Illustrator. Photographer. Random thinker. Um rato de praia.

Wednesday, December 31, 2008

Best Gator Ever?


Goes with a story about whether Tim Tebow is the greatest University of Florida football player ever.

Wednesday, December 10, 2008

Philadelphia Phillies vs. Tampa Bay Rays

PC sports coverage


Sports reporters not giving enough coverage to women’s boxing.

New England Patriots vs. Miami Dolphins

New Jersey Devil



New Jersey Devils hockey team wins the Stanley Cup.

’Twas the Night Before Christmas

New Year’s Eve Survival Guide

Naughty or nice?

Mickey Rourke


The movie star was kicked out of a St. Louis, MO, club for bringing in his dogs.

Orlando Magic’s monkey


The Magic have had a good season and may be shedding the “monkey on its back.”

Mad Cow disease


Traveling in Europe during Mad Cow disease.

Misunderstood song lyrics


From Jimi Hendrix’s “Purple Haze:” “Excuse me, while I kiss this guy!”

Kim Jong Il

Kid chores


Getting kids to do household chores by playing games.

Popular Halloween ’08 costumes

Hollywood reporters

Halloween

Corrupt politicians

Fortune teller

Predatory lending

FSU vs. UF


Annual football game between Florida State University and the University of Florida at UF’s home field “The Swamp.”

Feeling unlucky?

Forgot Valentine’s Day?

Final Four

Season at the Midway

Dr. Death

Business complaints

Chickens

Big Government

Daytona 500 Believe It or Not

Ape bouncer

Angry kids

Allergies

Easter Surfing Contest

Daytona 500

Tuesday, December 09, 2008

Jack of Spades



My contribution to the Society for News Design's deck of cards.

54 cards, 54 illustrators — each individually commissioned to celebrate the Society for News Design’s 2008 Annual Workshop in Las Vegas.

Decks are available here.

Proceeds benefit the SND Foundation, which funds the Society’s non-profit research and education initiatives focused on minority and student journalists around the globe.

It Came From the Pasture



Illo for a story about two local guys making a B-horror movie about a man-eating cow.

Thursday, December 04, 2008

Florida’s budget hole

Office Space


Business are having to share office space to reduce overhead costs.

Bank inspectors

Lawyers and judges

Fall in Florida

CodeRED



Illo for a business story about a robotic emergency alert system. Robot based on Robbie the Robot from Lost In Space TV series.

Monday, December 01, 2008

Miami High Class of 1969


I made this Miami High Class of 1969 yearbook video for
the upcoming 40-year reunion.

Tuesday, November 18, 2008

State Got Your Bling?


For Sacramento News & Review in Sacramento, California.

Monday, November 17, 2008

The Great Pretenders



For a Cleveland Scene magazine story about how new versions of old singing groups have very little to do with the original group.

Sunday, November 02, 2008

Lights In The Sky Over North America



Fantastic show by Nine Inch Nails Tuesday (10/28/2008) at the UCF Arena in Orlando!

Check out this video to see how the special f/x were created.

This is the fifth time I've seen NIN.
Counting backwards:
2005, Orlando, FL., With Teeth tour
2000 Lakeland, FL., Fragility tour
1995 Atlanta, Ga., The Downward Spiral tour
and
1990, Melbourne Fl. Trent Reznor onstage with Revolting Cocks. Crazy show!

Thursday, October 09, 2008

Happy Halloween


Cover of the Halloween edition of The Beachside Resident. They did a nice story about me.

Monday, September 22, 2008

Insanity The Ride


I had a chance to ride Insanity while in Las Vegas this September. A massive mechanical arm extends out 64 feet over the edge of the Stratosphere Tower at a height of over 900 feet It spins you in the open air at speeds of up to three Gs. You’re propelled up to an angle of 70 degrees, which tilts your body into one position — facing straight down! It's a lot cooler at night with all the lights!

Sunday, September 21, 2008

I saw Bite @ The Stratosphere


While in Vegas, I wanted to see one of the cheesy nudie shows, and Bite at the Stratosphere met all the requirements: classic rock, vampires, and topless women for an hour and 10 minutes.

The house lights dim, the house speakers start playing Guns ’N’ Roses “Welcome to the Jungle”, the curtain goes up and smoke fills the stage. A few moments later, eight scantily-clad “vampire women” fill the stage and start dancing to the music.

And this is pretty much what happens for the next hour.

There is no dialog in this show, and there is no goofy lipsyncing in this show. Which is actually a pretty good thing.

After about 15 minutes of cavorting, the “Lord Vampire” comes out, and as the story goes, he is looking for the next member for his coven.

The vampire girls go out into the audience at this point, and pick about five people "at random”. I was almost really convinced that these people really were chosen at random, because they did a good acting job of pretending like they didn’t want to go on stage, and acted embarrassed once they got up there.

But then, as the show progressed, and these “audience members” were bitten and procured superpowers, I realized that we had been had. The folks in the audience were actually cast members, disguised as well, regular people.

A couple of these folks were turned into acrobats which did some pretty cool stunts, one guy was turned into a singer, and actually sang very well, and the pretty lady that he brought up would be turned into the new “Queen of the Night”. There were actually audible gasps from the audience when the Lord Vampire went up to this “volunteer” and ripped her clothes off. It took some people longer than others to get that they were planted. Judging from the expression of boredom on the audience members I’m not totally convinced that everyone in the audience eventually came to this conclusion at all.

In between this conversion of regular people into vampires, the coven of vampire girls would change costumes, and cavort around in very little clothing. This was, of course, very cool.

Anyway, the Lord Vampire did a couple of magic tricks where he changed a skeleton into a woman and made women pop out of a piano. These were cool tricks. Not Lance Burton shit, but cool nonetheless. And correct me if I am wrong, but Lance doesn’t make women appear without tops.

There was also some cool girl-on-girl vibes, as the women were very grabby and touchy with each other.

80% of the show is simply topless women dancing to classic rock, with the remaining 20% being acrobatics and magic tricks.

There was a plot, and they actually pulled it off quite well considering that nobody in the cast spoke. The Lord Vampire wanted a new coven woman, he picked a seemingly timid woman out of the audience, and throughout the course of this show the volunteer finally became the main ho in the coven.

Of course it was silly, but it worked for me.

This show is under $50, and for that price, I highly recommend it. You know what you are getting. Topless girls with fangs. And they are very pretty topless girls with fangs. Only one of them was obviously silicone enhanced, and the rest looked natural. Perfect apple-shaped butts were possessed by all of the women, and they were not shy about thrusting them out toward the audience.

Entertaining, good value, standard Las Vegas T&A show with better music.

Unfortunately, cameras and camcorders are not allowed. They threaten to confiscate them if you do bring one inside.

Tuesday, August 19, 2008

Metalman Project


Here's my contribution to the Metalman Project.
Check out other cool art on the site.

Thursday, July 24, 2008

My first music video

Worst Song Ever


For a story asking readers to submit what their worst song of all time is.
 
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