New Jersey Devils

Illo for Asbury Park Press for the NHL playoffs preview.

Chinese propaganda

Wrapping up my Asia Tripping Summer '06, I picked up Mao's Little Red Book and some Chinese propaganda posters before leaving Beijing. The propaganda posters have been the favored vehicle through which art conveyed model behavior in China. I like how the artists stylized the figures with massive arms and the cute kids with weapons. My high school Chinese is a little rusty, but as best as I can translate, here goes:


"You dogs must do all the work today because I'm calling in sick and going to the beach!"


"We laugh at capitalist copyright infringement laws!"


"We must thank Chairman Mao for the nifty weapons and warships!"


"I enjoy reading Chairman Mao's Littled Red Book while I plow the fields!"


"We shall overtake this beach and enforce strict regulations against surfing!"


"HWALP! I should not have consumed so much sake last night as I am hung over and this will certainly lower my productivity in the factory today!"


"Our children will dive to the deepest depths and extract precious gems from the belly of the magical fish!"

Happy Easter!

Cover for the weekend entertainment section of Florida Today newspaper. In Brevard County, Florida, we celebrate Easter with a surfing contest and egg hunts.

Wired: July '07

Year Zero

Nine Inch Nails concept album builds story with Websites from the future. A set of websites have emerged in support of the new Nine Inch Nails album "Year Zero". The first of the sites was discovered by fans who noticed highlighted letters on the back of a nine inch nails shirt for a tour that kicked off this weekend. This led to the discovery of various IP addresses and an entire story of the future built through sites.



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Moses of Nosara

I saw this guy in Nosara, Costa Rica, last summer. He was taking surfing lessons at one of the surf schools. He always walked around in baggy shorts, Hawaiian print shirt, beach towel slung over his shoulder Biblical-style, carrying his surfboard. Never actually saw him go in the ocean. Just walking around with his surfboard.
So I envisioned him parting the sea.

Midlife metamorphosis

For a story about women embracing the changes that come with midlife, such as wrinkles, sagging body parts, grey hair, antennas.

Police Academy: China

The Chinese People's Armed Police Force Academy is located in Beijing. Police recruits are drawn from every segment of the population without restriction as to sex or ethnic origin. Selection is based on political loyalty, intelligence and health. Usually those recruits designated for leadership positions attend the police schools, and patrolmen are trained in the art of kung-fu. See them in action in this video!

Dancing devil

I made this with a little help from Roxik. Actually, he did all the work, I just drew the little devil. You can see the full screen version here.

Webtalk

Illo postin' time

Poster for Surf Express, a Cocoa Beach-based surf travel company.
My Halloween '06 e-card.
Illo for a story about girls that dumb themselves down to become more attractive to boys.

Let me stand next to your fire

Continuing my Asia Tripping Summer '06 tour, I visited the Yu Cai Middle School in Chongqing. This school is a famous secondary school in China. It was established by educationalist Tao Xingzhi and was used to test Tao's theories on comprehensive education which included six disciplines: natural science, social studies, literature, painting, music and fire-breathing. In this photo, a group of students go throught their daily fire-breathing exercise, much like students in the U.S. have Phys. Ed.

Tattoo you

Continuing my Asia Tripping Summer '06, I was walking around Beijing where I came up to this most unusual sight. A tattoo artist was working on a live pig at an organic art center. Artists at the Art Farm tattoo anesthetized pigs to create works which are expected to be displayed in galleries once the pigs eventually die. The pigs, which are tattooed with designs ranging from the Nine Inch Nails logo to Russian prison tattoos, are expected to live a longer than normal life since their increased value protects them from being killed for food. Coincidentally, this was playing in the art center.

NIN tribute band

Sinchon, a section of Seoul, is a great place to soak up a more Korean environment. Sinchon is set up like many Korean “play” areas, where bars, clubs, restaurants and singing rooms are structured in a grid-like fashion. The only way to familiarize yourself with the area is to stroll the alleys and discover all the different places. Korean bars tend to be rather antisocial compared with their U.S. counterparts, with people sitting at tables with friends and not tending to mix. There are a number of western style bars in the area, including this one, Nori Ha Nun Saram Dul, a bar known for its great rock music. On this particular night, the Nine Inch Nails tribute band, aptly named the Nine Inch Nail Techs, did a particularly beautiful cover version of one of NIN's more downtempo tunes "La Mer."


Check out her guitar.

And yet another protest

There were some seriously disappointed Nine Inch nails fans in Seoul! Imagine the sight and sound of about 2,500 protesters chanting "Head Like a Hole!" The street recording quality is a little rough.

On the subway

While riding the subway in dowtown Seoul, I noticed this woman reading the Chosun Ilbo, one of South Korea's major newspapers. On the back page there was a photo of President Bush. The Photoshop color backgrounds and weird cuts caught my attention. Also, the curious way in which she held the newspaper.

Protest march

Continuing my summer '06 tour, I spent some time in Seoul, South Korea where I came across yet another protest march. About 25,000 Nine Inch Nails fans were protesting the fact that NIN would not be playing in Seoul during their summer '06 tour.

RastaRita

Watch her fly!

Shameless self-promoter

Hey, the Design Inspiration blog just posted my interview.

Fantasy camps

A couple of illos for The Good Life, Asbury Park Press, NJ