into the new year.

First things first. I recently returned from "celebrating" xmas at my sister's pad in southern Wisconsin. Delevan to be exact. I snapped off a few packs of film on my 420. Some of those pics are up over on my Flickr. Check 'em out.

Not a whole lot happened while there. Basically watched things, drank things, said things, played things, opened things, ate things, and somewhere in the middle of all those things, spent double digits creating my piece for the word "psychedelic," which is now up over at Mutual Design Playground. Check that out as well. Definitely one of my most intricate and time consuming pieces to date. For this current style at least.

Today is new years eve. We are having a few friends over tonight to play trivia and not give a fuck about 'nuthin.

Everyone has been posting lists of their favorite albums, etc, of 2008. Since I am a total lemming i think I will do something similar. Originally I had planned to do some sort of elaborate, "I like this, this is why, etc," but am not feeling that anymore. Just going to throw it out there. No order either. I can't prioritize my favs, they are just favs. Word?

The Dandy Warhols "Earth To The Dandy Warhols" (the dandys with darker my love = show of the year. minus the WACK crowd.)

Oasis "Dig Out Your Soul"

The Raveonettes "Lust Lust Lust"

The Kills "Midnight Boom"

These Arms Are Snakes "Tail Swallower and Dove"

Dizzee Rascal "Maths + English" (US version came out this year, so yea, it fits.)

Del Tha Funkee Homosapien "Eleventh Hour"

Blood On The Wall "Liferz"

M83 "Saturdays = Youth" (yea, yea. they (he) blew up this year and everyone loves em. whatever.)

Darker My Love "2"

:::Band I shouldn't like, but do: Vampire Weekend:::

:::Two bands I realized I actually do like, after years of blindness by hype and mainstream media: Interpol and the Strokes:::

:::and this is for you Brian...:::local album of the year: Buildings "Braille Animal"::: SNAP.!..(heard the artwork on that album was pretty dope as well. heh.)

Movies I dug:

August


The Wackness


Surfer, Dude (i'm serious, BRAH.)


Let The Right One In


7 Pounds


Slumdog Millionaire


Also a bit: Elegy, Choke, Transsiberian, and Vicky Christina Barcelona.

(yes, it was apparently the year of Sir Ben Kinsley.)

::Television show I became unhealthily obsessed with: Lost.::

And this goes unsaid, because if you know me at all, or following this blog even a lil bit, you know I would say Mutual Design Playground is the website of the year. Way to go Jake! (Hulu is pretty rad as well, though that's a bit late 07 if you ask me. public in 08!)

Guess that is all folks. Time to go get rehydration agents for tomorrow morning. Hope 'yall have a dandy new year and a fun time peacin' out OH EIGHT!

Happy Xmas!

Vintage High Times magazines have some fucked up shit going on in them. It's amazing.

hey bcd! this is what you have to look forward to:

Polaroid Land Camera 420.

stuff: from other people.

Stuff number one:
Went to meet with Justin(james) and Jenny at the new Bulldog in Lowertown STP last night. Pretty chill spot. I can see many future evenings spent there, especially since J and J's new loft is located in perfect stumbling distance, right across the street. Last night after bar close I went up to their new loft to check the joint out and ended up doing a little internet show and tell with Justin. He turned me onto this designer / illustrator: STEAK MOUNTAIN. Now I'm telling you about it.

Stuff number two:
Read about this on Kucera's blog. Laughed out loud multiple times.

Man Smokes Grass ; Eats Wife.

There is no stuff number three:

4. 8. 15. 16. 23. 42.

Last weekend I volunteered at the Urban Arts Academy juried show and auction at the Weisman Museum. I sat at the door, checked people in, and ran credit cards / took cash money. It was a time. I was actually impressed by the amount of good work chosen to be in the show, so kudos go out to the jury that selected it all. I'm not sure how well the sale went for the UAA though. I didn't see a lot of work with the little orange (or red?) sticker next to it indicating it was sold, and the auction was almost laughable. At the end of the art auction they held a little donations auction as well. This is where the auctioneer (?) just spat out a large number (starting at $1000) and people would raise their number to donate that amount. As the time went by the dollar amount would get lower and lower and more and more people were willing to donate X amount. I was baffeled by this. Hardly any of the art was selling, but people were giving away their money?! Yes it was to a good cause, but instead of just giving their money away for nothing, they could have got a piece of art to go along with their good conscience. WTF?! Did these people just dislike all the art so much that they would rather GIVE their money away than actually get a little something for it. Fucking hell. Whatever. Rich people are a strange breed that I will never understand.

Getting pretty hyped about the new season of Lost. Not going to lie. What is going to be hard is watching it week by week instead of watching four season consecutively over the span of three weeks (I geeked the fuck out.) We'll see how that goes down.



I'm working on some album art for a local electronic artist Dearling Physique at the moment. I was going to wait to mention this until it was done and a sealed deal, but its looking like this will all be coming to fruition sooner than I thought. I guess he will be releasing the EP early '09. Check the shit out at myspace and get on board.

What else? My piece for "loveable" has been uploaded and is ready for viewing over at Mutual Design Playground. That's radical...right? Things have been picking up over there. New artists, more discussions, and some good energies are flying around. Any of 'yall would be stupid not to join in on the action.

I suppose that is all for now. I need to run and buy more colored pencils. I go through those fucking things like an old man goes through kleenex in winter. I need a Prismacolor sponsorship! Someone get on that!!!

I was reminded of something yesterday that was shown to me while in an illustration class at CVA. Kowloon the "walled city." These images are mind blowing in a post-apocalyptic / Mad Max sort of way. Oddly inspiring as well.

(it no longer exists.)