Feb.20th Update: Video Blog 58 drop.

Special guests SkufOne and Spot Kms. Enjoy the Brooklyn flavaz.

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That just happened.... Skip the weird Russian "rap" and medical prep and get to the biz part at about 1:15   Thugged out cat life.  Don't bother sayin' "animal rights people" will go crazy, they don't even have "people rights people" in Russia....

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New Black Bike.... Question Everything....    and of course the custom business sign painted for the realest custom chopper shop in NYC.

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Feb. 14th Update.

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Fab. 9 update.

So here's some custom Push Rod Collar designs I did for Shane McMahon and Indian Larry Motorcycles in late 2011. The 4 initials  S,D, K, and R, had special meaning to Shane so he asked me to customize the four Push Rod Collars specifically.... This was the first of it's kind for me, the only metal work I had prior experience with was with Jeff Decker doing the Bronze HORSLELINGTON. This first custom job for Shane has since lead to a second and equally interesting client that I can't mention yet, but since this seemed to be a recurring thing I decided to at least share the first job.  Hopefully I can put the ones Im doing now on here as time passes and it is no longer a secrecy issue.  These first ones for Shane where done in Silver, and polished. The new ones we're doing now are to be Brass for contrast purposes.  Im hoping I can show those as I felt I nailed them more identifiably with my style the 2nd time around.  These first ones are still cool though, check'm out.

some prelim sketching for the letters where the word "wispy" was used as my direction to go in for the letters...

Above are the S and the D that where the end result cast in Silver....

and the K and the R....

Shane's Bike completed. Not the best photos... sorry 'bout that readers.

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Feb. 8th Update....

Result and prelim.... watercolor play....

Just watched the film Brazil again, this was my interp. of the main character... although in the film he's slightly on the awkward, shy side, somehow this ended up making him look like he's out of his mind...also funny he seems to be rockin' some Miami Vice Crocket get up.... I dunno how that happened....

This scribble came from the first 3 minutes of watching Tank Girl again....

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February 7, 2012 Update

that is all for today....

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January 30th Update.

So there was no real reason for this page... other then just keeping active and following thru to completion.. I have a few really oddball ideas Id like to execute but time seems to be the biggest hurdle for me these days...

turtle wants fish.....

this bottom corner works on a few diff. levels... At times I feel like I give the audience too much credit assuming they see things I do... but Im constantly reminded I have to spoon feed alil... So this "art" shit can be discouraging in that sense at times...

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January 26 Mid day update.  Some Bruce Wayne for ya....

So this one was last week, just forgot to drop it on here...  originally I intended it to only be black and white, to play around with some new tools and dust off those old school hatching skillz... very rusty,  so I lost interest about midway thru the shading and decided to push some color around on it... I hope I salvaged it, gave it a little bit of life cuz I was ready to scrap it... overall still not top notch for me, but you gotta break a few eggs to make an omelette...  Next up I think Im going to do a CRYSTAR Splash page.

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January 26th update.

Video Blog # 57.

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January 25th Update.

Jim Hensen 1963 in this awesome short clip for The Bell System.

and...

And today I received a nice gift from the Great ROBERT PRADKE, Hot rod Pin Striper Extraodinaire, these have some mileage and I can;t wait to get busy incorporating them into my work,  Thanks for the warm gift Robert, Im humbled.

Pradke flossing the skillz.

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January 21, 2012 update.

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Read up.   http://colorlines.com/archives/2012/01/what_the_hell_is_sopa_and_how_it_would_affect_you.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

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January 17th, 2012 Update.

So a few days back I posted some Pop Singer Chick's video in front of a wall I did for Converse and the Rubber Tracks Studio.  Well yesterday Converse went public with this video documenting my process.  The video came out dope, aside from my own personal pet peeve of how my wording was chopped up and smushed together to fit the edit, but aside from that the quality and pace is top notch.  Check it out, and read up on the Converse project for the music community, helping out talented people who may not have the option to pay for studio time. It's for a great cause.  And the check out the homey www.billypena.com who chopped and edited the whole thing. A lot of times the guys behind the scenes don't get any shine, so check this dude out if you need documenting, editing , especially time lapse stuff you name it.  He also did this sick video showing all the stages the studio went thru from start to finish....

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January 17th, 2012 Update......

-Knocked out this piece for a friend/ collector in Arizona who last year purchased another of the same dimension 2 wide x 4 tall. This year he asked me to revisit an old character of mine, SHARKLINGTON.... He's also is heavy into collecting old Transformers so on the last piece he bought I did my HORSELINGTON Character holding  Megatron, a Walther P38,  on this one he is brandishing the Decepticon Shockwave.

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January 15th Update. 2012

So here's a catchy lil pop song, I dont listen to this type of thing anymore in my old age of gray hair, walking sticks, and prunes...   but I can see how it could be catchy to the "yOOths"...   anyways, this vivacious lil pop star is on her way to success but not without first making a pit stop at one of my many street level walls here in Bautiful Brooklyn. This one is outside of the RUBBER TRACKS STUDIO.  Go head City Grrrl... CSS CITY GRRRL CSS CITY GRRRL CSS CITY GRRRL CSS CITY GRRRL  CSS CITY GRRRL CSS CITY GRRRL  CSS CITY GRRRL  CSS CITY GRRRL  CSS CITY GRRRL  CSS CITY GRRRL  CSS CITY GRRRL

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Jan. 11, 2012 Totem 2 in Japan.

My good friend and inspiration, Totem 2 visiting Japan with his family.....

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Jan. 12,2012 Update.

So this is a photo taken by Photographer Vin Zarate who was with me one evening while setting up my solo return show at bOb Lounge when I setting up a booby trap, I had this original drawing sent over to Kinkos and color copied, then I replaced the original with the fake copy, and hung this little piece along with the rest of the show, where the majority of the other pieces averaged around 4 x 5 feet in size,,  the point was to set up a bate piece that we would expect to be stolen by someone once the lights got dim throughout the month of the shows run time... I left a nice hand written note inside the back of the frame, something like   "Sorry guy.... you only managed to come off with a limited edition 1 of 1 color copy from Kinkos"   This frame wasn't part of the show when the rest of the art came down at the end...... So someone out there has a great story, but a useless color copy an original sketch...

Anyway this picture was just emailed to me today from Vin, and it reminded me this was prolly the last time we ever really saw the bate piece. I still have the original drawing of course, and the painting that the sketch came from is HERE

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January 10th 2012 UPDATE.

The Brand New EVOLVE E7 Paint Markers.  Comes in 12 colors.  Ive messed around with them in the lab on a few different surfaces and for different types of reasons. I love'm, especially for one specific reason, I sell my HORSELINGTON Vinyl Figures to people signed through email from time to time, and a lot of times I can't find a real marker that will write on the glossy and what I think is some kind of waxxy outer surface on the box...  markers like Sharpie and whatever else seems to bead up and turn invisible before it's dry.... Well this E7 in Black dropped ink like I was writing on glass, perfect! One shot, no goin back to fix lines.

Get'm here  WWW.004CONNEC.COM

a scribble using a few different tools, but purposely using the Black and Blue from the EVOLVE E7 Line.

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January 9th 2012 UPDATE

So it's no secret I was heavily influenced to draw as a youth from Comic Book Art. In the 80's it was Spiderman, Xmen, Wolverine, then I think around 89/90ish, I stumbled onto a few very key artists that visually showed me I didn't need to be the most anatomically correct Captain America type artist. Not taking anything away from those traditionally trained artists, I just saw things more appealing when they were a bit off tinker and unique.... So in comes artists like Simon Bisley, Same Keith, Bill Sienkiewicz among others... They showed me visually that you didn;t have to be cookie cutter, you could add your own twist to things that could make you stand out.  So in the last month or so I have decided to revisit the mind state I was in from '86-92 when I was heavily spending whatever $ I could find on Wolverine #1 and shit like that...  I decided last week to first do a VENOM with Eddie Brock inside, but I wanted to do it MY WAY.... Since Im more developed as an artist now Im able to execute what I couldn't when I was just a kid copying Eric LArsen's Spiderman covers.... Following my Venom, I decided to do a WOLVERINE, but not your average Logan facing off with someone with enormous comic book muscles or whatever cliche' scenario you would normally see in a WOLVERINE Pin up page, I thought about what it would be like if Logan went fishing one Sunday afternoon, so I tossed his ass in the ocean...

Anyways, I hope to keep doing some more of these kinds of pages, but by all means if anyone has a cool idea for me to whip up, drop me an email, I got a few good ideas to execute next, a HELLBOY,  a BATMAN, I wanna do a MYSTERIO and a DOCTOR STRANGE also...but let's have some fun with it. Drop me an line if you have content ideas, this way I can look at it like a job to deliver an idea....

and my goodness, Lucy Liu is lookin' slammin' right now in  "Code Name, The Cleaner" which I managed to mute as I listen to music and update my blog.....

Lucy, you can drop me an email too while I got your attention, I'll draw you on one of the pin up pages any day..... G-R-OW-W-W-W-W-L-L-L-L.

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PEEP THE ANALYTICS SON  ~  January 3rd, 2012. UPDATE.

You no longer can afford to advertise on the site.You should have got yourself roped in for 2K a month on Wed.  now the price has tripled.

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EWOK 5MH VIDEO BLOG 56  "BRAINLINGTON"

VIDEO BLOG DROP # 56. The re introduction of my character BRAINLINGTON, on a larger scale.... 2011 Miami's Wynwood district. During the Art Basel Fairs..

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SPACE

You know what time it is....  A oldy of mine I found from around 2004ish...

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Jick and Mast on some hibernation mode. gettin in some physical fitness....

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V-log #55 Drop. Showcasing the brand new EVOLVE E3 MOP.  Enjoy.

"CROC WEAR'N CUP CAKE KILLA"        -Commissioned Bday gift to set off my indoor studio season, shakin the rust off the brushes.... Stay tOOned for a season of no sleep and obsessive madness.....

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