Red Bull is putting on a fixed gear freestyle event next weekend in San Francisco. They are building a custom street course for the event and they have invited a handful of artists to come out and paint the obstacles. Incredibly I was invited to be one of the artists! Actually, it wasn’t SO incredible. My friend Azikiwee is putting together the event and he has always been very supportive of my art. One of the first large murals I ever did was for the grand opening of his shop, D-Structure, in SF over five years ago.
We are packing up the car and road tripping to San Francisco from Orange County early Friday morning to start painting this weekend so that everything will be ready in time for the event next week.
Stay tuned for more updates and photos from San Francisco!
I made a new logo for Ernie Reyes, Jr. whom some of you may remember from a previous posting on this blog. In short, he was a child star, martial arts prodigy who was featured in films like “The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” and “The Rundown,” and he is also now married to my ex-wife.
Now well into his thirties (join the club!) Ernie has remained active in the entertainment industry. Lately Ernie has been developing some cool new projects of his own and he approached me about coming up with a logo for his company, “Smasher Entertainment.”
Since Ernie’s background is in martial arts, and in particular martial arts tailored for entertainment, that naturally is the primary focus of his company. When briefing me about the logo Ernie mentioned that it might be cool to incorporate a fist. I started working on some sketches (in between random doodles, “how absurb!”) and after seeing them Ernie gave me the okay to go ahead with the design.
I took the sketch into Illustrator to make sure I got all of the curves and lines just right. I took a snapshot of my Illustrator file with all of the guides on.
I showed Ernie several treatments, including a final Illustrator version with a Kung-Fu color scheme, but the one we settled on was a black and white, distressed kind of MMA/Comic Book hybrid that was the opening photo for this post.
My buddies in the B-More electro/funk outfit “Claire Hux” just dropped their new video for “Grab On.”
You can see D-Lake in the video sporting the GOST “Santa Ana Winds” hoodie.
The new Claire Hux album “Grab On!” from Unruly Records will drop digitally on April 12th, so check iTunes and Amazon. The new album features all new original music. Check ClaireHux.com for updates and more info.
Arlo
Whether unloading cargo or grabbing lunch with Tara Reid at Spago, G-MO is dressed for any occasion in this fashionable look inspired by New York City's longshoremen.
