There’s a peculiar thing that happens when you are different, you hardly ever declare it. It bestowed on you by others. Sometimes, it’s a heavenly reminder that might let you skip a grade for your smarts or a more hell-ish with a push, stare or comment. We live in a world where what comes naturally to you can get extraordinary amount of praise or disapproval, and you learn at a very tender age which category you fall under.
When I was feeling anxious and pondering the true meaning of life, God told me to go outside sit by a tree and enjoy the breeze 
I love Illustrated album covers and it seems like this trend has been resurfacing lately check out a couple of covers I really love done by some amazing artists.
2011 is all about two things for me: traveling and collaborating with other talented individuals. With that said here is a recent project I completed with New Orleans based photographer Que Duong. This guy is sick with a camera and lens. Looking forward to more collaborations.
I’m about 60 pieces in and I’m still sketching ideas for new ones. What am I working towards? My debut solo show entitled Want To A Sad Boy Smile? Pay Him. It doesn’t open until the end of next March. But there is still more work to be done. Check out the flyer below.
After the recent Little Dragon show in Miami I ran up to lead vocalist Yukumi Nagano to give her some artwork that I created for her and the band. I’ve been a fan of Little Dragon’s music since 2008 and I gotta thank my homie Tino for putting me on to their music. Thanks Allie for getting me the Machine Dreams album. Little Dragon’s music has enhanced my life in so many ways Thank you guys!
Last week I got to spend some time in Atlanta, GA and catch up with my wonderful friends/family there and I had an Amaaazing time. I celebrated my sister’s friends birthday, performed at a Lauryn Hill tribute show and I got to see one of my paintings featured in Museum Of Contemporary Art in Georgia (MOCA GA) for an exhibition called Movers & Shakers.
Three must be my lucky number. As I look back on the past three plus years of doing this “Art Nouveau“ thing, I can’t help but feel lucky. This issue we look back at the roller coaster these three years have been.
This past week I uploaded a pic on my FB from the photo shoot I did in black-lights and I wanted to share more info and pictures from the shoot. For the past couple months I’ve been collaborating and working with a very unique band which I am now apart of called Telekinetic Walrus and the pride of Ions. We were interviewed for a magazine called Grunge Kat and we are also being featured on the cover.The theme for the shoot was black-light tribal or atleast thats how I describe it. After the shoot was over I was so psyched about the whole thing that I decided to take a couple of pics of my own to share.
Ello, good morning to music. 1/11/11 will go down as the day that music blazed forward by going back to basics, from Jay-Z and Yeezy to little Ms. Britney, the titans have returned – you can hold it against them, but you can’t hold them back: they’re about to go H.A.M. on this mother culture.
I want it more than ever now,
I realized that they ain’t listening,
Like a princess supposed to get it
That’s why I’m dusting off my fitted…
You Know The Frivolous Stuff
It’s no secret to anyone that knows me that I’m not too impressed with bubbling artists. Throughout my day, I hear great noise and see greater visuals. Those don’t faze me. I’m a slave to the art form of the popular. I haven’t been impressed with the under- ground since it was made of velvet. See, to go pop is take your art and hard work and turn it into a platform that doesn’t just speak to the people that are easily marketed to with said product, but to speak and effect everyone despite upbringings, race, religion, gender and sexual orientation. You know the frivolous stuff. It’s what makes suburban privileged white kids show up at your favorite rapper’s concert, it’s what makes kids in Compton love heavy metal. It’s the art of being universal, not by the conform- ing but by encompassing whatever it is you represent.
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