Another highlight of the show was the Spooky in the first set and the whole third set was pretty good. The rest I thought was a bit of a snooze fest. Now Saturday night’s show on the other hand …FIRE!! That was the show to see for sure.

Me and some friends enter the Phish halloween costume contest.

In art news I was asked to do the poster for the Mockingbird Foundations Poker Tournament. Phamily Poker Classic took place on Saturday afternoon at the Tropicana. It was organized by Kevin Young and Mike Golan along with Jamey Brill of Cardboard Spaceship. Jamey made it the final table playing for Feed South Africa . I was on hand to sign some of the posters given out to players. The top 10 players received a nicer copy of the poster  on 100lb felt cover signed and numbered. The only copies available for sale come from my personal stock artist edition, also on the nicer paper and there are only 13. I’ll be releasing these later this week to my mailing list. To get onboard sign up here

photo by Dave Van © 2010 www.phish.com/from-the-road

Lastly I had an awesome time creating my personal poster to commemorate the weekend. Both the drawing and the printing was done by me in my new basement studio. I was told by a number of people it is my best to date (though I secretly think last years blacklight print is). The poster was printed on Midnight Blue Royal Complements 100lb cover stock at size 23.5″x10″. It was an edition of 50 printed in silver swirl and black. The image is of a Day of the Dead mermaid laying in the sand spreading out cards of the past 5 albums Phish played, in her right hand she holds the 2010 card that only she can see. On her forehead is the fish, lizards and mockingbird. The Atlantic City is hand drawn type reminiscent of HBOs Boardwalk Empire but instead of lights there’s skulls inside. The 4 card symbols watch from the corner and the tag at the bottom of the rope frame reads Happy Halloween. These things FLEW out of my hands and I can’t thank you all enough for the purchases and support. There maybe a couple remaining in the store. I also had a great time matching my costume to my poster, a tradition I started last year with my black zombie unicorn.

mermaids posing in front of stage

Know Yourself

Tree of Knowledge

Know Yourself-$40  edition of 50. S/N 13″x20″ 4 color on Cougar 100lb

Tree of Knowledge _ $30  edition of 50. S/N 4 color on Cougar 100lb

Eat. Drink. Be. Merry. – Set of 4 -$40. Each-$12. Size 9″x 12″. 5 color on Cougar 100lb

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BBFCFM dancing to fish in the light of the full Mars

Summer tour 2010-- second coming

who doesn't love drooling dogs?

The Greek is sold out but there are some of the other two left. Check the store! And enjoy your autumn……

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The front of the shirt has 4 intertwined figures representing the 4 tribes of the earth: the black peoples, the white peoples, the yellow peoples and the red peoples. They are hopelessly intertwined in a circle representing our earth. They have “alien” heads as there has been worldwide connection to the “vistors” by all tribes of man written in ancient scripts worldwide. In the circle are swirls of “water” also a nod to our evolutionary beginnings on this planet of water. The stars and solid circles (planets) represent the wider universe we are all a part of. Around the outside ring you have tied into the knot work: (starting at top and moving clockwise) A UFO, an infinity symbol, UFO, star, UFO, man (head resting in hands a la The Thinker by Rodin), UFO, heart,…repeat….

The back of the shirt has a image ripped from the Book of Kells . By replacing the heads of the image of Jesus and the Apostles with heads of greys I make the statement that none of us know how much  influence our civilizations, religions and political bodies have had by the repeated presence seen and unseen of the “vistors”. I like the fact that “Jesus” has the swirl of water on his chest and that the “Apostles” are holding infinity symbols on the end of their staffs tying together again the earth and universe. The quote is from Whitley Strieber’s poem “There Is Something More” found in the opening page of his book Transformation. It alludes to the fact that none of us know truly who the “vistors” are, what their purpose here is and ultimately what they want with us but when it all comes down “there will be great wonder”

The visitors are sweeping up

from where we buried them

under layers of denial and false assurance

to deliver what is truly a message

from beyond: There is something more

to us and our universe

and it is rich with the power of the unknown.

It will be incredibly hard for us

to achieve real relationships with the visitors.

But also, I can tell you from experience

that there will be wonder.

There will be great wonder.

Whitley Strieber

Cable Pom Beret private label for Brooklyn Industries 2007

Marled Yarn Beret private label for U.O. 2008

Zebra print custom scarf private label for U.O.

Three more cute “girl on the street” run ins with my designs over the past two months. People pulling out oldie but goodies from A/W 2007 and S/S 2009. Flattering to see people hanging onto items you designed for more then one season. My favorite response when I tell people I designed an items is “Really?! I love this (insert object)! I wear it all the time!”. Good stuff.

To try to do my part I have created a limited edition poster for THE HAITI POSTER PROJECT ( www.thehaitiposterproject.com ). THE HAITI POSTER PROJECT was launched three days after the January 12th, 2010 earthquake in Haiti. The project is a collaborative effort by the design community to help effect change through our work. Signed and numbered, limited edition posters have been donated by designers and artists from around the world. All money raised will be donated to Doctors Without Borders. This brilliant idea was started by Leif Steiner and Josh Higgins, who have previously organized the HURRICANE POSTER PROJECT for Katrina victims in 2005 and the 2007 SO-CAL FIRE POSTER PROJECT, respectively.

Below you can see some of my process getting to the final image. My original idea was to have a whole family on the ruins waving the Haitian flag. This idea was okay but I felt maybe not so “erin-ish”. Eventually I grabbed the face of the mother and youngest child and put them in a new composition incorporating the imagery of serpents and rainbows, a nod to the age old religion of voodoo and the Haitian peoples strong ties to the spirit world. This is a stronger composition and also acknowledges the many people lost to the spirit world during this tragedy. The printers at Half and Half studios ( http://www.thehalfandhalf.com/ )did a beautiful job printing these. The final is a 18″x24″ , 4 color print. The edition is 50 S/N and will be available here : http://ww.thehaitiposterproject.com/posters/view/374 . Please go to the site and buy a poster. It doesn’t have to be mine!

Sketch book work

First idea for haiti donation poster

Stevie, Emma and I MOCCA 2010

It’s been a minute since I’ve blogged. Hard thing to get used to but I’m gonna work on updating you all more often. There’s lots going on. This past weekend was my first foray into the world of comic book conventions. For those of you who don’t know I spent around two years working with a wonderful woman and artist named Stavit Allweis ( http://www.countercomics.com/ ) as her inker and colorist. If you scroll down to the bottom of her blog you’ll see some of our work together in the slideshow. Please check out her work. The photo-comic she is presently working on is a huge undertaking and epic in it’s reach. I’m totally impressed by this woman!

Anyway I love comic books and working with Stevie has really inspired me to constantly consider publishing one of my own. I’m proud to announce that my first works is now in progress. In order to light a bit of a fire under my ass and really start getting involved in the scene, I participated at MOCCA (museum of comic and cartoon art) comi-con this past weekend. Stevie and I shared a table with yet another fabulous woman and artist Maggie Fishman. Pictured to the left is Stevie, her daughter Emma and I hard a work. The event was a great success! I met some really interesting people, got very inspired, made some sales and of course bought a bunch of work from other people.

Stay tuned for more on my upcoming book. The first chapter should be arriving this summer!

Starting February 1 some of my work can be found hanging in a new gallery in Glens Falls, NY. Started by Mike Chowske, Jon King and Robin Barkenhagen, 42 Degrees Gallery specializes in high end “hippie art”. The walls are covered with the work some of the finer jamband poster artists around. In the cases you can find quality glass pieces and some well chosen clothing items round out the scene. Should you find yourself wandering around upstate New York drop by. Also keep an ear to the ground if Phish plays SPAC. I’ve heard rumors starting already of some cool art events in conjunction with 42 Degrees Gallery and Phanart.
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