Thursday Apr 26, 2012 by mike
Flyers of Yore
I was digging through my collection of old flyers and found a few I'd designed for our events. It's a shame that flyers are so quick and disposable now. Wish there more printed, collectible handbills like gig posters.
This one is for the Life Sucks Die Issue 7 release party at 7th Street Entry, December 2000. It was my first ever DJ gig in Minneapolis and was also on my birthday. Oh snap!
Thursday Mar 29, 2012 by mike
LSD Easy Riders
A few years ago, Friend-Of-Burlesque™ Matt Grayson sent us this photo of a one-of-a-kind Life Sucks Die biker vest he and his friends Brooke and Cody made. Pretty fucking sweet if you ask us. The original LSD graphic was pulled from a t-shirt Matt picked up at Pizza Boys' only ever St. Louis show around the year 2000.
Tuesday Jan 17, 2012 by mike
From the BRLSQ Vault! Walker In The Rough
In late 2003, we were invited to design and build our very own mini-golf hole to be part of the Walker Art Center's 9-hole course in the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden in the Spring & Summer of 2004. The Burlesque crew at the time was myself, Wes Winship, George Thompson, and Skye Rossi. We came up with the idea that the hole would represent the game of life. The player could either take their chance shooting the ball up a ramp into a pachinko-style board (risking it all for a chance at fame and fortune) or just say "fuggit" and aim the ball for either a bland career in a beige cubicle or towards an eternity eating pizza and listening to heavy metal in your parents' basement. No matter which direction was chosen, the player was always greeted by the grim reaper at the end, cause hey, we all gotta go one way or another.
Along with help from Wes' father Larry Winship, we built this thing inside our tiny old studio (the old Life Sucks Die office) where there was hardly room for it. From conceiving and designing to sourcing materials to doing Mr. Wizard style physics tests to assembling the course at midnight in the pouring rain, this was like no other project we've ever taken on - a huge, crazy, creative learning experience. Click ahead to see photos of the construction, on-site installation, and opening reception at the Sculpture Garden.
