SUZANNE HUSKY, SASE PROJECT #1 release party at Triple Base, Friday August 20th, 7-9PM 3041 24th Street, San Francisco, CA

We are pleased to announce that our first project in the SASE series (Self Addressed Stamped Envelope) is now available. SASE #1 is by Bay Area based Visual Artist Suzanne Husky. IT IS A DOUBLE SIDED POSTER AVAILABLE FOR FREE to the first 80 people who send a standard sized, self addressed stamped envelope to THE THING's studio between now the end of August. This is an unsigned edition of 80. For more information on the project visit our THING Project Page.

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Chris Johanson's issue 11 was released to the public at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art on Thursday, June 17th as part of SFMOMA: Now Playing, a Thursday night series of events designed to animate the museum in unexpected ways. His issue was put to use that night as Chris introduced it to over 1,100 guests and led the Mission supergroup The 17th & Capps (featuring Johanson, Joe Goldring, and surprise guests), and revisited its punk back catalogue, reinterpreted as American standards. The event took place from 6:00-9:45PM.

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Actor, producer, writer and performance artist, James Franco has signed on as the contributor for Issue 14, which will be available this winter. We have already begun a discussion about what this issue might be and how it might be publicly launched, and we are very excited about the direction things are going. Get ready.

More information on James can be found here.

Also, here's an article that James wrote in the Wall Street Journal

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Issue 9 Parallel Blackjack Tournament at the Berkeley Art Museum

On Friday, May 29th, at the Berkeley Art Museum, 32 players 12 dealers sat through several rounds of parallel black jacks, using Ryan Gander & Europa's issue 9 of THE THING Quarterly. The tournament, which was a collaborative endeavor with our friends at the Curiosity Shoppe in San Francisco, was part of a larger secret event at the museum called The Secret Society. The winner of the tournament received a $100 cash prize and $100 gift certificate from The Curiosity Shoppe. The event was organized by the amazing Francois Vigneault, and the card holders were built by Luke Bartels and Jeff Canham in collaboration with Europa. We are looking into a tournament in New York this fall. Let us know if you would be interested in playing.

All photos are by Lenny Gonzalez

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Starlee Kine Issue 10

Join Starlee Kine and friends for the release of issue 10 of THE THING Quarterly by Starlee Kine at Housing Works Bookstore Café in New York. Friday May 14, 7:00-8:30PM, 126 Crosby Street, NYC 10012 Starlee Kine will be on hand offering onion-cutting demonstrations (using her issue as the cutting board), reading and signing issues. She will be joined by guests David Lipsky, David Rees, Arthur Jones who will also offer some cooking demonstrations and readings. Copies of Starlee’s issue will be available at the Housing Works Bookstore, with 50% of all proceeds of sales that night going to support the Housing Works fight against AIDS and homelessness. And 100% of all drinks and food purchased at the café will go to Housing Works, so come hungry and thirsty. For information on the issue, click here.

see reviews:

Cool Hunting.com

La Motif

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Final Game of the tournament

On the 21st of January 2010, from 6pm on into the night, Ryan Gander & Europa's issue 9 of THE THING Quarterly was publicly released at Lisson Gallery , 29 Bell Street location in London.This issue is the third edition of a parallel card project that Gander created in collaboration with Europa, and will be used in a special card tournament played at the gallery.

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On the 21st of January 2010, from 6pm on into the night, Ryan Gander’s issue 9 of THE THING Quarterly will be publicly released at Lisson Gallery , 29 Bell Street location in London. This issue is the third edition of a parallel card project that Gander created in collaboration with Europa, and will be used in a special card tournament played at the gallery.

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