This week’s Creative Loafing had a nice article about the lunchbox show. I am very excited to have a mention in one of the lead paragraphs!

Link here: CREATIVE LOAFING ARTICLE

The show was a great success, and the variety of content was pretty incredible. Most people opted to paint directly on the lunchbox, but there were a few amazing sculptures (a lunchbox gone mad [above], a urinal, and a giant robot), and some modifications (pal Kevin Rej’s insanely detailed pen & ink Movie Monster lunchbox had a light installed to backlight the front panel).

When my family and I stopped by to check out the show, we were greeted by girls in plaid skirts hanging from a ring dangling from the ceiling, and a really great turnout. Unfortunately we didn’t stay long. Our dinner beforehand took a really long time and our 3-year-old was spent by the time we arrived. I wasn’t able to get very many pictures, but there are images up here on Alcove’s website: LINK. Georgia Public Broadcasting was there filming, so I will update a post with links and hopefully video if it becomes available.

I do have to give a HUGE THANKS and major plug to James Thorpe from Graphic Communications in Lawrenceville, GA who generously and unexpectedly donated the printing of my piece. In addition to the great customer service, they did a fantastic job with the printing. You can find out more about Graphic Communications here: LINK.

For you citizens of Atlanta, the show runs until May 9th.

I just finished up a custom lunchbox design for a gallery show at Alcove Gallery in Atlanta. The show is this Saturday from 7PM-12AM. Link for more information HERE. Every artist customized their own, and my understanding is that there are over 70 different lunchboxes in the show. If you are in the Atlanta area, you should check it out. I will post some pictures from the opening in a subsequent post.

Some technical deets: I did the piece digitally and had it output with UV resistant inks on adhesive and hand-mounted it to the lunchbox with a decal squeegee.

It’s been a long while, but thanks to an AIGA Screenprinting workshop at the Atlanta Printmakers Society on Friday, I got to do some limited edition screen prints on paper. It felt great to get back into that and get my hands dirty – literally. The piece was drawn in Photoshop with the Wacom tablet and supplemented with a pattern from Illustrator. I’m really happy with the result. Many thanks to Shari Margolin for co-organizing it and Matthew Crouch for donating paper samples so I had something to print on!

Some more posters I did for fun. I dug the Rabbit boxing one out of the vault recently, it was probably from 2001 or 2002. The Please Enjoy was done over the summer.

It’s been a busy several months on the creative front. Probably one of my best creations/collaborations to date was with my wife – we welcomed our second daughter into the world on October 6th. Leading right up into that was finishing up the album artwork for some good friends of mine in the band Afroskull. To Obscurity and Beyond is their 2nd release – it’s a mind blowing followup to their debut album, Monster for the Masses. You can purchase the new one and hear tracks here: LINK. Just find a comfortable cushion to sit on and make sure to wrap your head in duct tape so you don’t lose your grey matter. Check them out if this doesn’t scare you: New Orleans Funk + Black Sabbath + Frank Zappa + a giant horn section.

More experimentation with Brushes. Getting the hang of it now, although it’s interesting how different it looks on the iphone/ipod touch. It seems to be crisper and have more definition in the “brushiness”detail on the smaller screen. It seems more watercolor-like when I bring it into Blogger and see it larger. I do have to say that I am enjoying the program a lot, and it’s great for when I want to be creative and don’t want to disturb the wife while she’s trying to sleep. If it’s nothing more than for doodles, it’s a good way to capture studies, ideas, experiments, etc.

There’s a great flickr site of other people who have mastered Brushes: http://www.flickr.com/groups/brushes/pool/

So it's not much and it's just a quick doodle, but this is my first
foray into Brushes for the iPhone and iPod touch. It takes a few
minutes to get used to but once you get the hang of it the interface
is surprisingly intuitive. The hardest part is not having nimble wispy
fingers. Surprising potential here especially with the ability to have
transparent color. I am really looking forward to exploring this app
more!

So I’m late to the party in a few respects. First – I knew that I was able to email content to Blogger and have it post immediately on the blog, but didn’t really have a good reason to. Second – I just inherited a first generation iPhone from my sister. So I’m finally catching up with the rest of the pack on all the things that the iPhone can do. So here is the collision of two potential forces. I can take a semi-ok photo of whatever with the iPhone and post that image up on the blog immediately. I suppose this could also be true of using Brushes, or other painting/drawing apps for the iPhone. Not bad… Now actually DOING that is a different story, but at least the potential exists! Ah, the 21st century….

I found some “oldies” cleaning out my flat files. It’s always interesting to see work from awhile ago to see how much you’ve changed and also how much you’ve stayed the same creatively. Or what things still remain constant interest-wise…

The painting is probably from 2002 or 2003, and the Robot madness is from 2001. I did a series of screen prints called The Curious Predilection of Robots – this was an “outtake” test print.