What My Future Looks Like

Somewhat foetus-like

Taxidermy Squirrel forms from VanDyke's Taxidermy Supply

My new heat press for t-shirt transfering. I'm going to be making shirts like they're out of style. Maybe they are...

steel-of-fire-warriors-2010 poster

Here's a digital painting based on the short film serial by Kevin Clarke and Travis Vogt titled Steel of Fire Warriors 2010 A.D.

Major inspiration was the legendary poster artist Drew Struzan who has recently retired from making movie posters full time. Read his own comment here and weep hard. The worst part of this is that Struzan was one of the last to actually hand craft a poster for mainstream films and their franchies instead of just mashing together some photo-manipulated crap together. So long, you will always inspire me.

Also check out this great review of Steel of Fire Warriors 2010 A.D. on io9.com

Steel Fire Warriors!!!

So here's a new poster I've designed and painted for Kevin and Travis of Seattle's Entertainment Show. It's for the latest post-apocalyptic series of shorts that they'll be showing starting on the 29th of January at the Sunset Tavern.

Cafe Press Merch that is only for SALE for ONE MORE MONTH!!

Alright so I'm going to revamp my merchandise section at Cafepress.com. What I'd like to see is if anyone would like what I have there before I pull it all. I'm going to get rid of EVERYTHING! So if you think something is cool, then order it NOW!!! I'm going to pull it and you'd have to make some serious moves to get me to get it back up there.

So here's some of the images that I have posted up for some merchandise.

This is a tag-line for the ZombiErotica photograph project that I did a few years back. This design is pretty eye catching. If someone doesn't investigate what it's for, then they probably assume that you like having sex with dead people. http://www.cafepress.com/youdbesexydead

You can get products with this on it at www.cafepress.com/whykickme As well as the book. It's a small and fun collection featuring comics that are about that happy subject matter, RELATIONSHIPS!!!

This lovely page from my book The Naked Tree can be found on all sorts of stuff that you really need. www.cafepress.com/thenakedtree You can buy the book there to. A preferred way to go.

These thoughtful image from 6 years ago is on stuff at this address: www.cafepress.com/swellzombie

This one's cool. I have a coffee cup embellished with this warped self-portrait.

So anyway, dig this stuff while it lasts. But don't worry, there's going to be more SOON. I'm planing on having some prints and posters and other stuff based on my latest works.
Stay tuned for more info.

The Future is Ending

This is a painting that I've done for a fan down in Texas. She wanted something new from me and this is what I came up with. I work in a video store with a lot of great painted covers for "bad" action movies. Some of the most creative are the ones from the Post-Apocalyptic genre. So I really wanted to try and do one of my own. I came up with the blue grid background because that's just classic for films from the 80's. Then I had the idea for the Title. "The Future is Ending". Seemed strange and gimmicy for that genre.

I had figured in an earlier sketch a guy dressed in black with a sword and a helmet. Once I actually got to laying paint down I just gave him a sword-hand. The Laser rifle, wasn't a conscious take-off of the 80's Lasertag rifle. It wasn't until I did it, did I realize. That gun was the greatest design back in the day too. I thought that the missiles were a good touch. The Stealth Bomber wasn't even a part of my original idea, but I needed something cool to go in that area. So I thought that those looked "futuristic" enough to toss one in. It was either that or a Jeep exploding. The people... well that was just for fun.

Found Photos

I usally don't get much out of flower photos but I like how this print was worn so much in some spots. That really gives it something more.

One morning I was walking over to Chaco Canyon to draw my daily comic. I passed through the Safeway parking lot on Brooklyn and found an explosion of photos. At first I thought of ignoring them, like any good bystander. But I decided out of curiosity to pick them up. I've always really enjoyed found photos. So I started picking them up. A girl came by and asked to help me. I said if she wanted to she could. So together we were fascinated with our clean up. It was apparent to me that it was a collection from a homeless person. There were very aged and weathered envelopes and some note pads. A lot of characters of some Asian descent were written on some of the envelopes. There were negatives and receipts as well. I told the girl that they weren't mine but I had a fascination with found photos and was wondering if I should take them. She presumed that no one would be back for them. I told her that they were left for one reason or another. And fearing that the next Safeway parking lot attendant would just pitch them I gathered them up in a pile near a cigar box that was among the remains. I went into the store and snagged a bag. Grabbed the pile I wanted and left to have my coffee.
The photos ranged from candid pictures of children and family, to houses, landscaping, blossomed trees, sculptures, a couple of bands performing at bars, various people who may or may not have been homeless, and shots of the Blue Moon Tavern.

What I've posted are the photos that I thought were the best. This really doesn't represent the whole collection of nearly 75. These are just the ones that I found uniquely good. The photographer/s seemed to have a grasp of photography and maybe even wanted to become a professional at one time. You can see they had some sort of manual focus and possibly different lens to get some desired effects. Basicly they don't seem to be done with a automatic throw away. Enjoy.

This one is really interesting to me because it has the date written on the back: 2065 20 Nov

This tree looks like an ostrich.

Two things on chairs. The only two in this style.

This is the greatest find though... Just because it's the most shocking and unexplainable. I can't decide whether it's good or bad that you don't know what's going on in that can. If you knew, it would make some more sense and that would be gross, but not knowing... There are too many things to imagine. It's great!