Dash! music video

I know not many people look at this blog but if you are thanks for stopping by. I also know that I haven't been doing much writing in the last couple of months and for that I'm sorry. I do however wanted to give you an update on a project that I've had the pleasure to be apart of. Don't tell anyone I told you this but TLE is working with bands Dash!, The Righteous and Harmonious Fist, and White Fang to put out an LP soon and with it a DVD featuring all three bands. One of the features, a Dash! music video for the song"You Keep Kicking", my good buddy Dave Nuss directed. I was asked to take two weeks and a small budget to produce the gore affects for the video. I know what your thinking ... "WTF! Gore affects in a Dash! video! That's Madness!" I know right? It's exactly what I said when I was approached to do the FX. But hey I trusted my pal and went for it and I got to say the video is rad! We screened it for a small test group last night to really good response and will be doing a larger debut soon. So keep your eyes posted to this Blog for more. In the meantime check out these images taken during the week of shooting.

Check out the Haberman Pics on Flickr

Rockstar the new Haberman show at TLE is awesome! Check out these pics from the opening. You can see more if you click here You can also purchase one of the works by coming into the gallery on NW 18th and Lovejoy or contact me at Sam@tenderlovingempire.com. Hurry they may not be available forever.

Haberman is coming!

TLE is excited to announce a solo show at Tender Loving Empire this July by Chris Haberman. We've been stalking Chris for quite a while now and are so happy to be able to show his amazing work on our walls.

"Small Deal" @ TLE

Hey thanks to everyone who helped make the show awesome! Special thanks to Sean,Amy, and Jennifer for helping me put he show together.. you're rad. You can check out all the images on our flickr account. Just click HERE

Happy Birthday Tender Loving Empire! by G*Force

It's more then a week later and I'm still trying to recoop from the wonderful madness that was TLE's first birthday bash at Berbatis Pan on Sunday Night. Owners Jared and Brianne Mees months of planning and hard work definitely payed off in what has definitely been the best TLE event to date. Oh and ladies and gentelmen we are just getting started!:) There was Cake, Prizes, artists from PNCA were drawing for tips, Gordo our giant Pinata Monster was eating people, and the musical line up included Boy Eats Drum Machine, Southern Bell, The Newspapers, and TLE bands Jared Mees and the grown children, Nadine Mooney, Finn Riggins, and recent addition to the family Super XX Man. Finn Riggins and Jared Mees & the Grown Children always put on a great show but the highlight for me was Boy Eats Drum Machine. Lead Jon Ragel was all alone but held it down with a vast array instruments including his drum machine...of course. By the end of his set I was definitely a fan. I spent the whole night taking photos and you can see all 350 on our Flickr account click the post title to go there. Peace ya'll.

TLE Screen Printing @ Gresham Special Olympics by G-Force

Tender Loving Empire's screen printing devision did some t-shirst for the school I work at in Gresham. He have a great special needs program and for the last 20 years have hosted the special olympics for the Gresham school district. The kids loved having brand new shirts because it's been years since the school has had something made especially for this day. I designed and Jared printed the shirts for the May 2nd event. I think all of us at TLE were happy to be at least a small part of such a great event.

TLE @ Stumptown 08 by G-Force

Call me biased but TLE hit Stumptown with a double dose of cool this weekend... and if being a former roommate of owners Jared and Bri Mees, curating TLE's art collection, or having a G-Force designed T coming out sometime this summer under the TLE banner makes me biased  then yeah I guess I'm biased  . You don't have to take my word on how cool the record label turned media collective in NW Portland is just ask all the old and new fans we met at Stumptown this weekend. We were even getting shout outs from none other than Top Shelf publishing! Stumptown has been described as everything that Comic Con used to be. Comic book artist and publishers from all over the nation descended upon Portland for 2 days of comic madness. There are lectures by some of the top dudes in the industry as well as portfolio reviews and the opportunity to pitch your creations to many of the big and little publishers in the business. Needless to say after two days I am on total visual overload,but it was really cool. One cool thing was to meet  under ground comic icon Craig Thompson and the awesome Tara McPherson. Someone should have warned McPherson though that in Portland when you are put into a room next to a DIY star you are going to have a lot of time on your hands no matter how much publicity you've had in Juxtapoz. The mainstream artist will always loose out.... Portland loves their underground stars. Poor girls line was put to shame by the ridiculous line to meet and greet the author of "Blankets". That however gave me the opportunity to go over and talk it up with the gorgeous printer made famous for the rad posters she has done for some of the music industries biggest names not to mention the simultaneously innocent and creepy paintings that has been collected into a book put out by DH Press. I bought one of the books and got it signed by Tara herself. Pretty rad no matter what Mr.O has to say about it. All the feed back from fans was really uplifting and we weren't alone either. Friends like Brian Oaster , the guys at Pony Club, and the always rad collective Robopocalypse were all partying it up with the Empire. Till next time kido's