Some Press Mentions

I need to list some of the press stuff that I've come across if for no other reason than to remind myself that I need to add them to the site when I have a minute. A few of these were found by my friend Dave, who is much more on top of where I am mentioned on the internet than I am!

First is several of my shirts being featured in a list of "42 great video game shirts you can wear in public" by Gamesradar. I'm glad I made this list and not the list of most awful ones!
Gamesradar.com - 42 great video game shirts you can wear in public

Next is a Blog for the Charleston Gazette that wrote about the big letter 'L' I made for Festivall. It's nice to get some press for this, maybe somebody will show up and want to buy it!
The Charleston Gazette - Beeper Lives

And Finally, Bloody-Disgusting.com did a feature on the Twilight Zone gallery show I participated in at Gallery 1988 in LA, and they used my art for the article.
Bloody-Disgusting.com - Works of art inspired by Twilight Zone.

Thanks to the people who brought these to my attention and the people who wrote the articles!

Gone Campin' Title Cards

We are getting into the final stages of post production on our short, Gone Campin'. If you missed my post explaining what this film is you can check it out here, otherwise just know that it involves a grown man out camping with his puppet friends.

We're trying to get a good cut of the short finished so we can screen it at the Filmmakers conference in Sutton, WV this weekend. An early idea I had was to do a cartoon-style title card sequence for the beginning. You guys know what I mean; the little bit of music and art that plays before an 8 minute cartoon letting you know the title and who worked on it. It's something that's been used on everything from older cartoons like Looney Tunes to new stuff like Spongebob.

The good thing about working with Brainwrap is that when I have an idea they usually let me run with it however I like, so I came up with what you see here, as well as the rest of the credit design which you can see in the final film!

Come check me out at FestivALL

I've been talking a lot about FestivALL on here lately, which is an arts festival in Charleston, WV that I will be participating in. So consider this the big "when things are happening" post. To any of my friends reading or anybody else who lives in this area, I would love for you to be able to make it out to some of these events!


June 18th

10:00 am - Festivall Large Letters Project
Nine local artists were each asked to design a giant letter, which when all put together will spell FestivALL. I was lucky enough to be invited to design the letter L, and the letters will be on wheels all day, rolling around to different Charleston businesses to be displayed.

6:00 pm - Buswater opening reception
1520 Kanawha Blvd. East
Buswater is an art exhibition held at regular intervals in a big ol' house by the river. I have several friends who normally participate and this will be my first time joining them. I created fresh prints of some new and old work for this show. It's usually packed and a lot of fun.


June 19th

10:00 am - Art Parade
The route starts at Court Sreet, then follows Virginia Street and ends at Capitol Street
This should be a pretty awesome thing to see. It's my understanding that the letters from the Large Letters Project will be featured in the parade.

5:30 pm - East End Streetworks Art Auction
Frütcake, 1599 Washington St. East
This is my second year participating. Last year artists were asked to design banners that were hung along Washington street, and this year we were asked to design bricks that will be permanently installed in the street. The original pieces of art used to make the brick transfers will be auctioned off here.


June 27

3:00 pm - Large Letters Auction
BB&T stage, 226 Capitol St.
The giant FestivALL letters will be auctioned off to the public!


These are only the events that I will personally be involved in and present for, which is just a tiny fraction of all the stuff going on at FestivALL. The event goes from June 18th to the 27th, check out the full schedule here!

90's show

Chogrin wrote to tell me that the 90's show went really well. This was the Autumn Society's first of three summer shows at Brave New Worlds comics in Philadelphia.




I stole these photos from the gallery on Brave New World's official Facebook page, so you can check out more if you'd like. There were a lot of great pieces in this show, some of them had me saying "Why didn't I think to reference that?!" such as Pete and Pete and Beavis and Butthead. It's harder than you'd think to come up with stuff from the 90's, because your head instantly wants to say "early childhood" but that's not really correct (if you're my age, anyway.) I did two pieces for this show but I wish I would've had time to do more; it took the show actually hanging on a wall for me to realize just how amazingly huge this theme could be.

Something's gotta be done about your kids!

Here's the finished drawing for the Back to the Future II article in Front magazine, pending any last minute changes. (Click the image for a bigger view.) Most everything included in the drawing is to illustrate different points in the article which is about technology in 2015, hence why some things may seem a little out of place. I took great care to be as accurate as I could. I think most of the extra time on this piece went to the full background, which I don't usually do. I'm pretty proud of this background, though, because the layout of the buildings is actually accurate to the movie! If this had been for any other film I probably couldn't have thrown in as many details as I have here, but luckily for them they picked the trilogy of movies that I know the most about.

Beeper Photobomb

Today there was an article in the Charleston Gazette about the Festivall arts parade. You can see the top of the letter L that I designed. I also caught a glimpse of it on the local news this morning!

This is Heavy

To say that I've been busy lately is the understatement of the year, but when Front magazine offered me this new, short deadline assignment I couldn't refuse. It's all about Back to the Future II and how we're quickly approaching the futuristic year of 2015 that we get a glimpse of in the movie. Some of the movie's technological predictions are here, while some haven't quite made it yet. Flying cars could become common place in five years, right? Anyway, my friends know that Back to the Future is my favorite movie of all time (and I don't mean that lightly, just ask the replica Flux Capacitor on my wall) so there was no way I could turn this down.

This is a small preview of what I have done so far, I should hopefully have it done by the end of the week.