Hibernation

March 12th, 2009

Good Morning! I’ve recently woke up from hibernation and I’m pleased to be with you all again. If you didn’t know I generally hibernate from mid January  through February. As a huge fucking bear I basically have no choice.

But seriously folks, here’s some things I’ve been doing:

I’ve been extremely interested in the game of Chess lately. I’ve been playing correspondence Chess with friends and family who are also intrested in Chess as a result. If you’d like to get a game of correspondence chess gong via email with me please contact me. I’m up for a game any time. Here is a photo of me studying up on my endgame strategy.

I went to Florida with my family to surprise my Grandma for her birthday. I thought she was going to be so surprised she peed her pants but It didn’t end up getting that extreme. I saw some dolphins swimming around in the gulf which was pretty amazing.

I’ve been listening to Frank Zappa almost exclusively. I’ve gained access to his discography (which includes a staggering 79 albums) and have fallen in love with his music. Do yourself a favor and pick up as many of his albums as you can get your hands on.

I got a new tattoo. Name Brand Tattoo offers ‘Grab Bag’ tattoos to the brave, broke, and willing. Basically you walk in, pay them $50, draw a tattoo out of a cigar box that’s full of crumpled up pieces of paper, then get the tattoo you drew out of the box. Melissa and I decided to hit it up. Bill Falsetta did the deed and did a fantastic job. I got a fortune telling gypsy woman’s face in profile which I requested a beard be added to. Overall I feel like I was super lucky with this whole experience (I was mentally prepared to get pretty much anything tattooed on my body). Melissa got a griffin with it’s talons digging into a huge slice of pizza, if you’re wondering.

I swear I’ve been up to more than that but it’s all that comes to mind at the moment. I’ve got tons of projects in the works so stay tuned.

LPeez

January 6th, 2009

We started printing some Bee Mask LP’s for Weird Forest Records at work today. We’ve been working on them for quite a while and they’re turning out to be some of the best prints I’ve ever seen, hands down. Check ‘em out here.

Hello to you year 2009

January 5th, 2009

Wow. Here we are again friends. You all feel so much closer to me and my heart in 2009. Well. How are things? Things are well with me.

This New Years Eve I had the privilege of going to a portion of the 24 Hour Puppet Show at the Dreamland. They ended up basing some of the shadow puppets on the illustrations I did for the flyer. It was awesome seeing things I drew come to life like that. Long story short the shadow puppets were all in the Demon Realm and they were trying to find the Magic Comb so they could cross over into the Human Realm. Please enjoy this photo taken in the depths of the demon realm.