As we come to the close of another year, I realize I haven’t vacuumed or swiffered my house since 2003, time goes by so fast when your not in high school , with summer, and winter break to cut up the year. I’ve been on the road for almost 5 years straight, touring, painting, bombing, showcasing, demo-ing, and lecturing. I seen the inside of more hotel rooms than my own home . and I can honestly say I’m fucking tired. I have no sense of home, or time, or healthy food or rest. I’m always time traveling to other time zones, I’m wacked out. I plan to take it easy in 2007, but I fucking doubt it. We’ll see. I killed myself finishing up for my final art show in new york at the jonathan Levine gallery (jonathanlevinegallery.com), it’s gonna be a killer, my friends at viceland.com and jewcy.com (I spent a few months earlier in 2006 living in new york helping out my jew fuck friends by art directing this online jewish magazine, it launched last month ,check it out, jewcy.com) will throw a party for the show, come on out have a good time, get some art while you can. I may disappear into a warm obscure fuzzy hole called publishing.
So let’s get up to date. What’s new
The newest issue of juxtapoz (January 2007 edition ,I think) will have a nice feature written about me by matthew Newton, as well as the cover, awesome! What you don’t fucking know is that, if you are a subscriber to juxtapoz, you will get the limited edition alternate cover(sounds like early 90’s comic book cover gimmicks to me) anyways try to get em both if you can.
Toys, just in time for Christmas, a lot of my friends just had babies, so I went to upperplayground to get some baby clothes since they started making them, and then I wanted to get toys , so I went to walmart and bought some stuffed animals, but ended up buying this awesome spongebob lego set(and I don’t even like spongebob) anyways I used the pieces to make this really sexy spongebob(camera is down I’ll have pictures later.) and finally after the last toy maker I was working with had a nervous breakdown and disappeared , and the gay toy maker before that tried to molest me, I thought I would never make a toy, but the evil twins have arrived, I may have heard this wrong, but they told me they might all be sold out already, which would suck, because I only have one, but I’m sure these Chinese factory workers hate my guts trying to copy my watercolor style on these toys, but those fuckers did a great job. GOOD JOB CHINA! Here’s my friend eric holding one to show the scale(I’m working on a big one next) read about some more at
http://www.giantrobot.com/blogs/eric/2006/12/nearly-antithesis-of-barry-mcgee-is.html
http://www.giantrobot.com/blogs/eric/2006/12/this-is-huge-toy.html
just got back from a rvca hawiian trip,( Mickey Don't Surf Aloha Tour
Mickey Avalon w/ Dyslexic Speedreaders & Shwayze
RVCA ANP: David Choe, George Thompson, REVOK (AWR/MSK)
Guests: BJ Penn, Cobra Snake, Matt Archbold, Christian Fletcher, Akila Aipa, Casey Brown, Rory Parker, CJ Kanuha, Nathan Webster, Daniel Jones) I don’t really know how to describe it , it was almost everyone that rvca sponsors, it was like the fucking circus came to Waikiki, fighters ,musicians, surfers, etc. I had heard so much about REVOK from SABER it was nice to finally meet him and paint with him, REVOK and his Girlfriend ,Miriam are awesome, Hilo boyBJ PENN(I still think he’s the best fighter in the world even though I lost money on him in his last two fights, that’s actually my best vegas story that I’ ll get to one day) was walking around with me and my girlfriend in a headlock in each arm punching people in the face, the whole trip was pretty fucking awesome, and then mickey Avalon and shwayze (shwayze and blueberry are fucking amazing live hip hop act) tore the roof off the hard rock in Waikiki, Christian Fletcher scaled an 18 story hotel wall bcause he saw a topless girl standing out in the balcony, I painted an ice cream truck with EWOK and REVOK, here’s some flicks from mark the cobrasnake (thecobrasnake.com) who got his tits scratched up on his surf board.
Scion presents Skywalkers Art Parade along Miami Beach
Thursday, December 7, 2006 = Scion presents Skywalkers by FriendsWithYou
A unique parade featuring 12 blimps designed by FriendsWithYou, David Choe, Ara Peterson, Misaki Kawai, PaperRad, Devil Robots and Mumble Boy.
2pm
Parade route will move along the Miami Beach shoreline beginning at 17th Street and proceeding to
The Savoy Hotel
455 Ocean Drive
I’ll have more flicks of all this shit later, but art basel is gonna be in Miami this week, I’m getting on plane in 20 minutes for this , you got to be there, we’re throwing a parade with scion and friendswithyou.com of all our characters as gigantic hot air balloons down the beach it’s gonna take 150 people to hold the balloons down, I’ll let you know how it goes.
And lastly to keep this surreal life rolling right after the parade, I’m flying to Portland to paint on stage on the 15th of December ,with the London police, galo, sam flores, and Jeremy fish, while the dandy warhols perform a three hour set (artsy as fuck right?!) anyways if your in Portland or Miami , come out and see art and have a good time, if not I’ll see the rest of you in new york on January 6th, before I go to Hanoi to relax, I probably won’t write again till the new year, so have a good one, be nice , be safe, and party on.
