In the turmoil of my graduation I completely forgot to post about my participation in the “Heavy Hitterz – Maryland” show @ Art Whino. So, if you’re around there this weekend you should definitely go. The line-up is incredible.

My piece in the show might ring a bell with the regular readers of this blog. It was already shown at the last installation of “Heavy Hitterz” in Manila, Philippines.

Today Apple’s iPhone TV commercial “Read” was released. The spotlight features three popular applications for the iPhone and among these is “Classics”. It goes without saying that I am proud to have my cover shown all over the world.

You can see the commercial here: Apple iPhone Commercial “Read”

or here:

In other news, the exhibition “Night Of The Living Artist” is about to end and if you still haven’t made it to the Chicago Art Department you need to hurry. If you missed it, here is a nice overview but of course it doesn’t do all the great artwork justice. LINK

I also redesigned my website. More minimal than before.

The current contest has “character” as a motif and that’s something where I feel right at home. So, after a few declined submissions (don’t ask me why) here is the one entry you want to go for. It’s a whole unstoppable bunch of cute critters. Please vote for me here: LINK

Also here are the submissions that have been declined thus far…

I had to think a bit but in the end it wasn’t that hard to find an artist that really inspired and helped me in my early days. So I’ve created the missing page from the famous “1$ Animation Course” by Preston Blair that explains how to draw him as a zombie.

Media: Acrylic and pencil on cardboard
Size: 22,5 cm x 39 cm (ca. 9″ x 15.5″)

The painting is 14″ by 11″ and painted with acrylics on construction cardboard. It took me a bit longer to get it finished but I am happy with the result. Look out for more paintings in the future. I am also planning to make small limited edition print runs of these paintings. So stay tuned.

This time the show is sponsored by the company with the fancy shoes: Royal Elastics, IMEEM, Scion, Lost at E Minor, Distinction Gallery and Fabric8. On April 4th there will be a Launch Party for HH:Manila at Club 6 in San Francisco, dubbed “HOW WE DO”. There will be Art displayed and some of the best local underground MCs and DJ’s are performing. LINK

You can keep updated on things leading up to the show and during at our custom IMEEM page, there will be 4 artists that will be traveling to the Philippines for the openin. We will be posting blogs, photos, and video and a lot of other goodness – whatever that means. LINK

Last but not least there will be a new microsite that is launching soon, that will have the artwork posted and for sale. LINK

My submission to the Beasts! Volume 2. It’s a classic Japanese Monster. There are many stories about different kinds of ushi-oni, which are incredible creatures that all have a cow’s head. The most common and widespread description is that of a creature with a cow’s head and spider’s body, a gigantic creature the size of several bulls, much larger than humans. Taken from yokaimura.org

Also the gyūki/ushioni sometimes transforms itself into a beautiful woman, as it did in a famous story from Kouchi prefecture. There an ushi-oni lived in a deep mountain pool, along with a great number of fish. One day a rich man from a nearby village came up with a scheme to poison the pool and have all of these delicious fish for himself. The gyūki of course did not appreciate this, and appeared in the man’s dream as a woman, asking him to not go through with his plan, but he ignored this warning and poisoned the pool anyway. Subsequently the woman/cow-demon was seen leaving for better waters, and the man’s house was crushed in a landslide and he was killed. Quoted from obakemono.com

1. Hancock – Derek Scott Music
2. Electric Soca (Crookers Remix) – Rodion
3. Drugs In My Body (J.A.B. Remix) – Thieves Like Us
4. Breathe (Curses! Remix) – Drums Of Death
5. Threesome – Luzius

Garden Trouble – 320 kbps – 38,4 MB – 16:47 Minutes

1. Twurk Central – Bird Peterson
2. RGB – Coma
3. Fire Gem – Maral Salmassi
4. Exodus Testament – Avalon

Cookie Gill Courier – 320 kbps – 38,4 MB – 16:47 Minutes

1. CrazyFrog#01 – Riva Starr
2. PPP (meatmix) – Trippple Nippples
3. Thank You – Maral Salmassi
4. Minuit Jacuzzi (DatA Remix) – Tepr

Please Undelete Lost Love – 320 kbps – 41,4 MB – 17:55 Minuten

Tracks:
1. Avida Dollars – Spitzer
2. Bump Uglies (Stupid Fresh “Wizards In Oz” Mix) – Bass Kleph
3. Thomas – PUZIQUe
4. Kokirikobushi – Omodaka

Sweet Sweep – 320 kbps – 44,4 MB – 19:17 Minuten

Tracks:
1. Kaspersky – Spitzer
2. & Down (Teenage Bad Girl Remix) – Boys Noize
3. Diamonds – Lillica Libertine
4. Starlett Johansson (Blamma! Blamma! “Scared of Spider” Mix) – The Teenagers

Touch – 320 kbps – 43,5 MB – 18:56 Minuten