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Our London friend, Rich Simmons has come stateside for his gallery show at the Soho Contemporary Art. If you are in the area you should go. No, if you are in the area you HAVE TO GO. If you've been following Rich on Facebook then you've gotten a glimpse of what he's created for this show and you know it's going to be awesome to see in person. And if you see Rich there and take a picture with him while wearing a HMNIM tee, post with #HMNIM and #ARTISTHECURE and one lucky winner with get a surprise gift from us just for supporting the Arts.

This we pulled from the Soho website:

On September 18th, Soho Contemporary Art will introduce Rich Simmons, a rising star on the international art scene. Coming off of three very successful solo shows in the United Kingdom, Rich Simmons is bringing his latest works to the Bowery for his first American show. The artist takes recognizable imagery from pop culture, such as super-heroes and projects his opinions and sense of humor on these familiar and well-known images. His message is one that everyone can relate to, love yourself. Connecting his work to his charity, Art is the Cure, he wants to raise awareness that creativity is a way to release emotions, both positive and negative. With his creativity, his unique commentary and passion for his cause, Rich Simmons is rising to fame because the public are connecting with his art and agreeing with his message.

RSVP: info@sohocontemporaryart.com

As living people you get bombarded with a barrage of trends, hype and internet cat memes, we here at HMNIM feel concerned that you might be missing out on things that are really cool, we will from time to time remind you to check out something that we know for a fact is very cool. you're welcome. 

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Today we are going to help you become bad ass. Sure all of you have seen the Apple commercial with all the stickers on the laptop, what you didn't see is the best sticker you can possible put on your computer, maybe we are a little biased but come on, you know this looks awesome. 

First thing first, you are going to need three things, an Apple computer, an Octopus vinyl sticker, and a ceremonial Japanese samurai sword.

Next, line up your sticker so that the eyes will lay perfectly over the apple. this is pretty easy to do so don't stress it. 

Lay your sticker down, once you've lined the eyes up, rub it down to push out any air bubbles. If you do get some bubbles don't worry, they will work themselves out over a couple days. Do not try and pop them with a pin, don't ask us how we know this, but it doesn't work. 

Now this is the most important step, holding your sword with both your hands you want to make a quick decisive cut in one motion. If you need help with this, we suggest you watch Akira Kurosawa's the Seven Samurai or his later masterpiece Yojimbo for proper sword technique.

Now you are left with some tentacles, you can toss them aside or for bonus points you can line them up and stick them to the underneath of your computer.

Well, there you go. Your computer is now officially bad ass. 

"great summer read. supernatural murder mystery is not normally a genre i gravitate toward, but the author's writing style and the london history scattered throughout made for a thoroughly enjoyable book. clever, fun, and original." - Mark

Check out more book reviews from Mark here.

Awhile back we did a print edition with the artist Mike Mitchell. The "Skullypus", a cross hybrid of our Octopus logo and the signature Mike Mitchell little skully dude. It was in a word AWESOME.

The print edition sold out in minutes. And many, many of you were bummed at us. It's the curse of making limited edition sought after things, they sell out fast. In an effort to bring more art into the world we talked to Mike and he suggested that we offer a "black" version. But then that's it, that's where this print ends. Like the Ying Yang, there will only be the white and black.

The Black Version will go on sale this Thursday the 19th 9AM PST.