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Sticky Rice at Baltimore Windup Comic Festival

2010-05-08T06:43:00.000-07:00

Cargo Cult member John Lucien "JL" Grillo will be selling comics and artwork at the first ever Windup Comic Festival in Baltimore on Saturday, May 22nd!

It's at a bar, so grab your ID and your favorite drinking buddy and Marc your ass up to B.more for a day of drinking and comic books.

Follow JL on Twitter.

HIGHLIGHTS FROM X...

2009-04-15T15:28:00.000-07:00

Here's what we call a COSMIC JAM!!!!!!!!!!

There is a video

Secretworm keepin' it real for the Cult!!!

Good night had by all!!! Just a taste of what's to come for AOM!

You've been warned...

Cargo Cult Reporting for Artomatic 2009

2009-03-27T16:38:00.000-07:00

Blue Face Killer - 1st Place!

Danny PhantOM' - 2nd Place!

Secret Worm - 3rd Place!

Logical.Explosion - 4th Place!

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12:07 - Artomatic Registration - Web Overload!

2009-03-27T09:07:00.000-07:00

As most of you know, Cargo Cult is going to be showing at Artomatic 2009 and we're putting up our best effort to register as a team and get spaces nearby one another.

So what's going on?

Well registration was supposed to open at 12:00 today, but the only thing I've seen so far is an error message! (;_;)

12:22 UPDATE

Connection Timed Out! Refresh! Refresh! Refresh! (^0^)

12:32 UPDATE

I think we killed the Internet.

2:04 UPDATE

Gotta keep on tryin'! ('~')

7:36 UPDATE

Good News! I got in! A few hours ago actually. Now we'll have to wait and see where I get my spot.

(^_^)

Tomorrow Night!!!!

2009-03-20T09:31:00.000-07:00

Spread the word, and show the love..

John Lucien Grillo, Jeannette Herrera, Sean Welker, and Danny "phantOM`" Jean-Jacques Will be doing some cool art, kicking ass, and taking names..

Hope to see you!

Cargo Cult Tee Design

2009-03-04T11:16:00.000-08:00

Digital tomfoolery, using mashed-up stock splatters and a series of competing halftones for depth. The phrase is lifted from a Justice song.

Tee-shirt purchasing info is forthcoming. Also, more news about how Cargo Cult is going to own 2009.

WHACK PEOPLE!!!!!!

2009-02-26T06:13:00.000-08:00

This was inspired by our brother JL:

"I had an idea for a project and I've already managed to get a few people to join in. It started as a challenge to the members of the Cargo Cult that was inspired by a recent walk down Fairmont Street NW on recycling day. I found a notebook that was in the trash, a little mistreated but otherwise undamaged. Inside the book was all kinds of things written by an apparently bi-lingual elementary student, practicing vocabulary. On a series of adjoining pages were the following words:

People Whack
People People
People People
People People
People

I can totally remember trying to remember how to spell "people" when I was in the 2nd grade.

SO HERE'S THE ASSIGNMENT ---

I've got some mini-chipboard pieces 4" x 6" and each Cargo Cult member is going to get three of them. Everyone will have to cover the board up with paper, or paint, or something, and then draw three people.

They can be doing anything. It can be just a face, or it can be just a bust, or it could be a whole person, or it could be a dismembered person.

Look out DC - Whack People - mini portaits - awesome artwork! "

Here are just a few of the people.. and they keep populating!!

2009- The year of the CULT...

2009-01-02T13:55:00.000-08:00

Tell Daddy We Are All Happy (King on a Shoestring 04), 2008, acrylic and aerosol paints, pencil, glue, pages from antique book on wood panel, 10"x10". $200. sw@secretworm.com for more details.

First off we want to wish you the safe journey to CLOUD9INE..we made it, and it's pretty from up here..

2008 we were getting our feet wet, but this time around.. we're coming at you with colors, mayhem, and fun..more colors and mayhem really. :)

If you loved what we did @ ONE NIGHT ONLY, and our appearance @ X, then you are gonna love the next 363 days..

Our own secretworm has a show coming up this Wed.

Four Characters
A Sean Welker Mixed Media Show

Date: Wednesday, January 7, 2009
Time: 6:00pm - 9:00pm
Location: Dahlak, 1771 U St NW (the corner of Florida Ave, 18th & U Streets), Washington, DC

He will be showing off some new mixed media work at Dahlak, the hip alternative art space/performance stage/restaurant. DJ A-Ron will be spinning chill lounge swank, and a full Ethiopian menu is available.

Try to make it out, and if not, please please PLEASE spread the word, and show the love.

Naturally, more projects from us (solo, collab, family) to come.. We're taking over, one canvas at a time..

Welcome Ronny Rarcko (AKA Rufus Clark)

2008-10-28T02:11:00.000-07:00

Please say hello to Rufus Clark (http://www.rufusclark.com) He's a Proper English Fellow and an all around cool cat..

The team is growing.. you have been warned..

Photos from the CR8IVE HIGH..

2008-10-26T09:43:00.000-07:00

LONG LIVE THE CULT!

X Redux

2008-10-19T12:21:00.001-07:00

Huge thanks to everyone who made an appearance at last night's X art happening. Danny PhantOM and me had an awesome time making art amid a smashup of music, projections, design and dancing. Photos are likely forthcoming.

New projects are on the horizon. Consider yourselves warned.

Live Art Show: X @ Be Bar, October 18

2008-10-11T05:57:00.000-07:00

Cargo Cult's inaugural show is a live art gig at the awesome "live art happening" X. Danny PhantOM and me will engage in some visual shenanigans.

What: Live Art at X
Where: Be Bar, 1318 9th St NW WDC
When: Saturday, October 18th, 2008, 7-11pm.
Who: Danny PhantOM & secretworm

You ought to show up.

Welcome Blue Face Killer

2008-10-11T05:49:00.000-07:00

Please welcome Jeannette Herrera (from Blue Face Killer) to the Cargo Cult. BFK is made of awesome.

I cannot wait to see where this goes. Stay tuned.

A Word About Cargo Cult

2008-10-10T06:36:00.000-07:00

This is what we used to mean when we were disappointed and hungry. We'd let it drift and ramble, lazy with our words, like water cascading between the cracks of our souls. We had been waiting for some shining knight, some small token of kindness, for so long that we turned it into a myth until we were left with nothing but the hope for something outside our worlds. A saint would come offering salvation like a gleaming cross, a constellation shifting, a good omen or a Superman to lead the way. What the myth left out, and what we never seemed to grasp, was this: we are the ones we have been waiting for. We hear lots of talk about inner demons, but nobody else seems to notice that we've got inner gods, too. To repeat the point: we are, and have always been, the ones we have been waiting for.

And we have a lot of work to do. Stay tuned.

Welcome JLG

2008-10-09T20:22:00.000-07:00

Please welcome John Lucien Grillo (from Logical Explosion) to the Cargo Cult. If you've not seen his amazing cross-disciplined work, prepare to be dazzled!

And So It Begins...

2008-10-07T21:28:00.000-07:00

Danny PhantOM and me have opted into an ongoing collaborative project. I expect others to come aboard shortly and join us in our quest for creative domination.

This is simply no stopping us, so you may as well sit back, strap in, and enjoy the ride.

Do be a lamb and wish us well in the Comments Section. Thanks in advance.