new ideas for shirts and blankets

vice magazine did a post about the fliers.

regularly scheduled program

presently posted

during my time as an artist-in-residence at facebook campus i also utilized their amazing silk screen workshop to make some prints. the "analog research lab" has a nice spread and it really made me miss having my own set up. i need to change that. i need to build my own shop for this sort of stuff. this is me saying i am going to do that. anyway:

it's hard to tell, but this is kind of a monster, 27x39 inches. i used some letraset rub-on type that  i got from fellow residents and awesome people, artists a+b, blew it up on the copy machine then made some films. the black line is torn newsprint stencil. 

and this one, which is smaller. 14x22.

both of these go in that category in my brain of "promotional posters for the present moment". maybe i'm hammering that into the ground and making too much of a thing about it, but these all fit together to me. how do you deal with liking how some advertising looks but hate what they are in fact advertising?  i'd like to be able to do about a hundred more of these and i am going to try to. 

ps in case anyone is curious, i don't have any of these to sell. but i am planning on a 2013 onslaught of new posters and prints and other things, some based on some of this batch of work, but expanded and fine-tuned.  

i am pumped to put this year in the bag and get on with some newness. onward!

future past

i have a 2013 calendar etc available next week

encountered

hey man, mollusk had a sweet poster show a couple weeks ago and it was sweet. what happened was they got serena mitnik-miller, jeff canham, alex kopps, tom adler, andy davis and myself to make some prints special for the show. all were expertly printed by bloom press in oakland, california, simply the best silk screener in the lower 48, and all are looking sweet as heck. only available at mollusk in sf but they do mailorder so relax.

 here's mine. kind of riffing on an old pelican paperback, but don't tell anyone.

 detail shot of dog guy

tasteful nudes

hitting the books

so as i mentioned earlier, i did an artist-in-residence stint at facebook campus last month. my project was supposed to interact with and engage people on campus in some way. after my initial instinct to go with some confrontational performance art, i decided to continue on with a project that will probably keep going until i'm dead. i made a bunch of posters.

 i call them "promotional posters for the present moment" but in this case i thought of them as anti-productivity propaganda. sort of, don't work so hard, take some time for yourself and for what is really important in life cornball stuff. no word yet if this has brought facebook crumbling down to ruins.

 i then put up some posters around with no explanation. 

note: this is a drawing of a satisfied old man, but some people thought it looked like dave thomas, founder of wendy's.

 let us travel to exotic lands

file this under thing i might actually do one day

 this too

 you figure it out

thingless

 snuck some gratuitous nudity in there

 i didn't realize until later that this sort of looks like the facebook "like" symbol from the back. timely!

 also file under things i eventually want to make real

 all these prints were made on a risograph machine, which looks like copier, but is actually a weird mix of silk screen, offset lithography, and digital printing. it's super fun.

then i did a little demonstration and a talk and gave away all the posters to whoever wanted them. many people wanted the cat thing to be real.

 drying plants

 risograph, man, i wish i had one

would love to paint this one real big on a big old building somewhere. hit me up, grant-givers!

i also made some big silk screens which i will save for later. 

keep it casual

a nice journal/magazine thing just came out in australia. it's called "casual devices".

 it's a labor of love from a very nice dude named simon perini. i am included in this debut issue and i am flattered and stoked. look at that line-up!

 he did an interview with me, and the questions were thoughtful and considered. 

 rad little spreads

 stoked on this shot of my studio dungeon

 BPB bringing it all back home. have you read that new will oldham interview book? i suggest it, because it's great. it's a great read about process, the vibe, and goofiness.

there's a lot more in here but i don't want to ruin it. pick one up if you can. 

here's one place you can get it.