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Warning about Vending outside MSG this New Years Run

We posted this each year as a heads up to Phish fans who might be selling posters, shirts, stickers, pins or other items outside of MSG. Read on for a true life story from the NYE 2010 run and avoid getting arrested this New Years Run!

Woke Up This Morning…

NYC Tax Evasion

One Way To Avoid Jail If You Plan On Vending This NYE run

by Uncle Ebeneezer 

If you enjoyed the Makisupa on 1/1/11, you’re welcome.  I got arrested before the show that day for selling artwork on the first poster I sold that day.  I was arrested with another phan who was selling pins (really awesome pins too).  Why?  Neither of us had a tax id. After selling a poster in front of the venue before doors opened, I was approached by a police officer and before I knew it, was in cuffs. I was searched and placed with a vendor who was selling pins. There was a semi-circle of 5 cops around us, as if we were active threats to public safety.  After a half hour, we were loaded into a paddy wagon and driven to a station to be booked. We were hassled and we were mocked at the station for being phans, we were threatened and insulted, we had our shoelaces, belts and strings from our hoodies removed, we were fingerprinted and photographed…all for selling posters and pins.   Luckily we made it out (with a ticket to appear in a New York City court in February) and inside the venue without missing any music, but I don’t recommend the experience to anyone.

This poster was the case

Following the steps below could have saved me from a major bummer of an experience. Be safe if you’re vending in NYC this year. Let’s face it, with all that is going on down on Wall Street, NYPD are going to be extra anxious to crack a few heads this year.  Don’t be that head. I made it out of the precinct and inside MSG without missing any music, but I don’t recommend it to anyone. The City of New York requires all vendors including artists and written matter vendors to have a sales tax ID and carry it with them while vending.

To apply for a NY State Tax ID
Go to: http://www.nystax.gov/forms/sales_cur_forms.htm
Use form # DTF-17 (Fill-in)
DTF-17-I (Instructions)
Application to Register for a Sales Tax Certificate of Authority.
Use the NAICS Code Lookup to locate the appropriate NAICS code for
your sales tax registration.
See also Publication 75
OR apply for a tax ID online at http://www.nys-opal.com/
click on Taxation and Finance, Department of
Then click Certificate of Authority to Collect Sales Tax

Some more great info courtesy of Noah Phence: http://knol.google.com/k/selling-art-on-the-street-the-basics#

Don’t be that head.

The need for a vending permit to sell anything in NYC was brought to our attention. According to this link, a vending permit is not needed for specific things:

LICENSE DESCRIPTION:

You must have a General Vendor license if you sell, lease, or offer to sell or lease goods or services in a public place. 

You do NOT need a General Vendor license if:

  • You sell newspapers, periodicals, books, pamphlets, or other written matter.
  • You sell artwork, including paintings, photographs, prints, and sculptures.
  • You sell food. Note: Food vending requires a license from the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. Call 311 or visit www.nyc.gov/health for information about food cart vendor licenses and permits.
  • You will only sell merchandise from a booth or stand at an authorized Street Fair (e.g., street fair, block party, or festival). Please note that you must obtain a Temporary Street Fair Vendor Permit to sell merchandise at an authorized Street Fair.
Phish fans could go so far as to argue that pins, shirts, etc… are artwork, and rightly so. PhanArt believes that anything that can be construed as taking a creative effort to design qualifies as art. This would not include food and other things that are more disposable, but this of course is up to the officer in question who approaches you. Be careful and if they ask you to stop selling, do so. It is artwork but is it worth going to jail for? More specifically, is it worth going to jail and missing Phish?

Disclaimer: While this information is a step to avoid problems from the police, it cannot prevent them from acting in their own judgment and arresting you for this or other offenses. PhanArt is offering this up as a potential to avoid arrest or harassment for vending in and around MSG. This is not iron clad and should not be treated as so. If you do take this advice, please remember to pay your taxes on the works you collect – both City of New York and State of New York taxes.

Blossom 2012 Free Stamp Pin

Description: A pin designed for the Phish concert on June 24th 2012 at Blossom Music Center, based off of a sculpture in Cleveland, Ohio.  Designed by Garratt Hubish and Noah Phence, the pin is part of a run of 100 and has recessed metal that makes it look and feel like a real stamp. The cost is $16 including shipping. Visit Garratt’s site – Birdometerdesigns

This pin is sold out!

PhanArt’s Best of 2011

Looking back on the past year and all the art that was seen on lot, online, on Etsy, Facebook, Expressobeans and PhanArt, it has been great to see the Phish art community expanding as Phish continues to tour.  Fans are finding the art inspired by Phish to not only help them get from show to show, but to also make it through the tough economic times in the country today. Fans are industrious to say the least while at the same time creative and seek to help each other out, something that Phish fans do unlike fans of any other band out there. Relatedly, the products that were once more difficult to make are now done with ease. In the past (1.0 and 2.0) it took talent and ability to design phanart, then you had to find a company to make the art (pre-internet) and then sell them, making a small profit with luck so that we could get to the next show.

Now, fans can make pins, the most popular form of phanart, and also a mildly profitable venture when done right. There are designs pouring out of the woodworks, with multiple pins DAILY put up for sale. They aren’t shirts (where it takes a design and a screenprinter) and this isn’t posters (where it takes a great amount of money and significant talent to make a sought after piece of art); this is pins – small, simple pieces of art that DO take time to create but are very easily created when compared to shirts or posters or any other version of art.

This year, the Best of 2011 was selected from fan reactions to art on tour, requests for art online, popular posts on Facebook and PhanArt.net, creativity put into the work, as well as fan and artist input in recent weeks on their favorite pieces of art. There were so many to choose from, we have some honorable mentions and an official 11 for 2011! Simply put: all PhanArt made in the last year has been amazing, and the following is some of the best. If you don’t agree, share what was missed below in the comments section

Honorable Mentions

Sand Spinner Pin from 10 Minute Tube Designs

Kerrigan fishes from Ryan Kerrigan and Flippin Out Productions

Rage Side shirts

Read Icculus stickers

 The Top 11 from 2011

#11. JDub Allstars SuperBall IX Shirts

JDub Allstars can be found at virtually every Phish show selling an extensive selection of shirts, hats and other designs. These shirts covered the bases for all nine of Phish’s festivals and highlighted an image corresponding to each of the previous festivals. Pick up one of the limited selection of sizes left at Doctor Fluff Tees.

#10. Jennifer Kahn’s NYE MSG token pendant Jennifer has been making some great unique, handcrafted art for a couple years now and this year’s NYE pendant showed her creativity and design skills, incorporating ‘Occupy MSG’ and the dates into a very stylish piece of jewelry. Jennifer has a couple left in her Etsy Store, 5 Silver and 2 Brass.

#9. Bug pin created by Ryan Kerrigan and Noah Phence – There have been dozens, if not over 100 pins made this year from various artists, but one of the most creative was done by tour vet and lot artist Noah Phence. Bug + butterfly + lyrics on the wings = a big seller and #9 on the list. Pick one up at zenster.net

#8. Jiggs’ MFMF shirt – Combining Iron Maiden and Phish is no easy task but Jiggs took the idea to fruition and resulted in a quickly sold out shirt.

#7. Bruce Horan’s UIC poster and shirt  Playing off NICU and UIC with a bit of visual imagery tests the eyes with Bruce Horan’s poster and shirt design from UIC this summer. Bruce has three shirts and a few posters left on his site 

#6. Angry Birds of a Feather shirt by Phil Hoffman These shirts were a hit on PT then made their way to UIC where Phil agreed to put these on the site. The Angry Birds of a Feather shirt combines two things that made for a great shirt design – an easily recognizable original image and an immediate reference to Phish that only Phish fans would get. The birds have the dates of the three UIC shows inside them as well. Phil has only a couple left

#5. Lego Big Red Pin by Jeff Crookes – First the lego of Big Red and a few others debuted to great applause and then the pins came and went in a flash.

#4. AJ Masthay’s MSG Rapture AJ continues as one of the preeminent Phish poster artists and has made official prints for both Umphrey’s McGee and Widespread Panic as well as great prints for select shows for Phish each tour. This quadtych catches the panic of 2012 arriving set inside midtown Manhattan with the Garden taking center stage, as it should. This print sold out shortly after release, as many of AJ’s classic posters do.

#3. TRiPP’s Tahoe set of prints TRiPP had alot of prints to choose from this year, including MSG, Gorge, Merriweather and practically every show since Bethel, but the Tahoe prints stand out for their vibrancy and design, complete with a fish bubbling at the bottom of the sold out prints.

#2. Kuroda Light Rig shirts from Jonathan Lamb The most creative hand drawn shirt design of the year, Jon Lamb’s ‘Kuroda Light Rig’ shirts. Vibrant in detail and capturing the 5th member of the band, Lamb’s shirt bounces off three different color shirts and draws you into the light.

and the #1 piece of Fan made Phish Art for 2011 is………………….

#1. Michael Ortiz’s UIC Poster “Da Blue Line”

Ortiz’s ‘Da Blue Line’ sold out in less than an hour at Da Mock Show at UIC on 8/16/11 and makes the list at #1. Capturing a classic Chicago image with the EL train blue line covered in the iconic cheerio design and headed straight to UIC, Ortiz’s print is no less than 5 colors and a giclee print on 220 gram fine art paper. The only remaining prints after UIC are his are Artist Proof prints which can be picked up by contacting Michael at ortiz (at) likemindedproductions.net and check out more great art by Ortiz on his site www.michaelortizart.com

 

This Week in PhanArt History: The many faces of Trey

New from PhanArt in 2011 is our weekly Friday Feature: This Week in PhanArt History. Each piece of art we share is from days of Phish in the past, typically from the 1.0 and 2.0 eras, something of note that fans of all ages can appreciate that is featured in the book PhanArt: The Art of the Fans of Phish, with some commentary on the piece by PhanArt Pete. If there is a piece of art or genre of PhanArt you would like to see, leave a suggestion in the comments below.

There were over 100 submissions to PhanArt: The Art of the Fans of Phish related to the 4 band members, Trey, Jon, Mike and Page, but one stood out, garnering over 40 submissions of art that were ultimately used in the book. Of these many, we will share one or two each week during this Winter TAB Tour.  The first piece is by Louis Arzonico, who captures through a most creative lens the likeness of The Bad Liuetenant. Made around 1999, Louis gets very visual and psychedelic in a cartoony Muppet take on our favorite gutiar player Big Red. The second piece was submitted by Noah Phence, who’s sticker and PhanArt collection was one of the top 5 contributers to the book, adding at 100-150 pieces of unique art that he made or collected over the course of his pre-breakup touring. Simply put, Trey is Good, but he is also Caspian, which means Trey is Fuckerpants. At some points of the later 1.0 and much of 2.0, you could make an argument for the latter and not the former, but he still generates a great deal of love beyond the judgement of a few.

Created by Louis Arzonico
submitted to PhanArt by Noah Phence

2nd Annual Heady Holiday Shopping Guide!

 

Last year we presented our first annual Heady Holiday Gift Guide. This year we add to this guide with an enormous amount of contributors and artists who have a wide range of gift ideas for you and your friends and family. Enjoy and share this site, you wont find these deals anywhere else, not even on Phish lot!

$1-10 range

cheerios pin

That unique design we all find familiar from a certain drummer is available in button form for only $3.20. You can order these by going to www.zazzle.com/katmama88

From Noah Phence, aka Zenster, a variety of pins from his impressive and incredibly detailed collection. You probably saw him on lot this summer, as he rarely misses a show. Pins are a great collectible, and Noah has some great deals for phans. He has great stuff for Phish fans on his site zenster.net

Merit Badges from WhysnowWith New Years around the corner, the next installment from whysnow features Yoda! SOLD OUT!

From Daisy, you may notice these funky flowers from summer tour ’10 (or maybe you saw them laying next to Mike’s amp on stage). Now you have the chance to purchase them again!

They can be anything from cute hair clips to fun little brooches. The possibilities are endless!

 

 

Branden Otto is offering deals on his Fall tour posters, a sample of which is seen below, with more here. you can get them for $10 each by sending money to botto32@gmail.com via paypal.

N02 shirts, 1 for $7, 2 for $10

N20 T-Shirt Deals

 

Stickers for PhanArt, always 1 for $3, 2 for $5. Specify which sticker you would like!

Select an option

 

Party Time Pins has some awesome deals on their pins, including Broomfield, Simple and our favorite, READICCULUS! Go here  for more info and to order their pins.

Jiggs makes some of the most recognizable and creative shirt designs on the lot today. He has the following shirts available for $10 plus shipping. (Maze shirt is $15+s/h) Visit Jiggs Lot to pick up the shirts below!

Plus his WhaleCallers 1 for $3, 2 for $5 and Kuroda stickers are $1 each.

$11-20 range

The first cookbook by Phish fans FOR Phish fans is available for purchase! PhanFood: From the Kitchen Pot to the Tour Lot is available at www.phanfood.com for only $19.95

Art Hoffman from Heady Threads has his shirts available for $15, like this Character Zero shirt. You can find more shirts and ordering info here.

YouEnjoyMe.com‘s Baby onesies and Toddler Tee’s. They are $15 each, 2 for $25 (with Free Shipping, if you mention PhanArt in your order, valid through 12/31!)

Max Kauffman’s Mockingbird shirt is available for $15 + s/h via his etsy store


 

As always, the PhanArt created Twitter/Tweezer and Google/Golgi shirts are available, for a limited time at only $18 with free shipping!

Sizes

Sizes

PhanArtist AJ Masthay is having a holiday sale blowout with great deals on the following prints, available exclusively at his website: Masthay StudiosAugusta Maine 2010- $25, Providence Rhode Island 2010 – $25, Umphrey’s/Galactic Red Rocks – $20, Summercamp 2010 – $20, Hershey Park 2010 – $20, Merriweather Post Pavilion 2010 – $20, NOLA Jazz Fest – $20, Fugu Me! – $20, Umphrey’s Aragon Ballroom 2009 – $20, Miami NYE 2009 – $20, McLovins Saratoga – $15, Red Rocks Trex – $20, McLovins Hartford – $15, Hartford Meadows 2009 – $20, Phanart Geisha – $15, Richie Havens – $15, Probing for Notes – $15, Deep Banana Blackout – $10,Strapping Young Lad – $10, Treygas – $10

Adam Davidoff has a great deal of commemorative coins available for sale, including these Poker chips from Halloween 2010. You can find all his coins and paypal info here


$21-30 range

Jonathan Lamb and Michael Ortiz from Like Minded Productions have two posters, each for $20 with $10 shipping.

“Morning Broomfield Breath” measures 17 x 22″, is printed on Giclee on 270 gram textured fine art paper in an edition of 33.

“You Can’t Hide From Yourself” measures 11 x 23″, is a Giclee on embossed @70 gram smooth fine art paper in an edition of 40.

 

Jennifer Kahn’s commemorative NYC NYE MSG subway token pendant makes for a great standalone commemorative token or can be bought as a necklace. Visit our blog post on her to read more and pick one up

MelanieJane Barnum has 3 posters in 5 complete sets available. All of these prints are printed on card stock. Bathtub gin is done in watercolor, Hampton created in acrylic and Fall Tour 2010 is mixed media (colored paper, paint, ink and marker).
Each poster is $25 each, $45 for two and $60 for 3, which also includes shipping. paypal melanicu@gmail.com
bathtub gin
Hampton
fall tour 2010

Erin Cadigan has some great deals on her New Years posters from 2009 as seen below. With only a few left, she has each for sale for $25 (50% off the original cost). You can pick those and her other art – Mandala stickers, Halloween 2010 and Phamily Poker Classic posters at her store here

$31-40 range

From Caimen Ruff, her first poster from the Charleston shows. Only $35 and only 6 left!

Touropoly – Deluxe edition

For $35, get the original version of Touropoly in its own box on a high quality 16×20 game board mounted on your choice of colored corrugated plastic.  Includes directions, dice, play money, game pieces, Karma & Luck cards, music venue cards, and 40 Pop Up vending tents and everything you need to play the best new game on lot! (Beer and other accessories not included) Go here to pick one up

Jami Dudenhoeffer Phish Lithograph

About this poster: This piece was done with Watercolors and India Ink. There are 350 of them and they are all signed, numbered and packaged in plastic. The prints were created Lithograph style and printed on archival semi-gloss 100lb paper. Dimensions are 18×24. Jami painted this one for Phish’s return in 2009. They have been sold from Hampton up until now. This Phish print will appear in the second edition of PhanArt: The Art of the Fans of Phish. To see more of Jami’s work you can visit her etsy store. Cost is $35 for one, $60 for two with $6 priority shipping

Quantity

Jami Dudenhoeffer Mike Gordon print

About this poster: This piece was done with Pen and India Ink. There are 420 of them and they are all signed, numbered and packaged in plastic. These were printed on archival, 100lb paper. Dimensions are 22×30. Jami has sold the Mike Gordon prints from coast to coast and online. This Gordo print will also appear in the second edition of PhanArt: The Art of the Fans of Phish. To see other work of Jami’s you can go to her etsy store. Cost is $35 for one, $60 for two with $6 priority shipping

Quantity

Lizzy Layne’s Telluride poster Description: Original 4 Color Silkscreen for Phish at Telluride Town Park August 2010. Sized 15 x 22 “ Cost: $35 (includes poster, packaging and shipping fees) Send money via Paypal to lizzylayne@gmail.com

Steve Rogers Halloween Poster (info below)

Only in the oddest of dreams are classic horror movie monsters playing roulette…. Four Color screen print – 18 x 24 Limited run of 50 signed and # printed on 100lb French White Speckletone paper. All prints are wrapped in kraft paper and shipped in ULINE poster tubes. Thanks and enjoy! Pick one up here: http://steverogersdesigns.com/Home_Page.html

$41-50 range

Arnaud Azoulay has a sale on his amazing work, seen here. For $49.99, he has 9 portraits, 6 in his Alice in Wonderland series and 3 other works available. Visit his site for more great art like these!


$51+

The origin of this website is the book PhanArt: The Art of the Fans of Phish, the 400+ page coffee table book detailing the history of Phish fan-made art, along with essays and articles by many in the Phish community. With over 1600 pieces of art, this is the definitive book on all the art the phans make. We have included some bundle options, including posters and shirts at a discount when you pick up the book! Get the book for a friend, get a shirt for yourself!

Choose a Bundle Option

 

Cheerios Sneakers – These Converse are handcrafted and are available in all sizes. Please specify male/female and shoe size when ordering from www.zazzle.com/katmama88
High-top sneaker and low-top sneaker are each $68.70
Whatever you do, take care of these shoes

 

NYE Coffee Table by Zenster

Zenster has created his first poster since Coventry, and first New Years print since Big Cypress for the upcoming NYE show at MSG in NYC. 600 signed and numbered posters measuring 7 5/8″ x 17″ are available for purchase below, with one poster for $15 and 2 for $20 and 3 for $30.
On the 1/1/11 MSG coffee table are 3 champagne bottles represent the 3 night run at MSG. There are also bottles of Kill Devil Beer, Fall Down Drunk Ale, Bathtub Gin, a pack of Camel Walk cigarettes and a Bittersweet Motel key. Classic detail for an extraordinary set of shows that are almost upon us!

OPTIONS

Donations from artists

Over the course of Summer Tour Leg 1, we ran into artists both new and familiar, young and old. Altogether through the 11 shows PhanArt went to, plus the 42′ and PhanArt Art of the Fans of Phish Poster show on 6/20, 19 prints and other random items were donated to us for future auctions for The Mockingbird Foundation! This was an unreal show of support, especially from artists and fans who make their money on tour selling these items.

Here is a list of who donated what. If you want to buy one, for a donation to The Mockingbird Foundation, contact Pete at phanart at gmail and make an offer on a print. They will go into bundles for auctions later this year, after Jones Beach.

Five pins from Central Part of Town Pins, A PH/SH pin from Noah Phence, and Posters from Franky Scaglione, Bruce Horan, and Branden Otto and Ed Wilson. Check out the gallery to see what the Phish community has generously donated to help raise funds for The Mockingbird Foundation.

To purchase a poster, make a donation of at least $20 to Mockingbird Foundation via www.mbird.org and forward your donation receipt to phanart@gmail.com and request one of the prints or pins below.

MOCK SHOW – EPIC NYE

Attention Phish fans, poster collectors, artists, brahs and brahettes!

MOCK SHOW EPIC NYE- Phish fan Poster Convention

website: Mock Show: EPIC NYE

MOCKSHOWEPICNYELOGO

The next Mock Show Phish Poster convention will be held on Wednesday, December 30th from 10am-3pm in beautiful downtown Miami, not far from the venue.  Located on the 14th floor of the EPIC HOTEL (270 Biscayne Blvd. Way, Miami), fans will be able to see dozens of artists throughout the expansive and aptly named EPIC HOTEL. Artists will be spread throughout the Metropolis Ballrooms, Gotham A & B Ballrooms, Baxter Room & Entire Foyer.

MOCKSHOWEPICNYESPLASH

Tickets go on Sale Monday 11/30 at mockshow.blogspot.com

Artist Line-Up

(*denotes PhanArtist)

JIM POLLOCK

DAVID WELKER

JEFF WOOD

SEI REY HO

AJ MASTHAY*

FRED HOSMAN*

RYAN KERRIGAN*

ISADORA BULLOCK*

JUSTIN HELTON

DREW FINDLEY

BRUCE HORAN*

RYAN JERZY*

TRIPP*

IAN MILLARD

JONATHAN LAMB

MICHAEL ORTIZ

ERIN CADIGAN*

AUNT & UNCLE EBENEEZER*

JASON KACZOROWSKI*

NOAH PHENCE*

VINCE NARO*

FRANKY SCAGLIONE

101/exhibit

Charitable Organizations:

PHANART

HEADCOUNT

WATERWHEEL FOUNDATION

MOCKINGBIRD FOUNDATION

expressobeans.com

The 5th Phish poster convention and 2nd Mock Show will be held December 30th from 10am-3pm at EPIC HOTEL in Miami, Florida. As with other conventions, dozens of artists and exhibitors will be on hand displaying some unique prints both old and new, as well as donate to great fan-based charities.

Having attended the first two conventions as a fan and taken part in the last two as a charitable organization (as PhanArt nets profits for Mockingbird Foundation through sales of PhanArt and other lot art), I have to say these are MUST SEE and MUST ATTEND events for even the casual observer of lot art.  Some AMAZING art is found here. The Poster show in Miami on 12/30/03 was the show that got me hooked on the lot art, and it’s been a great ride ever since.  In fact, it’s fair to say that these poster-conventions were the early catalyst for PhanArt: The Art of the Fans of Phish!

Of the artists listed above, there are several official Phish artists including Jim Pollock, David Welker, Jeff Wood, Justin Helton and Sei Rey Ho of Us & Them Studio.  This is Ho’s and Wood’s first Mock Shows, joining a crop of artists who have taken part in many, if not all poster shows dating back to 1/3/03 in Hampton, VA.

PhanArtists such as Ryan Kerrigan, Tripp, AJ Masthay, Isadora Bullock, Fred Hosman of HoscoPress, Bruce Horan, Erin Cadigan, Uncle & Aunt Ebeneezer, Noah Phence, Ryan Jerzy, Jamie Huntsman, Vince Naro, and Franky Scaglione will have their art on display, as will Michael Ortiz & Jon Lamb of LikeMindedProductions, Ian Millard and Drew Findley of Subject Matter Studios. Mock Show creator and PhanArtist Jason Kaczorowski will be showcasing his concert/festival and celebrity portrait photography in a special exhibition.

Included amongst the artists are non-profit organizations Waterwheel Foundation, Mockingbird Foundation, PhanArt (thats us!) and the main beneficiary from the event, Headcount. Headcount will be sponsoring an exciting opportunity for patrons to engage themselves in the democratic process of voting by helping stage a juried art event wherein patrons will receive ballots upon entry (and previously online) to “vote” for the their artists spanning various categories including “Best of Show”, “Best New Artist”, “Best Mock Show Poster” among others.

These votes will be tallied and awards will be presented during a catered VIP banquet ceremony Thursday, December 31st, 2009 from Noon-4pm. The awards ceremony will feature an additional surprise roster of artists exhibiting in a currently undisclosed location. Check back November 30th when tickets go on sale to learn how you can be one of only 100 special VIP guests to attend this inaugural awards ceremony dubbed “The Posties” where the coveted “Golden Tubes” will be distributed to artists voted best in their field. You’ll have a unique opportunity to talk candidly with artists, browse an exclusive collection of fine art on display, attend the afternoon’s inaugural “Posties” ceremony all while enjoying a premium open bar and delicious hors d’oeuvres. More information at on the Mock Show website starting Monday, November 30th, 2009 when tickets go on sale.