Kitsap Smokestack

SMOKESTACK SNUCK INTO the 2024 Kitsap County Fair & Stampede Thursday night, parked the mobile office with the horse trailers and livestock semis, met a one-eyed horse named Mojo and caught up with people doing stuff outside the rodeo, in the beer garden, waiting for elephant ears, talking baseball, ford trucks, bachelorette parties, writing music, making beer and more... We see you, you're doing stuff.

AUGUST STACKS BEEN hitting the streets this weekend, grab your print while copies last on the resource desk at the silverdale Kitsap Regional Library and more than 100 other counters, bartops and reading tables throughout the peninsula...

Full list of locations and more at kitsapsmokestack.org...

ON THE NEXT LOCAL LEGENDS, the One Year Episode of this Live Local Podcast... One went to West High, one went to East... One likes the Huskies, one likes the Cougs... One likes the Beatles, one likes the Stones... sits down with the fine gentlemen behind the Kitsap Way gathering place Brother Don's... Up now with all the rest of the episodes from this past year in the 'live local podcast' section on the ole' blog.

So many thanx to and everyone who has taken the time to share your story over the past year, let alone sit in front of a live crowd on camera on a thursday night with us!!!!

We see you, you're doing stuff...

JULY SMOKESTACKS OUT NOW...

Dig in over shots and beers with the old dudes at Camp Union Saloon... or find a full list of locations at kitsapsmokestack.org.

Thanks for reading.

ON THE EVE OF THE Bremerton Bridge Blast, Josh Farley sits down with the local legend behind the annual fireworks show and festival, Sunny Saunders of Sunny Jack Events. They talk about how it all began, Sunny's career in building other local festivals over the years, her new free-to-the-public events Taste of Kitsap street food festival and this summer's Bremerton Boardwalk Night Market... plus flying dogs and how much it costs to blow up that much stuff off the Manette Bridge...

Up now in the 'Live Local Podcast' section at kitsapsmokestack.org, on the youtubes, and now, on spotify.

Stuff that's happening in your town.

FIND YOUR TINY JEENS! Sixty some mini-prints from the bremerton free poster project scattered into this month's prints... Find yours while copies last at your local hang and look for more jeens next friday at the art walk

NEW THIS MONTH Red Apple cart return rack. June smokestack headed your way now...

We see you. You're doing stuff.

GETTING THOSE 'EVERYONE'S AN ARTIST' vibes on this month's Local Legends...

Two of the people behind the Wayzgoose Kitsap festival talk with Josh Farley about how and why the annual printmaking party came to this town, the experience of the collaborative art making process, creating art with heavy machinery, plus a hint at the meaning of that word 'wayzgoose' and why this small town’s festival organizer says she would change it if she could… and more.

Recorded in front of a live audience on a Thursday evening at the Manette Saloon, brought to you by Kitsap Quiz Night & Malolo Design.

MAY STACKS CURRENTLY HITTING STREETS.... Find one on a bar top, coffee shop counter, book store shelf, wine barrel top, market rack or bucket truck near you.

ON THE LATEST EPISODE OF LOCAL LEGENDS.... Nationally renowned poster artist Barry Blankenship (Barry The Art Guy) sits down with Josh Farley over a glass of makers mark on ice to talk about the hustle of becoming a full-time artist, his cinematic style process, his work designing and printing posters and album covers for comedian Jim Gaffigan, his shout out on the Colbert show, printing 2000 5-color posters by hand for Dead & Company, his years of a backwards ferry commute from Seattle to Bremerton, the rickety old manette bridge, Flatstock festivals, free apples at the Fillmore in San Francisco and more...

Watch/listen now @ kitsapsmokestack.org/smokestack-podcast

APRIL PRINTS OUT NOW!

ELUSIVE OC MASCOT GIFFORD CAUGHT ON FILM in this issue of the smokestack!

Currently hitting the streets... and waterways... across kitsap. Thanks for reading!

RETRO MEDIA POWERS UNITE! ... Our local TV public access station Bremerton Kitsap Access Television recently reached out to feature Smokestack in their latest episode of Engaging Kitsap and we said, ‘f**k yeah, we’ll film you right back!’

On the next episode of Local Legends w/ Josh Farley, BKAT Station Manager Colleen Miko talks about civic engagement and giving a voice to community thru a non-commercial TV platform… plus her political science degree which probably should’ve been a botany degree, the science of rain gardens, shoving a lawnmower into the trunk of a 1974 Cadillac Coupe de Ville at the beginning of her career in horticulture, all the Mikes at BKAT… and more.

It’s up now in the Live Local Podcast tab at the ol’ blog in our bio.

Plus… check out BKAT’s Engaging Kitsap w/ Bill Man on the youtubes or Mondays at 3:30 p.m. and Thursdays at 7:30 p.m. streaming at their website and on BKAT Comcast Channel 12/Astound Channel 3.

ART FROM THESE STREETS :: The ones that sneak up on you.

Near the lady yelling at me and throwing her stuff around in the back corner of the parking lot.

East Brem Fred Meyer, Artist Unknown (unless someone else knows or can read the tag, comment below)

A LITTLE LIGHT AFTERNOON READING… Did you catch the new comic this issue? This one from back page of the March Prints w/ Port Orchard-based webtoonist S.N. Johnson checking in from the ‘Terrible Old Jokes’ Department…

And if you’re into fruits and vegetables and webtoons and that kind of stuff, check out S.N.’s hilarious ‘High Art Nonsense,’ plus the refrigerated adventures of ‘Tofu Block & Orange’ and more ‘Terrible Old Jokes’ by searching the ’S.N. Johnson’ corner at webtoons(dot)com... and tune in for new comics in next month's print!

SMOKESTACK 2k24 TEES AVAILABLE NOW! Paul rules. Be like Paul. Be your own algorithm!

Smokestack swag stuff up now, sizes Sm thru 3X, black heather t-shirts, in the new 'Smokestack Support' tab at that blog in the bio. Proceeds go to people doing stuff in print.

Handprinted in bremerton . Each shirt is printed with its own unique color pattern representing each unique individual that makes the smokestack possible.

We see you. You are doing stuff.

ON THE LATEST EPISODE OF LOCAL LEGENDS... Dave & Shawna from Slippery Pig Brewery sit down w/ Josh Farley to talk about their plans for a second facility coming up on Callow, plus Nordic heritage, growing up as a kid in the 90s in Poulsbo, farmers market/brewery culture, doing stuff because its fun, delivering a keg by rowboat to Ballard, Dave's 11-piece pub band Unpants My Heart... and more.

Full episode up now in the ‘Live Local Podcast’ tab at the ol’ blog in the bio.

MARCH PRINTS OUT NOW!

NEW SMOKESTACKS HITTING THE STREETS CURRENTLY... with a special guerilla release of about 50 new stickers from stuffed inside select issues. Look for this month's prints while copies last, coming to your local pub, coffee shop, cafe, record store, bookshop, bakery, antique mall, and the like. Full list of locations on blog in the bio. New this month . Thank you for reading!

Hey! Did you guys see that we finally made the big time in the newspaper world.... we've got COMICS! ... IN PRINT! ... FROM LOCAL ARTISTS!! Check out this first one by Sean McGinty from the back page of the February edition...

Sean is a writer, comic artist and OC English Professor living in Bremerton. He's the author of 'Rainbow In The Dark' & 'The End Of Fun.' Find more McGinty out there on the interwebs. And tune in for new comics in next month's print!

ART FROM THESE STREETS :: Diamonds in the rough.

Powerful art for a powerful day.

Between Byron and Linder on Silverdale Way NW, Silverdale
Artist: OG Spanky Loco

Spanky Loco gave a lecture last week in the Untold Series at the Bainbridge Museum of Art about his art and aspiration to pave a secure path for youth thru his nonprofit L.O.C.O.S. (Leading Our Children Off Streets)

FIRST ISSUE OF VOLUME FOUR OUT NOW!

It's new! And it's old! At the same time!

New smokestacks hitting the streets currently. New year, new format. Plus revolutionizing electronic music 40 years ago w/ bainbridge guy Dave Bristow, texting like a normal person w/ Joe Rogers of , the debut of The Bremelorian in print, our always illustrious year in review... and more! Get your color copy while copies last and don't forget to have fun!

Even more new old stuff on the blog at the link beneath our name.

ON OUR LATEST LOCAL LEGENDS LIVE PODCAST Miranda Pinero, owner of Bremerton’s Cafe Corvo answers Josh Farley's gr***de of questions about building a coffeeshop during the pandemic, why she chose Bremerton, the badass ladies over on Callow Avenue, the unorthodox charm of that neighborhood, being weird as fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuccckk… in a good way… and more…

Recorded live at the Manette Saloon, brought to you by Kitsap Quiz Night.

Up now on the youtubes and in the podcast section on our full site.