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While over here i was able to do a gig for a show apart of the the “LaLaLand Greek Theatre LA 2010″ poster series. Norah Jones with Corinne Bailey Rae.
Obvious influence but i thought it was fitting. And the peacock… mainly because i noticed she hasn’t used any imagery from her Indian heritage in the past and thats all i see.
detail (of halftone close up):
These are for sale at the LaLaLand website and will be on sale up on my site in a bit.
(Lithograph… print run of 100… 18′ x 24′)
Print i did for friend band in DC, THE BLACKBERRY BELLES…. check em’ out
One of the things i wanted to do while in India was track down some old Bollywood movie posters. In Haus Kauz Village there are 2 or 3 shops that will hook you up. These places are small but packed to the brim with posters/movie memorabilia/trinkets. We found one in a back alley and the place was overflowing with cool stuff. I forget the name of the store but the owner was a nice guy… knew a lot about Bollywood cinema.
An original mini-billboard that had the images cut n’ pasted on and was painted by hand.
Rummaging through prints
The Owner workin’ it to make a sale.
Piles and piles of PRINTS!!!!
Classy ad for Indian cigarettes.
Pretty sweet packaging for plastic rickshaw light covers (click on image for detailed pic)
No idea but rad imagery.
Here are some individual posters I finally ended up buying after whittling my pile down over 45 minutes..click on the poster for detailed pic:
LAILA MAJNU (1976)
APRADHI (1974)
FAULADI MUKKA (1985) (??)
FARAAR (1975) 
I gotta stop spending money over here… India art making me broke
I missed Flatstock (poster show) in San Francisco last weekend, but made up for it by finding the Indian equivalent. In the Haus Kauz area of Delhi, I came across a gallery show in which a number of people were showing their wares in the form of these really intricate West Bengali hand-painted “Patua” paintings. Tradionally these Patua artists travel town-to-town, house-to-house, unraveling these paintings (which alot of times come as huge scrolls) as a form of storytelling entertainment. The painting tells stories either symbolically or sequentially like a giant comic strip and are often accompanied by a song. One woman kept breaking into a new song everytime i picked up a new print while leafing through them… which prompted me to awkwadly smile and leave quickly.
Unfortunetly it was pretty dark in the spot so taking pictures was pretty hard but it was pretty big with like 10 artists or so. I found a painting of 2 planes with maniacally smiling faces on the front flying toward the Twin Towers as Bush & Bin Laden talked on the phone below which someone bought before i could take a picture of it. I did buy some paintings from this guy,.. who for the life of me i can’t remember his name. Nice guy though.
(UPDATE - found small pic of Bin Laden plane.. even though it looks like a turtle):
Sizes ranged from 9′ x 12′ – 18′ x 24′, including scrolls that were at least 12 ft. long. Cool, but where the hell you hang that. Prices were all over the place.. $8 - $140. In India haggling with prices is standard,… but in the end, you gotta respect the art and time in a hand-done piece.
(Click on piece for detailed pic.)
Hey all.. I am gonna be taking off for a couple months to do some exploring & traveling with the lady and wont be able to take any orders for a bit. Last day to put in orders for books & posters is JUNE 4th!!!
Get your orders in people…
Edward Sharpe & the Magentic Zeros at the Fillmore is done. After some back n’ forth w/ the Fillmore we agreed on an old 60′s style piece which is fine with me. Seeing those old Fillmore prints (Wes Wilson, Bonnie McLean, etc..) back in middle school is what got me into doing posters.
Edward Sharpe @ the Fillmore
Lithograph, 13′ x 19′
Will be available in the POSTER section.
New Vetiver print is available for sale. Technially for sale on 5/27,.. the night after the show at the Bottom of the Hill but it came out beautifully. Vetiver is always on constant rotation on my headphones so I was psyched to do a piece for show. I’ve never done a “pin-up” piece,… so this is my 1st attempt at something like that. A kind of Betty Rubble flapper pinup…
Vetiver @ the Bottom of the Hill
4- color, 18′ x 24′
50 print run
Will be available in the POSTER section.
Ahh, “The Bridge Project“. This was a comic anthology I completed last year that took 2 years to put together. The purpose of the book was to team up 13 artists from Portland with 13 artists from the Bay Area to work on stories together. There is a pretty strong connection between these 2 cities in regards to the comic scenes, similar social & political views and simply just way of life. This definetly lead to some interesting stories with some really talented cartoonists involved (Graham Annable, Scott Campbell, David Chelsea, Calvin Wong, John Isaacson, etc.).
The idea was that “The Bridge Project” would continue as an anthology that would team up more cities with each volume (exp. NYC & Chi, ….Vancouver & MTL,… etc) but we’ll have to wait and see how the 1st one does. I actually had a good time doing this, meeting and working with all these cartoonists… these just end up being lengthy projects to commit to. This being the 1st one alot of these cartoonists essentially had to trust me that the book would be good and come out. Having this under my belt will help push another volume if it looks like people think its a good idea.
The book was finished about a year ago and made its way into the Diamond Previews (distributor) catalogs and will be hitting stores next month, I think. $10 bucks for a 100-pg anthology,.. not bad.
Can’t wait? You just order it from me… in the Comics section.
Check out “The Bridge Project” website for more info….
Here are 2 gigs I just wrapped up that has kept me hermitted indoors during all this beautiful SF weather. Both are interesting local bands,…
Tokyo Raid poster (May 19th @ Red Devil Lounge)
