This past weekend in San Francisco, March 2013 cover artist (and often Juxtapoz @ Outside Lands collaborator) Mike Shine opened a performance/installation/exhibition at White Walls Gallery, Flotsam's Harvest. With full musical and dance accompaniment, surrounded by a massive body of work that describes and alludes to the great riddle and poem of one Dr Flotsam, the show was fully appreciated with some of Flotsam's hell brew. Or Jameson. Not sure. 

It’s 1970 and a Seven-year old boy happens upon a weird Russian clown at a carnival. Weird Clown grants Boy the life of his dreams. Boy signs the deal in blood. Weird Clown erases the bargain from Boy’s mind. But Weird Clown makes good on it; Boy unwittingly lives the dream life, as agreed. Fast forward forty years, we find that the boy is an artist who has become renowned for creating elaborate installations and performances about a mysterious Russian clown. The subconscious mind is a powerful thing, isn’t it? For the boy has subliminally recalled the carnival meeting, the bargain, even the clown’s correct name: Dr. Pyotr Mastolf Ilyas. Or “Flotsam,” for short.

On March 16th, 2013, Mike Shine (cover artist of the March 2013 issue) will open Flotsam's Harvest at White Walls in San Francisco. As we get closer to the opening this weekend, we have been showing you the hints and riddles that Shine has been dropping from Dr Flotsam, the mysterious character that has given Shine the gift of knowing and presenting the riddle of the Harvest. Today, we look at Act 5.

On March 16th, 2013, Mike Shine (cover artist of the March 2013 issue) will open Flotsam's Harvest at White Walls in San Francisco. As we have been showing you on the site over the past month, Shine has been dropping hints and riddles from Dr Flotsam, the mysterious character that has given Shine the gift of knowing and presenting the riddle of the Harvest. Today, we look at Act 4.

Mike Shine has onced again passed us along a message from Dr Flotsam, annother riddle and proverb that we assume will come together for his Flotsam's Harvest exhibition in San Francisco on March 16. It reads, Thou need not worry of frost not weed, if thou does not first protect thy seed. Does that clear it up for you?

Our 2013 March cover artist Mike Shine keeps sending us messages from the Flotsam exhibition, and today we are given another proverb that leads us up to the Flotsam's Harvest exhibition this March 16. Now, we have messages about Stanley Kubrick, the 3 Metamorphoses, and planting seeds. You confused yet? Don't be. This all leads . . . to . . .

Mike Shine's Flotsam's Harvest is slowly building itself with different messages and riddles, all leading up to a mysterious opening at 941 Geary in San Francisco on March 16, 2013. Shine explained the exhibition, well, Dr Flotsam explained the exhibition as part of our March 2013 cover story, which you can buy now. Flotsam reminded us today, in a bizarre little poem, that Act 2 is upon us...

As Mike Shine's March 2013 cover has hit newsstands this week, it seems like his partner in crime, Dr. Flotsam, likes what he sees. He just sent us another riddle/message/prophecy this afternoon, and as Flotsam's Harvest keeps up with Act 1, we show you what we got in a mysterious message today.

As the March 2013 issue hits newsstands this week, we are very pleased to give you an inside look at the features and content in the magazine this month. Not only do we get brought into the riddle-filled world of Mike Shine and his new Flotsam's Harvest exhibition opening in SF this March, we catch up with Curtis Kulig, Pat Perry, Peter Sutherland, Victor Castillo, Caitlin Hackett, Mary Iverson, Hamburger Eyes, Jean-Pierre Roy, and Daehyun Kim.

As we have already shown you on the site in recent weeks, Mike Shine is the cover of our March 2013 issue. For the interview, though, there was a tiny problem. Mike didn't show up. Instead, we were left with the infamous Dr Flotsam, and as part of the Shine exhibition, Flotsam's Harvest, Shine and team are releasing chapters of a companion book for the show. Here is chapter 1...