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0 comments | Tuesday, December 25, 2007



as a gift, me and my friend Nick did a little christmas funk mix over at: WAXIN' & MILKIN'

enjoy!

- mark

1 comments | Saturday, December 22, 2007


My Sister was Enlisted into the Air Force on my birthday yesterday! I am super Proud of her! Here is her offical Air Force Certificate.



Peace


John

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I'm reposting my painting of Indiana Jones, I forgot Harrison Ford is 65 now, so I re-drew his face and made him older.


Later


John

2 comments | Friday, December 21, 2007

Hellboy II: The Golden Army trailer

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cowboy illustration for freelance job...going with old-school halftone look

- alexis/mark

1 comments | Sunday, December 16, 2007


I painted this in acrylics yesterday on a 16X20 canvas board. This was fun, and its been inspiring being in the mountains again.. it snowed today!



Later


John

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3 comments | Friday, December 14, 2007

Dave White: Modern-day Pollock/Lichtenstein?

Sneaker freak Dave White famous for painting his shoe collection in his (Pollock-meets-Nike) style now tries a hand at comic art. Pablo Picasso did say "good artists borrow, great artists steal" after all.









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here's homie doing the paintings




Now I don't know...part of me wants to hate on him due to the simplicity and overall blatant rip-off that he is doing. Some might argue that pop art was all about that but the thing that made pop art so significant was that they were the first doing what they did. They took everyday culture and items and turned it against itself and almost made America buy into the shit that they are trying to sell us. For those that hate on pop art, there was a statement made at least. This....is just pure aesthetics. I mean it looks pretty neat and everything DOES look better when blown up but there's just not that much to it though. That said, I'd rather just take an old Jack Kirby cover and blow it up as is, no reproduction or anything unless it was vector and hang THAT up on my wall.

I don't know, me personally i'm a huge fan of Lichtenstein and Warhol but like i said before, they were groundbreaking. Most people don't even understand the concept of post-modernism and pop art basically hit em in the face with it. Granted it got to the head of some artists and their message was lost due to the amounts of money they profited and the substance of their work, but as a whole, the pop art movement did in fact have something to say and is significant for a reason. And I'm always down to argue my point.

Anyway, seeing this today (thanks Hypbeast) got me thinking and this is a blog about art and comics so...

discuss!

BTW check out this March 4, 1984 TIME magazine cover with Michael Jackson done by Andy Warhol:

Dave White's website
His gallery (now showing) in Miami, called: The Good, The Bad, & The Ugly
More pics and interview HERE





Michael Jackson sez PEACE!

- Mark

3 comments | Sunday, December 09, 2007



What more can you ask for?

1 comments | Saturday, December 08, 2007





0 comments | Friday, December 07, 2007

Product Description
The genesis of The Mars Volta's new album The Bedlam in Goliath is a tale of long-buried murder victims and their otherworldly influence, of strife and near collapse, of the long hard fight to push "the record that did not want to be born" out into the world. Omar was in a curio shop in Jerusalem when he found the Soothsayer, an archaic Ouija-style "talking board." Had he known at that moment that the board's history stretched far beyond its novelty appearance, that its very fibers were soaked through with something terribly other, that the choral death and desire of a multi-headed Goliath was waiting behind its gates... well, he might have left it at rest there on the dusty shelves. The Upside of That Choice: No bad mojo unleashed. Erase the madness that followed. Erase the bizarre connection to a love/lust/murder triangle that threatened to spill out into the present every time the band let its fingers drift over the board. The Downside: No Soothsayer means The Bedlam in Goliath never would have existed. And it turns out that this demented spiritual black hole of a muse has driven The Mars Volta to produce a crowning moment in their already stellar career. The band names this Ouija board "The Soothsayer", as it offers them a story: It's always about a man, a woman, and her mother. About the lust floating between them. About seduction and infidelity. And pain. And eventually, murder. Entrails and absence and curses and oblivion. To understand the full story....listen to "The Bedlam in Goliath."

Holy shit!!!


-Alexis

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Here's something for the kids.

4 comments | Thursday, December 06, 2007


Here is a preview of Order of the Dragon -Issue one:
Story created by Brian Clothier and John Nofsinger
written by Brian Clothier
Illustrated by John Nofsinger
Lettering by Mike Houlihan

Coming soon!

Look for it at Mocca next year in New York

4 comments | Wednesday, December 05, 2007



Here's a flyer me and Alexis are working on for a funk/soul/hip-hop X-Mas Party sponsored by Vinyl Fever here in Tampa.

Work in progress. Inspired by Bootsy Collins and Barbarella.

- MRK!

ART

4 comments | Tuesday, December 04, 2007


I drew this the other day...


John

4 comments | Monday, December 03, 2007



Wow! The Coen brothers are back!
This movie is rough and great!!
Javier Bardem kick ass as the crazy killer. Every frame is epic and the choice to not used any soundtrack in the movie is genius.
Go and watch it!
Do it!

-alexis