Wednesday Work: Inspired - Beer Art for Philly's Beer Week

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Type the words "beer art" into Google's search engine and you end up with a lot of links to images like the one above. I don't know what I expected with a search like that, but innocent and star-y-eyed I thought to find something truly inspired. I guess I should have been shooting a lot lower.

I was about to give up hope and let my dreams go of finding some beautiful beer art (though I know from being a working artist myself, that many studio sessions are indeed alcohol-fueled), I would have to find another way to honor Philly Beer Week ... and then it happened,

I stumbled upon this gem,

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And then another,

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These beautiful, artistic, beer bottles, can be credited to Beck's current ad campaign to bring "music-inspired art" to their labels, working with musicians (and artists) Ladyhawke and Hard-Fi.

Its not the first time Beck's has collaborated with the contemporary art scene. They have also worked with modern artists, Tim Head, Damien Hirst, and Rebecca Horn, to put out these bottles pictured below.

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Dy-na-mite! I look forward to seeing more of Beck's labels as they arrive.

You can learn more about Beck's beer company, here. And more about the artist's here: Ladyhawke, Hi-Fi, Tim Head, Damien Hirst, Rebecca Horn.

Until next time: keep it cold and keep it pretty.
(And I've gotta ask it: has anybody out there ever had a Beck's? What's it taste like?)
(Okay, bye.)

DEFY MONDAY: ...uh, can we skip it?

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Its been a busy weekend here, and it's sure to be a busy week. We are fresh of the plane from Nashville, TN, homeland of The Sea. She is sure to catch you up on all the down South doings later on this week - but in the meantime....

My fondest Tennessee memory from this weekend? The Thursday afternoon we spend drinking $2 bottles of New Belguim's Fat Tire, listening to a Regular who claims to be an ex-Navy Seal, far-out guitar player (with an album on the way), and a would-be astronaut (had that one space shuttle not blown up, and knocked him over the age limit), tell jokes that got more and more disgusting with each new bottle of beer! Too much so to repeat any of them here.

The place? Springwater Supper Club & Lounge, right next to Centennial Park in Nashville's West End.

The next night? Dos XXs and free BBQ at the boro, before trying very hard to walk alllll the way back to the hotel. We got picked up, but I will save that story for another time.

Back home now, and don't forget - it's Philly Beer Week!
We'll see you out there!