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.