Come out Jan 12th for Justin Van Hoy’s “By Way of South” show opening at Guerrero Gallery in San Francisco. Justin recently passed away and this show will be a memorial of sorts for all the great work he did. As co-owner of This Gallery in Highland Park, CA Justin was able to curate an incredible community of artists, and as a designer he created some of the most memorable books and products of the last five years. Justin was kind enough to put me in his book “Milk and Honey”, and more then that was a great friend who was always really supportive. In honor of Justin we are working on an episode on his life and work that will premiere with the new season. I’ll be previewing some of the episode at the show in the project room and giving out these pennant flags for free that we made to honor Justin.

Be like Justin and support great art, hope I see you at the show.

- g. lewis heslet

Hello Friends,

-g.

“Don’t be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience. Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterwards carefully avoid.”

– John Keats (1795 – 1821)

Even though the Kickstarter campaign was unsuccessful, I just want to let all the friends and fans out there know that I have never given up hope on this series and continue to work every day toward it’s completion. That means mixing and finishing each episode by myself in my little apartment after I get home from my day job. It may take a bit longer but I promise to give these docs a proper release, and when it happens you will be the first to know. Thank you all for your encouragement and energy, and please stay tuned, good things are on the horizon.

- g. lewis heslet

Friends and Fans,

We are finally in the home stretch of releasing these incredible documentaries but could use a little help to do it right. Through our Kickstarter campaign we are hoping to raise enough to funds to do a sound mixed and color-corrected finished version of the series and host to premiere screening events in San Francisco and Los Angeles.

The Creative Lives Kickstarter Campaign

Please support if you can, we have some incredible incentives including limited edition T-Shirts and Prints from artists Andrew Schoultz, Ferris Plock, Henry Gunderson, and Mark Whalen (KILL PIXIE). Also it’s a rare chance to see yours truly in front of the camera, which may or may not ever happen again. Thanks so much again for all your support, hopefully I’ll see you at the screening.

- g. lewis heslet