THE 3D CANVAS

Oct. 2nd come by to see history get made in the East Bay art scene and party with me and some of the coolest and talented people around.












And the following day will be the grand opening of the new BMX/skatepark "BAYAIR" that will also be tons of fun!












p.s. I just bought a house and I don't know where it's located!

<3

A BX TALE

Special thanks to the Iocovello family for getting the "A BX TALE" crewneck sweatshirt signed by Chazz Palminteri for me. For those who don't know, the shirt was inspired from 1992's classic movie "A Bronx Tale" and Chazz Palminteri (script writer), one of the leading stars in the movie played the head mobster "Sonny". He had 5 fingers, but he only used 3. There was also a famous line in the movie where Robert De Niro (Director) told his son that "The saddest thing in life is wasted talent" which is also on the back of the shirt. Joe Black the murdered man and his son Mark Iocovello were in the movie too, Joe Black was the guy who was fighting over a parking spot and starting smashing the windshield of the car that Joe Pesci was driving (which he might do to ya in real life if ya fuck with him) in one of the earlier scenes of the movie and his son mark, who pretty much played himself if ya think about, came out of the funeral home with his head down a few scenes later. Quite ironic. Quite awesome. Just lil' history lesson for ya!

This will be framed and hung on my wall as a reminder for success to come in the near future. Put everything you got into it, never give up and stay positive. Thanks Mark!














































How the fuck am I gonna iron this first?

I'm a 9 to 5 robot to society...

So I just checked out Terminal22 Gallery for the first time since I been back from New York and the place is fucking huge! The window front is crazy huge! It's not even finished and it looks like a million bucks! We're still gonna build mad shit inside. Your not ready. So yeah, this will be my new job type thing from 11pm to 6pm everyday starting this weekend. I'm gonna be ruling this block!

And this custom toy show sponsored by STRANGEco Oct. 2nd is gonna be so dope! 1 of kind custom toys from artists worldwide, STRANGEco will be in the house, artists will be stopping in through out the night, free keg beer and free junkfood, live music by Nasty Nasty formely of "Quitter" and Cameron Thompson will be spinning on the 1 and 2's and the whole event will be video taped.

The artist line up consists of...

Absolute Nonsense
Adam 5100
Adam Caldwell
Alex Heinke
Andy Stattmiller
BISERama
Blame One
Brent Nolasco
Brett Amory
Brown
brushforhire
Bryan Collins
Cameron Thompson
Chelsea Rae
Christine Benjamin
Dawood Marion
Double Parlour
DR
Duncan Cook
Ezra Eismont

Evil MCA
FAS
Geoff Trapp
Germs
Ian Ziobrowski
Eric Ziobrowski
Jack Rossi
Jason Kochis
Jay222
Jefferey David Mitchell
Jenny Harada
Jeremy Regan
Jin Hei Kang
Joey Potts
John Casey
Keith Poon
Ken Davis
Kristen Goetz
LA RAID
Lana Crooks
Leecifer
Martin Bunyi
Matt 136

Megan Wolfe
Michael Shantz
Michelle Richie
Moody
Motorbot
Nemo
Nerviswr3k
Nick The Ring

Nobody
NReazon
OHM
Optikmass
OsirisOrion
Owen Oertling
Patrick Francisco
Peabe
Phoneticontrol
Project Elefont
PJ Williams
Rsinart
Saintkid
Shane Saw
Skinner

Somebody
Suckadelic
Suzanne Russo
Task One
Tiki Jay One
TNES
Tone Tank
Tyler
Wasted Talent
We Kill You
Wisechick
Zam

Labor Day Week

Sooo... from the last time I posted 'til Labor Day weekend I been so busy finishing up projects for shows, started to curate a toy show, started pieces for the show I'm curating, did some volunteer work painting things blue for some Elementary school, steadily working on big unfinished projects, constantly promoting Wasted Talent, flew to NY for Sucklord's show, dropped of STRANGEco toys to WORLD NYC, contacted Ian of Genuine Artikle about a 100 times buggin' him about getting 1 shirt made for Friday's Suckadelic show (I literally ran around for 3 days to get that 1 shirt made!), went to wedding parties, a bunch of beerbq's and so much more... I just landed back in SF straight back to my grind and I'm still a little out of it from all the partying I did the whole week and I already had 2 days of recuperation. I saw a lot of people I haven't seen in a while, for all the people I missed, I'm sorry, don't me mad at me, I had very limited time and making power moves was priority. I'll be back soon enough!













Anyway, I was honored to have a piece in Sucklord's "Super Group Suckoff 2" show at APW Gallery. He really is a one of a kind dude with a cunning personality. Dude is fucking hilarious as he is crazy as me and my friends are, so I knew it was gonna be a sick time. Some lady tripped and broke her hip in the doorway to the gallery right as people started showing up so we had to wait for the ambulance to get her outta the doorway before people could even come in. The showroom was so packed it became a sauna, but I met a lot of new cool people, chilled with fellow artists and designers once again, saw some really cool stuff, fell in love a couple times and stunted hard for the camera. Watch the video as we make history!














From left to right... THE BEST, Phetus, Barnes, Dead Shawn, Osirisorion, Nasty Neil, Sucklord, Mary Paper$, Nemo, Hot Blonde, Dude and Spooky Booty's arm.








Tone Tank of Scumlife Clothing, Nasty Neil and THE BEST!

I had a lot more photos of the show and the prior weeks, but I ended up dropping/breaking my camera and lost my memory card, so until that shows up, this is all I can original photos I can provide for now.

Click here to see more photos of artwork and sale inquiries.

Tenacious Toys also did a write up on the show here.

The same day in Oakland, CA. I had 4 custom skateboards at Terminal 22 Gallery for our 2nd re-grand opening show after we moved to a bigger and better spot on Telegraph Ave in the mix of the other galleries in Oakland's "art murmur". You can see more photos of the "SK8 DECK Show" here. I'll be here most of the time starting this week as I will be running shop while the big boss' do the damn thing! So come say what up and check out the artwork!

Other then that, my NY trip was too crazy to even write down... or maybe it's just that I was too shitfaced the whole time I can't remember any of it. Either way it was awesome, until next time!

I'm also helping to curate a custom toy show for Oct 2nd at Terminal 22 Gallery that is sponsored by STRANGEco that should also be one hell of a show. We already have a worldwide line up of very talented artists. More updates on that to come in the next few days...

SUPER GROUP SUCK OFF 2

I been waiting months for the suckiest show on the planet! This is gonna suck so bad that I'm flying back to NYC just for the show. See ya there suckasssss.



















The lineup features 40+ arts including: Itokin Park, Ilanena, Dead Presidents, Erick Scarecrow, Evil Design, Jesse Hernandez, kaNO, kill!, Koji Harmon, Gargamel(Kiyoka Ikeda and Naoya Ikeda, Chanmen, Katope) Lemerde, Lou Pimentel, Cliff and Sean of Monsterhero, George and Ayleen Gaspar of October Toys, Patrick Francisco, Paul Kaiju, Pon, Sara Antionette Martin, Jesse Moore (callgrim), J-Roo and J-Bat of Dynomight, Cupco, Skulltoys, Dave Pressler, OsirisOrion, Gibsonian and Akirophoto of Nerdcore, Phetus, Snaggs, Brian Slivka of Plastic and Plush, Jailbreak Toys, Nasty Neil, Nemo, Mezco, Living Dead Dolls, Matt "mother" Connelly, Tone Tank, Spooky Booty, Burt Banger, Mio Murakami, Cha-iro Brown (chef), Atom a. Armwrestler, Refreshment, Uamou, Tulip, Dice One, Angie Dutchess, Billy Roids, Killa Dicer.

Custom Skateboards

These are the 2 boards I did for Sk8 Deck Show.

My friend from Monster Ink Tattoo's always talked about how he liked drawing zombies and ever since then I wanted to draw some gruesome zombie type shit. So I took it back to my younger days when I only drew things in black and white with pencil and the only color in it would be red for blood and explosions... and of course I repped "Wasted Talent" spelled out in the intestines that are spilling out from the zombie being eaten.

I call this "Zombie Eat Zombie".


















This board was actually broke in half and I was looking at it for a minute and came up with this innovative use of the natural breaks in the board.

I titled this "Thrash Or Die".

Home Sweet Home

Just wanted to let you know that Terminal22 officially has a new home at 2443 Telegraph Ave at 25th Street, Oakland. Luckily were not expecting any mail since there is no zipcode...

So all future shows are moving forward as planned...our new spot is a lot bigger and right on the ave. with a cluster of Art Murmur galleries...more room for art and more foot traffic and exposure for all of the artists.

The SK8 Deck show is September 4th (during "First Friday") from 6-9 and is coming up soon.

Art. Wine. Cupcakes. A whole lotta baggy jeans.

We've collected skate decks from stores, our closets, and various street corners to hand over to some of the Bay's most talented creative forces. Should be a dope show. I created 2 crazy ass decks for this show. And yes, there will really be free cupcakes.














Unfortunately I wont be there for this as I will be in NYC for another custom toy show I'm in that I've anticipated for a long time. Got some finishing touches for that show and tons more updates in the next few days.

I'll give ya hint about the show, it sucks!

To all my New York peops, get ready cause I'm home for 1 week, shit is about to go downnnnn!!!!

BMX/Skatepark made the front page

This is the skatepark I was talking about in the past posts. It's gonna be open veryyyy soon! Stay tuned... you can read more about it here.

It was a long morning..

So it's 4am and I'm customizing a skateboard for an upcoming show and this dude Task is cutting a skatebord with a razor for whatever reason he was and like a knucklehead, he was cutting towards himself and did this...











So blood starts pouring out his hand and he's like, "I think I need stitches. We need to go to the hospital." We got a ride from our good Rasta friend from S. Africa to the hospital. Knowing I'd be in there for a while I brought my arts and crafts with me and painted in the waiting room.









They told us we had to wear these face masks cause that was the new rule. I was like the only one in there. I ended up falling asleep due to me being up for almost 48 hours and I was snoring so loud to the point that the lady at the desk almost told me to wake up. I was woken up by my sewn up friend and we started walking home all the way from Berkeley. We stopped at the mall to get something to eat, then we got some spray paint at Home Depot to contribute some art at the BMX/skate park down the block from us and this dude's bandage turns all red then started profusely dripping blood down his arm all over the place, so I ran and got some napkins out the nearest Starbucks as I was coming back to him he revealed the cut from the bandage to see why it's bleeding like this and the shit started squirting out blood like a fountain!!! I froze up and stood there in awe as he plugged it up with his index finger and he was like, "well gimme the fuckin' napkins man!" So I ran back to get more napkins and by the time I came back the whole area look like somebody just got murdered. He took all the spray paint out of the Home Depot bag and told me to put the paint in my backpack so he can wrap his hand up in the bag so he wouldn't bleed all over the cab as we definitely had to go back to hospital AGAIN. He didn't wanna pay for an ambulance, so we called a cab and waited like a half hour while his hand was filling up this plastic bag. The cab finally got there, when I got in I noticed a strong smell of paint and I immediately knew what happened. One of the caps fell off a can it started spraying in my bag 'til it was almost half empty and I had green paint all over my jeans, the inside of my whole backpack and my hands were equally as green as his were red... GREAT! Story of my life. So we get there, the place is full and it looks like the end of the world with everybody's mask on, we wait another half hour while this dude has his hand in a plastic bag full of blood, starting to get real pale and looking like he was about to pass out. So I'm like what the fuck? I said out loud "so what happens if you walk in holding your severed right hand in your left hand, they gonna make you wait this long too?" and the dumb bitch at the desk gave me a dirty look like my comment wasn't appropriate for the moment. Like I aint the fucking best or something! So finally some hot spanish nurse with a brain comes over cause she saw how pale he was getting and got him sewn back up AGAIN. I went outside and laid down on a bench and went to sleep for the time being 'til he came out and found me. The nurse said the stitch probably rubbed against his artery in his finger and broke it open. That explains the blood fountain. So we're finally done with that, we walked home AGAIN, my feet are killing me cause I didn't realize we'd even be walking at all. I probably wouldn't of brought the skateboard and wore my good sneakers if I'd known, but we finally got home at like 12pm and I went to sleep like a baby. I also sent out my custom BUKA to LA in the midst of all that too. It was a longggggg morning. Got my boy Santiago here. About to get hella smoove and get back to work...

Stunt Hard

So I was thinking what my options were with this 3" ducky thing by Adfunture and how can I be innovative with my imagination and create something that stands out amongst everybody else in the show at the same time, one thing led to another and I came up with this "I ride so dirty, but I look so clean" type mutha fucka... curators and galleries owners are gonna have to start regulations just for me soon. Sorry ya'll, this is just how I stunt!

Imagine if I didn't rush.




















If your in L.A. tomorrow you can buy this 1 of a kind hand sculpted character at Monkeyhouse Toys for $250. More pics coming soon.

Vinyl Birdies

George of Toy Break/October Toys gave me and Task One some 2 mini Gwins at the I.W.G. Show for a the mini Gwin tour. This is what I did for it. This was my first resin/mold project. Making molds sucks so bad!

It's made of a sculpted red heart inside of clear resin that sits on black pedestal with LED's in the center to shine through the Gwin.









I know... the heart is too big, but after doing like 6 of these and they keep fucking up, you pick the 1st one that "works" when your on time limits for shows. I hate time limits...

We made a bunch of other mini Gwins with the molds we made. Task created something really cool for the show and a special suprise just for them too. You'll see soon.

And this is a sneak peak of my custom BUKA for the show in LA in the process of being transformed into 110% 3-D swagger. Photos of finished product to come. This shit is gonna stunt soooo hard! I gotta make the photos stunt just as hard too.

I just hope it gets there in 1 piece.

Yo Momma!

This is a video of all the customs for the "Munny Grubbers" show in Phoenix, AZ. My custom is supposed to be $420, NOT $200. Somebody's trippin'... but anyway, check it out. Got some really cool customs in this show!

You can now vote for mine as best in the show at Delicious Drips. Vote "delicious" as best, poison as worst. Don't be a hater like the young bucks who give me less then delicious, like we don't know... LOL!

Special thanks to Nerviswrek for inviting me to participate in the show.



PJ from Immortal Beloved Toys did a custom based on 70's porno mags and titled it "Nasty Neil's Mom". Mom, if your reading this, you just gotta laugh at the pure insanity of this. Now I gotta retaliate in some West Coast vs. East Coast art wars some time in the future when I get around to it. This is gonna be some gangsta toy industry shit! I might just make Mommy take care of my light work! HAHAHA

Don't be mad Mom. WE ALL LOVE YOU! <3







































I can't believe you really did that... LOL!


And I liked this custom by Noel Cruz so much and it was done so clean that I had to show you. Even the photos were clever!

BUKA

What I got in the hotdog envelope was for this... I got a few more days. It's taking me a lot longer then I expected cause I got sooooooooooo much other shit to do too. I need a vaca... but I have no time to vaca. WTF!?!?!?!

Anyway, like usual, when ever I'm in a show you can tell that... nobody on the corner got vision like me, vision like me. Nobody on the corner got vision like me, vision like me.

Maki Oshi

This is an 8" Munny I customized for the "Munny Grubbers" show. Vote for him on Delicious Drips. His name is "Maki Oshi" and he will fuck shit up!