San Diego Comic Con Means You Get Free Sh*t

Finally, it's here.

We've been waiting all year.

We've got our IPM books and our giveaway bags.

We've got our booth and our mother effin' lolliswag

We've got our craziest costumes on.

And we'll be giving sh*t away at the mother lickin' Comic Con!

Sucka MC, one of  many character appearances at the IPM Booth, and his new single, "Lollipop that Pussy"

Join us at Booth #1633

Wednesday, July 17 (Preview Night)

thru Sunday July 21, 2013

Further Details for Comic Con location and hours on the Comic Con Website.

Early birds get the goods on Preview Night
Be among the first 50 to hit booth 1633 and get a swag bag of free shit! 

Sample shots of free shit.

Can't get to Comic Con?

Still want some free sh*t?

Comic Con can come to you!

Throughout Comic Con we will offering

 giveaway specials for purchases in our online store!

 

COMIC CON SPECIALS GOOD THROUGHOUT THE DURATION OF COMIC CON ONLY:

COMIC CON SPECIAL #1

 Purchase a copy either Aliens in LA  or Will Not R.I.P. during Comic Con,

and receive a FREE CD with NEW original music by Ave Rose.

Comic Con Special #2

Buy Bizarro au Gogo

Get yo copy of the new Single by this Sucka MC.

Not quite a Sugar Daddy, this is a  Sucka MC

Comic Con Special # 3

Buy Fragile Bodies

Get a free rose pendant made specifically for Comic Con.

Comic Con Special # 4
Purchase any Ebook
And get a password to a never-seen-before video

Check the IPM News for Daily Costume Schedules and Updates
once the Comic Con is really on!
For Comic Con Only
IPM does extras!
Get yours here now!

Independence Day: Alien Rebirth on a Saturday Night

Remember back when it was fun?
When on Saturday nights, shit got real?

Yup, AREA 33 IS BACK 
and Aliens in LA will be there.

 This Saturday, July 6, 2013

Close Encounters of the 33rd Kind

Get ready, because you don't want this kind of close encounter...

You want this one:

Discounted Presale Tickets are available here.
Mixers and water available for sale. Alcohol is BYOB.

Next up in the IPM news? Oh, only the biggest event of the year.

Mother Effin'

Comic Con.

July 18-21 at the San Diego Convention Center. Details coming soon.

Friday Night Steampunk, Saturday Night Circus with IPM

Now that your books are signed and you've heard the song of the cell singer at the Aliens in LA appearance at the Standard, you punks are free to let off some steam...

Green babes--not just for Captain Kirk anymore.

Steampunk is coming to Los Angeles this Friday night,
June 21, 2013

Steampunk LA.

$20 at the door. 8-12:30 p.m.

The VEX/ARTS LA

5240 Alhambra Ave.

Los Angeles, CA 90032

Presale tickets available through Thursday, June 20, 2013

Ave Rose will be selling all new wearable art.

Also this weekend, Saturday Night, The Hive Gallery

 is having a Private Party

and You Are Invited

RSVP only. 

Last year's private Circus-themed party at the Hive Gallery

Amongst a slew of Hive participant performances will be Cig Neutron's Bizarro-themed appearance as the "Sucka MC" and Ave Rose's operatic performance. And much, much, more. This party is for guest-list participants only and it is FREE. Art supplies and acts of creativity are encouraged. Costumes much adored, in the vein of Bees and Clowns.

Alien Sighting, Signing and Singing this Tuesday Night at the Standard

Sure, you've heard people say things like:
"This past weekend, sh*t got real!"

But with IPM, this past weekend, sh*t got real bizarro!

Air hockey tournament at Artwalk, Bizarro round, when everyone is a loser

Didn't catch the Hive Gallery opening reception this past Saturday? You may have missed your shot at a live and working maidbot, but you have the rest of June to see the Bizarro au Gogo-themed show featuring Cig Neutron's installation as well as oodles of delightfully disturbing interpretations of the Bizarro au Gogo world from the artists of the Hive community. Show runs through June 29th, 729 S. Spring Street, Downtown LA, Viewing hours are Wed-Sat. 1-6 p.m., or by appointment.

If you really want in on the IPM news
this Tuesday, June 18th,

join the latest and greatest, most big-time to date, appearance of the Aliens in Los Angeles for an alien sighting, book signing, multimedia performance. 

Artillery Magazine presents

Aliens in Los Angeles

at The Standard

83000 W. Sunset Blvd
West Hollywood, 

7 p.m. wine reception

8 p.m. reading

Performances will include a Cell Singer song performance by Ave  Rose

"I am an audible dancing sculpture." ~ The Cell Singer, Aliens in LA

And of course, more appearances, performances, and mysterious, inexplicable alien sightings throughout the evening. Get your copy of Aliens in LA here, or get your Alien-Weho wear on and get a copy at the Standard on Tuesday.

What's an alien to do in LA?

Also, in the future. Be present:
Steampunk Los Angeles 2013 will be hosting Ave Rose as a seller of her wearable wares at this grand steampunk affair on Friday night, June 21, 2013, at the Vex Art Center. Tickets are $10 presale here. Check back for details.

Bizarro au Gogo Hits the Hive Gallery Saturday Night

Ready to go bizarro?

This Saturday night, June 8, 2013

the Hive Gallery opens its 

Bizarro au Gogo and Oz-themed show

featuring the work of many of your friends at IPM.  

Not sure what Bizarro au Gogo even means? 

Well then follow the great words of nobody in particular as quoted from a widely publicized and completely imaginary interview: "If you don't understand what Bizarro au Gogo means, just picture a pretty face... but with puke on it... possibly while in outer space. Also, something about tits. Yeah, totally tits all the time. Well, tits would be nice, anyway." 

Bizarro and Oz-themed show

Opening Reception, Saturday, June 8, 2013
8-1130 p.m.

The Hive Gallery
729 S. Spring Street
Los Angeles, CA 90014
Show runs thru June 29th, 2013

Suggested donation is $5

which means you can come for FREE

 if you're a shameless cheapskate and you totally hate art.

If you haven't already, pick up a copy of Bizarro au Gogo, this weekend, 

the book originally put out through Ink Pen Mutations Press. 

"Truly a masterpiece and an offensive eyesore. I feel tingly inside."
~another fake quote regarding Bizarro au Gogo and the sleazy universe of  Cig Neutron. 

Cig Neutron in his Sunday best. Or make that, his Sunday breasts.

Notable participating IPM artists include Ave Rose, Cig Neutron with an installation and as guest curator, KASL,and Ken Dougherty.

Hobimbo, the inspiration for Ave Rose's piece (shown below) and frightened children everywhere.

They say that a life-sized Barbie doll's proportions would make her tip right over.
But Ho-Barbie-bimbo would definitely drop on her ass.

DON'T SLEEP ON THIS SHOW

OR YOU MAY JUST GET PEED ON

WITH NOTHING TO PROTECT YOU

BUT A ROMAN HELMET

FOR YOUR INSTAGRAM

SEE YOU THIS WEEKEND!

Unnatural Abduction of the Aliens in Los Angeles... and You

This past Memorial Day weekend was memorable indeed. All new Ave Rose accessories and artwork made their debut, and the turn out was up to snuff more than a Hufflepuff at the Wizard Alley Craft Fair at Whimsic Alley.  Ave Rose also performed an opening operatic aria to launch a bizarre but enticing, philanthropic event of Chessboxing.

What happens to people after experiencing an Ave Rose aria.

But what's on the rise for this weekend with IPM?
Why, aliens, of course.
In good ole Los Angeles.

This Saturday night, the Aliens are hitting LA and joining forces with the Unnatural Alliance for an epic show of music and art, which has been plugged in Los Angeles highlights for weeks--namely the LA Music Blog and the Tool news feed (archives May 8, 2013). Basically, this is going to be an alien interaction of mothership magnitude, so you won't want to miss it. 

Aside from a slew of bands, and a hoard of art from across the Los Angeles County solar system, welcome a  long awaited, dearly hoped for, damned to be decked out Aliens in LA appearance and book signing. Get a copy, bring a copy, or just bring your bad ass on.  Come in costume, or just come.

Got aliens?

Details one more time:

Aliens in  LA sighting and book signing scheduled at the

The Unnatural Abduction

at 

8 p.m. until the last alien departs

8531 Lankersheim Blvd.

Sun Valley, CA 91352

$10 at the door

Amongst the artwork will be the goods of Ave Rose and Treoips Treyfid

Featured here, Treiops Treyfid preparing for his transformation into the Wred Skayre

Many more artists will be featured and live music. 

Basically, it's kind of a big deal. 

Come get your abduction on this Saturday night.

Memorial Day Weekend: Boxing, Magic & Checkmate

This Memorial Day Weekend

Join Ave Rose for her second year at 

the Wizard Crafts Faire

at Whimsic Alley.

 Ave Rose with a spider crawling on her boob. And?

Saturday 5/25 thru Monday 5/27,2013

10-6 p.m.

Attendance is FREE.

There will be refreshments, prizes,Tarot Readings and more.

5464 Wilshire Blvd.

Los Angeles, CA 90036

 For more information call (310)453-2370.

 A new venture in bulb pendants created specifically  for Whimsic Alley

Aside from being your one-stop shop for wands, widgets and wearable art, Whimsic Alley is located in the heart of the Los Angeles Museum Row. Make a memorable memorial day with a weekend of art! (LACMA has a 19th-century compass exhibit, not to mention free jazz.)

Also this weekend, minutes from Whimsic Alley, once the shops shut down and the wizards wind up their wands for the night, join Ave Rose doing an opening opera performance at the culture-clashing, charity-supporting, combat sport known as LA Chessboxing. 

 "Chessboxing is a new sport in which one three-minute round of chess is followed by one three-minute round of boxing and then back to the same chess game against the same opponent. Whoever wins by either checkmate or in the ring first WINS! All events are dedicated to supporting charities and helping people who learn to chessbox become superheroes in their communities by fighting for philanthropy."

Enrich your mind, cheer your sport, and wear your new Ave Rose Art while supporting a cause this Saturday, May 25, 2013, 7-10:30 p.m.
at the Fortune Gym,
7874 Sunset Blvd.

Give a left hook and take out a rook, or at least listen to those lungs!

Get your advanced tickets here.
Proceeds go to the Tiziano Project and RYOT.

The Tiziano Project provides community members in conflict, post-conflict and underreported regions with the equipment, training and affiliations necessary to report their stories and improve their lives.

"RYOT lets you know 'What's going on in the world and how YOU can be a part of it.' RYOT is the only news outlet bringing you updates as they happen and letting YOU become part of the story. With RYOT, you 'Become the News.'"

Dogwalking for the Dead and Other Calendar Highlights

IPM has the perfect post-church destination for you this Sunday. Yup, this weekend, after the services at the cemetery, take a walk, verrrry slowly at a Zombie Cadence, 

and grab yourself a free copy  of Zombie Cadence

(if come in your zombie best)
when you come to the  Graphation zombie dog walk in downtown Los Angeles.

Finally, a place where you can drag your dawgs like animals.

Sunday, May 12, 2013

Meetup at the Hive Gallery
729 S. Spring St. LA, CA 

Zombies and Doggies Only.

Leisure reading for the dead at heart.

 How's that for a Mother's Day?

But there is more on the calendar.

  Whimsic Alley Wizard Crafts Fair, 

this Memorial Day Weekend, May 25-27. 2013. from 10 a.m. to  p.m.,
featuring the artwork of Ave Rose.

Enchanting wearable art.

 ADMISSION IS FREE

5482 Wilshire Blvd.

Los Angeles, CA 90036

Other Upcoming Events:

ALIENS IN LA BOOKSIGNING

Sunday, June 1, 2013

Aliens in the forecast, partly crazy.

Saturday, June 1, 2013
The Fulcrum
8531 Lankershem Blvd.

Sun Valley, CA 91352

Booksigning
Alien appearance
Live Bands
Artwork dispayed (including that of Ave Rose and Treiops Treyfid)

and more!

Wait, One more Event!

Earth invasion has never been so swanky!

More details to come!

Mother Bats More than those Lush Lashes Right out off the Park

Ave Rose has been tinkering away in her cellar-attic-laboratory-curiosity shoppe-workspace, creating a whole line of trinkets

Mother models her magic here.

Ready for here next appearance at the Bat's Day at the Black Market.

Saturday May 4th, 2013; 2pm - 10pm; Admission prices listed below. 
 

The Bats Day Holiday Black Market
Location:
Doubletree Guest Suites Anaheim Resort/Convention Center | 2085 S. Harbor Boulevard | Anaheim, CA 92802

Looking for that extra-spooky thing for that spooky thing in your life? Over 50 vendors will help you find what you are looking for. From clothing, music, artwork, books, collectibles, and toys, to other original items.

VIP Shopping $5; 2pm-3pm. (pay at the door), which includes 1 raffle ticket and limited edition artwork while supplies last. 
General Admission FREE; 3pm – 10pm.
Children under 10 Free with an adult or guardian.

Progress shots of moth ring collection created specifically for Bat's Day at the Black Market!

Two New Newsletters: Something to "Tink" About

Ah, the visions of our own Ave Rose. So many faces, and so many hats she wears.

An example of both a face and a hat worn by Ave Rose. So pensive. So feathery.

Ave Rose began with the IPM family and press. And later she awakened us all to watchbot world. Because this babe is not just books anymore. And so, we will now separate our email lists. But more on that momentarily.

First, something to tink about And no, that is not a typo. You read it right. Ladies and gears, it is time to put your tinking caps on.

Not sure what a tinking cap is, but this dapper capper is $65.

Apart from the e-shelves of Ink Pen Mutations where you can now download your own priceless collection of books for e-cheap, Ave Rose is making her own contributions to the Tinker community.

This steampunk project and web series features the contributions from oodles of crafty kanoodles in the steampunk artisan community. More here.

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Featured here is "Tinkersphere" one of several items Ave Rose has gifted to Kickstarter contributors.

But back to the books, which after all, is what Ink Pen Mutations is all about.

Take it from this guy and hit up some honeys who have hit up our bookstore.

Our friends at the Lottery Party have thrown some reviews our way, like this one about Aliens in LA which brings to mind more that Ave Rose Art and IPM are more than just the melding of minds, but perhaps an overdue separation of communication lines. Yes, our email list is breaking up! What does this mean? Art on one list. Books on the other.

Want to find out about watchbot world and wearable art?

This example of wearable art comes with a $165 to the Tinker Kickstarter.

Join the new Ave Rose Art mailing list here.

Want to find out about books and IPM events?

Featured from the  Van Wyck Series, available for download.

Join the the new Ink Pen Mutations mailing list here.

Stay on the old list, and suffer the consequences. Loquacious alien elves in weird suits will obliterate you, and your little inbox too. In all seriousness, please be aware that if you are on the original list, you are presently on both lists which is being constructed on a new software. You will not receive dupes. You will just be getting more action.

Want to read about out it all on one blog? You are in the right place.

Two email lists. One bitchin' blog. And now for a gold, kind of weird, alien.

Oh no, what is happening to the old email list? We tried to warn you!