Pilot Project Stories

Awhile back I submitted some drawings to Pilot Project, a book that a few friends of mine curate and produce. Recently they ran a short story contest, encouraging readers to write short stories based on some of the art in Pilot, and a few people wrote stories about my drawings. Although I had to pick a 'winner', I thought that they were all pretty great.

You can see the submissions here and here.

A couple Lush Life reviews

Lush Life was reviewed a couple of times this week, and I was lucky enough to either get a mention or an image in the reviews... Richard Price did a walkthrough of the show, and saw my piece... Regarding my drawing, The New Yorker printed this:

'Richard Price wasn’t sure what to make of this one: “It’s kind of mutated bears and birds or something? Whatever it is, it’s some kind of animal I shouldn’t be near.”'

I guess I can't consider him a fan, but I'm happy he saw the piece:)

You can read the reviews HERE and HERE.

Limited Edition T-shirts and Jamiyla's New Website...

I'm posting this to announce two things...

Firstly, I've just released a new t-shirt, it is available through my STORE. It's a one colour print on a silver (which really just looks like light grey) American Apparel cotton t-shirt. The run is limited to 50 shirts, and they are $40 each plus shipping...

Below are some images of the shirt, click them if you want to see the images larger...

Secondly, I want to post that Jamiyla has a new website up... I think it looks pretty good, it's nice to be able to see all of the drawings together in one place. There is also a store section, making it easy to purchase her prints no matter where you live... Anyway, HERE it is, check it out...

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Corduroy magazine and LNB

A couple of things, tomorrow night is the season finale of Late Night in the Bedroom, a great art talk show based here in Toronto... They did a video studio tour with me, and they are showing it along with a large group of guests at the Toronto Underground Cinema at 8pm... The LNB crew are all really nice people and I'm a really big fan of their show, details below...

Because I spend so much time alone drawing in the studio, I'm a bit nervous speaking with people, particularly in front of two video cameras... I feel like I botched the interview a bit, I knew what I wanted to say but it kept coming out wrong, so I'm a little nervous about seeing the final product... They kept assuring me that they were very good at editing:)

One last thing, I have a piece and a little writeup about why I became an artist in the latest issue of Corduroy Magazine, a fashion and art magazine that, from what I can tell, is based in New York. Isabella Rossellini is featured on the cover which is awesome, because I'm such a huge fan of her Green Porno and Seduce Me shorts. I'm sure most people have seen them, but if not you can see them HERE.

Ok, thats it for now... I think I'm going to do a bigger update either later tonight or tomorrow morning, I have a new limited edition (of 50) T-shirt, and Jamiyla is about to launch her new website... I'll post more details here very soon...

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Here are a few details and work-in-progress shots of a few things I've been working on in the studio... I have about 8 or 10 half-finished pieces in the studio, but nothing finished and it's driving me crazy...

LUSH LIFE review in NY Times...

There is a review of Lush Life in today's NY Times, you can read the online version HERE...

I'm pretty happy because I got a small mention... He doesn't really say if he liked my piece or disliked it, but I was a bit bummed out last night in the studio, and then I read this, and it put me in a happy mood:)