One project I am pretty stoked on is this event poster for Scion via Revolt Marketing for the next Steve Aoki show in Orlando. My first thought is to do what everyone else is doing (ala the Dim Mak) style, but it didn’t make sense. I just wanted to do my own thing. If i wanted to do some weak ass doodles (and hype that they are the coolest thing ever) and pretend to be a self centered hipster with my script tattoo on my chest stating how I’m God’s gift to Emo, I could of blended this bastard right in. Instead, I thought I would enjoy doing some of the more enjoyable electro hipster trends… vinyl toy, giant eyeball, gold bling faked up, shutter shades and a nice triangle in the back. If that is not a hodge podge of awesomeness, then I am giving up design dammit! (actually, joking…)

Sorry for the lack of updates. There has been so much going on over the past month that trying to make time to even update my site seems like a extra task I would try to push on till later. Between Chris & I working on the Back in Black Show, kicking out pieces for the Offspring, Kiss, Globe and Quiksilver, I’ve realized that I have neglected this.

Well, last night with the assistance of Ryan Chase, we were able to get the Back in Black site launched. Above are my two pieces for the show. In the middle of getting the site ready for launch, I was in the middle of two IChat conversations with Maxx242 & ISO50 as well as trying to wrap up details on another deadline. I’ve gotten pretty good at muli-tasking. So anyway. A few things we have going on for the Back in Black event are some special giveaways from Anarchy Eyewear & Angel Eyewear. They are providing a great selection for Anarchy Sunglasses for guys and Angel Sunglasses for the girls. We will also have this (above) limited edition print at the show which I’ll be signing and numbering to give out. So yeah, check out the Back in Black site and see what is going on!

Back in Black T-Shirt Show from Solid Motive on Vimeo.

This is the Video from the first Back in Black show. Turned out great. However Black and Black 2 will be live soon and the event is May 16th, with pre-orders going live May 1st. Check out the Back in Black link and check out the roster so far.

Chris Parks from Pale Horse just launched The Golden Black, which is a stock site that focuses on the more aggressive styles in the design market. Involved in this project is Godmachine, Los Fokos, Pale Horse and Hydro74 (me..). I know soon I’ll be adding to the selection some freebies in vector and fonts, as well as some cheap fonts exclusive to GoldenBlack. Basically, Chris and I wanted a stock site that we would dig if we saw it. Something without the high brow snobbery, or just stupid stock you see everywhere else. It’s basically a stock site where you have free reign over the files for usage. No Rules, just abuse. I am still going to offer up my fonts here on my site, but will now have another option.

Check out the site: The Golden Black

A while back I was offered a spot in YRB to help with a battle mixer-upper. The Issue is coming out shortly (if it isn’t already out) with my work mixed in a few pages. Pretty exciting.

About a week ago I had my appointment at RedLetter1 to get my new tattoo done up. Still have another session coming up on my birthday (April 9th) so that way it’s healed up before the Back in Black event. I basically wanted the Angelo (the artist) to do his thing. My only reference was a skull, snake and roses. The reason for the skull is because I get so much shit from people about how uncool they are, yet I feel they are timeless and represent a iconic position in graphic design & art. The snake (besides being cool as hell) is to represent the ‘haters’ always there to take you down. And the roses… just a rose, ha. It’s just good symbolism. I also had BJ Betts, who is one of the top tattoo typographers out there do a couple scripts a while back. One is my kid’s names and the other is Peity (piety spelled incorrectly). Piety is in basic form, the search for perfection/purity. No one ever reaches that, so thought it was rad. So now, the debate… how much further do I go?… Kinda want more dammit, but need to wait till I have a good idea. Anyway….

Been trying to get more time in to just concept sketches and work out vector solutions. I’ve been posting recent things quite often on Twitter and Facebook quite regularly. Eventually I am planning on taking a sketch and vectoring it up on ustream so you can watch me in progress. However, not sure when that will happen, but I’ll keep you posted. So yeah, hit me up on Facebook or Twitter.

Just wrapped up a couple posters for Scion & Revolt Marketing this past week. Trying to explore some styles and going for that little thing called ‘diversity’. See, no skulls, sorry haters, my next post will have a skull in it, hahaha. Outside of that, just been busy. good times!

Just got done doing this up. Still has glitches, but all it is a teaser for the upcoming show. Hope you enjoy.

May 16th, at the Czar Vodka Bar, in Ybor Florida, Back in Black 2 will be kicking it off again. To this point we have art lined up by: Brian Morris, Iso50, 123Klan, Maxx242, Munk One, Julie West, Godmachine, Jimiyo, Dan Mumford, and many others.

In progress of redeveloping the site, but in the mean time, check out Back in Black, as well as consistent updates on Back in Black on Facebook & Back in Black on Twitter. We’ll be updating with any details, information and various artist goodies we get.