Golden Age

2008-09-06T17:21:00.002-05:00

YO YO YO!!!!

WE HAVE TONS OF NEW STUFF.

Some items will sell out fast so if you're interested in something from this selection, please email us your order and address and we'll send you a total.

Lucky Dragons -- Dream Island Laughing Language CD -- $10 -- best Lucky Dragons release to date.
Sumi Ink Club -- Greyscale Gardens zine -- $4 -- exploded graphite drawings
Sumi Ink Club -- Mural Book -- $8 -- sumi ink club painted their studio, then they took photos and that became a book. holy moly!
Justin B Williams -- Escape from the PZ zine-- $3 - Chicago based artist Justin B Williams brings hot fire, detailed line drawings, don't get caught in the paranoia zone!
Apenest vol 2 book -- $30 --
Henry Glover -- Cola Kowalla zine-- $6
Masary Tomiyama -- Mode 1 book-- $10
Elizabeth Jaeger -- How to Say Goodbye zine -- $5
Parenthetical Girls -- Picturedisc w/ photo by David Horovitz 7" -- $10 -- The B side of this is banging.
Casiotone for the Painfully Alone -- Picturedisc w/ photo by David Horovitz 7" -- $10
High Places/Xiu Xiu -- Poloroid Project 7" -- $10 - I love high places.
Gift Magazine -- $7 (lucky number!!) -- an independent, small run, international tangible digital grass roots publication, includes first chapter from a forthcoming novel by artist Miltos Manetas.

2008-09-05T13:28:00.002-05:00

I vote for an end to the Microsoft/Apple war. I think they both suck and I'm waiting for something better. In the meantime: Microsoft says "Bee Movie was not the comeback Jerry Seinfeld thought it would be(e)."

- Martine

2008-09-04T11:00:00.000-05:00

SUMI INK CLUB WAS A BLAST, super super psyched. I feel like it was a gathering everyone was really looking for; everyone involved was from manifold social groups, there were people of all ages, all from completely different backgrounds coming together in one space and engaging in something positive. Totally idyllic. I'm excited for the coming season, things are changing and we're glad to be part of the change. 100% love to Lucky Dragons, powerful, strong people with wonderful ideals.

Thanks to everyone who participated and please email us your name so we can figure out who to attribute this wonderful drawing on our wall to.

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Marco

2008-09-03T15:56:00.006-05:00

This is very important. Anytime a fashion icon gets transformed into a plush, and not only a plush, a teddy bear, the most classic of all plush animals, I feel it's worth noting. This seems like a pinnacle (or a all time low) for the Karl Lagerfeld brand.
Thanks to Aya Yamasaki for the images.

-marco

2008-08-29T14:39:00.002-05:00

Calling all foodies, this should be a tasty night! Brought to you by the people who helped us start Golden Age, the EDSC.

Buen Provecho! Pilsen

Tuesday, September 16, 2008 5:30pm - 9:30pm
18th Street
$20 in advance, $25 day-of

Buen Provecho! Pilsen is an exciting event new to Pilsen. Centered
along 18th Street in the heart of Pilsen's commercial district, Buen
Provecho Pilsen will feature over 20 different restaurants sampling
their signature dishes.

Start Location:
ESDC Office 1843 S. Carpenter (19th St. & Carpenter)

A Few Featured Restaurants:

Café Aorta 2002 W. 21st St.
Café Jumping Bean 1439 W. 18th St.
Cocina Mundial 1640 W. 18th St.
Galeria del Pastel 1238 W. 18th St.
Kristoffer's 1733 S. Halsted
La Cebollita 1807 S. Ashland
La Esperanza 1864 S. Blue Island
Mi Cafetal 1519 W. 18th St.
Pollo Express 1315 W. 18th St.
Los Comales 1544 W. 18th St.
Honky Tonk Barbeque 1213 W. 18th St.
Café Mestizo 1646 W. 18th St.
Panaderia Nuevo Leon 1643 W. 18th St.
Perez Restaurant 1163 W. 18th St.
Fogata Village 1820 S. Ashland
Cuernavaca 1160 W. 18th St.
Dave's Ice Cream 1451 W.18th St.
Decima Musa 1901 S.Loomis
Nuevo Leon 1515 W. 18th St.
Sabas Vegas 1808 S. Ashland

2008-08-28T22:33:00.000-05:00

Sumi Ink Club / Lucky Dragons are in Chicago the entire week and this SUNDAY, AUGUST 31st at 1PM they're going to be at GOLDEN AGE! Bring your brushes, brains, ears, eyes and positive attitudes and join us for this lazy Sunday drawing sesh/music sesh.

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Sumi Ink Club is a Los Angeles-based drawing collective founded in 2005 by Sarah Anderson and Luke Fischbeck. The group holds regular open meetings to execute topsy-turvy, detailed, collaborative drawings using ink on paper. in each of its permutations, Sumi Ink Club uses group drawings as a means to open and fortify social interactions that bleed into everyday life.

More Lucky Dragons/Sumi Ink Club info + free music downloads
available @
sumi ink club
hawks and sparrows
glaciers of nice

+ Items from Sumi Ink Club/Lucky Dragons/Glaciers of Nice soon to be
restocked in store and in our Webshop

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2008-08-27T16:28:00.002-05:00

-LAUREN

2008-08-24T12:22:00.004-05:00

ITEM OF THE WEEK

Weimar, Colours.

Very nice series of happyfun soulish grooves, very deep, rich progression of lo-fi sampling that you can wave about to, or relax to sitting in a cushiony chair. This is multipurpose music for multipurpose people.

more info available here

-marco

2008-08-23T13:23:00.005-05:00

This is basically how I feel about Chicago right now:

SUPPORT THE SCENE

We put the community in front of us and the Kulture Vultures behind us. It's easy to be a star in a solo band, but way harder to work together as a gang, that's a community that shines as an army murderin' everything we touch. The scene is thriving...are you gonna get jumped in or humped in? It's better to be a participant that a spectator.

- from OBP

2008-08-22T12:00:00.003-05:00

Our dear friend Megan Plunkett of The Kingsboro Press sent us the ultimate new procrastinating site: This Is Sand.

Here is my modest contribution:

From their website:

thisissand.com is a website for play. It changes the pixels on the screen into digital sand that can be used as building material for cosmic landscapes, Clemens-style sand paintings, mandalas and so on.

This is a joint project of the designers Johanna Lundberg and Jenna Sutela with the Flash programmer Timo Koro. We wanted to create a playground of colours and sound for people to play with us in our sandbox - within the computer screen.

2008-08-21T14:04:00.003-05:00

We just got the new ANP Quarterly in and I'm psyched, there's a big KAWS interview + more.

Also, I'm reading the new Dot Dot Dot 16 right now and the Cory Arcangel article about JPEGs called On Compression and is very nice. Very nice.

Marco

2008-08-17T12:00:00.005-05:00

2008-08-16T16:00:00.000-05:00

WE'RE PARTICIPATING IN THE 4TH ANNUAL PRINTERS BALL @ THE MCA CHICAGO. PSYCHED!!!

4TH ANNUAL PRINTERS' BALL @ THE MCA CHICAGO
FRIDAY, AUGUST 22, 2008 @ 5:30 p.m!

Golden Age is in the Printers Ball @ the MCA! Come by and check out some of the new goodies we've got! Free new limited edition GOLDEN AGE mini-posters available only at the fair!

Museum of Contemporary Art
220 East Chicago Avenue
Chicago

21+ only
Free admission

The Printers' Ball is an annual celebration of print literature in Chicago, hosted by Newcity, Poetry, and the Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA), in collaboration with CHIRP, MAKE: A Chicago Literary Magazine, Proximity Magazine, Stop Smiling, Venus Zine, Golden Age and over 100 local literary organizations. The event showcases a diverse selection of print publications, available free of charge, including magazines, journals, weeklies, posters, and broadsides, plus a full night of live entertainment.

And if you can't make it to the Printers Ball, there's always NEW STUFF IN STORE AND IN THE WEBSHOP!

2008-08-16T13:30:00.003-05:00

ITEM OF THE WEEEEEEEK!!!!!

Friendship/Trip #1 - Sandcats / Car Clutch

We just got this in the mail like 5 minutes ago. The internet is so beautiful and immediate! OK, check it out, WILDFIRE WILDFIRE is doing a series of 7"s, and this is the first one.

Sandcats are from Baltimore and their myspace says that they are Dub/House/Classical.

Car Clutch is East Coast/West Coast IDM.

You know what to do!

(If not I'll tell you... come into to Golden Age and buy that shit)
- Martine

2008-08-15T13:10:00.007-05:00

How nice is it today? Totally beautiful. I'm so psyched to be back in Chicago. Come by and visit me!

We've got NEW STUFF!!!!!!

Paul Druecke, Cool White Cube, a magnet book of photographs of refrigerators
Animal City, Baby Nation DVD, Filmmaker Nic Berlin created this adventure with cohorts Animal City, shot on 16mm!
Slow Horse, Rusher, We used to live with John, and Bryan practically lived, we know these guys well and we are into this release
State Champion, solo effort of Ryan Davis each cd has a unique cover
Elizabeth Jaeger, How to Say Goodbye, new zine of delicate drawings by the Portland-based artist
Alyssa Herlocher, Kenneth Loves to Hate Animals #1, BACK IN STOCK, follow our cat protagonist as she (he?) lusts after Kenneth.
Marcelo Gomes , Love and Before, Green and After, Hassla is doing it right in NY with another amazing publication

Nieves Zines
Eddie Martinez, Chateau Suite Drawings, drawings on hotel stationery, yes!
Susan Ciaciolo, The Lilac Spaceship Fanzine, collage craze!
Anthony Record - Nature Brutal and Capricious, heavy pencil drawings!

+++ MORE MORE MORE

ONE LAST THING:

Did anyone see that ANP Quarterly totally got a shout out on the Kanye West blog! I am officially jealous. We all know that I am obsessed with Yeezy.

<3 Martine

2008-08-14T16:57:00.004-05:00

Chicago-based Artist JT ROGSTAD made a wonderful sandwich board for us recently! MUCHO THANKS JT!

2008-08-10T16:27:00.005-05:00

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R.I.P. ISAAC HAYES
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2008-08-10T13:46:00.005-05:00

STUFF FOUND ONLINE TODAY THAT IS INTERESTING INSPIRATIONAL AND WEIRD
BY LAUREN & MAURA

THIS IS THE LITHUANIAN OLYMPIC BASKETBALL TEAM FROM A WHILE AGO WHEN THEY WERE SPONSORED BY THE GRATEFUL DEAD !!

THESE GUYS BROKE RECORDS FOR THE 'STROS IN 1970

DONALD JUDD'S OFFICE AND FURNITURE

POCHOIR PRINTING
PRE-SCREENPRINTING NUTZ STUFF MAN

SONIA DELAUNEY
THIS IS A RAD ETCHING

COVERS OF SUNNY BY JAMES BROWN AND BONEY M

2008-08-09T12:48:00.004-05:00

Chicago-based artist Bernard Jeffrey McCullough, Bernie Mac, passed away this weekend. Golden Age mourns his death.

2008-08-08T15:19:00.003-05:00

ITEM OF THE WEEK!

Lateral Hyetography's, Some Girlzzz CASSINGLE is definitely doing it for me. The CASSINGLE is great and I'm craving more more more. There's just something about the drums that makes me want to grab my cat, and a beer, and dance on the island in the kitchen.

-alyssa

2008-08-03T04:34:00.006-05:00

It's a little late, but I just spotted this video of the lovely Alex Da Corte (who'll be starting his MFA at Yale this fall) on Cool Hunting.

I'm so jealous. Alex and I bonded during the madness that was Art Chicago/Next. Like any young gun, Alex had work in both shows. He also got me in to Miley Cyrus... has anyone seen the 3D concert? Fully "next level" as Marco says.

- Martine

2008-08-01T15:59:00.003-05:00

ITEM OF THE WEEK!

The Ray Pacino Ensemble is blowing my mind. This curious Swedish release "sounds like 2000s post-punk weirdos possessed by the spirits of a 1930s Scandinavian dancehall oompah band and some cracked 1960s folk troubadours." I haven't been this stoked about music in eons!!!!

-alyssa

2008-08-01T15:46:00.005-05:00

LOOK AT THAT HORSE!

This has been making me laugh so hard i've started shedding tears and making those strange embarrassing noises you make when you can't laugh any harder! This man is a true salesman.

-Alyssa

2008-07-31T20:52:00.003-05:00

Hello Friends!

I've been pretty swamped lately. I'm teaching video to high school students at the California State Summer School for the arts. We've got one week left, then, BACK TO CHICAGO. Yay! I hope everyone is enjoying their summer.

LOVE,

Martine

2008-07-31T16:34:00.004-05:00

I've been computing a lot lately. With that, my right wrist is hurting (my mouse hand) + I've been listening to podcasts and music using muxtape. I'm into Muxtape, Alyssa and I made a mix.
-Marco