Working On Some Illustrations For A Site Redesign - Rotating Banner Style. Hoping These Will Liven Up

Being from Maryland, this baseball season was the best anyone could have hoped for. Despite the Nationals having the best record in the league, my allegiances remain with the Baltimore Orioles. Tonight, they battle for the wild-card spot, so in support, I drew the new/retro logo that I'm quite fond of (glad to be over the lifeless bird silhouette). Go O's. 

From the Hmph

I started recording some music again.  Got a little album in mind with lots of guitar loops and lots of lyrics crammed into 2 minute and under songs.  Tentative album title is Jacuzzi Juice.  Alternate tentative title is Austin, The Man, Not the City.  Here is one of the tiny tracks I recorded Sunday afternoon and a comic inspired by the tiny track!

First day in Seattle. Super awesome.  Got up extra early on account of the time change and got all the bicycles out of the shipping boxes and ready to ride. Went to the gun range and shot a wide array of 9mm pistols. This manly activity made us realize that doing guy stuff can make you feel less manly if you’re  pretty uncomfortable doing it. So then four of us tried to split a cigar but we ended up only making it half way through. I think we redeemed ourselves though, by inventing Bliskey - which is beer and whiskey, naturally. More soon.

Season 3 Episode 6 in which a man woos women on lonely hearts chatrooms and dates them briefly before suffocating them with goo. From his mouth. Into their mouth. If he doesn’t do this, he gets wicked messed up looking.

This is part of an ongoing project to catalogue the villains from the television series X Files. Check out the others here!

This is an alternate look for the upcoming art for DJ Lani Love's new summer mixtape. In this version, the text for Lani Love is large and interacts with the front row of trees. I really liked this treatment but also have to admit that Ms Love was right in requesting a smaller, more cohesive nametag down at the bottom. Final version coming soon.

Good good, Good bad, Bad bad: Daybreakers

I watch a fair amount of movies.  Most of them are bad movies.  This is just something I do.  This segment is devoted to all the movies I view.  Last night I watched Daybreakers in which Willem Dafoe is cured of vampirism after being launched from a wrecking car, catching on fire from the sun’s rays and being extinguished moments later in a dirty waterway…  It does get pretty gruesome at the end.  Overall, this qualifies as a “Good bad” movie.  It was pretty easy making Ethan Hawke look freakish; the hard part was making Willem Dafoe look remotely human.

Closeup of a poster I have at the printer's. Proof, then the whole shebang. Prints of this available soon.

Bird 7: Laughing Gull

Another bird in the love it or hate it category, the Laughing Gull. The sea gull many of us think of is the Herring Gull, but they aren’t as attractive and don’t outnumber the Laughing Gull by very much here in Brooklyn. I see these guys all the time at Prospect Park. When I ride down to Coney Island and Brighton Beach, these gulls rule the school. I like them when they leave my junk alone. They strike me as crows that have retired - changed clothes to suit their beachier environment.

Season 3 Episode 7 in which a quadruple amputee uses astral projection... to kill.

This is part of an ongoing project to catalogue the villains from the television series X Files. Check out the others here!

This spring I was asked to create a suite of wedding collateral for Meg & Mike. I worked up a few invites, some table cards, and even a stencil for a special wedding brew. It was an ultimate pleasure creating this package for a super sweet couple. Check out more of the work from the wedding right here!