Thank you to everyone who entered The Criterion Collection Button Pack Contest!

The contest is now complete. The correct films are:

1. Gimme Shelter
2. Days of Heaven
3. For All Mankind
4. Two-Lane Blacktop

If you answered Hopscotch, you would have been wrong, but we are now friends, because that movie is so good.

These button packs were made with The Criterion Collection for the ATP Festival this past weekend. Are you interested in receiving a pack of them in the mail? for free! All you need to do is be one of the first two (or three) people to tell me one of the films the images from the buttons was taken from (there were four plus the one with the Criterion C). Here are some clues:

1. Mick Jagger was wearing the one you cannot see on his shirt in one.
2. One was directed by Terrence Malick and the drawing is not a grasshopper but a locust, and the difference between those two is the length of their antenna, just kidding, I have no idea what the difference is between those two things.
3. One has Alan Shepard in it.
4. One is being driven by James Taylor in it.

Email entries (the film and your address) to art@jasonpolan.com.

Gary Fogelson took this picture of me drawing people at the after party for the AIGA gala last night. The drawings were being projected on the ceiling as they were made.

I am drawing people at this tonight.

There are some pictures up from Jerstin Crosby's show at LUMP and also some from the Team LUMP exhibition in London (the picture above is from that show) at Cell Projects.

Melanie Flood's space just got a nice write up on The New York Times blog.

Eric White and Daniel Davidson have a show opening tonight at Sloan Fine Art.

Rich Jacobs has a show up right now at White Walls. It is on Larken Street in San Fransisco. Mel Kadel is showing a lot of new drawings and paintings at Fecal Face. Shawn Creeden curated a show at The Curiosity Shoppe. Billy Sprague and Hideyuki Katsumata have a collaborative show up in Oakland at Forthrite. A LOT OF GOOD THINGS IN AND AROUND SAN FRANCISCO.

There is a new interview with Ron Jude right here.

There is a release for the new issue of The Thing Quarterly at Printed Matter tonight, Tuesday, September 15.

Inga Brege has updated her site!

I have a drawing of chocolate milk in the new Esquire Magazine.

There is free shipping on all orders over $50 on the 20x200 website right now (only until tonight, Monday, September 7, 2009, at midnight). There are only 172 of the 132 Birds at The American Museum of Natural History prints left if you add all of the numbers together.