REST IN PEACE, JIMBO "HOLESHOT" HOLMAN.



6/21/05

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY KELLEY! 19 years and counting...
I love you.


5/16/05

Art Prostitute has posted a nice section on their site devoted to the Evan Hecox / Cody Hudson show, "Waiting Room" that opened in their physical gallery about a week back. Check it out, there is some really nice Hecox and Hudson original work for sale.


Porous Walker is ganthering a shitload of wishes over at Fecal Face. Here's what he had to say to me after I sent him mine;

"Andy, Your wishes are being processed and will arrive in 3 to 210 weeks. Reincarnation is always a possibility when it comes to the Ricky Carmichael wish, that one's kind of tricky."


5/12/05
32 new Jackson Pollack paintings found.


The Andy Warhol Time Capsule.


I love Lee Misenheimer's work. Destroy Rock City.


More good line people;
Guy Burwell
Aesthetic Apparatus
José Parlå


Updates at the MX Problem.


5/3/05
Much anticipated show coming up in SF with Mr. Cartoon, Estevan Oriol and Rob Abeyta Jr. It's at the Fifty24SF Gallery, a place that's been really stepping up their game in past months. Try to make the opening on May 19th, it will be a good one.


Andy & Jennifer have posted a couple of new designs over at The Quiet Life. Things are running steady and true over there, keep your eye on them.


5/2/05
Porous Walker has posted my three wishes up at Fecalface.com (click on "dailies," then, "You Wish"). Now, if he could only make them come true...


4/22/05
Ten things I know next to nothing about.
(in no particular order)

1) Thermonuclear dynamics

2) Hospital-grade microscopes

3) Radio transmissions

4) Magnetic fields

5) Fuses

6) Batteries

7) Money making

8) Jellyfish

9) Napoleon

10) Gravity


Ten things I know enough about to be cautious.
(in no particular order)

1) Lawn mowers

2) Horses

3) Politics

4) Knives

5) Gravity

6) Chemicals

7) Hate

8) Love

9) Propaganda

10) People



4/21/05
Finished another illo for The Skate Mag. Here's the b&w version.


Here's a nice place to see the work of Tucker Nichols. Tucker's friend, Porous Walker, has a nice bloggy thing over at Fecal Face called You Wish (click on the "dailies" button)


The Polaroid Photography Collective.


Caitlin Kuhwald's paintings are amazing.


4/18/05
First Leftwich, then Agents & Crailtap. Now us. It's over. I guess it was inevitable...


4/15/05
Here's a quote from David Choe's update email. Couldn't have said it better myself... but maybe it's just how I'm feeling this week.

"Group shows are fucking horrible and a joke and have been played out for more than a minute. Can everyone just stop it? Nobody buys anything and did you really want to become an artist so that you can paint on a pair of speakers, or jeans, or shoes or trucker caps, or whatever the gimmicky fuck. Cut it out."

Check out a "day in the life" of Choe over at the Wooster Collective.


Lee Walton is a little miffed with Shaq


4/11/05
Over the weekend, I turned away a couple of guys in suits who came to my door. They gave me this flyer, which I didn't even look at until after they disappeared into lower Pedro. Hell, if I'd known we'd be able to cuddle panda's in their New World, I would've asked them in for coffee.


The rest of my custom Girl Wooden OG dolls have sold off the AntiSocial site... that's the end of those for a little while. The next Art Dump shows will be in Vancouver (August) and Los Angeles (September). Thanks to everyone who's supported us.


I have another painting headed to Australia. This one to "The Commons" show which will feature artworks based on the lengendary Aesop's Fables by a nice assortment of creative types. Check out the new Basefield site for details on the show which opens in late July.


4/8/05
Shows went pretty successfully last month. I'm happy, though sometimes I hate to see the paintings go... it's as though I need more time with them — do a little cuddling or something...

Mandala #1 sold at the Fifty24SF Writers Vs Ryders show. The reports I heard said the place was packed. Here are a couple photos Cab sent me.


The Grey Rainbow show at AntiSocial is up for a few more days. They decided to try something new this time... sell online. If anyone is interested in buying a custom Girl Wooden OG, head on over to the AntiSocial site, there are a few left from the show. Six of mine are up there. A big thanks to Michelle and Rick for making this whole thing happen. Great group of people up there.


The 7"x7" painting, "Dog," sold. I'll probably start working on more paintings this size soon.


Almost forgot... Tony Larson interviewed me for his blog over at Skate Mental. He also did the portrait. Check his Agents of the Area for meandering art news.



3/30/05
The Writers Vs Ryders show at Fifty24SF (Upperplayground) in San Francisco is opening up tomorrow night. I'm pretty happy with the two new paintings I sent up; Mandala #1 and Mandala #2. They are based on interviews with Joseph Campbell and the concept of the soul being a circle. I made this piece of music to accompany them.


Also got a box from Nike SB yesterday... samples of the new P-Rod Zoom Air, custom created specifically for the launch of Paul's new shoe. Only 3 sets were made; Nike has a pair, Paul has a pair and I have a pair. I'm pretty pleased with how they came out. Not sure if these will be seen anywhere else as I have no idea how Nike is planning to promote Paul's kicks. Pretty fun working on a shoe, though...



3/21/05
So apparently, Gibby Haynes (former frontman of the Butthole Surfers) showed up to the Move 13 show opening in NYC last Thursday. I can't imagine what that guy is like in person. Curator/painter, Rich Jacobs, was pretty stoked — he also got to see a Slint reunion show the same weekend.


I guess the Grey Rainbow opening at AntiSocial went very well. Hecox and Campbell both sold all of their OG dolls. The rest of us had to settle for one here and there. Nice to have those guys on board. Thanks a lot, Michelle and Megan, for making it all happen.


Me? I was quite content to sit at home with my new cats. Lots of new paintings coming.



3/18/05
I contributed to the Solosuzuki "Faces" edition.


Frontline is one of the gems of television. A true rarity. One of their current "investigations" delves into the minds of modern day marketers and advertisers...

"You go to fill your gas tank and you look at the pump and you're seeing news headlines in advertising. You go into the bathroom and you look in the urinal and you're staring at an ad. You look up at the sky and there's skywriting."
This clutter creates a dilemma for advertisers, ad writer Bob Garfield observes. "The advertisers know they need to have more and more advertising to get an ever narrower slice of your attention," he says. "And that means we are going to be ever more inundated. And then of course ever more resistant, requiring ever more advertising, making us ever more resistant and so on."

Watch all six epsodes of The Persuaders online. I recall that the Minutemen once said, "Fuck adverting ... let the products sell themselves."


It's raining here again. Steve dislocated his shoulder and Jared's grandmother died. Me? My meds are running out.



3/15/05
Upcoming shows;

Grey Rainbow at AntiSocial in Vancouver. Opens Friday, March 18th. A Girl Art Dump Wooden Doll Show. Andy Mueller, Andy Jenkins, Tony Larson, Rob Abeyta, Jeremy Carnahan and Eric Anthony, + special guests, Lori D., Megan Baltimore, Misato Suzuki, Rick McCrank, Evan Hecox and Thomas Campbell. I'll be featuring 16 new Wooden Girls.


Writers Vs Ryders at Upperplayground in San Francisco. Opens Thursday, March 31st. Group show featuring myself with Jeremy Fish, Steve Caballero, Tobin Yelland, Lance Mountain, Chris Pastras and more. I'm sending them new, big paintings.


I'm also showing a couple pieces in New York; Move 13 at the Clementine Gallery on 26th Street. Opens Thursday, March 17th. About 1032 artists in this one. Look for a couple of my 7"x7" pieces in the fray.


Ten Things you may not know about me.

1) I have a cousin in Nashville who writes country music.

2) Hairy shoulders.

3) I can speak Spanish but I can barely read it.

4) I met Tom Waits once.

5) I'm scared of becoming invisible.

6) When I was little I used to have the hyper-real feeling I was becoming very large, huge, in fact, while sitting in my school chair listening to the teacher.

7) I only answer about 1 of 10 phone calls I get. I don't like phones... but you probably knew that so,

7) I do like going to the dentist.

8) I have not read all the books in my house.

9) Sometimes my thumb feels like it's on the opposite side of my hand.

10) I've never bought a whore.


Bonus Knowledge!

1) I once shit in a paper bag.

2) I only live up to about 83-87% of my potential.

3) I've used the same pillow for 11 years.

4) I am not related to any celebrities.

5) As a child, I threw up when forced to eat corn.



3/7/05
If you're up in Vancouver this month, you may want to stop and check out the Grey Rainbow show at Anti-Social. The Girl Art Dump is doing an all wooden doll show. It'll be up for a month. All the Dumpers will be participating (Mueller, Larson, Abeyta, Carnahan, Anthony and myself) as well as a few special guests (Evan Hecox, Lori D., Rick McCrank, Megan Baltimore and more). Rumor has it Thomas Campbell may have a couple in there. All dolls will be for sale. The opening reception is Friday, March 18th at the Anti-Social shop/gallery.



3/2/05
If the documentary, "We Jam Econo, The Story of The Minutmen," comes close to your town, go see it. When it comes out on DVD, go buy it. It's that good. Thank you to the filmmakers, Tim Irwin and Keith Schieron, and of course, Watt and Hurley for keeping it real.


Update over at the MX Problem. Underwater dirt biking.



2/24/05
Absolutely ridiculous.



2/23/05
New 7" x 7" painting, "Dog," available in the Bend store. Check it:




There are a couple others still available as well. Thanks.



2/22/05
Kevin Wilkins comissioned me to do this illustration for The Skate Mag a few months back...



Kevin WIlkins sent me this picture of his friend's leg last week...




Kevin Wilkins walked up to me in a record store in about 1988 or so and made me buy a record called "What Makes a Man Start Fires." It changed my life. I'll always be thankful for that. But it was just a few years too late to see the Minutemen live. Now the long awaited documentary, "We Jam Econo," is about to be released and it's premiering in the hometown of the legendary punk rockers, San Pedro, at the old and restored Warner Grand Theater. It's only fitting. See you there, Kevin.



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