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Furthur shirt, Summer Tour 2012… tie-dye
Another year, another Furthur shirt. I knew eventually I would be able to get a tie-dye Dead shirt under my belt and this summer I did. The weary travelling Dead bear snoozing under a canopy of grinning trees. This shirt was sold during the tour which encompassed most of the East Coast & South.
I do have a couple shirt with limited sizes which I will get up on the site soon. If you have any interest before I do, feel free to contact me.
Catalpa Music Fest 2012 Recap…
I just got back from a crazy weekend in NYC, at the 1st Catalpa NYC Music Festival. Months back I got asked by Catalpa to do some promotional ads (publication sheets, street & subway ads, etc.) for the event which blanketed New York for months. I didn’t realize how prevalent they were until going around the city myself this past week. It was awesome to see.
About 2 weeks ago myself & another artist (Alan Maser) were asked by Absolut Vodka to partake in an event going on during Catalpa in which we would design two 4 ft. bottles at their booth, essentially paint for 5 hours and design one a day. Originally it was supposed to be one 8ft. bottle, which would have been really interesting.
Below were my concepts for the 2 bottles. The idea was to make complimentary images that people could kind of stand inbetween. I ended up using spray paint, acrylic and paint pens.
- Day 1
The first day started well but kinda turned to shit as huge rainstorms put a damper on the Festival and kept washing away my acrylic work. I had to wait long periods for things to dry and kept having to repaint areas that smeared.
I ended up painting a lot longer than 5 hours but was able to finish the “girl” before the headlining act, The Black Keys, came on.
- Day 2
The second day went a lot smoother as the weather was pretty stable and having already done one bottle was more confident in the amount of time the 2nd one would take me. I originally created some stencil to help me w/ sizing but slowly ended up going more free form.
Done and done…
I believe the bottle were taken to the Absolut office in NYC as they are starting their own collection. It was fun to do and something I dont do all the time but would love to do more of. Alan is a street artist from Dublin and plowed through his bottles..
Photos were taken by a photographer Vanessa Bahmani who was covering the event and was cool enough to share these w/ me.
Flatstock 35 (Chicago) – Pitchfork Music Fest 2012
What a weekend. Another Flatstock has come and gone. This was the first time I tried doing the Chicago/Pitchfork Music Fest show and was definitely happy I went. Since I was at the booth the whole time I didn’t really get to catch any music except for a few (Godspeed You Black Emperor, Ty Segall, etc..).
The first 2 days were pretty miserable with thunderstorms lasting most of the evening. Us vendors were running around plugging leaky tends and keeping everything off the wet ground. Needless to say, sales were slow as no one wanted to walk around w/ wet, soggy ruined posters.
My booth babe….
Fine folks of Powerhouse Factories (Cincinnati, OH) shared our tent and kept the liquids cool and flowing. Good hanging w/ them.
The new Buffalo stickers were flying…. if stickers were posters, I’d be a millionaire.
Don’t feed the birds mini-burnt pieces of toast…
Sunday was great as the sun came out and I unloaded a bunch of stuff. I ended up meeting a bunch of good folks, including artists I was a fan of. Could definitely be in the cards next year. For a rundown of the festival check out Pitchfork’s site. Also Inside the Rock Poster Frame blog has a nice pictoral rundown of the folks of Flatstock… check it.
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