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"Meet Me Under the Cherry Blossom's" Art Show @ Sweet Breams, San Mateo

Wednesday night we did the install for the "Meet Me Under the Cherry Blossom's" show that will run for the next 30 days in wonderful downtown San Mateo. It also was featured in a Sunset Magazine blog recently, you can read that here. 

While I am not the biggest fan of art shows and things of that nature, Wednesday night proved to be that one little thing that makes it all worth while, friends.I think I can speak for everyone having a good time, drinking beers, hanging art, meeting the other artists that we didn't yet know and becoming an even larger fan of Sweet Breams, not just for the taiyaki, but for the mere fact that Tara, who was a stranger to most of us just a few months ago, opened her doors and let us do this...there are very few people in this world that are that cool. Thank you!

The reception is this Saturday (the 18th of April) at 8pm. It is all child friendly, but I believe some wine may be served after 10pm. Here is the list of all the participants:

Art Thieves
CatmAndru!

Joel Baca

Michael Cooper

gemvsgem
ghost ghost teeth
Martin Hsu
Miss Kika
Mr. 80
Cat Oshiro
Courtney Ryals
spareorgan laboratory
Jeramie Toletino
Natalie Yeager

a few there I couldn't find links too...sorry! Hope you can make it!

Sweet Breams Art Show: sneak peek...

finally got around to finishing tonight. the show runs from april 18th to may 27th. a few of my good friends are going to participate...ghost ghost teeth, art thieves, and natalie yeager. i am excited to see what they put up. here is the flyer for the show made by ghost ghost dentures...

sucky sub

had time today to squeeze out this sucky sub illustrator drawing in between quotes and orders. maybe i will work on it more, probably wont...

well...

didnt end up putting art in the San Mateo art walk which is just fine with me. i know im funny about things: my art has always been personal, try to keep modest about things, the art community has always been a huge turn-off to me, my desire to make, draw, create things has been more of a hinderance to my life than a benefit. i tend to cram my creative spurts between responsibilities, slow times at work, etc...never when i have a full day to do whatever do i ever do anything creative. to be honest i would rather wash dishes or vacuum my apartment. but i might sit down and occasionally draw while doing laundry cos i fucking hate doing laundry...where am i going with this? hell i don't know...but this is interesting...

so eat your vegetables and try to buy them local and organic whenever possible.

what i am trying to figure out is why i am still a fat ass even though i am vegetarian?

beer. goddamn beer. leave me alone. why can't a broccoli, cumcumber, parsley, apple, flax seed and celery smoothie get you drunk? why? i eat healthy but i do love pizza. and my mom has been dressing up for halloween as a pizza. i think that is pretty cool, mom.

good pizza.

bad pizza.

robot practice

I have always loved robots. Just wish I could draw them better...just keep practicing...

well i reorganized my flickr photos this morning, sorta...well that is one way to spend a slow morning at work, sorta sorting your flickr photos. sigh...

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astronaut test printing

somewhat inspired by Bastard Noise's 'Rogue Astronaut' album.

once i finish the drawing, i am thinking of making it a ltd edition silk screen...

another Polaroid making program...

i have found another program that turns any photo into a "Polaroid" called Poladroid. it is available for both Mac and PC. the resolution of the photo is way higher than the iPhones Polarize app, but i think the effect isn't as real. but how can one complain...there is no way to ever duplicate a true Polaroid digitally, ever.

the program is still in beta, and runs really slow on my Mac, but thats fine. when you start up the program it pops up a little Polaroid camera icon on the screen that you can move around. then you drag whatever photo you want to make into a Polaroid...wait...wait... and then the mechanical shutter sound(which i love) and then little Polaroid preview pops up on the screen and you can watch it develop. the final is saved into whatever folder you designate. i cant wait to play around with dropping images other than photos, drawings, text, etc and manipulating and distorting them again and again with the program. anyways,  here are two photos transformed instantly into Poladroids...

the last photo was actually a black and white photo. its weird how it added a green tint for some reason...

events...

thanks to Ghost Ghost Teeth i am getting the opportunity to show some stuff in the downtown San Mateo art walks. i don't know many of the details yet except it is soon and i don't know what i am going to submit.

i usually wait to the last minute and throw it all together half assed. thats the way i work. almost prefer it that way. i have a bunch of unseen Polaroid enlargements that i will probably frame. it just seems like thats all it ever is, a bunch of obscure Polaroids. well one more time can't hurt...

a few weeks after the art walk there is going to be another show at Sweet Breams in downtown San Mateo, which i think i have already mentioned. i have actually been spending time, working on a few exclusive things for that show, and so far happy the way it is turning out. except for the stupid things i do like lay down a new matte in wet ink, or get my thread tangled real bad while sewing. ha.

sewing to bad brains...

what i decided to do with that fish.