STUDIO VISIT WITH YOURS TRULY

so I figured I'd give some of my friends who don't get to come out and visit, a peek at my place and studio... I moved into here from my 3 bedroom down the street maybe about 6 months ago and I'm getting settled in enough to do so. still alot of work to go, but it's getting there...

let's start with the skateboards..



the collection is getting big..if any artists are out there I love to do trades for decks...



the paint...ther's actually more but a bunch of cans are onsite on a project somewhere..



the spraybooth...for painting and drying and sucking the smell out.
damn, there's a bunch of nonsence piled on there right now huh?

then comes the toys..



Craola

i need to paint behind these shelfs..



possibly my favorite artist Jeremy Fish..
notice the signature on the camper through the blurry iphone lense..whoo..whoo..



Ron english...



"love is cold"
this has a clear resin heart that lights up...
that Ii did not feel like plugging in for picture...
will have more icicles after my next trip to resin store..





Sam Flores



Jermaine Rogers



Mars1



Alex Pardee



Toys about to be customized...



main art desk..
this is a toy me and J222 are working on for Dragatomi's "not vinyl" show



japanese vinyl shelf... need some more of these



customs shelf... need a lot more of these too..



the big toy shelf...



my control center



the rest of it...
and my collection of macs...



HIRO



my earthquake warning system

and yes every bottle is different...
i try to get something new everytiime I'm @ Bevmo







this is a sneak of my oaksterdam piece...
to be unveiled and hanging in the patient ID center soon !





the moulding table



the sculpting and work desk



I have been in the middle of doing a underwater mural in the bathroom for several months now...





hopeully will be done soon....







well I hope you enjoyed your peek into the studio...
I'll get a better camera and update in a few months when i get a little more fixing up done...

to see the rest of the place you have to come visit !

P. S. Hi Belinda and laila !

R.I.P. JOHN NEAL

I used to walk past this fountain on market street in sf all the time...I still do. Only now when I walked past I am thinking of John neal.

John and I met around 13 or 14. He lived about a mile or less from my house by the Wawa. We became pretty tight through are formative impressionable years until I was about 19 or so. Around that time we started hanging in different circles. He always told me if I ever stopped being his friend he'd kick my ass, and he was a big dude... extreme at times...but in all ways...extremely intelligent..extremely charismatic... extremely one you want on your side when shit goes down... everything in excess. Our whole crew kinda rolled like that back then. Unfortunately like a couple others of us Neal never made it to a brighter path...

The last time I saw John neil was a block and a half from this fountain on market street in front of carl's Jr. in a NY Giants jacket that looked like it was from 81, selling packs of double A batteries. I grabbed him some lunch and we caught up for a bit. It's hard to hear about and even harder to watch when one reaches a point where hey can't come back from. A couple months later I received the news of John's death. This fountain was his final resting place...

"When we try to pick out anything by itself, We find that it is hitched to every thing else in the universe." - John Muir

FWY : UPDATE

so a bunch of people have asked me why I don't like friends with you....

so here it is...

1. due to chinese lack of rules and regs of manufacturing and them constantly trying to poison everyone with there products..a bunch of U.S. product and packaging laws were changed...

so now the sticker that comes in the wish come true blind boxes is now a violation and a choking hazard ...and must be removed before sale... in 40,000 some odd boxes...

so now I spend hours of my time helping strangeco remove these stickers....




and apparently that blue thing that folds up as small as the sticker is not a choking hazard...






the tools



sorted boxes for comicon



pallettes of these flats done and to go...




each one of these stickers represents a box opened and resealed...

it allready says 3 and up on the package...

If your 3 year old kid is dumb enough to put a sticker in his mouth and choke to death on it are we not doing the world a favor ?



2. tell me these things don't look like happy but plugs..





3. I think that's enough

I hope that answers your questions...

UNKLE TASK

As of a couple months ago I became a unckle...
this is the newest pic I got...

say hello to Nicolette (hope I spelled that right)

super 7 blanks

stopped by super 7 and did to pick up a piece of mine and somehow swindled a couple more blanks for my super 7 case... please don't get mad skullbrainers... I don't know how it happens...

SMALL CITY SCENE

This is one of the sculpted relief city scenes I do.. I finished this one last year. I ended up giving this one away but I figured I'd post some pics.

sorry they are cappy iphone pics...i desperately need a new camera

MOTORBOT

I went with my friend Jeremy to go visit my peoples @ Dragatomi again for second saturday last month and got to witness a four course meal served up by Motorbot

...deliciously awesome...



scored me a Labbitpop !

I would a put a bunch of pics but Jeremy did a spectacular job at documenting the show HERE

for more on motorbot check out is site which needs to be updated homie...not that I am one to talk...

www.motorbot.kevinolsonartist.com

or for current motorbot stuff peep his flickr

REST IN PEACE "DARE"

I was on wooster today when I found out one of my favorite graffiti artists had just passed...



DARE tws was a swiss writer way ahead of the pack... even for the europeans, who are basically, most of the elite as far as I am concerned. I have been following Dare career since the first time I saw a piece of his in scribble magazine when I was like 13 or 14 years old. I always loved his style, and he was in no short supply of that. Dare will always go down as one of my favorite artists to ever hold a can. you will be missed...

here are some samples of his work along with a paragraph I stole from wooster







he Real King has left the building.
Rest In Peace Dare TWS 1968 - 2010
Sigi von Koeding or Dare as he was better known was an artist that inspired countless people over his 23 year painting career. Myself included. He was a true graffiti artist yet still managed to be experimental and left of field. I remember Mare 139 telling me how incredible Dare's new paintings were once, and coming from someone like Mare, that's high praise indeed! He was a true master of letters, the way he shaped and twisted them was truly magical and he had a talent for style that few others will ever come close to! Dare was a legend whilst he was alive and traveling the world painting his pieces with expert precision and his status as a graffiti will no doubt rise to new heights following his death.
Dare lost his battle with cancer and died in hospital in his hometown of Basel, Switzerland on the evening of March 6th 2010. He will always be remembered by his fans and friends alike and his status as the Swiss graffiti Master is now truly cemented in our culture.

As Swet wrote on his most recent painting - THE REAL KING HAS LEFT THE BUILDING"...