*grin* and Berlin

I didn't intend for the title of this post to rhyme...

I finished my new page for the road of knives yesterday... It looks like a drawing of a bat getting hit in the face by two chicken drumsticks...


I'll be in Berlin for the Belio book launch from March 24th - April 1st... If you live in the city, or plan of visiting it during that time, email me and maybe we can meet up... I'm really looking forward to the trip... I'll be spending my 27th birthday on the plane coming back to Toronto on the 1st, I haven't looked at my ticket yet, but I really hope I get in before last call...

I'll post all of the info about the launch soon...

Zak's book review

Zak Smith wrote a review of my book... I'm pretty pumped about it because, aside from being buds and co-collaborators, he's also an artist I have shitloads of respect for... You can read the review here.

Andrew in Celery Magazine

My friend and studio assistant Andrew Wilson is featured in the new issue of CELERY Magazine... Check it out...

MEDIUMPHOBIC!

Ok, its been a long time coming, and its now ready... Daniel and I just finished the mediumphobic site, and I think it looks pretty awesome... check it out...

www.mediumphobic.com


I say "Daniel and I", but if we were to break up the workload, it would have been close to the following:

Daniel: 99.5%
Me: .5%

Note - Please allow for a .5% margin of error.

stone is heavier than flesh

I just finished my new move for the Road of Knives... clicking it makes it bigger...

For anyone new to my blog, On the Road of Knives is an ongoing comic project that I am doing with my friends Zak Smith and Shawn Cheng...

You can check out the action here.

The Big Smoke

So last week I was in NYC for my buddy Sean McCarthy's opening at Fredericks and Freiser gallery... I'm bad at taking photos and didn't take any of Sean or his art, but the show was absolutely stunning. If you live in NYC, you have to check it out... Here is a link to the gallery.

In NYC I just saw some old friends, met some new friends, and spent a lot of time in my hotel either drawing or throwing up in the sink... Ah...here are some photos of my room...




So I didn't get up to much when I was there... I was usually hung over in the morning. Once I could deal with getting out of bed, I would draw all day, go out with the gallery for dinner, come back and draw another couple of hours, then meet my friends and drink.

I liked this schedule, I got to draw all day, I was well fed, and well watered...

I did go for a couple of walks though, and Zak showed me this new store:

toyzipangu

Don't judge the store based on the website... The real store has tons of stuff, all vintage Japanese toys... I've stopped collecting toys myself, but I bought a couple to bring back to my studio mates... Anyway, if you live in New York, or are visiting it soon, check the store out. Also, the girl who runs it is really friendly and easy to ask questions to... Thats important for me cause I get kinda weird in stores, or public in general I guess....

Here are my two best buds in the City, Maia and Kate... I met them about 6 years back, the first time I visited the city...


Ok, I'm realizing that this post is sorta lame... It has the potential to be very similar to when a girl says: "Hey, do you want to see my family photos?!" and you say: "ah, ok...", and 2 hours later you are thinking to yourself: "help me...".

So this is the last NYC photo. Its of my friend and sorta hero Zak Smith, he got one of my drawings from an old sketchbook tatooed on his leg. Zak's in porn, so now I have a drawing in the porn industry...


OK, now we are on the topic of tattoos... here is my old friend Aaron Hill:

We lived with each other for a couple of years. Then he moved to Oakville to apprentice as a tattoo artist, and I moved to Italy for a little while...

One day he was using my computer and he saw an image I made, a mashup of two photos... The top part was a skull, the bottom was my face, just my lips and beard. He saw it and said: "I want to get that tattooed." and I said: "Really?" and now he has a tattoo of my face on his arm...



If I am ever married, I would trust my wife with Aaron above and beyond any other person. I imagine if she were to ever leave me for another man, it wouldn't be a man with her husbands face tattoed on his arm...unless I did something to really piss her off... Ah, did any of that make sense? Shit, being on the computer too long makes me weird, I need to get back to drawing...

Ok, still on the topic of tattoos, here is a tattoo a girl in Vermont got, its of the Pegasus, a satellite launching centre... Agh, I can't find the actual title of the drawing right now, I think its on my other computer...

Ok, so last thing.... I get lots of emails asking if I will design people tattoos... Unfortunately the answer is no, I'm pretty swamped with work, and designing tattoos isn't really my passion... Although, if you want anything that I have already drawn tattooed, go for it... Just email me with photos afterwards, and its all good...

okok, thanks for reading such a long post...

Die Young

bOkok, so my book has been released, I got my copies in the mail last week, and I'm really reaaaallllly excited... Here are some bad photos of it I took with my camera phone, click them and they get bigger...











So here is the info:

15cm x 14cm
192 full colour pages
text in english and spanish
3 colour silkscreen cover on soft PVC

Its got tons of drawings and paintings in it, the old sculpture work that my best friend Matt and I used to make, sketches, and a bunch of studio photos...

Its edited by Belio in Spain and is part of their Die Young series. It was partially funded by Carhartt...

The book will be available on my site very soon, within a couple of days... If you live in Europe, its available now though through Belio.

Ok, sorry the last couple of posts have been lacking pizazz in the writing style. You know what I'm talking about when I say pizazz? Ah, anyway, I have 6 weeks to finish a bunch of drawings for the launch party in Berlin, and my brain isn't capable of linguistic pizazz these days...

Thats the last time I'll use the word pizazz on this blog, I promise. 4 times is enough for any blog I think...





pizazz.

Happy Birthday Blog

I realize that I forgot my blog's first birthday, It was at the end of last month... happy birthday blog, I'm sorry I forgot!