The Chicken Adobo Incident.










In no particular order, this spread addresses:
-"The Chicken Adobo Incident" aka "A Practical Demonstration in Patience and Drive" aka "Not Everything's in Manhattan"
-Laundry day
-Which directionS (plural) the N train goes
-J train Sunday morning vignette
-3 cup capacity rice cookers and solo cups
-Mr. Storey's triangles roundabout inspiration from looking at Anthony Ermio's blog--meditation? word.
-My trip on the Q

Chalk it up to a lesson (or several) learned.

This one was fun.

Ask me later about the whole story...

Not necessarily better than yours











So my roommate, Cameron recommended "Relish" a diner in Brooklyn, a few blocks from our place. A diner in every sense of the word: an old stainless steel car with booth seating; something straight out of the 1950's.

I enjoyed my steak sandwich and bottled water (read: tap water in a bottle) in between drawing. The nice staff was playing anything from house to hip hop (ok so not everything was 50's nostalgia) while there was a photoshoot going on behind me.

So I get home and read up on this place and I come to find out that this is where they shot Kelis' "Milkshake" music video (hence this blog's title). That funky lamp up there was even in the video. See it for yourself... Kelis - "Milkshake"

And on an even better note, just after completing this sketch, I found out my niece was born. Happy B-Day Kendall.

Here and there...aka "How ya durrrrrin'?"











Long story behind this, but here's the short version:

About 1/5th of this was created on the West Coast in Oakland at Yoshi's. The rest of it was drawn on a train up to the Bronx (read: East Coast). If you didn't know already, I've made the jump to New York--Williamsburg side of Brooklyn, specifically.

P.S. The girl singing? Her name is Ledisi. I HIGHLY recommend checking her out. Oakland native nonetheless. What a way to remember the Bay on my way out... "Church in the jook joint, y'all"

P.P.S. The guy playing guitar was a combination of Ledisi's guitar player and a guy on the subway reading a paper.

And so the adventure begins..

My Belle











My niece as Pebbles for Halloween 2007 and NY notes from my friend, Courtney--places to eat/see/shop etc.

Gallery Stuff Part Deux

My contribution to the "Toil & Trouble" gallery...runnin with the witch theme:

Gallery Stuff

I know it's kinda late but a few friends and I will be taking part in a silent auction/gallery called "Toil & Trouble" on Thursday, June 7th:

Date & Time:	Thursday, June 7, 2007 more on this date 7:00 PM
Location:	Space Gallery 1141 Polk Street @ Sutter SF, CA 94109 view map
More Info:	www.spacegallerysf.com

An Exhibition and Fundraiser in support of the Super16 independent film "Story About A Witch".

Featuring the artwork and photography from the production of the film as well as

paintings, mixed media, sculpture, and video instillations by Bay Area Artists:

Nicole Elin Antoine
Akira Beard
Scott Bryan
Dave Crosland
Matt Delbridge
Eric Eaton
Lem Elken
Chelsea Friedman
Jana Flynn
Oz Gani
James Garcia
Mikie Graham
Lara Grant
Jared Guenther
Sara Kellenberger
Jeong Kim
Sunjib Kim
Ken Louie-Nishikawa
Phil Mamuyac
Alison Murray
Marco Mejia
Jesse Parrotti
Jesse Peper (Denver)
Kyle Silber
Nick Stohlman
Naenae Suwankiri
Patrick J. Szucs
John Vochatzer


ALL ART for Buying!

DANCING, KISSING, SURPRISES LURKING BEHIND EVERY CORNER!!!

DJ White Heat
DJ OMAR (POPSCENE)
DJ Nako
& Special Guest...

Silent auction
RAFFLE for great prizes!!
Food
WINE
BEER
all provided at the discretion of The Witch


GETCHA FREAK ON and BUY ART!!!

Print stuff

Apologies for the delays, just been busy. Here's what some of what I've been up to:

I've had a couple illustrations published in "The Ave." a New York-based hip-hop magazine. The first being the LL Cool J piece (shown previously on my blog) in the Winter '07 issue:








And the next, a Kanye West piece (below) in the Spring '07 with covers posted as well. (P.S. Let me know if you see any around the Bay Area...I'm still trying to hunt some down!)












Probably the best thing about these opportunities--of course, next to being published (and in a NY mag)--was the fact that fellow SHM homie, Cameron Moore (http://mookiedesign.com/), was also the assistant designer for the mags. Yet another joint-SHM collabo (The Sims2 is the other concurrent project, but I'll save that story for another time).