"You can't do that here."

A recent piece, a lil' labor of love, if you will. There's always someone out there trying to spoil your fun. Don't wanna preach too hard here but this is my apocalyptic vision of 'no skateboarding' signs. People have asked if I really saw this.

Mmmm. Doesn't that bench look nice? Bet you gotta switch flip over it.

Sneak peek of a special anniversary t-shirt comin to you shortly-ish.

Surfing the Rat

My friend had an unfortunate experience biking to work in Brooklyn one early morning, when a rat decided to make a break for it but tragically collided with his front tire, jamming itself in between rubber and concrete for a few terrifying seconds. After some horrible squealing and squeaking, the rat shot out from under his tire and my friend could continue on to work, shaken no doubt, but eager to tell his tale. And that is where, "Surfing the Rat" was born.

Fake Bands: Part 1

 I've been collecting a list of band names over time and I've started to illustrate them recently. I'm slowly working on them in my spare time so they'll trickle in when I get the chance. I hope no one comes across these and is actually in a band with one of these names. It's been kind of fun making up fake back stories and imagining what they might sound like.

I liked Blood Wave, but I did a second version because I felt like it looked too much like the thing these guys have going and I don't want to step on their toes since I love what they do.

 Below is the second version, which I ended up liking even more than the first. It all works out.

 Junkie leaves.

And I did this little drawing of Harvey Keitel. Older face attached to a movie reference from his younger days.

Creature from the Blog

Started with this sketch. 

Then started making my way through something bigger.

Then ended up here. One of my favorite movies as a kid. I still need to get the trilogy. When I was looking up reference photos I was psyched to see the insane amount of fan art of the creature. I feel like he was always overshadowed by the other Universal Monsters, or maybe that's just me, but either way it's nice to see a devoted following for this movie.

Advertising For Coffee

Soooo, I've been doing these a-frame drawings for Gimme Coffee in Brooklyn for about a year now and people seem to get a kick out of them, which made me think I should start photographing them and putting them on some one of my sites. I don't usually try to put too much thought into them, except for a few here and there, which keeps them pretty enjoyable to do. The more spontaneous and ridiculous, the better. It's only when it comes to attempting to erase the marker that an insane rage starts to build inside of me. I wish I could share all of them, but here are the ones I've done since I started to document this job.

The infamous Iggy Pop back-bend he used to do at his live shows. I included a flipped photo just in case someone really wanted to see it.

 My ode to Goblin.

Never Coming to a Theater Near You

I was chattin' about the Upstate wineries on Seneca Lake with someone and freaked them out by mentioning that the deepest point of Seneca Lake has never been located. I thought it'd be fun to make some sort of cheesy 50's style horror movie poster about it.

Also, following in the cheese factor of 50's sci-Fi/horror, I made a new header for the blog. Didn't really veer away from the gross out factor of the first one.