Photograms

Here's an old photogram that I did a couple of years ago in a series about childhood and memories, but I think I might have given the others in the series away. If you've got one I'd like to know so I could document it...

Sunglasses After Dark

I was cleaning out my pictures folder today, and found some stuff I had forgotten about. Thought I'd post them up. They're from Junior year at least.

Photoshop Class

For the last project in our photoshop class we had to style our name. This is what I did:

Weeds Only Grow When We Dislike Them

My dorm room gets incredibly hot now that they turned all of the air units to only go on heat. We keep the window open at all times. I can hear people shouting outside my window at all hours of the night, and bugs come in our room all the time because we don't have a screen. I looked into my lamp one time to find a pile of dead ladybugs. At first, I was really annoyed with the bugs. When one would fly around me I would get angry and be all like, "How dare you fly all up in my space!" Or if a fly would land on me, the small tickling feeling that it would make when it walked around would get on my nerves soo much. But with time I realized how meditating on insects could be a great way to become aware of the way we resist the current moment, and therefore complicate our experience.

The annoyance that occurs from the tickling of an insect isn't the actual tickling thats annoying, it's the story that we attach to it. For example: say you are with a lover, and they begin to tickle you with a feather. The physical sensation that arises is actually incredibly similar to that of a fly, but we think of it as a pleasant experience because it is our lover doing the tickling. We tend to overcomplicate our experiences and therefore lose mindfulness of what is actually really happening in the now.

Kim Jong So Ill

Illustrator Class

I just finished my Learning Adobe Illustrator class. These are a couple of the projects that I did in the class.

Stiff upper lips make it damn hard to smile

It's been a rough few weeks, with an intense amount of work that's not interesting enough to post up here. In the little amount of free time that I do have, I've been able to make some art, that's slightly more interesting. I've also been able to participate in The Sketchbook Show put on by the Winthrop Society of Illustrators. It was a cool, very casual show, where we all made photocopies of pages from our sketchbook, and then hung them up on the walls in the gallery. We basically covered the walls from top to bottom with sketches. Then at the end of the show, they allowed people to take any of the sketches they liked to keep. I didn't get to stay for the end of the show, which was a shame since I had my eye on that sketch of xzibit...

Any way, here's a picture that I managed to find of some of my work in the show. I didn't manage to think about taking any while I was there. I've got a few more things to post, but there's just no documentation yet. So don't get your panties in a wad, they'll be up soon enough. It won't be another month, promise.

Treat Yoself

About a week ago was the SRSLY? Records show at the Elbow Room. Kneesmith and I made shirts for SRSLY and a couple of their bands, enjoyed a great show, and got to meet a lot of cool new people.

Here are a couple of shirts that we made:

Hello Tomorrow

Sweet Vans

Portrait of the Artist

I've got a couple of friends who are doin big things in the clothing business, and I thought I could work on my portraiture and help promote them a bit at the same time. Two birds with one stone. So just click the picture to be taken to their site/blog.

Ade Gee: founder of Cool Micer

Zach Greenway: founder of Milkman Clothing

SRSLY?

Kneesmith and I recently met with Bakari of Srsly? Records to work out the details on our latest project. We'll be creating T-shirts for Srsly? and a number of their bands. I'll post pictures later on. As for now, check out Srsly?

Waking Life

I had a crazy dream last night, filled with time travel, a clan of homo habilis conspiring to kill through means of deception and trickery, secret love affairs, and me going to the bank in my underwear. How long and elaborate the dream was reminded about a movie I watched a while back called Waking Life. It's a great movie that inspired me to try a lot of lucid dreaming, and create a lot of art inspired by my dreams. I decided to work on a big project earlier this summer about dreams, but that didn't work out. I just wasn't interested in the project at the time. I'm thinking I might give it another shot, and just take a different spin on it. Here's a clip from that movie.

Concupiscence

PMB Clothing will be attending Concupiscence this Friday (the 17th) to sell our products. It's gonna be ill. A lot of great bands are gonna be there, including:

Green
http://www.myspace.com/greenl

Hunter Moss
http://www.myspace.com/huntergmoss

Old Canoe
http://www.myspace.com/oldcanoe

The Artichokes
http://www.myspace.com/theartichokes

If we run out of any products while we're there we'll be taking special orders, so you can customize the product anyway you want if you order through our webstore. We'll also be having a drawing for FREE products so if you buy anything from us that night, you'll get your name in the drawing.

New Studio

So I joined the City of Columbia Art Studios today. I got the opportunity to meet some people working in there, and I got to work on my ceramic sculpture again. I gotta say though, it gives off a weird impression at first. The building is surrounded by fences topped with barbed wire, and signs that say you're under camera surveillance, not to mention the surrounding govt. buildings whose parking lots are filled with cop cars. Then the actual art building seems really tiny at first, but once you walk inside, you realize its connected to the building behind it, and thats were the actual studios are. There weren't many people in there working, so I basically had a whole room to myself. It was nice after a semester of only having half a table to work on. So I got started and worked a little bit on another figurative piece. I started out small, and I generally worked the same way I did for my last group of figures, but I think I'm going to spend more time on each figure this time and see where they go. Here's what it looked like by the time I left today.

sketchbook/updates

For the past week or so, I've been trying to ease up a bit and get the chance to visit friends around the state. It's been great. I got to see a lot of friends in the upstate, and go to John Ott's house down in Rowesville for Funchess Farm Fest. If you've never heard of Rowesville, don't feel bad, even our GPS got confused there.

Speaking of John, John and I are going to be releasing a book sometime in the near future. It's going to be a collection of life lessons from the mind of John Ott, and I'll be doing the Illustrations. So keep a look out for that one. John's tales are definitely not of the ordinary. I've also used this time to try and focus more of my attention again to working in my sketchbook. Above is a page from it.

Tomorrow, I'll be helping teach a ceramics class in downtown Columbia. The class is led by local ceramicist Sonia Neale. Check back again soon for more updates, I've got a lot of things going now.

Webstore open!

Items may now be purchased from www.pmbclothing.com! Make sure to check us out on facebook too for updates and more photos.

PMB CLOTHING SITE UP!

Finally, the website for PMB Clothing is up! On the site you will find products designed by Zach Nesmith and myself, which will be available for sale very soon. We're still working out a few things in the payment system, but we decided to go ahead and release the site to give people the opportunity to view our products. Items will be available for purchase in a matter of days. Check back here or on our Facebook to see when items can be purchased. Go ahead and check out our products by clicking the image above to go to our site, or check out our Facebook here and add us as a friend and tell us what you think about our clothing.

Stencil T Dress

So I just completed designing a new item that will be on sale on our webstore which will be up very soon! It's an entirely new design painted on a Fine Jersey T Dress. The Images shown are painted on coral dresses, but they will be available in a variety of other colors.

Final Drawing Project

Here's the final drawing project I did for drawing class. The biggest figures of second two are based off of Egon Schiele drawings. Here's how they came out:

Celebration of Achievement

A few weeks ago I was asked to do an illustration for the cover of the program for The SCGSAH Celebration of Achievement. Here's how it came out.  The graphic design for the program was done by Emerald Persall.

Update

So I know it's been a couple of weeks since the last post, even though I said I would try to post once a week, but that's only because big things are on the way. The last couple of weeks at SCGSAH were great, with a large and unexpected demand for our shirts. Here's Cat and Sammi sporting theirs at the senior dance:

Also we worked with Anna Jane to complete our first dress, which was made from an XL t-shirt:

Very soon we should be spanning out into more products, and get our website up, so make sure to keep posted for more info.

Bodies in the Basement

I had to post a few pictures from Bodies in the Basement back from the second of May. Thanks to all those who were able to show up and make it a great time. There was music by MC JT, Kymbuctu, Tiny Overheated Chihuahuas, Leather Juice, and art by The Pre-Monstrealist Brotherhood. Monster Shirts were on sale, and we're still taking orders (just send me an email for info.)

Specials Thanks to Third Hand Smoke, for providing the images. Check out the blog at 3handsmoke.blogspot.com for additional coverage of "Bodies in the Basement" and more.

Ceramics Concentration

Here it is! A small taste of what I've been slaving over, hidden away in the ceramics studio all semester.  Documentation of some of my work from senior concentration in figurative ceramics.  Thanks to my mentors Sharon Campbell and Alice Ballard for all their help.  Be sure to be on the lookout for the final piece in this post in the student show at the Lipscomb Gallery opening tomorrow from 3-5 pm.

Website

Hey for all of you who wanna keep posted on what I'm doing, I'm gonna try and update this blog at least once a week.  I've got a new website too dedicated to my illustration work.  You can check it out by clicking the image above.