if i MUST!!!!

hahaha i will

new Kawasaki by Pressure Printing

Brad at Pressure Printing now has the new Audrey Kawasaki piece and hot damn it is gorgeous!!!!!!
8 3/4 by 12 3/4, signed and numbered in a hand made frame, and the price tag of 1500

yet another new Miyizaki trailer

Ponyo on a Cliff by the Sea

this is just funny

Wow i wanna go to alot of places

via sara and Jessica
If you need a smile

new HEIKO MULLER book

Everyone knows i love Heiko and his art!!! now there is a book
FTW!!!!
from his site

Limited edition monographic book

"Heiko Müller - Stay Awake"
Heiko Müller tries to peek behind the veil of nature in order to picture what makes her tick when we’re not looking. To do that he prowls the borderlands of Renaissance painting, religious icon art and comic culture. Stay Awake collects drawings, paintings and a couple of odd holiday snapshots that combine the spiritual terror of the Flemish masters with the serene and harmless world of rural folk art. It also features select party pictures from more than three decades.

110mm x 150mm, 160pg, 25€

Now available at
www.rojo-magazine.com

retro real

Check it. Retro Gaming in the Real World!
Looks pretty sweet I think

:(

yesterday morning my coolass fav uncle passed away in florida. he went quietly in his. Rocky, had been isolated to his bed for some time now and i made it a point to call him every week and shoot the shit. hell, thats even how he worded it. a badass who took photos for NASA and served in WWII, but also the goofy guy that would take nephews out on halloween and say "trick or drink" to people when they answered the door.
great man and great uncle who will be deeply missed.
i leave in a week or so for the memorial

a couple of pics
the first is using a camera circa 1920's that had a 20" lens in it

good and bad

not bad at all

















ADD THESE TO THE UGLY AS FUCK PILE OF RUBBISH

these are fun

now these are fun and a must have on the sdcc trip

HAPPY BIRTHDAY

PENGUIN OF DOOM LIVES

I forgot to show what Penguin of Doom looked like after he hatched from his egg and grew to a destructive 4 inches!!!!
look at him in all his devastating glory!!!!!!!!!!!!!

taunt

a tease of Dunny Series 5 from VP

HEY TOKIDOKI PEOPLE

tokidoki people coming to this blog to see the geisha
yeah i posted in on kr and people seem to be swiping the image and using it, how aboot giving me a few props ya lazy fucks!!!!
and here is the info
$40 the same saize as the yellow geisha so it isnt like the big ones nor small ones. there are either 200 400 or 600 i forgot hot many. i dunno release date

my take on the roo

Once again i went to bonnaroo in manchester, tn. my cohort who is usually down for my occurances, nick, went with me again and had one helluva time in hippie-ville.

here is the rundown. basically what can you anticipate in june on a 700 acre farmland? the sun, heat, sweat, boobs, more nudity, douchebags, great music, and good times.now i didnt list great food because well it is sub par. one would think a hippie like fest would have soooo much vegan fare, right? well it is there but not that damn great. i can make better. so anyway. ill discuss the things now

1. the crowd.
well i people watch like crazy. yeah there was all kinds of nudity and crap but hey thats fun, but also looking and laughing at douchenozzles is too. like the tards falling over, wearing airbrushed "boner-roo" shirts, guys with pumpkins or watermellons on their heads, stupid straw hats, guys wearing a hoodie a no shirt on underneath in 90 degree weather, people in flops stepping in 5 inches of mud and then they are shocked they got their clothes dirty or slipped, guys that think it is cool to rock 3d glasses at night, and so on. oh and the the guys blitzed out of their mind asking me if they knew me.. nope i only know the high fiving baby at the main stage.

2. Friends.
Nick, is a great person to tag along with because he doesnt bitch that much. yeah its hot, yeah there is a wait, yeah we stand alot, but damn it you go into this thing knowing that. plus he puts up with me watching M.I.A. and he hols his thoughts until im ready to roll out. anyway, I ran into old home slice Lindsey there who I havent seen since the last Roo a year ago. She was performing with the cabaret troop and doing trapeez. i caught her in the parade, walking on stilts, and her trapeez show. My pics sucked that i took of her so im not gona post. so it was damn good to see her tiny self prancing about. Michelle was in from Chicago to take pics and see the show. she snappe done of the Olson twins and actually just sold it to People Magazine, but she wont tell me how much per the contract. It was good to see her since its been since the holidays when she stayed at my house. Will and formomo were there doing their thing, and this is the first time ive ever actually spoke to Nick's friend will. good bloke i say. Lady Shannon and Coral were working a booth and only got to see them for a sec which sucks. I miss my shannon vick and I have only met coral a couple o times. alas, I didnt get to see Audrey this time which blows, but I know she was busy working.

Bands:
well here is the 411 on the bands I saw
M.I.A. - i liked it for the most part. its just house music to me and i dig some of it. yeah some of it. I didnt understand what she said by last show and kicking her out. now I know.

Chris rock- Holy crap!!!!! the rock was just as good as he was years ago when I saw hime. 100% new material of the adult nature that had me laughing. Which If you know me, I dont laugh often (as what jessicasays but i am getting better). I would pay money again to see him in an instant

Metallica - good and not good. they seemed ot be there for the $$$ to me. they said bullshit on stage and were just lame. the crowd seemed to get that vibe too. i dont give a crap aboot them now. Hetfield has lost it

Against Me - Badass as always. they put on a great show and never fail to rock

Mastadon - I just cant get into them too much. I dunno why. the drums are sick as hell but i just start to drift when i hear them

Gogolbordello - what can i say, IT WAS FUN but in the sun waaaaay too much. They are odd and deserve the bigger stage but it was kind of distracting and i was so far away i couldnt enjoy. i mostly just watched my friend do stilt walking.

cat power- ok i dig Chan but damn she needs to be in a lounge or bar doing her thing NOT in front of 40K people in the afternoon! i mean it woul dbe better if i was at a table with tea and dim lights

iron and wine - not bad what i saw. i only dg the REALLY slow stuff tho so ehh

Pearl Jam - ok PJ came out and rocked. they seriously blew me away. it wa slike 15 years ago. the were genuine and humble and totally there to play for the people. Eddie Vedder talked about how good cat power and jack johnson were. They played a ton of their catalog and were top notch performers. This is what music is about not some bullshit lars ulrich style. and I would see them tomorrow if they played again



Sigur ros - Well FUCKING HELL THIS WAS AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!
can you tell how stoked i was? I mean 1am-3am was just mesmorzing. horn sections the girls on strings. sooo much going on!!!! just look at photos below


BIG BIG PROPS AND THANK YOUS GO OUT TO STACI MYERS FOR MY FREE TICKET THIS YEAR THAAAAAAAAAAAAANK YOU AND TO THE SWORD












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WTF JESUS FEET?

Reader Nick's take on Bonnaroo

The Roo
The Roo was as it usually is, packed full of people darting toward you in every direction all of the time. It is like a live action "Asteroids" game, and everyone else are the asteroids. This year, IMHO, had better talent than last year. Instead of there being maybe two or three bands I wanted to hear, there were like 7 or more. Only being a Bonnaroo sophomore, I don't know what the fashions are from year to year, but this year I noticed a ton of people with folded wicker cowboy hats and chicks in gollashes that seemed to create a utilitarian farmer look.

Food
The food at the Roo looks good. Man, they have alligator, vegan pizza, and all types of off the wall food that actually sounds pretty different and delicious. In the limited experience I have had there, the food is bland trash. It sounds good, but you are usually served like you are at a soup kitchen with food that has been just hanging around in the heat for too long. I need to open a spice shop there so people can season their food! I ended up sticking with the "Spicy Pie" pizza. It is alright grub, and good when it’s late and you get hungry.

On to the bands

M.I.A.
I don’t care about hype. I don’t care about the newest flash in the pan. Just because some movie director likes one of her awful songs, it doesn't make her good. This chick is now rated #1 on my most hated list. Here is some chick, with a computer DJ, dressed like Salt and Peppa in the 80s. She blows these plastic horns the entire time, which sounded like she was summoning Olifants in Lord of The Rings. It was just super loud BOOM BOOM BOOM beats with little else, a cacophony of mismatched noise with a random vocal here and there. Ok, I can handle that. Here is the problem. This chick sucks. She just simply sucks. She can't sing. She can't play an instrument. She could only say, "MIA... MIA... MIA IN MEXICO" over and over and over... I have seen plenty of bands suck if they played too drunk or too high, but this chick could only remember her name! About half way through, she decided to get as many people as she could on stage with her. I imagine she did this for two reasons. 1) To hide her shame for even attempting music and 2) to provide some of the crowd with at least some little crumb to remember her by. If this is what the guitar hero generation has to offer, I am bailing out now. Avoid this chick at all costs!

Nick’s Grade: F-


Chris Rock
I was a little weary of old C.R. I thought maybe the dude had lost some of his chops since I haven't heard from him in a while. Nope. I was wrong. He completely came out there and tore it up with an hour of new material. Every joke was funny. No filler. It was almost worth the whole trip just for him. Jokes about every presidential candidate and slightly more bitter female jokes had me laughing the entire time.

Nick’s Grade: A+


Metallica
Let me say that I am a Metallica fan. This is one of the first bands to really get me into music. They are essentially my heroes. Let’s start with the good. They sounded great. I have been to thousands of shows and tons of arena rock shows. I have to say sound wise, this was the best sound I have ever heard on a stage that big. On the other hand, James Hetfield, my childhood idol, was terrible. He was cheesy, he can't sing and he has ruined all of the good old Metallica songs by trying to "sing" them. That, and they just continued to bug the crowd about how they have never heard of them or they have never heard what album some song was from. It was annoying. They also tried to do that stupid arena rock cheese-ball crap, trying to get the crowd to yell, "Hey Hey Hey Hey!" throughout just about EVERY song. That was just the beginning too, they attempted to get the crowd to sing parts of the songs, which just sounded like huge blank parts in classic metal songs that weren’t being sung well to begin with. I will probably never again see them play because they are so lame now. Even their old songs were just crap. Sometimes, when you start to get old, it might just be time to hang it up and do something else.

Nick’s Grade: D-


Against Me!
Ok, I like these guys. We got in a little late, only catching about half their set. They seemed really pumped to play and the crowd was digging them. I am no veteran with these guys, but for some reason, every song that doesn't have an Irish flare to it, sounds like Faster Pussycat to me. I like Faster Pussycat too, but I never expected Against Me! to sound like them. It was weird, you could almost sing silly old Faster Pussycat songs to their songs. The melodic similarities were striking. I don’t dislike them for this, actually, I like them more because of it.

Nick’s Grade: B+


Mastodon
I dig Mastodon. I didn't like their last album that much because it seemed kind of extra stoner and soft to me, but I like the guys and I like their music. I also like that they don't care about anything. They don't care how they look, or what people think of them. They just care about what they are playing. The hippies at the Roo hated them. It was the smallest crowd by far in one of those huge tents. They played well, and played 3 new songs (only one of which I liked), but they were still in your face and played some good stuff. I was told that they would be playing some older songs off of Remission, but I think they only played one.

Nick’s Grade: A-



Iron and Wine
Ok, I had never heard these guys before. I gave them a listen expecting them to be some 'bug on a dick' hippy crap. I was wrong. While their crowd was mainly made up of Jesus Shoe wearing goofs, this guy was pretty rad! He looked like Crazy E, he sounded like Crazy E, but his slow stuff was really heartfelt! I was shocked. I will have to delve more into these guys. The few slow songs we saw reminded me of Low in a way.

Nick’s Grade: A



Zappa Plays Zappa

I didn’t actually watch these dudes play, but we sat and had dinner basically within earshot of the stage. I was never a Zappa fan, so I might be a bit biased. I never got into music that was a complete joke, or music that relied on “shocking” the crowd by having the word ‘Asshole’ in it. That is reserved for people in 1970 when that was a rarity. What did it sound like? It sounded like a really stupid cartoon with completely dumb lyrics. I will give them this, they can play their instruments… but can’t everyone that sits down with their instruments and practices?

Nick’s Grade: F



Cat Power
I have seen Cat Power a bunch. I own every album she has made, but every time, she/they are boring live. I really love her too, but it isn't something that ever goes over well in person for me. She had a full band and the Olsen Twins were watching her with Eddie Vedder back stage, but that just isn't my thing. The band was quality, but the song selection was kind of an upbeat blues style, not hitting on many of her older and more personal songs. It was so left field for me, it took me two songs to be sure that I was indeed watching Cat Power. I miss the stage frightened girl that had her face covered with her hair and belted out songs out of sadness and frustration, rather than for indy-goddess status.

Nick’s Grade: D+

Pear Jam
We had a long break between Cat Power and Pearl Jam so we hung out in a field and chill for a bit. When Pearl Jam came on at like 10:15, I was expecting a pretty boring set of some old grunge guys that I used to like a lot to just stand up there and begrudgingly grind through their songs. Wrong again. They were awesome. It was by far the best "big show" I have ever seen! These dudes put passion on a stage where there has not been passion before. They played with heart and conviction that seemed to overtake the crowd of I would say 50 or 60 thousand people. It made Metallica look even worse the night before! Huge props!

Nick’s Grade: A+

Sigur Ros
I saw Sigur Ros about 2 years ago at the Ryman Auditorium where they earned a place in my top 10 shows EVER amongst the thousands that I have seen. I mean top of the top! They did it again, this time bringing a live string section and live horn section out almost the whole time. The only thing keeping this particular show out of my top ten was the environment. If you are in the crowd at Bonnaroo, you will undoubtedly be surrounded by douchebags. People bumping in front of you with light up glasses, cowboy hats and Canadian flags draped around them like superman capes. While the band was just as good as before, the environment could never take the place of the intimate Ryman Auditorium.

Nick’s Grade: A++ (Extra credit for doing something special with the extra live horns and strings)


There was much more of course, the naked guy with an elephant painted on his junk, topless girls with nothing but paint on, the funny shoes, people smoking weed like it was bubble gum, people sleeping in the bright sun because they took too many drugs, the super fun burlesque parade and trapeze act, the sewer-esque stench of the grounds, all in all it was a great time. I just hope they can get equally as good talent next year, if not more.

youtube tuesday

SIGUR ROS BONNAROO

tokidoki geisha

SDCC at toytokyo

Dok A

Dok A just launched the site for the mechtorians
http://www.mechtorians.com

here you can find info from the mindstyle release of the toys, art, news, etc...

I'm baaack

from bonnaroo

da roo

thanks to homie staci, it looks like im going to bonnaroo for free

so here are the bands im planning to see

M.I.A.
chris rock
Metallica
Against Me
Mastadon
Cat power
gogol bordello
iron and wine
kanye
sigur ros
chromeo
pearl jam
lady tron
broken social scene
death cab

Youtube ROO Tuesday

Ok If my free ticket comes thru before friday, ill be at Bonnaroo. so for this youtube tuesday, im posting some vids by some of the acts at the roo im stoked aboot
Sigur Ros


M.I.A.


Against me




and tons mo

Porno

come on it is the new Kevin Smith Movie
watch the teaser here

http://www.quickstopentertainment.com/qtsmallindex.html

Penguin of Doom day 4

he is almost fully hatched and ready to destroy all in his path

reader emails

from Reader Jessica

Beastie Boys

Gallery 1988 does some cool shit.
"In January 2009, we'll be holding "Under The Influence: An Artistic Tribute to the Beastie Boys," where almost 100 artists will create pieces inspired by the legacy and 20 year career of these pioneers. Get in line now. And yes, they are involved.
"

Sketchbook showings

from my sketchbook
the artist known as Neth!!!

Penguin of doom day 3

le Penguin of doom is hatching
soon he will destroy

tiffany wrote this

tiff wrote this about gals that lie

"Si la gente respeta y aprecia una persona, ellos no deben mentir a él o para causarle dolor. Especialmente la gente que se supone cuidar realmente, apoyar, y inspirar esa persona."

what does

what does a shit ton of 4ft KAWS Companions look like whent hey arrive at your doorstep?

old

the luke chueh dunny that never got made

Penguin day 2

Penguin of doom Day 2
into the water he goes!!!

youtube tuesday

a band known as FAILURE and then locals Paramore covering FAILURE

Size Doesnt Matter

Nashville's Smallest Art Gallery
the other week I was around the village and decided to check out this lil gallery I had heard about. Now it is LITTLE.
located @ 1807 1/2 21st Ave South this lil gem was fun and exciting and ive been telling everyone aboot it.
from their site
"In a former life, the gallery was a neglected, graffiti-covered display case. Soon with a little help from some Goo Gone, a razor blade, and a total interior makeover, the gallery started to take shape.

The gallery lights are powered by a solar panel mounted to the top, making it the only 100% self-sufficient art gallery in Nashville (and again, perhaps the world)."

I say go check it out and check out the site
http://www.smallestartgallery.com/about.php

penguin of doom

one of the presnt i got for my bday was this egg. you place the badboy and water and a penguin will hatch in a few days. Of course he is now gonna be known as the penguin of doom and ill document the daily happenings.
DAY 1 of PENGUIN

birfday

you know this is the first good birthday ive had in a few years. i had an awesome time, had awesome vegan sushi, hung out with good people, kicked some arcade ass, and yup i got some sweet as hell presents. One ill show a lil later.
The only thing that could have topped it would be that one phonecall that has been absent the past two years but maybe someday.
anyway, here are a few pics from that night.

100% awesome