A scene from the movie 300. Acrylic. Three feet by four feet....its big.

Sky: check.

...this post is basically filler, its been a busy week and a half and i havent had time to post.

But here are a couple shots i took the other day for a little bit of press Warfare should be getting in the near future.

...and im working on a new painting for a buddy of mine. So ill probably take a few pics of that and post em in the next day or two.

Oh yeah, and heres the begining of a logo for the City of Auburn's event involving hot rods, choppers, and hydroplanes. I started this logo quite a while ago but it was put on hold for who knows what reason. So i stopped work on it.

Today was awesome, I had to work and that part was not awesome. I had to work pretty hard actually, again NOT awesome. Worked right through lunch, no not awesome yet. Got off at 4. Walked out the back gates of my work and noticed just 40 or so yards away the storage unit that has been housing what appeared to be a home brewery for the last year appeared to be open for business. Yes as in serving beer. My co-worker Collin and I were the last to leave and we couldn't help but investigate. Now the proprietor of this fine establishment Seth can't actually sell pints but he can certainly give them away and he did. That's right, he gave me 6 pints of his latest batch of Irish Amber and it was fantastic. A great brew served ice cold, not 40 yards from my work? Okay, we have now achieved awesome. So Casey when you come to Seattle, add Gilligan Brewing to your itinerary. I'll meet you there, look for a fat guy with a dirty face wearing Carhartt.

Ok for the record that is my work right behind that blue chevy pickup.
Collin, he works with me, at least that can be said about the man.
Literally in a storage unit.

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Im making it so that the Warfare Collective is only linking to people linking us back. So i removed a couple links. I know there are a couple of people out there linking us that i forgot the URLs to, so hit up the comments and your blog will be added ASAP.



Word.

...A package was awaiting me in my mailbox after work today. That charming fella Boston Chris sent over a care package direct from Concepts.

~ Concepts sticker pack
~ New Era fitted hat for Fame and I, in our respective sizes
~Concepts t-shirts for Fame and I, in our respective sizes.



My shirt is from the Nike SB lobster pack release, and to be honest is probably my new favorite shirt.


Fame's shirt is from a collaboration Concepts did a while back with Recon and STASH.


...as you can see with the flash in these pics, the logo is printed with 3M reflective material.


Huge thanks to Chris over there in Beantown, my man has got to be one of, if not our biggest, supporter. (Dont think this exchange is ending here my dude, youre gonna have something coming back your way soon enough)

...So this is more of a test to see if my old friend Rob is reading this blog. He contacted me via AIM a couple weeks back and he said he'd be reading the blog and keeping up. We were good buddies back in like 02-03 before he moved to florida, but now we hardly chat at all. So Roberto, if youre reading this, post a comment, or i will know that youre a liar and a floosie.

And since i dont like posting on here without pics, here is a charcoal drawing of Bob Marley i did and gave to rob back in 2003. I called it "20 minute marley" for obvious reasons.

So as some of you know, and now more of you will, I drive a truck for a living. I drive a 26,000 pound GVW Ford F-650 Rollback (like the flatbed style tow trucks you see on the road). All day I had been doing little bullshit runs in a pickup truck and didn't even have to get into my bog truck until the last run of the day. I noticed something smelled, well lets just say it smelled a LITTLE off. Oh well its a work truck who knows, when I get back to the shop a coworker tells me I should go check my truck (the one I just got out of) says she heard someone talking and there might be something in my truck I would want to get out soon. Tells me it is a clam, or an oyster. I'm pissed and I go out and find a half clam under the passenger seat. Not funny. Had I not got it out that day who knows what my rig would have smelled like come Sat or Sunday.

I remembered when I got in my truck before the ride with the clam there was a Nalgene water bottle on the seat and a contract indicating someone had used my truck for a run down to one of the major fishing piers in the area. I recognize the bottle, so now I have a suspect. Dirka was my guy.

(Dirk and I on the back of my truck, the one that got the clam treatment.)

He has weekends off so I had to get him on Monday and I had to get him good. I work with a lot of dudes. If you don't know what it is like to work with a lot of dudes, it is kind of like working with a bunch of old ladies who gossip all the time. I know there is no chance these guys are going to be able to keep there mouths closed so, as they say I must do my dirt all by my lonely. Best way to fool your target is to fool everyone else at the same time.

So I go to the store and I buy four healthy sized fantail goldfish (well in a way I sort of scammed them, but that is a different story entirely), and brought them back to work Sunday afternoon. I made a big deal out of them, asked co-workers to help me name them and all. Every time they would ask what my plan was I'd just smile and leave it up to their imaginations. Then right before we left, I let them watch me pour some water into the water bottle and one of the fish, I added a little comic book style speech bubble that said "Where did my 3 friends go?" and I circled and highlighted the part of the receipt that showed that I had in fact gotten 4 fish. Then when we all left for the day, I made it cleat that I needed to go out to Dirks truck for a few minutes before going home .

As I left I tossed the empty fish bag on the ground near his truck.

The next day I showed up and saw the fish in the water bottle cruising around, living it up and I saw Dirka. He smiled, I just did my thing. Didn't want to let on that I was on to him if he didn't already know. He knew, and he was sweating it. I kept getting pulled aside by co-workers who would try to get some info from me. "Where are the other three?" or "Did you really put them in his truck?" and every time I would smile and say "Ya know, I just can't remember"

Finally, they started telling me I had to let Dirk off the hook, apparently he had emptied out his whole locker and gone through every single thing in there, pockets in his rain gear, old boots, backpack, he had gone through all 2 weeks of uniforms on the rack, and had gone trough his whole truck, top to bottom.

I laughed to myself while filling out some paperwork, thinking that I would have to let the cat out o the bag soon, before the guy goes crazy. Along comes Dirk, he looks a bit frazzled and all he can say is "Man you didn't kill those other 3 fish did you?" His face was red, he looked a bit stressed out to say the very least. I acted surprised and said "You really haven't found them yet?" and he told me that he had looked everywhere, and he meant EVERYWHERE but the heater vents in hsi truck. I smiled. He took off for his truck. I just asked if he wanted to know where the fish were. I told him I could save him the hassle of continuing his search. Trust me when I say the look on his face was classic, and then I told him the other 3 fish were in my dads aquarium. The empty fish bag was part of the scam, as was letting everyone see that I had 4 total fish, and even the smile when I was asked what I had done with my bag of fishies. I got em all, hook line and sinker (pun intended).


For the record, the fish in the water bottle is fine too. I went to the pet store and spent $40.00 on a nice bowl, a little plant, a cool skull and cross bones, some fish food and all so he can live like a king. I mean he doesn't need to know that he was part of a joke, we will keep that between Dirk and I.



p.s. Dirk named the fish Frank.

...I found this on my hard drive as i was looking for a different file. This was a project for a photoshop class back in college, it was a magazine ad mockup. If i recall i got a decent grade on it.

...but to this day, i still laugh at the fact that my teacher never noticed that i flipped the image of Iverson with the ball. How did he not notice that his jersey was backwards? I have no idea. I had a backup image i was gonna use if he noticed, but he never did, so i ran with it.

I want to do this, but every time I start reading the instructions I lose focus. If anyone gets one done, up it to a host and shoot us a link. Makes me realize I need PS (Yong?).

...so im not sure if im supposed to be posting this until its done, but i highly doubt the people involved are reading this blog anyway.

These fellas below call themselves the Clipse, maybe youve heard of them. They make rap music. Anyway, last year they had their logo made into a couple of iced out pendants by the good folks at IceeFresh Jewelry, in LA.


This is the original.



This is the final piece.



Now, i did not design that logo. But i do work here and there for Ben Baller from IceeFresh. Always real quick, small jobs to help mock up the design of a piece of jewelry to be. So a client of his wants his own Clipse piece, but wants it to have his own name in there, MILLZ.

So i had to re-create the lettering to make it fit and look like it was designed to be there in the first place. This was all done by hand since the Clipse piece isnt a font (that i know of. and if it was i kinda wasted my time, but i still would have had to alter the typeface to fit into the shield anyway...) Anyway, it was a rush job, but i think it came out good enough for government work. And if something IS off, im sure they'll fix it before they make the mold and create the gold piece.

So heres the artwork. (that was a long explanation, for such a simple job)


Ill post pics of it when it gets completed. Assuming the client follows through and doesnt bail.

...So its been brought to my attention that i havent been posting much of my work lately. Part of that is because ive been lazy, but mostly its that im working on some things that im not ready to reveal yet.

But, i figure id throw these jobs up.

Below are some roughs i presented for EmmanueLabor's new identity. Im holding off on posting the final (which isnt really close to any of these btw) because i think hes doin an official release with some new product in a month or two.

Anyway, he basically wanted me to incorporate the tools he uses ie. exacto knife, brush, needle & thread, and he liked the idea of crossing objects. So these are the initial roughs i showed him.




This is a mascot/logo design i did a few months back but i dont think i ever posted it. The client basically wanted the exact body of the UNC Tarheels mascot. He just wanted me to transform him into a lion with a crown. So here are the original sketches, and the eventual final result.

Pops is one of my most loyal readers, even though he self-admitedly doesnt understand what the hell me and jake are talking about sometimes. ( by the way, it says the name of who posted each entry, right at the bottom.)

This is us after assembling that beautiful grill in the background.



(alright pops, see if you can get that comment thing down now, heres your chance)

... F em.

I ordered this Shepard Fairy print for my apartment 10 days ago, during their 4th of July sale. Signed and numbered by Fairey, shipped for like $30. I WAS excited. I even bought a frame for it already.

So i hadnt heard anything from them since the order confirmation the day i placed the order. So i call them, leave my info, and they replied relatively quickly, with 3 emails. The first is a "shipment confirmation". The second and third are "out of stock" and "credit refund" respectively. What kinda third rate company sends out fugazy shipping confirmation emails? Then follows them up immediately with "nevermind, we're out of stock, heres your money back"?

So im boycotting those jerks. Feel free to do the same.



Oh yeah, if anyone has a recomendation of some cool art (preferrably a print, as theyre cheaper) that happens to be 18x24", im all ears.


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Really just had a birthday and took some time off from work and have been taking it REAL easy. I did get a new camera. After a lot of fretting I went with a Canon SD1100IS. Picked it with the help of my dude Retro, and his lovely lady P who put her stamp of approval on his suggestion, or so he says. He said they were self admitted "camera snobs" and I am certainly not, which is why his advice was so important to me. A few photos I took with it so far.

A few of some Hakata Dolls my grandfather had imported from Japan in the 1940's.

These ones is for Retro, I am stunned at how much detail this camera captures. A huge upgrade over my old two mega pixel antique.

It makes no sense that im not a multi-millionaire yet. If this clown can sell this stuff for $2,500 a pop, and people buy it (i assume SOMEONE is, or he wouldnt still be around. Plus its on digitalgravel.com) then i shouldnt be living in an apartment at this point. And in case you were wondering, or couldnt tell, all the pics below are actually different "pieces".



Theres also a 30' (yes, feet) long canvas hes selling for $12,500. (yes, 12 THOUSAND).











I apologize for this random hatred im spewing, about a fellow artist whos making money doing what he loves. I generally try not to hate on people getting over like that. But damn...



F it.

(official Warfare Collective ramen noodle splattered, non-framed cavas, coming soon...)

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I wonder if it comes in cornflower blue...

And I have a hunch that this is the only tie that the pictured model owns.

...Forgive me for straying from the usual content, but Asher Roth is the truth.

(As usual, the embedding on blogger doesnt work for me, so click the link below to watch the video. Its worth it.)

http://www.worldstarhiphop.com/videos/video.php?v=wshh0A48UumnAv865576

Roth Boys is one of the more generic tracks on the tape, so go and download the whole Greenhouse Effect mixtape, hosted by DJ Drama and Don Cannon. Dude is funny, im tellin you.

And to go ahead and keep it somewhat design related (not really), i dig the cover art for the mixtape.

Bonus pic:

Now interestingly, as creative as I think the ads are finding info about the product was not as easy. Googling it brought up a lot of mentions of these ads on various blogs but that was it.

Anyway I found them at the Adverbox Blog, a site dedicated to ad voyeurism. Lots of cool and creative ways to try and make us part with our cash over there.

Its amazing how recognizable most of these are based on just the silhouettes.