October 3, 2012 For those of you who have requested that I make the earrings available online the time has come. I have three pairs left so get em while you can (click HERE to see them). They are all made here in SF with custom hand bent ear wire. Thank you to Brandon Shigeta for getting this candid pic of my friend Nora rocking them at the Known show. Gotta go on my way to San Jose to talk about my show at Cukui at the end of the year!
October 1, 2012 This Friday (Oct. 5) I will have a piece in a group show titled "Shred Town". The show is part of a fundraiser benefiting Hood Games and helping create a permanent skate park in West Oakland. The show will be held at Era Art Bar in Oakland be sure to get there early if you want to dodge the hundreds of people who will be out at Oaklands first Friday event / Art Murmur (its gets packed!). Hope to see you there.
September 28, 2012 I know I have been away for a minute, but want to let you all know that I was busy while away from the computer. I just wrapped up and shipped out all of my work for an upcoming show in Dallas, Texas! I was also busy working on a piece for a video that is currently in the works with Rick Symonds (can't wait to release this video). I was contacted today by my friend Silvia who told me a project we worked together on is now ready for release. I was given a piece of fabric that I hand drew my designs on to create a one of a kind bunny called bigEAR. The bigEAR project is a awesome creation for those of you who enjoy plushies. Every bigEAR is hand made and bespoke, but can also be custom made to your linking. Please click here or on any of the images for more info. bigEAR is located out of London so please help spread the word and help her get these little ones out here in the US. I hope all is well and I will be updating my store very soon I PROMISE (seriously I do read the emails and am taking all of you're advice to provide more goodies on my site). Thank you again Silvia for the opportunity to work together and hopefully we can do this again in the future!
September 11, 2012 Staying on top of deadlines is a major task to master when working with multiple people at one time. It gets hard at times juggling projects and right when you think you are on top of it something else comes up out of nowhere. Here is a sneak peek at work I am currently working on (cant wait to show this stuff off!). Oh yea I received an email today from a school teacher in Washington, DC telling me that she is going to have her class study my work as a class project. What !!!!!! Wow I can honestly say that I never imagined that people would be interested in learning about be til I was long gone. Crazy.
September 6, 2012 Well as promised here are the pics from the wall I was fortunate enough to do the other day when I returned from LA. The wall was all grey had previously been tagged and I wanted to leave some of it there to work with just in case you were wondering. HUGE THANKS to Rone and Luke out of Melbourne, Australia (Rone is the artist painting the HUGE girl next to me) for the invite, PBR's and my glamour shot. By the way Rone is having his solo show here in SF this Saturday at White Walls Gallery be sure to attend if you can. If you are wondeing where these walls are located you can find them on the corner of Olive and Larkin in San Francisco's tenderloin district.
September 5, 2012 Made it back home in one piece and back on the grind (cant wait to show you what Im working on!). I just finished painting a wall along side a friend from Melbourne (will post pics tomorrow). Here are some of my highlights from LA trip I forgot my camera when I went to the show so I had to take some from online. Shout out to BCCP for hooking it up with some shirts, Dabs & Myla for the love and support along with Thinkspace for curating an amazing show, and last but not least Patrick and Nicole for the hospitality and introducing me to fruity pebble donut holes.
September 1, 2012 Well I made it to LA and have been doing nothing but running around and resting since I got in. Just a reminder that tonight is the Dabs&Myla group show at Thinkspace gallery in Culver City from 5-9 (click on first image for more info). Los Angelenos I hope to see you there if you can make it out, if not tell a friend. I will do my best and take pics to post later. In the mean time enjoy this video as I feel its only appropriate for the nice Los Angeles setting I am enjoying down here.
August 28, 2012 After posting some of these pictures of paper cutouts I was working on I was asked the other day on IG "why don't you use a laser to cut your designs it would be much easier?". Well since I was kid I was always taught the value of hard work from my Dad. With just about every job I have ever paid someone to do for me (screen printing, framing, wood cutting) I always did it first myself to know exactly how much work goes into doing the job myself. Of coarse the help of technology does come in hand from time to time but learning and mastering a craft on your own is an amazing thing to acquire. Never give up.
August 22, 2012 Thanks for checking in and I'm going to make this one fast. First, I did an interview Juxtapoz for the Marvelous Expidetions show at Thinkspace in TWO WEEKS which you can read here. Second, here is the piece that will be in the show which I titled "Valencia" made from ceramic tiles inspired by my trip to Spain, and a pic of my work desk when I have a thousand things on my mind.
August 15, 2012 I just wrapped up a short Q&A with Hypebeast that was pretty fun (you can read it here or click on photo below). The format for this interview was different than most because they asked the most random questions which was awesome on their part. I enjoy when people take the time to come up with original content for interviews as I feel it gives the readers a different view on the subject. Now I only wish I could get people to understand my sense of humor through reading then all will be perfecet (not really). On another note Im in the studio this week trying to finish up my piece for the show Thinkspace which will be at the end of the month so hope to update soon. Enjoy and share if you care!
Photo by Brandon Shigeta