Doug and Mike's Adult Entertainment (DVD)

Doug Skinner and Michael Smith

.A DVD collection of videos and live performance footage, Doug and Mike’s “Adult Entertainment” began as a childish version of an adult nightclub act -- with piano, cocktails, bawdy jokes, and hand puppets -- and gradually became more narrative, as the puppet characters took on more life. The cast eventually included: Doug and Mike, increasingly pathetic versions of their creators; Shane and Cory, two women from their acting class; Kevin and Jason, their potty-mouthed nephews; Adrian, their acting teacher/therapist; Mr. Woodie, Doug and Mike’s mascot; and, of course, two talking toilets, both named Mr. Toilet, who talk shop in a public men’s room.

From 1990 to 1998 Doug and Mike’s Adult Entertainment was presented at a variety of venues and festivals in New York City including Dixon Place, Caroline’s Comedy Club, Jay Gorney Modern Art, Holly Solomon Gallery, The Drawing Center, PS1, The Public Theater, The Henson International Puppet Festival, The Soho Arts Festival, Franklin Furnace, Artists Space, The Knitting Factory, PS 122 and in Los Angeles at The Museum of Contemporary Art and in Mike Kelley’s backyard.

2nd Cannons Publications 012
March 2008, 1st printing, edition of 1000.
DVD running time: 57 min. All Region NTSC $20.00

Pulturebook (b&w version)

Darren Bader

pulturebook - first encountered in the 12th Century Norse saga Pillu in reference to an unhappy fisherman who sells his leg to his dog. 200 years later the word is found in verb form --roughly translated as 'to slimp' or 'to bet'-- in an aprocryphal version of Wycliffe's Bible (Jeremiah 29:7) brought to the court of the Philip the Bold, Duke of Burgundy by his hermaphrodite lover, Ixel Esten. In an anonymous 1576 etching, one of Francis Drake's ships has Pulturebuck emblazoned on three of its sails. Several appearances of various spellings of the word occur in tracts associated with political upheavals from Cromwell to Napoleon III. The Duke of Cumberland named his summer home Pulturbooke in 1783 (only to rename it Alexandriatown three years later). It was notably used of late in space-hiccup form by Sally Ride in 1983. Pulturebook is also the name of a Grammy Award nominated Milwaukee jazz collective and a small pharmaceutical company based in Rheims, France.

Also by Darren Bader

2nd Cannons Publications 011
2008, 1st printing, edition of 500. 9 x 7" 385 pages. $25.00

Tearoom

William E. Jones

Tearoom is a companion piece to Jones’s video of the same name. A work of appropriation, the video Tearoom is a police surveillance film – presented virtually unaltered – of men having sex in a public rest room in Mansfield, Ohio during a three week period in the summer of 1962. This film, used as evidence in court, led to the conviction of over 30 men on charges of sodomy, which at that time carried a minimum sentence of one year in the state penitentiary.

In the book Tearoom, William E. Jones presents the results of research on these cases and on the production of the surveillance film. The book includes a number of historical texts, as well as two new essays by Jones. Tearoom is extensively illustrated with more than 100 film stills, most of them in color. These stills show men from all walks of life who met for furtive sex under the central square of Mansfield, and who went to jail as the result of a law enforcement sting. Tearoom provides a unique view of the clandestine sexual life of a small Midwestern city at the beginning of the 1960s. www.williamjones.com

Also by William E. Jones

2nd Cannons Publications 010
2008, 1st printing, edition of 500. 8.5x11" 43 pages $14.00

The Ice Skating Tree Opera - Director's Cuts (as a book and DVD)

Julie Lequin

Julie worked (on and off/ but mostly on) on this project for about 2 years. This is Julie’s first publication ever (probably why it took so long) and it details Julie's Ice Skating Tree Opera performance from 2005 and all of its surrounding stories. The book is very nice looking (about 23cm. x 18 cm.); it has a lot of colored pages (err… Brian complained), and some funny words. The DVD takes a while to watch so you’re really getting a lot for your money. There are some singing, gossips, and green screen videos. If you feel like investing, you can treat yourself with a copy of the “Limited Double Standard” version, that is with the deluxe book cover (hand knitted by Julie). Watch the trailer to the book

Julie's blog

2nd Cannons Publications 009
2007,1st printing, edition of 500. 9 x 7" 111 pages. $35.00

Good Morning, Evil Genius

Meg Cranston

Written between 1996 and 2000 Good Morning, Evil Genius is a fictional (?) story chronicling the adventures...or misadventures...of the unnamed Evil Genius. The work was also the basis of a performance by the same name performed at Galerie Michael Kapinos, Berlin and an exhibiton at Printed Matter in New York. The texts are accompanied with a series of drawings by Meg that are derived from a children's coloring book.

2nd Cannons Publications 008
2007,1st printing, edition of 500. 8.5 x 6.5" 42 pages 8 illus. $12.00

There Weren't Many Girls Around, So We Dated Ideologies. This Left Us Always on the Brink of War. We Often Discussed That a Likely Result of Battle Would Have Been More Girls to Go Around Amongst the Survivors, but We Quibbled Rather Than Acted, & Slept Alone in Our Cold Beds Dreaming of Glory.

Ami Tallman

A series of drawings of interiors, occasionally interrupted by men in uniform, that tells the story of a young aristocratic heir to an English country estate who abandons his manor when coerced by a fetching young member of the Red Cross into taking up trench warfare. The book follows his recollections from the field regarding his old family pile.

Hardcover deluxe version coming soon!

2nd Cannons Publications 007
2007, 1st printing, edition of 500. 11.25 x 9", 46 pages. $28.00

Leisure: An Art Journal: Issue #0

Leisure: An Art Journal delays it's first issue by instead publishing Issue #0, a questionnaire. In issue #0 artists, writers, and gallerists were questioned regarding the nature of radness and artistic production. Participants are: Evan Holloway, Bruce Hainley, Lawrence Weiner, Michael Smith, Bruce LaBruce, Darren Bader, Mayo Thompson, AA Bronson, Jess Holzworth, Corrina Peipon, Brian Bress, Julie Lequin, Meg Cranston, Natascha Sofia Snellman, Monique Prieto, TRUDI, Drew Heitzler, Elk, Christopher Russell, Tom Allen, Catherine Taft, Betty Tompkins, Kathe Burkhart, Michael Ned Holte, Paddy Johnson, Ami Tallman, Daniel Hug, and lastly, Jason Meadows (whose answers we found insulting).

Limited edition print available.

2nd Cannons Publications 006
2007, 1st printing, edition of 500. 8.5 x 8.5", 63 pages. $12.00

Untitled #1, 2006

Brian Kennon

The first in an ongoing series of untitled books, Untitled #1, 2006 starts by taking a close look at Mike Kelley's "Silver Ball" from 1994 and ends deep in the forest of Albert Oehlen's, "Baume," 2004.

Deluxe edition includes archival inkjet print.

2nd Cannons Publications 005
2006, 1st printing, edition of 500. 8 x 9", 40 pages. $28.00

FOUL MOUTH

Bruce Hainley

"The foul mouth--c'est moi!--mouths off in lovingly excremental language as it negotiates figures of popular (Liza Minnelli, Michael Jackson, among others) and not so popular (Liza Minnelli, Michael Jackson, among others) culture. Cruising and confusing the readymade and the created, the author with these texts metabolizes the dissolve of the first person in the glare of celebrity. But I could just be drunk." --Paul Lynde

2nd Cannons Publications 004
2006, 1st printing, edition of 500 8 x 6.25" 82 pages. $14.00

Hello Victims: Ad Reinhardt

Brian Kennon

An extension of the much larger (and soon to be published) three volume Hello Victims book, Hello Victims: Ad Reinhardt presents Reinhardt's black paintings within the context of the equally apocalyptic lenses of Motorhead, Nuclear War and Zombie films.

2nd Cannons Publications 003

I Heart Darkness

Natascha Snellman

A collection of 14 casual interviews with fellow artists about their practices, habits, interests, and influences along with reproductions of recent work. Interviewees include: Ami Tallman, Sue De Beer, Sterling Ruby, Ashley Macomber, Gus Van Sant, Brian Kennon, Nina Bovasso, and Kevin Christy.

2nd Cannons Publications 002

I Heart Darkness: deluxe edition

Natascha Snellman

The deluxe edition of I Heart Darkness comes with an additional book entitled Little Darlings/Pretty Baby. This second volume is an artist's book filled with Natascha's collages and drawings completed during the period of the I Heart Darkness interviews. The two books are enclosed in a wrap-around cover that ties together with a ribbon in the back.

Limited to 50 signed and numbered copies

2nd Cannons Publications 002-D
2007, limited edition set of 50 signed/numbered, 8 x 5.5"
includes I Heart Darkness (122 pgs), Little Darlings/Pretty Baby (66 pgs), and wrap-around cover. $65.00

Q: Whatever Happened to World War Three? (button set)

Brian Kennon

Three 1" buttons and a single 1.25" button that together wonder whatever became of that great nuclear apocalypse that should have happened by now.

Good Boy

Brian Kennon

A collection of dissected and altered Christopher Wool paintings, remade into Misfits song titles, Minutemen song lyrics and other paintings Christopher Wool never made, but we think he should have.

self published

The Cindy Shermans I'd Like to Fuck

Brian Kennon

self published

Black and White Reproductions of the Abstract Expressionists

Brian Kennon

The entire body work of by the Abstract Expressionists is reduced down into a canon of 13 paintings by 13 artists, then reduced even further by being reproduced in black and white (with the paintings true colors indexed neatly around the edges).

self published