My man Kenton Parker (fellow SDSU graphics department alumni, WHAT) asked me to be part of this group show he’s curated. I’ve been finishing a few new pieces for it… Here’s the flyer for the show, and a detail of my new piece called Frank Lloyd Right.

Opening reception is tomorrow night in Los Angeles… More details here.

Scion Installation L.A.
3521 Helms Ave. (at National)
Culver City, CA 90232
scionav.com/space

No one on the internet needs another post about a t-shirt, but my man Matt at A Bathing Ape told me about   this Mike Mills/Beastie Boys/BAPE collabo to raise money towards the BAPE “Rescue Rebuild” charity fund, and I though it was worth mentioning. Available November 5th, in conjunction with Tokyo’s Fashion’s Night Out.

Ridiculous view from where we stayed in Montmarte

Saw some cool letterforms and signage

Stainless styles

This is a “No” in any language

Le Cop on rollerblades. Stop it, guy.

This thing got painted over the next night by some crew

Terry Richardson had a signing for his book Mom and Dad at Colette

Crazy cheese game at the supermarché.

Elsa at Deyrolle, the illest taxidermy shop I have ever seen. Must-go destination in Paris, on Rue de Bac. Rooms of lions, rabbits, polar bears, a giraffe, an elephant… I bought a few moths from Elsa in the insect room. Wes Anderson did a photoshoot there a few years back.

I liked this dude, his sign, and his cats. I left him some euros.

Toy designer and artist Tristan Eaton asked me to be part of a book he was putting together last fall and it’s finally out - The 3D Art Book is now available. A bunch of artists were involved and there’s a signing party tonight at the Opera Gallery at 115 Spring Street in NYC. I can’t make it but several of the artists in the book are scheduled to be there.

Above is a section of a piece I did for the book called Never Breath A Word About Your Loss. If you have some red/blue glasses laying around, the 3D even works OVER THE COMPUTER INTERNET. Wow, man.

For many who write on this site, and certainly many of the visitors, the culture and people of Japan are a huge influence. Japan has always been one of the first areas to take interest in my projects, and I flat out love the place.

Of course we all know about the beating the place has taken in the last six weeks and when my friend Mayumi Tatsuta contacted me about being part of tomorrow night’s JAPAN: RISNING, an auction and fundraiser for the Japan Society’s Japan Earthquake Relief Fund that she’s helped organize, it was a great chance to help in any way.

I wanted to create something specifically for the show so I made this sculpture called For Japan, a 12” by 12” piece in four wooden blocks that set together, forming a cherry-blossom accented frame around the sun of the Japanese flag.

My piece and many others are being auctioned tomorrow night at the event. The event is invite-only, but I think that only means you have to e-mail a request for one to .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address). For more details and some images of other works being sold tomorrow, visit http://www.japanrising.org.

JAPAN: RISING, a silent art auction and fundraiser
Thursday, April 28, at Milk Gallery, 450 W. 15th St., NYC

All proceeds will help support the Japan Society’s Japan Earthquake Relief Fund, to benefit the survivors of the Tohoku earthquake and tsumani disaster.

Rob and Arnaud over at   Alife asked me to join a group of artists in submitting something for their new project, Art Machine - An Exhibition if Art & Automation, a show at   The Hole Gallery, on Greene Street. The show runs until the 21st of February, and all I know is that there are a lot of great pieces and editions available via a vending machine. For my piece, I did a variation on my on ONE MILLION silkscreened money blocks, which wouldn’t fit within the 5” x 5” x 4” boxes that the machine takes. So I made them fit.

Presenting the “Your Cut” edition of ONE MILLION, edition of five, available at The Hole this week.

Art Machine at The Hole
February 10-21, 2011
104 Greene Street, NEW YORK CITY

I’ve been driving past this sign every few days on the Pacific Coast Highway in Malibu. It’s a painted-over abandoned sign with that weird old pre-internet Scientology logo, eerie and supernatural looking. Love it.

For some reason, in some form of loopy free-association, every time I see it I think of Raekwon’s classic banger “Criminology Rap” -

And in allowing that free-association to consume me for a just minute more, I was reminded of two of my favorite websites - Hip Hop Is Read, a great website that specializes in dissecting the samples used for various classic hip-hop albums, and Operation Clambake (  Xenu.net), a great website that specializes in dissecting Scientology.

So spend an hour checking out how someone finally figured out the sample for ‘Ice Cream’ and what the fuck is up with L. Ron Hubbard’s Sea Organization, the Scientology Navy. Yeah, they have a navy. More like a cruise ship, but yeah.

Stay “clear,” everybody!

I wish I could buy you all of these. I really do.

2011: LET’S DO THIS!

FedEx delivered my cake to the Caked Up! show last night, as planned. See yesterday’s blog post for ‘before’ pics.

I still woulda eaten that - I’m grimey with desserts, yo.

My friend Chad (formerly Moss, Kidrobot, now smartphone app designer) asked me to be part of a group show/event going on tonight called ‘Caked Up!’, a benefit to raise money for Art Start.

Chad asked several designers to participate, including myself, and the mission was simple: design and bake a cake to help out a good cause. The thing is, I’m in Baton Rouge, Louisiana right now living in a small hotel room, so baking a cake and getting it to the show was going to be a little difficult. Enter the fine folks at Ambrosia Bakery in Baton Rouge:

Still didn’t solve the issue of getting the cake to New York, so… enter the fine folks at FedEx, and the miracle of the ‘Overnight Express Box’:

I wonder how that cake did on that overnight express voyage. I’ll post a pic tomorrow of how it all turned out.

I can’t be there, but check it out if you can. Here’s the details of tonight’s show, from the Caked Up! website:

CAKED UP!
A one night only custom cake art show bringing together some of NYC’s best designers to create a cake for the NYC charity Art Start. Cakes will be eaten the night of the show.

Murphy and Dine Gallery
520 West 27th St. NYC