Michael Jackson is Wasted Talent

You can now buy this one of a kind piece I did for the ICFSB show on www.super7.com

Fresh to death... and even at death, thy will still be fly and fresh. R.I.P. MJ

Just in!

I was googling the Super7 show I was in to see if there was any pics cause I didn't get to make it, which led me to some video of Sucklord on some dating show and I was looking for more videos of him cause he's so fucking funny and I found this... a lil' video by my homie OsirisOrion from "The Rollie Show" which I was also in. I dunno why I haven't seen it before, but check it out!

See ya soon guys! The wave is coming back to NYC within 15 days!

ICFSB2 @ Super7

Today I took a trip dolo to SF to drop off my finished piece at Super7. It's called "Michael Jackson is Wasted Talent." I could imagine he looks something like this right now. Before I left I picked Josh's brain for a bit, very cool dude! Said hello to Glen the busy busy bee! Copped a Super7 x Le Merde tee I wanted last time I came here with Leecifer.






















































I also wasn't rushed, so I had time to check out their next door neighbor's "FATLACE", which is small store, but had some pretty dope shit. Heard about them years ago in NY before I even moved to Cali, so I was happy I got to check it out. Especially since I got such limited time left here in Cali. Even got myself a Penfield jacket which coincidentally matches the tee I got next store annnnnnd a Frank151. I love these lil' books. It's packed with so much detailed cultured knowledge.

I'm gonna be stuntin' on youuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu! Hot pink style. Ya better believe it! Ya better believe it! Lil' Boosie ft. Young Jeezy - Better Believe It mp3















































I also stopped in the Northface store on the way back and lemme just say, they don't have this shit in New York! I could've literally spent $100,000 in 1 hour there. So sick!

My New Years Resolution

FUCK IT.

WASTED TALENT 2010

IT'S 2010! Hope everybody had fun, stayed safe and woke up next to the best.

This was me last night. JK... maybe... but how funny is this guy being so drunk "thinking" he's getting more brews at 11 in the morning acting like a possessed zombie getting pulled down to hell by Devils? Talk about Wasted Talent!! HAHAHAHAA I'm literally crying with laughter. Youtube the (revealed audio) It doesn't show the whole video, but it's still worth it to hear him praying to Jesus to help him up.

HE TOOK THE BOWL WITH HIM! HAHAHAHAHAAAAA!!!!




ALSO JOIN US ON FACEBOOK HERE! We will never consider you "fans", just people down with the program!

Been a minute....

Long story short... actually 8 month long short... I couldn't take it anymore where I was staying... I literally think I lost my mind... yeah, the dude who you'd think lost it long ago, really lost his mind this time... anyway, I was about to move back to NY... in the gist of it, I moved into a better and more realistic opportunity... now I just gotta get a job by the end of January as I will have to pay rent now... and that will enable me to stay in the state of California. If not, I'll be back in NY building my empire off of other peoples couches again. Probably won't be as easy as it sounds since I haven't a job in... well, pretty much all my life, but I just got me some Stacy Adams, black slacks and a black button down to present myself as professional (and super gay) as possible to these judgmental yuppy managers who'm I will have to "pretend" for. I'm gonna be walking into these jobs looking like the East Bay Mafia though. They can't say no to me! I'll put their head in a fuckin' vice!

I was trying to keep the no 9 to 5 job lifestyle 'til the day I die by doing the hustle through "Wasted Talent", but now I gotta revise my master plan. I'm gonna be stepping it up next year. Actually WE are gonna be stepping it up next year! That's some of the plan in the works soon to be revealed. I got soooo much shit to update everybody on. I also gotta Canon G11 with a 10' backdrop with 3 umbrella lights. So many pics to come! So many!

I just got my internet back on today after nearly 3 weeks without it. So I can't blow up the blog just yet. I still got my own catching up to do, but I leave ya with this mega dope video by Nemo from the Qee 2 Life show at Genuine Artikle. Look at my dudes Ian and Tyler reppin' so hard! You can buy their custom Qee's below here.

Shout out to Nemo, Benny, Phetus, Mr. Den, The G.A. Family, P.J. and all the artists who participated in the show!






















OH... and much love to Mr. Bru Cru for showing people why I can modestly say "I'm the fuckin' best yo!" For the people who cant recognize the realness, you will soon see the potential. Check out more here.

The Reallyest!

Lil' Wayne gets blogged about on every blog site and I swore I wouldn't do it unless he was wearing Wasted Talent or something, but this was just too real not to post. EVEN THOUGH, if it was what everybody thinks it was (Sprite mixed with cough syrup containing Codeine and Promethazine) I don't agree with drinking that shit cause it basically fucks up your immune system, you'll eventually have to be a pillhead or some shit and I don't fuck with ANY man made drugs, not even Tylenol. Not that I need that shit anyway, cause I never got a real headache in my whole entire life. But yeah, it really is none of ya God damn business! BITCH!

p.s. He keeps dabbing the towel on his lip cause he busted himself with his own mic while he was performing before this interview.

NO MORE CUSTOMS

So I've decided for definite today after realizing spending over a $1000 on a project for Art Basel that I'm not gonna finish in time cause I'm either invited to participate with a month or less before the due date... that I'm not doing any more customs for shows. I don't care who asks. If I'm not contacted along with the 1st round of "name" artists by now in my career, I got no time for it. Unless I'm informed 6 months in advance AND supplied with the platform, count me out. I'm tired of getting rushed, going in debt and splitting the profits of all MY hard work. 50/50 profit split... yeahhhhh, I bet. The only reason I do these shows is for publicity. I'm just gonna start paying magazines to print promo ads for Wasted Talent. I won't do comissions either... EVER!

I gotta few more custom toy shows left in the year and few more customs in general and then I won't be customizing toys after Jan 2010. I wanted to be a clothing designer, I never intended to even design toys and be a "gallery" artist. My life kinda just went down that path, but 2010 will be the year of the prototype. I'll be working on designing my very own 1st production toy next year. I already drew up a rough draft. New shirts should be releasing in January too with a bunch of other cool shit. Hopefully we'll have introduced the new team properly and Wasted Talent will be considered as a team rather than 1 man.

And yeah, my birthday is in 4 days... I think I'm getting another gold tooth with diamonds in the the shape of a heart, cause some asshole threw mine away last year. Let's hope with the lack of my NY friends, my birthday can still be as full of sin as I'm used too, but I highly doubt it...

The Rollie Show

Below is a collaboration piece between me, Nasty Neil and Task 1. I did all the sculpting on the rollies, he did all the painting, the whole base and the light works. He's allllll about the LED's. They were both originally a roll-on deodorant bottle transformed into some sci-fi saga. It was for "The Rollie Show" which was a group show with artists from all over the worlds based on customizing 99 cent roll-on deodorant bottles as you would a vinyl toy, being that they have a cool figure like shape, they're made of plastic and are way beyond cost efficient. So yeah, the piece is called "Rollietron Vs. Rolliegon. You can buy it now for $200 here.











Here's a video from the "The Rollie Show". Check it out. Sucklord is one of the funniest dudes in the world! Big thanks to Nemo and Benny of Tenacious Toys for inviting me to participate in this show.

custom rollie artshow nyc from nemo mendez on Vimeo.

SOLD

So I just sold my "Piranha Plant 2010" that I made out of STRANGEco's "Oink Le Rouge" pig character (on the left) today. If you look close, you'll see how I utilized the shapes that was provided without barely changing the original "production" color of the toy.



You can buy more 1 of a kind customs of mine here. Their are also some other great 1 of a kind customized pieces from vinyl to plush for sale too, so don't sleep!


I also trooped all the way down to Kidrobot SF today by myself for the 1st time since I moved out to Oakland. AND I MEAN TROOPED! I love SF to death, but those hills are the fuckin' worst! So my mission was to get a Mega Munny from the Kidrobot SF store for the Multiversal Group Show, which is probably gonna be one of the biggest shows that I've ever been invited to participate in, so my goal is blow Sket One's mind... and the whole customizing community in general, but particularly him, mainly cause it was his customs that intrigued me so much that I wanted to create my first Munny back in 2007. This is gonna be a "How Ya Like Me Now?" Kool Moe Dee moment.

So yeah, like a crazy bastard who is gonna really have no life soon with all the projects I'm taking on, like the other 2 Munny's I'm collaborating on with Task 1 for the Art Basel, Terminal22's "Light Up" Show in Dec, Genuine Artikle's Custom Qee show in Dec, I'm trying to still get that big secret project I'm working on by Dec, maybe I'll just bust it out the 1st month of the 2010, I think I'm getting in a Custom "Vivasect Playset" Show coming up which is based on a blind boxed toy by STRANGEco, I'm doing another Mega Munny collaboration with Nerviswrek for his solo show, a meeting with a local skateboard company to see if I can create some limited edition skate decks, finish up this Koibito, a few 3" Dunny's and I still gotta finalize and introduce this new team for Wasted Talent. So much, so much, so much... just stay tuned. I promise, when I always said "the shit is just gonna get sicka and sicka", I meant it!

Now... I'm gonna go lay in bed and draw out new shirt designs 'til 4am. ;)

Twins

The twins be mobbin'.
The subwoofers knockin'.
Always smokin' and shoppin'.
Got the Wasted Talent rockin'.
One hundred percent cotton.
The Nike Dunks Stompin'.
Shades for the hater blockin'.
Incase the D's are watchin'.
Whole style is mockin'.
Eyeliner for the toppin'.
Got the hood niggas boppin'.
The same niggas hoes jockin'.
Stuntin' aint an option.
It's more of a problem.
Stuntin' aint an option.
It's more of a problem.









































































Big shout out to the twins Natassia and Jordan for showing love and doing cool shit like this for me! You know I fucking love this shit! Natassia is a solo independent film production team called Kreayshawn Productions. You can check out some her videos here. She is perfect for any upcoming artist/musician with limited funds who wants cool videos for more exposure. She does it all from the filming to the editing and does it all at a fast past, so hit her for work. She's dope at what she does. TRUST!

Also, peep out these 3 links real quick of me and Task chillin' out with Brett Amory at his studio, went to lunch with Leecifer to later visit his artistic realm of dopeness and the last is of some pics of Me and Task 1's first real collabo for the Rollie Show which is today, so if your in Queens, check it out! I spent $120 to overnight that bitch there! And I'll be posting more pics up of my customs for the 3D CANVAS show at a later date cause I broke my camera again... and I'm just super busy in general. I'm putting in work! I'll show you how to do this sonnnn!

Take It Back

NEW SHIT

So, there's been a lot of people hitting me up from all over the world that have been highly anticipating Wasted Talent's next shirt releases. So with that being said, I have been trying to build this empire from scratch pretty much by myself for the last 3 years purely on the hustle. It's been a veryyyyyy bumpy road, but I never gave up. This is my dream. It's what I'm good at. It's what I'm gonna do and I just won't give up on that. From business deals gone wrong to faulty partnerships to trying to support my own weed habit... shit just never came through how I pictured it... but that's all about to change. I have been talking to some very talented artists who I think mesh very well with my whole style and the way I go about things. They also have the ability to fill my void for the artistic skills I lack, they have their own highly useful connections, and they all have incredible entrepreneurism and work ethic. Not to mention they don't do man made drugs. We're gonna form like voltron and make power moves. There's just soooo much more in the making, with collabs with other artists and companies as well, it's just gonna get crazy. I promise.

Anyway, I'm not gonna put everything out there on the table just yet 'til everything is finalized, but once it is, I will post up an introduction to this newly formed A+ Team. Look forward to a new beginning... and limited edition shit to stunt on your friends with.

Recognize the brilliance.

Raising The Bar

Tonight I had a euphoric moment to myself as something that I helped curate went better then I ever imagined, even though Nasty Nasty and Buddy Leezle didn't get to close out the show cause the speakers blew out 15 minutes into it, but they still came down and supported! (Next show I promise to make it illegally loud) I chilled with so many cool and talented people through out the night. STRANGEco was in the house. Special thanks to everybody who participated in the show, helped us set up during crunch time and came out to show love to Oakland's very first art show solely dedicated to custom designer toys. Another special thanks to TNES of Hippo Esthetics, Leecifer and Chelsea Rae for hookin' me up with some cool gifts. Check out some of the opening in this video by Wasted Talent's very own representative Kreayshawn, who came super late, but she's still one of dopest girls in the world... and her twin sister "Jordan". Your the fucking best too! The 2nd video is by my homie HMD who is a producer/DJ/smoove mutha fucka!

Also with over 100+ additional photos and info from the show, go check out the Terminal22 blog here. Then go buy or vote on some custom toys here.

Check the dope write up we got on Spanky Stokes too, here.

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...