AKA SURF BOARDS

Here are a few boards I did last month for my buddy Justin at AKA Surfboards. It's cool to paint on these things from time to time, being as this was how I got my foot into the whole art thing.

Aside from the art, how sick do these boards look? Jeez, I wanna ride all of them! If you haven't ridden an AKA yet, you better get your ass on one. You will not regret it.

THE ENRIQUE EXPERIENCE

So I had the pleasure of meeting this guy, Enrique, the most animated person I've ever met and with the most positive energy ever. He liked my art and he wanted me to participate in his show. So this is what he pulled off in a short times notice.

He called the show "the Enrique Experience" and it's basically 12 of his favorite columns paired up with 12 of his favorite local artists. The show was insane, tall boys (beer) deep fried Oreo's, spiked ice cream pops, and live music. Awesome experience, hope most of you made it out for this one. It was a show people are still talking about. Alright enough with that, here are the photos.

All photos are courtesy of Taylor Doms.




Inspiration for my next show. Brilliant!


"Our Lady Ignorancia" my art for this show.






Matt Stallings. I need to get a painting off this dude.


Neko's piece, also need to get something off this dude.






This guy was all time! Whipping up deep fried Oreo's.

STEPKIDS LOGO

Just a fun project I had a chance to do. Don't know if many of you know this but I play in 3 softball leagues (2 are Co-ed) and I also play on 2 fast-pitch baseball leagues, but I digress... this is a logo I created for my team up in Irvine. We are the Stepkids and basically we are a bunch of different people within the action sports industry without a softball team to call our own. For example, Rip Curl, Volcom, Primo Beer, to name a few.

So we play every Thursday night and we are damn good, always fighting for 1st place. Anyways, we were good enough to get picked up by Malakye. They now want to sponsor us. So we soon well have a Malakye added to this logo.

OK, thank you :)

THE FORD FIESTA PARTY @ EL CAMINO RESTAURANT

This was such a rad wrap up party for this particular challenge. You can't beat free food and happy hour drinks, plus throw in some live screen printing and you've got yourself quite the soiree. It turned out to be a really cool last minute event, and I was super stoked to see some folks I haven't seen in a while and also meet some cool new ones. Thank you Sezio & Holiday Matinee!!

All photos are courtesy of the talented Carly Ealey.

Also check out the cool video of pro-surfer Jen Smith at the very bottom. Video courtesy of Charles Bergquist.

Roxy + Fiesta + Tocayo from Holiday Matinee on Vimeo.

FORD FIESTA CHALLENGE #3

My good friend Zack from Sezio approached me with this challenge for his team, in this Ford Fiesta movement contest. Basically, Zack and Dave Brown from Holiday Matinee have been test driving this car that won't be out for a few more months. However, so are a bunch of other teams in other main cities. They have certain challenges they have to partake in, so far they have been killing it. For their 3rd challenge they have to get an artist to draw up a tee design, and luckily they picked me. Couldn't have come at a better time, even though I work full time, I still find myself dancing on street corners just to make ends meet. Anyways, I am straying away from the point.

So now, this is where I come in...I get a phone call from Zack, he says he needs a t-shirt design by tuesday (it's friday evening and I have an event filled weekend), I say, "I don't know man, its kind of last minute" he then tells me how much I would get paid, I said "yes, I will do the design". Finished it, got paid and here it is...

GREENFEST 10 @ SDSU FEATURING LMFAO

It has been a while since I have posted anything. Doesn't mean I haven't been up to anythng, just ridiculously busy. Anywho, here is a live painting at SDSU's 2010 Greenfest. It was a fun night reuniting with the Fieldtrip posse. Alot of good friends and talented artists. Also there that night was that band LMFAO, the shot song people. Silly. :P

FIELDTRIP at GREEN FESTIVAL SDSU from EXIST1981 on Vimeo.

VIDEO COURTESY OF EXIST 1981

POWDER MOUNTAIN, UTAH - 2010

Hands down, one of the best snowboarding trips I've ever been on! This place is unreal and super empty!



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All photos and video courtesy of Exist 1981