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My art wall of stuff at Active's Which One's Ping show. The folks at Active were really nice and helpful. They even gave me a shipping number account which pretty much rules. Never had that happen before.

The Human Pyramids opening at GhettoGloss Gallery on Melrose pretty much ruled it. Lots of fun and a huge crowd. I recently posted some photos and words on http://dailydujour.com/2009/09/29/human-pyramid-opening-at-ghettogloss-gallery/ . ENjoy!!

Hanging with the Human Pyramid Collective is fun and involves drinking while drawing occasionally, which is safer than drinking and driving. Anyhow, here's a nice shot of Soy Panday drawing some of his characters on our table at the German bar, Downtown LA.

The opening of Which One's Ping show in Costa Mesa, CA was awesome, fun, intense, nerve-wracking, and madness. By the time I had gotten there the whole warehouse was filled with people. The was also some free Colt 45s, a ping pong tournament, and some djing. Here I am getting interviewed by Erica Yary for FuelTv. I'm not sure what I'm doing with my hands and face, but I swear I was talking about something important?

Pacoli from Brazil recently visited Los Angeles from San Francisco, where she had been staying for a while. She was in town for an upcoming group show at Ghettogloss entitled Human Pyramids. The Human Pyramids Art Colelctive (http://www.humanpyramids.net/) is an international group of artist and friends started by Hovin Wang.

In this photo, I'm looking through Pacolli's awesome journal book where she draws and writes and creates interesting characters from our weird world.

Late night drawings of unicycles while talking and hanging with our friend and pal, Pacoli. She brought some colorful pens for me to draw with and they are SICK.

At the Thought Processor show at Munky King I did some live drawing for some awesome kids and people. One nice fellow named Linh gave me a canvas to draw on. Here's the photo of it in his room.

Rad, thanks Linh!!

This might be one of the best things I've ever ever gotten in the mail, and that's not to say John Casey, Pacoli and all those other awesome artist packages weren't rad. . . this one is just really funny and awesome.

I recently had this piece framed for a buyer. The frame is pretty cool - it has soft red velvet, double matte, and museum glass. I told him that he should have a hidden vault behind this piece. That's the sort of vibe it gives off.

Here's a sketch of a funny halloween costume we made up while hanging out in the desert. It's Benjamin Frankenstein and he's a monster.

Looks like a tattoo being started that is based off an old drawing of mine!!! Thanks Alex.

Just returned from a fabulous time in the desert for our friend Taylor's birthday. Goood timess....and many power animals found.

The fellows at Engraveyourbook.com has added a bunch of other awesome artists to their moleskin book cover series.

Just finishing up these paddles for delivery on Thursday!

 I recently got invited by Active to participate in an upcoming group show titled Which One's Ping.  The show will open September 24th at Kids Krochet in Costa Mesa, CA.  The artist line up is something really exciting for me because they include so many heroes of mine - Ed Templeton, Chris Pastras, Brad Staba, Lance Mountain, Deanna Templeton, Eric McHenry, Russ Pope, Todd Bratrud, and more.



Active was nice enough to send us paddles and FED EX shipping numbers!  (that's the best and my first time). My first plan of attack was to set them aside and not touch them for a bit.  Just kidding, I started with some sketches of what I thought might be cool.  










Ping pong guy Number 1 (above).

This is my sailor smoking pink shirt paddle guy.  I'm going to attach an eye patch to him.