Super Art Fight!!!

Heads up, gang!  A sizeable contingent of the stars of Super Art Fight will be in attendance at this Thursday’s Peelander-Z show at The Ottobar!

This show (with a poster by our own Jami Noguchi) is sure not to disappoint, with a slue of bands from across the ocean, plus an art jam from ArtFighters Jami “Angry Zen Master” Noguchi and Nick “Ghostfreehood” Borkowicz!  Also confirmed for attendance, Artfighter Jamie Baldwin and Art Fight MC Marty “F’N” Day.

Be sure to pop in and say hi, and we look forward to seeing the winners of P-Z tickets at the show!

Also of note…there’s a rumor Nick and Jami might be drawing with a certain yellow suited alien…

The ultra-rad, Best of Baltimore winning art blog There Were Ten Tigers was with us at The Ottobar, and they filed this great report.

Thanks to them for the kind words.  They note some changes they’d like to see in the format, and I can say that we’re definately lookng at what did and didn’t work during our first show, and how to improve.

Never the less, check out the article here!

Fresh from last night’s festivites, we’re proud to present a slideshow created by the ultra-talented Matt Roth.

Featuring a song from last night’s headliners THE HEADWOUNDS, and photos from all throughout the night, this will give you just a taste of exactly what went down.

Click here, and get ready for the awesome!

Last Night, SUPER ART FIGHT: ROUND ONE took the Ottobar by storm.

We are equally excited and humbled by the astonishing turnout, and can’t wait to get the gears spinning on ROUND TWO.

Before that though, let’s get to what happened last night!

• PRELIMINARY BOUT: Jamie Baldwin defeated Michael S. Bracco
• PRELIMINARY BOUT: Garth Graham defeated Chris Impink
• MAIN EVENT: Jami Noguchi defeated Nick Borkowicz to become the FIRST SUPER ART FIGHT CHAMPION!

Keep your eyes locked on to SuperArtFight.com for exclusive photos and video content from last night’s show, plus details on our NEXT event, which may be sooner than you think.

As for team ArtFight, we’ll be back at The Ottobar this Thursday night, as part of the Peelander-Z show.

We’ve been spreading the word all summer, and come tomorrow night at the Ottobar in beautiful Charm City, Super Art Fight: Round 1 takes the stage.

But before we go on, some final announcements.

• THE HEADWOUNDS (pictured above) will be headlining Saturday night!
• The cut off for main event art topic suggestions is MIDNIGHT, FRIDAY NIGHT. Get them in!
• The schedule for Saturday is (vaguely) as follows…
  1. Preliminary Bout 1 (30 min): Michael S. Bracco vs. Jamie Baldwin
  2. Mini-Set from Karmella’s Game
  3. Preliminary Bout 2 (30 min): Garth Graham vs. Chris Impink
  4. Mini-Set from Karmella’s Game
  5. Main Event (60 min): Jami Noguchi vs. Nick Borkowicz
  6. Headlining set from THE HEADWOUNDS!

See you Saturday night, everyone.  Get ready for the greatest show of your lives. We are.

So of course, art is the big highlight of SUPER ART FIGHT this Saturday.

But art isn’t just on canvas, OH NO!

Art can be in amazing toys, fantastic hand-made crafts or unique t-shirts!

Click over to the “Next Show Details!” page for information on the merch that will be available from some of the vendors at the Ottobar this weekend.

As we count down the hours and minutes to Super Art Fight live at The Ottobar (and streaming on this very website), we figure we’d drop the curtain a bit, and give you a look at the ground breaking all-hands on deck meeting a few weeks back at an undisclosed location in Washington DC.

While here, the final decisions were made for this Saturday’s historic event, and all 6 competitors competed in sparring rounds on canvas to get a feel for each other’s artistic talents.

Have a peak with the gallery below the cut.

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As time clicks closer to SuperArtFight!: Round One, rocking your face on September 20th, it’s time to get you, the fans, involved.

And what better way than getting you directly involved in our Main Event?

When it comes to the Main Event slot at SuperArtFight, it’s about more than artistic talent. It’s about more than drive. It’s about overcoming the odds.

Why, pray tell?  Main Event Art Fights run under different rules.

How different?  Allow me to demonstrate.

Standard Art Fights run 30 minutes, with a predetermined topic for both artists, with the audience judging the winner.

To prove you’re worthy of the top spot in SuperArtFight, you’ve not only got to deal with a 10 minute free draw period (which is with a predetermined topic, to be revealed here leading to September 20th), but new topics for EACH artist, coming every 10 minutes.

One 10 minute free draw period…plus five 10 minute period where the artists have to draw topics suggested by you…equals the toughest hour in artistic combat.

Think you’ve got what it takes? Suggest topics (like say “Batman”, or “Robots”, or “A Monster in a sweater”) in the comments for this post, we’ll tally them all up the day of the show, and those who’s topics get chosen, we’ll send you some sweet swag (so don’t forget to leave a contact e-mail!)

SuperArtFight…we do it for YOU.

Edit, 9/5/08-10:15am To answer the question in the comments, users can submit as many ideas as they like, but we’d prefer that you keep it somewhat focused, so both the artists and the live audience can best understand the suggestion(s).

Super Art Fight isn’t just about art of the drawn variety, OH NO!

Super Art Fight is also about THE MUSIC!

And in turn, we’re proud to announce on September 20th at the Ottobar, our house band will be none other than Charm City power-pop darlings, Karmella’s Game!

For more information on KG, visit their MySpace, located here.  For more details on the show, keep your eyes locked on to SuperArtFight.com, as we’re announcing details NON STOP heading into the 20th!

The last two fighter profiles for the talent appearing on September 20th have hit SuperArtFight.com!

Learn a little something about Jamie Baldwin and Michael S. Bracco over in our Roster section.