take me home

its music like this that keeps me going
just a few more months on the east coast....
and then, i'm surfing, beachin and livin up the west coast.

its gonna be like 1970..
all the time.

i'm takin a ride with my best friend...

you have no idea how excited i was to see this in person. kehinde wiley, one of my favorite contemporary artists just released this photo book, BLACK LIGHT.
wiley has been on my radar for quite some time, when i first peeped his stuff in an old issue of art forum. i had the most excellent opportunity to see some of his works in person at the Rhona Hoffman gallery in Chicago. these are epic portraits of young, urban african american men fused in ornate decoration, reminiscent of traditional portraiture of renaissance art. life sized portraits, these paintings of young men, in the latest of street fashions- suggest their position of power in today's popular culture. quite brilliant, if you fuckin ask me!


check your copy here!!!

cinnamon girl

i'm locking myself in my room and planning to spend the next 8 hours drawing my heart out. i have another meeting tomorrow. i am hoping to solidify some of this mess that i have all around me and begin the process of working on completed illustrations. i've been listening to neil young on repeat. i know a lot of heads who pay him no respect...but i swear to god, i will change their feeble minds some .day. soon.
past
three
days,
have been scattered sleep. resulting in 2 hour sleep patterns-so i'm foggy, i'm jaded, i'm back to my own private hell that is graduate school. but i love what i do. i really fucking love what i do.
in other world BREAKING news, i am in the process of compiling a mix tape for some one really special. i met her last year at school & she's moving to california. sweet, sweet, sunny----- california, for a little taste of grad school herself. (silly wabbit) but for real-ski/ski/ski--- i am so happy and i want this mix to be good to her on the long road ahead, let it take her places the road can not. what's made the cut, you ask?
ramones. tom petty. small faces. depeche mode. iggy pop. & a little band that calls themselves: golden earring.
yah, i typically don't like to fuck around when it comes to mix tapes. its going to rock. i'm filling in the missing pieces...and if you can think of something, why not share it with me???
some of the things i'm considering are...cities-like ones she'll pass through. driving or cars. new york (because thats a special place to her) california, particularly L.A. and perhaps even just whats ahead.... metaphor or not.
but in the meantime of all of this excitement, i got my neil young on-
hand cramps & all.
sweet.
don't touch me!!!! :)
& a present for you!
i could be happy, for the rest of my, this way, too.
xo.