Jitter Magazine

I have a pretty long interview (in German) in the current issue of Jitter Magazine... The guy who owns and runs this magazine is amazing, he interviewed me in person when I was in Berlin last year, Jitter really seems like a labour of love... Anyway, its a cool mag if you can get your hands on a copy. Its also the first mag to interview me to ask about and publish pages from the Road of Knives, so Shawn and Zak have some stuff in here too... They also have some interviews in English with the character designers from God of War II, those guys are crazy talented... Here are some photos of the layout...

Berlin pics pt.2

The view from Pablo and Amrei's apartment...

An insane coin operated kinetic sculpture.

Pablo and Javier of Belio Magazine.

Pablo has a really badass lowrider...

Shot of a crazy installation...

Marco, director of Intoxicated Demons Gallery, framing up the pieces.

Berlin pics pt.1

Ok, so here are the photos from Berlin... Nothing too crazy, I was sick for most of the trip, but I definitely had a good time. All of the people I met there were pretty amazing... After about a week though I was tired of being sick away from my home, and I missed Jamiyla a lot, so I was happy to see Toronto again...

Blogger seems to be fucking up, I'm going to post these ones now, and a second set later on today if it starts working again...

Marco installing the show.

A photo at the launch. I did three interviews right before this... One was with Vice, you can check it out here,but it's in German. The second was with a guy who runs a magazine about comics and illustrative fine arts... It will be in print in September. The third was for an internet TV station, I was really nervous because I'm shy around video cameras, and the girl who was interviewing me was really pretty... I think it went ok in the end though...

My friend Christa D'Angelo's studio... We've talked back and fourth on the internet for about a year and a half now, and we got to meet while in Berlin... She's an awesome artist and we get along like peas and carrots, so it was great to meet...

Another shot of Christa's studio...

Pablo of Belio and his girlfriend Amrie... Amrie is amazing, she's sort of a smart ass in the best possible way, I wish she lived closer so we could cut each other up more often...

German rap is weird...

Posters around the city featuring the evil seal mutilating Canadians...

A gumball machine with little knives in it... I put all my dimes in it, but just got gum...

I forget what this building was, but Marco and I drank beer on a tour boat, it was awesome...

Because I was so sick, I spent A LOT of time in this bed... It was really comfortable...

work for book launch

Normally I don't put the work for a show on here until after the show opens, but because the show is more about the release of the book, not the work, here they are.

They are small, 7" x 10", and there are 16 of them.... One of them is from last year, I found it in my studio and I like it a lot so I decided to include it....

Book Launch info

Okok, here is the info on the book launch.

If you are in Berlin on the 28th of March, come on out... I like making friends, but I'm pretty sick so forgive me if I look and act like a crackhead... Here's the info...


And here is the gallery's contact:

INTOXICATED DEMONS | URBAN ART GALLERY BERLIN
Marco Schwalbe & Silke Sudau Schwalbe
Naunynstrasse 46
D-10999 Berlin
Germany

Mobile 1: 0177.646.518.2 / Mobile 2: 0178.790.590.5
Mail: info@intoxicated-demons.com

And here is the gallery's website:
Intoxicated Demons

I've been talking with Marco a lot over the last few weeks, planning everything out... He seems like an amazing dude, art and design really is this guy's passion! We are doing a limited edition T-shirt for the launch as well...


Here is a photo of Marco's son wearing one of the shirts, which is pretty much the most adorable photo ever. It actually makes me want my own kid. Maybe I'll steal this one when I'm in Berlin...


So at the launch I'll have the new Die Young book, a bunch of other merchandise, and 16 small studies I've done over the last few weeks. I've mentioned them a few times on here already, but I want to thank Javier and Pablo from Belio Magazine again for all of the work they've done with the book, I think it looks really slick... For info on the book itself, follow this link.

*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...