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Hero Design Valentine Card Variety Packs

01.18.2010 @ 5:43 PM in Buffalo

I’m really liking that Mark and Beth, the love bird designer duo that is Hero Design, are branching off new products, like these valentines cards. 4 unique designs handprinted in house on a 5″ x 5″ square single panel card, that is blank on the back. three cards each of all four designs… that’s 12 cards for $24 dollars. Its time to grow up guys, no more Scooby Doo cards, no silly boxes of sweethearts and a cheap box of chocolate… this year give these cards and booze. If the cards aren’t enough to melt your lay, then you can always get ‘em drunk.
Buy them at the Hero Design’s webstore, Etsy, or stop by Hero and Sound at 93 Allen st, Buffalo, NY. Click through the jump for closeups of all 4 designs.
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Look out in Buffalo for this Stolen bike.

09.28.2009 @ 9:09 PM in Buffalo

David, one of my “number one” stalkers fans, had his bike stolen last Saturday, and he wondered if I would get the word out to my Buffalo homies. So check it out below and peep up if you see anything. If you don’t live in Buffalo and you find this bike, that’d be weird, but you should say something too.

To my friends in Buffalo,

Please keep your eye out for this bicycle. It was stolen from my garage on Gill Alley sometime on Saturday along with three other bicycles. I have had it for 17 years and it has been a really big part of my life and I will never be able to replace it. I’m offering a reward of $200. If you ever see someone with this bike, and feel comfortable in approaching them, please give them my contact info and let them know of the reward. Keep in mind that they may have not stolen the bike but possibly purchased it from the person who did. I have never seen a bike similar to this one so if you see it, chances are it is mine.

I let Campus Wheel Works and Ricks know about it as well as register with http://stolenbicycleregistry.com/ I don’t have the serial number on it but could identify it very easily. My phone number is 716-563-3899. Feel free to forward this email to anyone you know in the area. The more eyes out there the better. Thank you all so much.

David

NOTE: The last photo shows the break cables as white but they are now black and the speedometer is no longer attached to the handlebars.

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[Updated] Hero Design gets their art stolen, by Artvoice

08.22.2009 @ 3:25 PM in Buffalo

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What a fucked up and stupid thing to happen…

via Hero Design Studio – Local publication, Artvoice, stole original artwork that we created for the band Iron & Wine and altered it VERY slightly for a full page back cover ad, advertising their publication and their upcoming “Fall Arts” Issue. They even used our color scheme and textures. All of the major elements of the full page ad were stolen directly from our poster and used without our knowledge or permission!

This is a violation of the copyrights associated with our artwork and we are not going to deal with this lightly, we plan to take action and we are prepared to do whatever necessary to insure that this doesn’t happen again. Not only to us, but to other artists that the Artvoice and it’s designers could potentially steal from in the future. Another point to be made is when stealing artwork from a local artist, like us, whose work is known in the community, this causes causes confusion with respect to the source, sponsorship and/or our approval of their products and the services of their company. Within hours of the issue being on stands, and before we even saw it, we began getting phone calls, emails and texts asking if we started working with Artvoice and why did our artwork look like that, etc. This is embarrassing and potentially damaging to us and our company’s name and reputation locally.

Artvoice is aware of the copyright violation, but a solution has not materialized as of now.  It’s really shitty this happened, and I’m sure everything will come out in favor of Hero Design, but the fact that the copyright violation came from just down the block, that’s the fucked up part. Jamie Moses, are you getting to be too old to keep your company in check? I had a much higher respect for your company before now.

Oh, and Hero weren’t the only designers to be victimized by Artvoice.

We also learned that one of the two elements that they added to our original design (beyond the type elements) was also stolen, from our good friend Julian Montague’s book cover for Mark Goldman’s book City on The Edge.

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Update: Zachary Burns attempts to clear his name.

Attached below is a copy of the email sent to Hero Design, that was forwarded to me by Zachary Burns, one of the Art Directors at Artvoice.

I’d like to start off by stating that I was not the artist who
plagiarized the poster that was so blatantly and embarrassingly lifted
from your studio for the back cover of this weeks Artvoice. Let me
restate that again, I unequivocally and absolutely had nothing to do
with its’ planning, conception or design.

That being said, I would still like to apologize. You have every right
to be supremely pissed (as any designer would) and whatever justice
you seek is completely within your rights. I just joined the Artvoice
staff as a graphic designer about a month ago after moving back home
from Seattle where I was a designer at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer.
As a journalist and designer, this kind of thievery is an
embarrassment to me and a mark of shame upon the newspaper. I’m sure
you would like to know who was responsible for this, but unfortunately
I don’t want to name names. However, if you get a hold of Jamie Moses
or Geoff Kelly they will tell you who the culprit was.

Again, I feel completely embarrassed and ashamed to work at the paper
right now. If I had any knowledge that a designer was going to so
blatantly rip off an existing design, you can be sure it would not
have occurred on my watch. It was very uncomfortable to be around the
newsroom yesterday as this story broke and have to worry that by
mistake or some miscommunication my name might falsely be attached to
this unethical practice.

Anyways, just wanted to clear my name and show my support for you guys.

–zachary burns

Mash Bash 09: Things I Learned

06.06.2009 @ 1:20 PM in Buffalo

If you dress like this:

Douche Before

This will happen to you:

Douche After

St. Paddy’s Day Beardage.

03.16.2009 @ 1:34 PM in Buffalo

*Note: While yes, St. Patrick’s Day is Tuesday, people in the Buffalo rock out the Sunday before with a parade and massive public drinking bingefest. This is the telling of events on Sunday.

I’m never up for the St. Paddy’s Day Celebration Drunktardathon. The parade passes by and I’m fast asleep, not waking till 4-5pm. When I finally rustle, it’s to a wasteland Elmwood Village, pillaged and plundered by fratboys and orange skinned women. The trashing is so bad and ridiculous that last year someone busted Hero and Sound’s front window and made off with a buttload of Labbits. Because of that, I pledged to help Mark and Beth “guard the fort” this year… to brave the muffin tops and sidewalk peeings, and have a little bit of fun in the process.

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I beaned Chi Chi LaRue in the Leg with a 2×4

02.23.2009 @ 2:40 PM in Buffalo

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Seriously. We had the pleasure of having Chi Chi LaRue as a special guest DJ at Club Marcella for Valentine’s Day. Porn Mogul with a Superstar Drag Persona, who knew she was also a banging DJ?

We don’t often have guest DJ’s at Marcies. Why?

  • Our resident DJ’s, Charles Masters and DJ Xotec, are pretty fabulous.
  • Most guest bookings are bamboozled by a promoter who in turn fails to produce a crowd to offset the ridiculous booking fee.
  • Most guest Dj’s are unprepared for the musically fickle Buffalo crowd.
  • They only wanna spin for an hour or so, then go off to do blow for a bit, leaving our house dj’s to save the floor.
  • They smell. God, I’m all for UK DJ’s, but pack some motherfuckin’ Right Guard bitches (Dom & Roland).

All of this is why I was happily surprised when Chi Chi showed up and spun non-stop from 11:00 to 4:30, with only a break for the drag show. This bitch is fierce.

I was expecting a little more to her when we met, but apparently she’s almost down to her goal weight after a wonderfully successful bariatric surgery. Anyways, I was getting the half-size Chi Chi set up in the booth and when I lifted up a platform to make room for her tallness, I failed big time on the peripheral vision and bashed her shin with a 4 foot beam. Well, the tall, skinny, porn mogul drag queen was also resiliant with a sense of humor, called the impending bruise a “souvenir” and we had a great night from then on.

Chi Chi wrote about her time at Marcies on her blog at C1R.com

Last week I was in Buffalo NY at a club called Marcella. I have to admit I was not expecting much, but let me tell you, Buffalo Rocks!! The club was fantastic and the people of Buffalo are Gorgeous. The staff alone made me weak and the people that came to dance and party were totally wild. They treated me great and I DJ’ed from 11pm till 4:30 am. I can’t wait to go back, hint hint.

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Hot Pole Mess #1

02.23.2009 @ 1:45 PM in Buffalo

I try to take a video each night of some poor child skanking around the Pole at Club Marcella. The better ones I use for visuals, the messy ones I post to Youtube. They’ve all been messy so far. Today’s Pole Chicken is a friend of our DJ, Charles Masters, and I regularly enjoy kicking him out of the DJ booth. I like to enforce a strict, no-chicken policy in there. #tweetit

New Blog: Re-Think Buffalo

01.06.2009 @ 11:31 AM in Buffalo

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There is a new Buffalo blogger in town, and its my buddy Kirk…

HI All,

So I just started this new blog called Re-Think Buffalo! http://rethinkbuffalo.blogspot.com/ the theme is for me to post my meandering thoughts on being in Buffalo and things that are going on here. It will mostly be my thoughts and feelings at any given minute. I have 2 posts so far and would love to get added to your google reader or rss feed. Hope people can make it to the event on the 2nd post it is gonna be a lot of fun. Thanks for checking it out!

Rock,
Kirk

He also started to twitter not too recently, after realizing that the only way Huw I would talk to him is if he @’d us. Follow him here.

Paterson is your New Tax dot com

12.18.2008 @ 3:49 PM in Buffalo

In a desperate move to stop up the $15.4BN state deficit, Governor Paterson has declared war on the pursuit of happiness, hairspray, and Keystone Light.

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$4BN in new taxes and fees to include:
– Fat tax on sugared soda
– SUNY tuition hike
– Sales tax on cable and satellite TV and radio
– Repeal the sales tax cap on fuel
– Higher beer and wine taxes
– Higher cigar taxes
– Increase auto rental tax
– Higher luxury good sales tax
– Increase civil service exam fees
– Local fee for hiring a public retiree

In honor of our impaired Governor, or more rather pure mockery of his ridiculously faillike intents, I, We, WNYMedia present for your enjoyment, a site in Helvetica:

PATERSONISYOURNEWTAX.COM

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Coded by me. Snark curtesy of the fine residents of NY.

G1 Ruminations: How to Master Reset

10.31.2008 @ 1:32 PM in Technology

There may come a time when you need to reset your G1 phone because some jerkbag set your touch pattern and locked you out and you forgot your gmail password and reset it but it didnt sync so you have to reset the whole damn thing. If that ever happens, here’s some handy instructions on what to do…


Master reset the T-Mobile G1 from Nathan Strang on Vimeo.

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