Stab & Grab/1000STYLES Skate Decks Soon to be Available

Got a prototype of the skate deck I'm working on with Stab & Grab. I'll soon be offering these for sale through my shop (on the right margin of this page), as soon as I can grab a few production copies. I really love how these are turning out, so I thought I'd post up a couple photos of the prototype. I tried to get the best natural light possible on these by taking the photos outside, but my crappy photos don't really do this justice - the art looks REALLY good on these. There will not be a white base layer printed before the art, so the light tones of color and wood grain of the hardwood maple used in the construction decks shows through in a really cool way, 100% complementing the artwork. And this isn't a heat transfer or even a silkscreen, this is ultra-professional high-end ish. I'm super excited about these - not sure how much I'll be charging for them yet, but if anyone's interested in reserving one, just email me. I won't have many, we ain't no high rollers over here. Check it:

Toy Design Class Flyer

Just did a flyer design for the one like Erol. He's teaching a class at NYU this summer about rapid prototyping and toy design, I hope this flyer helps him fill up the class...

Shadowpark show this friday - 5.14.10

I know, it's been a while now with no new art posted. I've done a bunch of new commercial stuff, just can't make it public yet. In the meantime, I want to advertise that I will be showing artwork at a drum&bass/art show this friday, May 14. Here's the details:

SHADOWPARK
Friday May 14, 2010
Spark Gallery, 1005 E. Fayette St., Syracuse
Drum & Bass and Dubstep, and Visual art all over the walls
8:00pm - 2:00am
Further event details, click here

One of my sponsored DJs, SEAN PLACE, will be spinning a set there, which is awesome, because he's normally a techno DJ. Can't wait to see it.

And it's a BYOB event, so bring your 40s.

Billionaire

Just finished this t-shirt design for Travie McCoy/Fueled by Ramen Records to support Trav's upcoming solo record. It's on sale on the Fueled By Ramen webstore. This was a blast to do, loved it...

Fist Pumpin'!

Just finished this flyer for GAC Productions: Fist Pumpin'. I thought it turned out really well. I'm posting it big so you can see the detail. Three performing artists I sponsor are included on the bill for this party - Sean Place, Silas Maximus, and Murdok MC. Check 'em out on their sites...or better yet, go to this party and get the real deal in your face.

Sketchnote

Just finished a quickie character/logo design for a band called Sketchnote from Rockland County, NY:

Just interviewed on ArtsProjekt!

Andy Howell's artist community site, ArtsProjekt (which you should definitely check out if you haven't been there and you're into contemporary art), just published a short interview they did with me about my work. They posted up some art of mine and everything, I'm 'bout it 'bout it...check out the interview here.

Ghettoblast!

Just finished a graphic for Silas Maximus, for his new mashup mix entitled 'Ghettoblast'. Very well done stuff. Go listen to it on Mixcloud here. Here's the art:

Nothin but a gangsta party

Found this in the archives. Did it a little ways back and it never really went anywhere, so thought I'd post it up, because I still like it. Rise Above.

Time Magazine #1 Music Video of 2009!

Time Magazine 'Year in Pictures' issue just voted Raekwon's 'House of Flying Daggers' the #1 music video of 2009! This is the video I recently did all the illustration for, so I'm super stoked about it. Of course, I was just one part of the team, gotta give credit to Sasso and Peli (writers and directors - Chain Gang Productions), and Drew and Ryan (animators/effects) for being in the trenches with me making it happen. This was the first single off Raekwon's new record, Cuban Linx II, and it was produced by the one J Dilla. Chea.

Other accolades include:

Pitchfork - “Top Music Videos of 2009” [Nov 21, 2009]
Rap-Up - “10 Best Music Videos of 2009” [Dec 29, 2009]
Kevin Nottingham - #4 “Top 10 Music Videos: 2009” [Dec 21, 2009]
Rumproast - #6 Top 15 Music Videos of 2009” [Dec 22, 2009]
Kata Rokkar - “Best Music Videos of 2009” [Dec 7, 2009]
mashKULTURE - #21 “Best Music Videos of the Year (2009)” [Dec 21, 2009]

Here's the video, if you haven't seen it yet.

Lilies and Irises

And you thought I was playing when I said 1000 styles. This painting was done for my mom for Christmas. Acrylic on canvas, 16x20", plus the frame (thanks Semo). And unless you're my wife, don't bother asking me to paint something along these lines for you - this was a one-time thing!

Recent Work

All recent work, transferred from my old site layout...

These two are full color process t-shirt graphics done for Killer Kreations in Philadelphia:



This one's another full color process t-shirt graphic, done for Stab and Grab:


Bulemaniacal, a 4-color t-shirt graphic done for my own part-time line of t-shirts, available on three different colors of t-shirts, in my shop, linked on the right side of this page:


Album/CD art for various clients:






Miscellaneous flyer design for various clients:












Here are a few examples of more than 80 custom one-off baseball caps I painted recently for all sorts of people all over the globe. These were done with spraypaint and paint markers:


Miscellaneous commercial work for various clients:






Miscellaneous fine art and randomness:
These first two were inspired by the first Texas Chainsaw Massacre film from the 1970s directed by Tobe Hooper (both acrylic on canvas):









These two are painted on 10" records (yes, 10", not 12" - they're old records)



Painted this on a Dickies workjacket:


The first one here is album art, second is fine art:


The piece on the left is two skate decks fused together and painted on, the middle is a 7 foot tall portrait I painted as part of a graffiti mural (all done with spraycans, no paintbrushes), and the one on the right is a mini-spraycan I found squashed in a parking lot, took it home, and painted on it:

New Blog Format

Because I've decided that no matter how hard I try, I just don't have the desire to learn any advanced (or even intermediate) web coding, I'm now in the process of changing my site to this blogspot format. It will make it even easier for me to update so hopefully that will happen more often. Instead of trying to maintain separate sections of the site (news, portfolio, merch, etc.), I'm just gonna post art as I finish it or as it can be released, along with any relevant news items. So the top of this page will always be the newest stuff, and older as you move down the page. I hope to soon set up a shop as well, which will be linked to the right. This format also allows viewer comments and subscriptions to my posts, which could be pretty cool.

So here we go. This is a set of sneakers I did for a friend, to give his wife for Christmas: