newest in the sketchbook and Matt and Kim!!

a few logo designs I;ve been sketching out, and still trying to think of a name.
A few weeks ago I went to the Matt and Kim show in Portland, it was one of the best shows I've been to in a long long time, matt and kim played, and then some DJ's from Brooklyn played all night after them, I dont think I left SPACE until 1:30, and bars close at 1:00am here in Portland. long night of dancing like a complete fool and drinking alot of pbr for me to do so.

Here's Amanda and Teresa gettin down! also a video with Tami going crazy!


Also all of these photos of the show are taked from the SPACE website by photographer Bryan Bruchman and please go visit Space's blog.

BOSTON

I went to Boston the other day, mostly for a show at the Middle East that I've been waiting for for a long time...Chuck ragan, Ben Nichols and Tim Barry, the show was pretty amazing, I dont go to shows to much anymore, but when I go to great ones like that I kind of miss them. I also visited my friend Liz and stayed at her new apartment in Cambridge on a very small couch, but I'm pretty use to sleeping on couches latly so it wasent bad at all, i actually fell right asleep.
The next day i woke up around 10 and just walked Boston all day until I took the 8:15 bus back to Portland. I havent walked that much in a long time. I took alot of touristy pictures also.







Apparently this is the new way to pin point landmarks in Boston, huge pics with a red top and a little sign that hangs off of them, they were everywhere!!
This was a random grave yard in the middle of the city kind of near Faneuil Hall, I thought it was kind of cool.

I also bought Kanye West type glasses at Newbury comics for Brittney.

working

so myself and Aaron have been getting more supplies together, pressure hose, screens, emulsion and such and finishing up the exposure unit, now we're thinking about a studio space in town, its alot harder to find a space than I thought it would be, I guess theres just not as much available as i thought. But i have faith that we'll find one and will work perfectly.

We're also rethinking our name, we need one as soon as possible i think, lets get this down aaron!

this is also my first post this month, thats pretty bad. I've been working full time at my job latly though and havent taken pictures of anything.

Big purchase!

Finally starting a studio and going to get going on work again! My buddy Aaron and me made a big purchase the other day. I was roaming on Craigslist and all this screen printing supplies were for sale on there for super cheap. We bought a 6 color tshirt press, a washout booth and a portable dryer all for $350 I looked up online what it should of costed, somewhere around 1,700-2,000 so we saved alot of money. We're setting up shop in Aaron's apartment right now, and debating getting a studio space somewhere in town, just right now money is an issue.
Still need a few supplies, and we're building an exposure unit as well since those things are really expensive.
I'm really excited about this! I've been slacking it all summer and need to start doing work again now that everyone else is going back to school and I'm not, I was to actually make something out of this art degree I earned..
Hopefully we can get a studio space somewhere and I can move all the rest of my art stuff there so I actually have somehwere to work. Below are some pictures of the things we bought, and the exposure unit half done.

new in the mail!

I got these two amazing prints in the mail yesterday, the first is an Aaron Horkey print for Boris and Torche tour poster, its 25" x 36", signed/numbered in an edition of 290. and is an 8 color screenprint. This thing is really amazing looking at it in person, even better than I thought it would be.

This piece by Dan McCarthy is called "Shared Memory: Pollinators". It's 19" x 25", 4 color screen print. signed/numbered in an edition of 550. Dan is one of my favorite artists and i've been wanting to get one of his prints for a really long time, but never do, so I'm glad I picked this one up to, its alot cheaper than the Horkey one to.

sketchbook 2

Some more pages from my new sketchbook.

new sketchbook

I started a new sketchbook yesterday, I worked on it alittle bit at work today, I just need to get back in the swing off things and start coming up with some ideas for work, some prints maybe, button ideas. so here are just some drawings I did today.

unknown album

So latly I've been slow on producing much art work.. I definetly need to start my projects soon, but to be honest the last month or two since school ended has been awesome, I've seen some of my good friends more times since school has ended then I saw them all last year, and thats a good feeling, and I've been spending alot of time outside, going to the beach, cookouts, riding my bike latly, me and my friends Brittney and Teresa went on a bike ride fr around 3 hours today.
I've been keeping up on my blogs latly though, I go to them pretty daily and just to look at what other people are doing, my friend Aaron has a really cool one called mis-mused where he creates a comic and narrative for each day of his life, some of my other friends have started Illustration blogs, most notably Ryan's check it out!
I also came across all of the Dark Night posters the other day, I really like these posters and how there done, plus the movie looks amazing and I cant wait to see it.
I dont think I'm going to continue much with posting pictures of other posters and things I like, unless they are with work that I do because I always wanted to keep this thing/blog about me and my work, but I guess these things are about me and what inspires me so whatever, I guess I'm just trying to say I need to start doing work so I can keep posting it and not have to post other stuff thats not mine.
Check out all of the Dark Night posters HERE. Bye

Rogues Gallery bike map

This is a project I've been working on for the past few weeks for Rogues Gallery, the clothing company I use to work and intern for. Its a bike map of Portland for the RG store, so people can rent out old cruisers and ride around portland and go to place that we like. The map is based off of older Portland maps from the 1800's with the updated street's on it. I'm pretty pleased with how it came out, it took alot longer than I thought it would, and went through alot of revisions. but here's the end result!