Friday, April
10, 2009 from 6pm - 10pm – Show runs till June 6, 2009
Opening
Reception with snacks and drinks.
Featuring the very first ever, release of
I.W.G. Designer Art Toy
blanks to be customized by artists from all over the world.
"Humans Beware" I.W.G. Custom Show
“70+ Artists customizing Insurgents Wilderness Gruppo D.I.Y.
Blanks”
Venue:
Rocket
World - 660 22nd St, San Francisco, CA 94107
Click for map
Participating Artists:
ADDEccentric, Angry Woebots,
APina, AW177, Ayleen Gaspar (October Toys), brainstrikers
ARTDENKA, Bert (gatchabert) Gatchalian, Betso, Bovinyl,
Brandon sopinsky, Brian Colin, Brent Nolasco, Charlie Alan
Kraft, Cris Rose, Ckaweeks, Clinton Reno, CoreRoc, CrEsToNe,
Cyan Banister (Zivity), Daniel Elson, Dead Presidents
Designs, D-Lux, DrilOne, Dustin Cantrell, El Maz, FAS, FOOX,
Frank Kozik, George Gaspar (October Toys), GOCCODO,
Grimsheep, Hellopike, IZ the WIZ, Jenny Wolf, Jeremiah
Ketner a.k.a. small and round, Jeremy Regan, Jes, Jim Koch,
Joe, Jon-Paul Kaiser, Ka, Keith Noordzy, Keith Poon, Kelly
Vetter, Lana Crooks, Leecifer, Lou Pimentel, MADTWIINZ,
Maku, Matthew Ryan Sharp, Matucha, Max Bare, Metal Man Ed,
Mimic, MONSTREHERO, Motorbot, Nanan1, NEMO, Newkon, Okedoki,
OsirisOrion, Paulkaiju, Phetus, Phu!, Pretty Poopie, Redhanded,
Reactor 88, Rebel SC, Robot Octopus, Rsin,Sade TCM, Scott
Stulen, SpankyStokes, Squink!, Tan-ki, Toybot Studios,
Trenton M., Trevor Zammit, tyleR, willow408, 64 Colors and
more...
About I.W.G. (Insurgents Wilderness Gruppo)
In the not too distant future, the mysterious
Astral Overseers
put
into motion their master plan....an
interstellar space vehicle returning to Earth unknowingly
carries a specially designed cosmic retrovirus which soon
spreads worldwide thru the jet stream.
Completely unaffecting humans, this new retrovirus soon
begins to find its way into certain animal species. Quickly
causing mutations, Earth begins to see a variety of animals
evolve into self-aware or sentient life. A formidable
combination of all an animal's strengths, an intelligence
equal to humans, and some say new powers. Immediately
gaining a new and more profound understanding the danger
humans presented to their kind, this new breed of sentient
creatures stays hidden from human eyes for years as they
develop their own society and culture, albeit somewhat
loosely based and culled from observing humans and their
media. An immediate goal for these creatures was to
organize, and begin resisting the
human destruction
and domination of what was once their "natural" habitat.
Strangely, as they increased in strength, numbers, and
sophistication, their tactics, tastes, and habits were
increasingly becoming more "human" in many ways.
Full of conflict, contradiction, frustration, anger and the
desire to save themselves and their world, a resistance
movement emerged. The first of these resistance cells was
the
"I n s u r g e n t s W i l d e r n
e s s G r u p p o "....
http://www.rocketworld.org/iwg/the_members.htm
