About 13 are folks I was originally acquainted with through the gig poster scene.

I'm still not ready to release the artist list for this show. However, I am ready to start hyping it a bit. So here's what I'm going to do for now. The first person to guess ten of the gig poster folks involved in the show will get a tube stuffed with an item from each of those artists.

Please leave your guesses in the comments area of this post. Guess as many times as you like. Once someone nails it I'll announce the winner. Contest void once Hi-Frustose is released in March. Artists partaking in Pandora's Toy Box are not eligible. Employees of Hi-Fructose Magazine and any of their agents are not eligible.

So there's been some folks asking about this Pandora's Box show I'm curating. I'm not really ready to release who's involved but I can tell you a bit about how the idea came to me and an opening date.

The show will take place at the Good News Mountaineer Garage Gallery and will preview during the May ArtWalk in Charleston, WV. The ArtWalk takes place the third Thursday of the month. The show actually opens Friday, May 16th, and runs for three weeks.

The idea for the show came to me in a dream.......well, not really. I was actually at my buddy's house working on some website stuff. Mark Wolfe did the design for marshhouse. He will be taking part in this show. Mark is a pug-lover. One of his pug's, Pandora, is insane. She requires constant attention when in the same room.

We were working on the web stuff and Pandora was going to town scratching my leg. I tried to distract her with chewie toys to no avail. Finally, I gave in and she jumped to my lap. I thought of her name, as I stroked her snorting head, and the myth surrounding its origin.

Certainly the woman who delivered all the evil of the world couldn't have been that old. What if her box of despair and destruction contained her toys as well? What would they look like?

I looked at Mark and said, "Dude, let's do a toy show."