Hi, Texas. How are you? The next leg of the Scion Installation 4 tour is rolling through Austin. The show, titled It’s a Beautiful World features artists such as Dalek, Blaine Fontana, Jeff Soto, Angela Boatwright, RETNA, Ron English and Sam Flores. The exhibit will open at the Gallery Lombardi on Thursday, Jan. 17th with a reception featuring It’s a Beautiful World artists Fontana, Andrew Pommier, Michael Sieben and Tim McCormick to be held that day from 6 - 10pm. The exhibit will run until Feb. 22nd.

Since I like it when people send me free stuff, especially cool free stuff, I’d like to extend thanks to Boost Mobile who sent along a copy of Saber’s Mad Society, a book collecting the LA-based artists graffiti and more conventional oil paintings. Printed on slick paper, this 168-page soft-bound book is packed full of big colorful images.

Saber: Mad Society is a part of Boost Mobile’s Boosted Artist Content Collaboration, which also features MadSteez, Revok, Retna and Claw Money. Boosted, their “new directional lifestyle brand” (if someone out there works in marketing, I require a translation) will be on preview at the Spring 2008 MAGIC Trade Show in Vegas.