tree show iii

@ giant robot sf
featuring: apak!, melinda beck, robert bellm, bigfoot, kelie bowman, calef brown, aaron brown, catia chen, richard colman, matthew feyld, matt furie, fawn gehweiler, susie ghahremani, mollie goldstrom, andrew degraff, katherine guillen, ethan hayes-chute, jordan isip, rich jacobs, kelly lynn jones, kaori kasai, misaki kawai, kefe (kelly tunstall + ferris plock), joe keinberger, james kirkpatrick (thesis), diana kwok, matt leines, kathleen lolley, maxwell loren holyoke-hirsch, matt moroz, eric nakamura, ogi, pcp, luke ramsey, albert reyes, nathalie roland, brian rush, jeana sohn, daria tessler, elisabeth timpone, aiyana udesen, marci washington, andrew jeffrey wright
july 14 - august 8, 2007

the show features portraits of trees (by apak!, and others)


body parts hanging from trees (by matt furie, and others)


and a bunch more work (tree-related, and not).

check out my blog on fecal face, or my set/slideshow

Dennis Miller Radio

'Dennis Miller'

A good friend of mine at HOW Design Conference told me about Dennis Miller's radio show. So I tuned it in when I got back and I've been listening to it ever since. He does a good job and his guest's are great. He's had his buddy Dana Carvey (sp?) on a few times and those were the funniest.

His site and graphics etc. are lame however and in one of the shows he lamented about not having any designs to create stickers etc. So I had a few extra hours the other night and put this art together.


'Sticker Concept'

I designed a variety of things and sent them off to his producer. I only used purple because that is their current color they are using. So far I haven't heard anything back. Seeing how snarky Dennis can get I may hear him light me up on his show and make fun of my art? In a strange way that would be flattering. LOL

In any regard I think it's a drastic improvement over what they are currently using at the time of this post.

If you haven't heard his show take a listen at: www.DennisMillerRadio.com

Role Playing Game Icons

'Huntik Icons'

The summer right before 7th grade was my first introduction to a role playing game. I remember being introduced to Dungeons and Dragons (D&D). I really liked what was called the 'Monster Manual' and I enjoyed just reading about all the strange creatures and of course the art was pretty cool too.

I'd stay after school and play D&D with a small group of gamers. I wasn't your typical dork though, I was just friends with a few. ;-) I think I had more fun sketching out my characters then actually playing the game?

Because I was artistic, my friends would pay me to paint all their lead figures for the game. It funded my MAD magazine purchases and baseball card addiction at the time and made me realize I could use my art ability to make money so I guess in a certain way you could consider it my first commercial work.

The icons shown in this post are part of a group I developed for Upper Deck Company for a game called 'Huntik'. I have no idea what the game is all about? They provided me with rough concept sketches of characters and asked me to design an avatar icon for each. They'll be used as part of the overall game branding.

Fantasy art has never really appealed to me but this project turned out to be a fun creative respite and I like how they came out.

sky (2000-2003)

documenting, over the course of four years, the destruction of Rigo23’s sky mural. during that time, it felt like the sky was disappearing. there was a construction boom, of very tall buildings, in san francisco's soma district. still is. one very tall building obscured the sky. another decapitated the mural, and then swallowed it (and sky's sibling, ground). rest in peace.

view my 10 photo set/slideshow

streets of san francisco

i was walking from friday night at the de young to clement street for dinner when i came across the above vehicle. i recognized ricardo richey's characteristic form.


the margaret kilgallen sticker on the front. rigo23 showcards on the dashboard. a pine cone. i figured it out before i saw the confirming license plate. i'd found the luggage store's vantruck.


varuck? trucan? sirron norris, whose first name mirrors his last, added two bears. i love the piece he painted with andrew schoultz at the valencia gate to clarion alley. his mural on balmy alley. and this varuc.

paris mural

brendan monroe, koralie, supakitch, and wayne horse have a collaborative mural at carhartt in paris. we checked it out when we were there in april (in addition to perv-paris and the palais de tokyo show).

they did a good job creating a single piece incorporating their different characters and styles. the end result is somewhat like a coat of arms or family crest.

i was particularly psyched to see brendan's characters rendered on a larger scale

and to see the work of the other artists, who are new to me, in person.

this mural was part of a larger european tour, which brendan blogged for fecal face. i have a few more detail shots in my photo set.

palais de tokyo (april 2007)

we saw michel blazy's solo show at the palais de tokyo, a contemporary art museum in paris, in april.

he sculpts with food. the above piece, a bear rug, is composed of cotton and chocolate cream. the show also included a skelton made of dog biscuits and hot glue.


a piece composed of orange peels, which were decaying and covered with insects



a bird had found its way into the museum and onto the cat biscuit and glue sculpture.


the work and show was fascinating in person.

(soya noodles, and food dye)

the museum also had a number of photos by bernadette genee and alain le borgne of the inside of military caps showing the variety of things the soldiers keep hidden, and dear.




a third exhibit included a "prehistoric" camper van carved out of granite pieces by daniel dewar and gregory gicquel.


these shows closed. all of the artists were new to me and the work was refreshing. in part, i think, it cleansed the visual palette which, in paris, is otherwise oversaturated with classical work.

check out my set or slideshow for a few more from the above exhibit.

FREE iPhone Wallpaper

'A poster I created for Adobe. (The non-edited german helmet version)'

My iPhone is showing up any day now. In preparation I have taken some of my favorite pieces of art over the last year or so and have created a set of wallpaper images for my iPhone. For those of you who have or are going to get an iPhone I have provided a link below so you can download the images as well.


'My Temporal Infestation Illo. iPhonized'

As time goes on I'll create completely original designs specifically targeted for the iPhone. So keep your eyes peeled.


'Tribal Texture'

Some of the wallpapers like the one above come in a variety of flavors.


'Alien Biker.'

Get the entire '25' image set here: Download Vonster Brand iPhone Wallpaper