Two Rabbits Studios

We were lucky enough to be asked to be a sponsor for this great race. If you are not into bikes this race is still a good time to come out and hang. You just might be to see men wearing skin tight beer drinking bike race suits.

WHERE THE HELL IS WALDO III from GlockWork on Vimeo.

WHERE THE HELL IS WALDO is an all city “Alley Kat Style” Scavenger hunt race. Cyclist are given an address and clues of where to find Waldo (real person or wheat paste) at key landmarks through out the city. No route, however you get there is up to your knowledge of the city. This year, in honor of our 3 year anniversary, we will be hosting the WHIS3 in Brooklyn NY, Los Angeles CA, and San Antonio, TX on the same day!!!
After parties are TBA, but request to host have already been put in our ear. As you know we like to ride hard and play hard so lets have fun!!!!!

Co-Directors: Justin Kizzart & GlockWork
Shot & Edited: GlockWork
Riders: Dust Bunny & Sean Martin (TOLA & CBNC)
Music Edited: Loren "Lo Key" Rowry

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CBNC will be at Magic on the 13th – 15th. If you are in Vegas stop by the booth say hi and support.

CBNC for Rudy’s from ace carretero on Vimeo.

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The last 5 months have been a really exciting time for us with the new direction into the fine art world. Our next show is just a week and half away and is in the wonderful city in the bay, San Francisco. For this show we asked our good friend David Murray from Seibei to host the show. He happily said yes, and did a little write up about the upcoming show and work…

Five years of busting ass has given them an intimate connection to the screen printing process. From their humble beginnings in a garage to their current digs at LA’s infamous Scum Dungeon, Bob and Mike have been in the thick of it, with dirty hands and stained jeans. Though there are many small touches to their work that hint at the amazing process involved – handmade color fades, slight changes to the paper brought on by climate and different inks, added touches like spray-painted stencils – these are but small elements in a back catalog of work that shines with a well-trained eye for design and a small army of hands pulling squeegees with precision.

What better way to celebrate Wu-Tang’s 20 year anniversary than with the release of Wu-Sciples, a ten color print celebrating one of the rawest groups in music. This print has been a long time in the making for us at Two Rabbits. When we had the idea we knew only one person could illustrate it right, Adam Hathorn aka Honkey Kong. We were already major fans of Adams work. He has illustrated jobs for us, been a great host when we were in San Diego and he is one of the best tattoo artist we know. Adam is also Wu obsessed, like us. With that said here is Adam in his own words…

“So far as my memory takes me, my introduction to Wu Tang was when 36 chambers was released in 93. I had to wikipedia that, my memory is not that good. My friend Strobe Beats played me “Wu-Tang Clan Ain’t Nuthing ta Fuck Wit” on a walk man, or some shit, in the cafeteria. The beat made me wanna punch people, much like the hard core and punk rock music that I was listening to at the time. I immediately got a copy, and it was on constant rotation. That was what got me back into hip hop music. Previously I was listening to alot of Public Enemy and alot of the native tongue stuff, Tribe Called Quest, LONS, De La etc. After that hip hop was getting boring. I was young and turned to hard core music, especially in Boston where it thrived at that time. When Wu came with that raw sound with production that was stripped down and unpolished, it was an easy step back in. Wu Tang has been a huge part of music in my life since. I’m sure there’s been few days since that have passed without me hearing Wu in some form. I tattoo all day, or draw all day, so there’s some form of music always playing, and there’s plenty on shuffle.

I was lucky enough to be asked by the guys at Two Rabbits Studios to create the “Wu-sciples” print. Their idea was solid out ofthe gate. Wu Tang last supper with Big Baby Jesus front and center. I said sign me up. The illustration took a bit to do since they’re artist deep, but nonetheless a fun project. Thanks for choosing me to do this print, see you Saturday for the show….. Wu Tang is FOREVER!” -Adam Hathorn

Wu-Sciples Art Print
Edition size 200
18″x24″
100c Old Green Speckltone by French Paper
10 Colors (white, silver, light brown, medium brown, dark brown, dark red, gold, yellow, orange, black)

Wu-Sciples Rock Poster
Edition size 23
18″x24″
100c Old Green Speckltone by French Paper
10 Colors (white, silver, light brown, medium brown, dark brown, dark red, gold, yellow, orange, black)

The print is going on sale Monday January 30th at noon PST.
http://tworabbits.bigcartel.com/product/wu-sciples

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If you missed our ‘BUY PRODUCT’ art opening last night you can view it here.

Our good friend Max Neutra is having a solo exhibit at Cave Gallery. You won’t want to miss this.

Chris Wolford from Dethkills did a nice little write up for us about our current show opening tomorrow…

Hardworking, underrated, always smilin’, quick learning, corner hustlin’, print machines. That’s the first thing that comes to mind when I think of 2rabbits. I’ve known the Rabbits for a little over 3 years now and I’ve been able to witness their growth as artists, entrepreneurs and most importantly friends. Bob and Mike are all too aware of the things that come with the pressures of running a collective: the ups and downs, the give and take, the love and hate.

What I have witnessed develop out of these elements are two amazing bodies of work: Unique Variants (exhibited in November 2011) and Buy Product (opening Thursday Jan 12, 2012 at Crewest Gallery). Both shows feature similar work where upon first glance you can’t help but recognize the choice color pallet, layers of minimalism and a ton of resin. The pieces are more reminiscent of the art born out of 1960s/1970′s Southern California surf/art scene rather than what you would expect from “rock poster artists”. However as the pieces drew me in, the panels never grew tiresome. My eyes were lead in a game of tag across strips of screen printed images, compounding to make a seem less flow of visual stimulation created from endless amounts of typography, illustrations, texture and color. Only one word needs to be said about this show. Refreshing…

Show opens Thursday January 12th, 2012
Crewest Gallery
110 Winston Street Los Angeles, CA 90013

Check out Trash Talks new video. Art directed and illustrated by Jay Howell.

Rumor has it Two Rabbits will be publishing a Jay Howell print soon…

This week we will be hanging our next solo exhibit, “Buy Product” at Crewest Gallery. The opening reception will be Thursday the 12th, during artwalk, but it will be open for public viewing by Saturday! The show will feature some new works that we have made since our last show. Our work lately has been drastically focused on the repurposing of our by-product. Running a commercial print shop, making printed products all day, yields a lot of excess and leftover material, and we don’t like to see anything go to waste. From our test prints to our mixing sticks, we see the chaos and beauty of our artistic endeavors in everything that’s left over. We have taken what many consider to be useless and turned it into beautiful works of color and shape. In an almost Dadaesque fashion we are taking the by-product of making art and turning that into art to buy. If you are in the Downtown LA area this month swing by and take a look!