posted: January 21, 2010

A few months ago I was contacted by Cult Records regarding a piece I did for a gallery show in LA in 2006, "The Ally". It was featured in an article on my work in Juxtapoz, which apparently caught the eye of Julian Casablancas of The Strokes. He's releasing a Luxury Edition Deluxe Set of his new album "Phrazes for the Young", and wanted to license this painting to accompany the song "Glass". Today, I received my autographed copy of the set, which is limited to 1,000 copies world wide and is beautifully designed by artist Warren Fu. The other art in the book was created by Andy Kehoe, James Bellesini, and Warren himself.

If you're interested in getting one of these limited edition box sets yourself, you can pick it up here.

Oh, and here's the song "Glass"

posted: November 23, 2009

A friend sent me this animation from No Mas and artist James Blagden the other day, and it's pure genius. The background info (from the YouTube info listing) is:

"In celebration of the greatest athletic achievement by a man on a psychedelic journey, No Mas and artist James Blagden proudly present the animated tale of Dock Ellis' legendary LSD no-hitter. In the past few years weve heard all too much about performance enhancing drugs from greenies to tetrahydrogestrinone, and not enough about performance inhibiting drugs. If our evaluation of the records of athletes like Mark McGwire, Roger Clemens, Marion Jones, and Barry Bonds needs to be revised downwards with an asterisk, we submit that that Dock Ellis record deserves a giant exclamation point. Of the 263 no-hitters ever thrown in the Big Leagues, we can only guess how many were aided by steroids, but we can say without question that only one was ever thrown on acid.

Sadly, the great Dock Ellis died last December at 63. A year before, radio producers Donnell Alexander and Neille Ilel, had recorded an interview with Ellis in which the former Pirate right hander gave a moment by moment account of June 12, 1970, the day he no-hit the San Diego Padres. Alexander and Ilels original four minute piece appeared March 29, 2008 on NPRs Weekend America. When we stumbled across that piece this past June, Blagden and Isenberg were inspired to create a short animated film around the original audio."

posted: November 20, 2009

I just got word today that Nai Lee Lum, the terrific art director of (among other things) Fortune magazine's Europe & Asia edition covers, will be leaving the magazine in December, after 27 years with the publication. While she plans to continue consulting with them, she'll be greatly missed by the many artists she's given plum assignments to over the years.

Robert Newman (of Fortune, Real Simple, New York, Details, Vibe, etc.) wrote a wonderful tribute to Nai at the Society of Publication's website that features some of the art-laden covers she was responsible for over the years, and there's a link Robert's Facebook album with more of the covers, too. I've attached a few below. Thank you Nai!

posted: November 18, 2009

Actually Silver, and awfully honored by it.

 Rounding out the menagerie, I found out today that, with the help of ringmaster Jason Treat at Atlantic Monthly, this elephant won a Silver in the Editorial category. He and I will never forget it!

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