Pop Surrealism

blogging about life and other junk

2008-08-09T17:55:00.001+02:00

I will now use this as an address to put various other things i want to show people cheers.

This Blog has MOVED!!!!

2007-11-03T18:53:00.000+01:00

Nerdcore paintings

Darth Vader Panhandling

2007-10-31T15:44:00.000+01:00

Contributer
Tv Deaner - Panhandling Darth Vader

Fish Guts in a Forest

2007-10-31T12:42:00.000+01:00

Fish guts in a forest.

Ideas Contributed by
Robo Pope Omega - Fish Guts

Mary Black - A forest

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Thanks!

ZYX

2007-06-27T14:31:00.000+02:00

Buy this item from Etsy by clicking here

Suburban Homiez

2007-06-14T01:17:00.000+02:00

Cone Head

2007-06-08T20:39:00.000+02:00

Suburban Black Helicopters

2007-06-08T01:16:00.000+02:00

Black helicopters over suburbia

Asian Hip Hop Cyclops

2007-05-15T14:50:00.000+02:00

The Asian Hip Hop Cyclops. This came from a dream I had where there was this hip hop artist freestyling.

Heres some interesting nerd trivia relating to the word cyclops.

Cyclops64 (formerly known as Blue Gene/C) is a cellular architecture in development by IBM. The Cyclops64 project aims to create the first "supercomputer on a chip".

The Cyclops was most famously painted in 1914 painting by French Symbolist painter Odilon Redon.

Etymology
(pl. cyclopes), 1513, from L., from Gk. kyklops, lit. "round-eyed." One of a race of one-eyed giants who forged thunderbolts for Zeus.

Cyclops is one of the most common genera of freshwater copepods, comprising over 100 species.

Dust

2007-05-14T15:38:00.000+02:00

I've been spending a lot of time learning MAYA so I haven't had a lot of time to paint lately. I was recently informed by my friend how to disable about.com from ever appearing in your browser again. I hate about.com . Here's the step by step of how to remove it from our IM conversation.

2:39:12 PM: Yeah. Edit your hosts file so you block them ... that way if you ever click on them by accident, it'll take you to thehun.net or something ;)

2:39:12 PM: C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\hosts <- add the line:
*.about.com 127.0.0.1

Darth Vader

2007-03-19T15:48:00.000+01:00

Do we really need an explanation about Darth Vader?

Self Portrait with Television

2007-03-16T14:02:00.000+01:00

As you can see I ve been making a lot of changes to my blog so updates have been slow. I ve got to get my cute little shopping carts and everything to make purchasing things easier. In the meantime I ll post a few of my older paintings. I did this while I was living in Arizona in 2001.

The Adventures of Dino Riki

2007-03-08T18:45:00.000+01:00

The Adventures of Dino Riki
Life is hard for Dino-Riki, a kid growing up with the dinosaurs. Dino-Riki can jump or shoot weapons (fireballs, axes, boomerangs, and a superfire spread-shot) to kill the various enemies around him. He progresses through three types of worlds (land, ruined city, and mountains) and plays through four worlds total. Worlds one, two, and three are one stage each and have checkpoints, but world four is four stages with no checkpoints. At the end of each stage, Dino Riki must face a boss

The Adventures of Bayou Billy

2007-03-08T18:43:00.000+01:00

The Adventures of Bayou Billy is a video game released in 1989 by Konami for the NES. It was released in Japan as Mad City in 1988.

It consists of three distinct playing styles used over 9 levels: shooting (optionally allowing the use of a Zapper), a side-scrolling beat 'em up, and a third-person driving section. Unfortunately, all three modes (especially the side-scroller) were not well executed, and the game remained unpopular among gamers, despite Konami's record of hit titles on the NES. During its release, Konami hyped the game, including a commercial with a live actor playing Bayou Billy, and went as far to sign a deal with Archie Comics. Part of the game's unpopularity was due to a rather high difficulty level, making the game very hard to beat. Strangely, the Japanese release featured a much better balanced difficulty.

The box art for the original Japanese release featured a hero who looked a lot like Paul Hogan, star of the Crocodile Dundee movies. The American box art is redrawn, likely to avoid a lawsuit. The plot of the hero rescuing a kidnapped girlfriend from a mobster is also similar to that of Crocodile Dundee II. Another similarity to the Crocodile Dundee films is that Bayou Billy starts out fighting in a Louisiana swamp for the first few stages, which presumably the hero is well familiar with, then progresses to an urban scenario where he then fights hoods on Bourbon Street, then the final stage is the luxury mansion of the gangster who kidnapped Annabelle. This may be a possible reference to the first Crocodile Dundee film, which the scenes changed from the Australian outback to New York City.
via Wikipedia

Google God

2007-03-07T16:04:00.000+01:00

PROOF #1

Google is the closest to an Omniscient (all-knowing) entity in existence. She indexes over 9.5 billion Web Pages, which is more than any other search engine on the web today. Not only is Google the closest to all-knowing, but She also sorts through this vast amount of data using Her patented PageRank method, making said data accessible for us mere mortals.

PROOF #2

Google is everywhere at once (Omnipresent). Google's search engine is virtually everywhere on earth at the same time. Billions of indexed WebPages hosted from every corner of the earth. With the proliferation of Wi-Fi networks, you will eventually be able to access Google from anywhere on earth, truly making Her an omnipresent entity.

PROOF #3

Google answers prayers. One can pray to Google by doing a search for whatever question or problem is plaguing them. As an example, you can quickly find information on alternative cancer treatments, ways to improve your health, new and innovative medical discoveries and generally anything that resembles a typical prayer. Ask Google and She will show you the way, but showing you is all She can do, for you must help yourself from that point on.

PROOF #4

Google is potentially immortal. She cannot be considered a physical being such as ourselves. Her Algorithms are spread out across many servers; if any of which were taken down or damaged, another would undoubtedly take its place. Google can theoretically last forever.

PROOF #5

Google is infinite. The Internet can theoretically grow forever, and Google will forever index its infinite growth.

PROOF #6

Google remembers all. Google caches WebPages regularly and stores them on its massive servers. In fact, by uploading your thoughts and opinions to the internet, you will forever live on in Google's cache, even after you die.

PROOF #7

Google can "do no evil" (Omnibenevolent). Part of Google's corporate philosophy is the belief that a company can make money without being evil.

PROOF #8

Evidence of Google's existence is abundant. There is more evidence for the existence of Google than any other God worshiped today. Extraordinary evidence requires extraordinary proof. If seeing is believing, then surf over to www.google.com and experience for yourself Google's awesome power.
Via church of google dot org :)

Adventures in the Magic Kingdom

2007-03-06T17:40:00.000+01:00

Adventures in the Magic Kingdom
You're at the Magic Kingdom. A parade is about to start. But there's a slight problem. Mickey Mouse can't find the golden key! He asks Goofy where it is, and it's in the castle. But to add to Mickey's misfortune, to open the castle, he needs 6 silver keys.

Now you come into play. Mickey wants you to travel all over his magical kingdom to find the 6 silver keys. Can you do it, or will you let Mickey down?
(via console classix dot com)

Adventure Island 3

2007-03-06T17:39:00.000+01:00

Adventure Island 3
"Jeannie Jungle has been captured by aliens! She's stranded somewhere on one of eight islands and you, as the somewhat heroic Master Higgins, must find her. But be careful - each island is guarded by an enormous creature that's very hungry!
Fortunately, you have a little help. There are five kinds of friendly dinosaurs waiting to give you a lift. They're stuck in eggs that you'll need to crack open!
Hidden eggs are scattered all over the islands. By finding and breaking them open, you might get a bonus, or even a secret way to the next island! Just don't eat the eggplant...
So hop on one of your dinosaur pals, and ride your way to Jeannie's rescue!"
(--As found in the NES Adventure Island 3 manual)

Adventure Island 2

2007-03-06T17:37:00.000+01:00

Adventure Island 2
"Well, that Evil Witch Doctor refuses to give up! Princess Leilani may be safe, but her sister, Tina, has just been nabbed.
And this time you've got real trouble. Because not one, but EIGHT perilous islands stand between you and your honey. Get set to battle dinosaurs, survive avalanches and out fight the Evil Doctor's nastiest ghouls.
It'll be tough, that's for sure. So just remember sweet Tina, and how grateful she'll be when you come to her rescue!"
(--As taken from the NES Adventure Island 2 manual)

2007-03-06T13:00:00.000+01:00

Windows Vista is here!!!!! Wow! Im so excited! Prague has recently been taken over by a blitz of advertising telling everyone to say "wow" about the latest operating system. I for one am not saying wow, and am annoyed by these advertisements that seem to follow me at every turn. So I decided to use the classic new Vista error message which reads "Error, The Operation Completed Succesfully" . I've made a sheet here for easy sticker duplication on A4 sized paper. As you can imagine the error window can be made to fit any size advertisement. While stickering in public may be illegal, and of course I would never, ever condone such behavior ( :) ) it is fun to see these ads with a little reinterpretation of all the annoying error messages I've got using windows over the years. Enjoy:) ( Click on the image for full size )

Windows Vista is Here! You All Say Wow!

2007-03-06T12:58:00.000+01:00

Adventure Island

2007-03-01T18:10:00.000+01:00

Adventure Island

"The Evil Witch Doctor has kidnapped Princess Leilani from Master Higgins and taken her to Adventure Island in the South Pacific. It is your mission to help Master Higgins and save Princess Leilani, but it's not going to be easy. On the island, there are forests, mountains, caves, many enemy characters, and traps waiting for you. Can Master Higgins save Princess Leilani from the Evil Witch Doctor?"
(--from the NES Adventure Island Manual)

Advanced Dungeons & Dragons; Pool Of Radiance

2007-02-27T21:37:00.000+01:00

Advanced Dungeons & Dragons; Pool Of Radiance

Standard role playing game for the NES system. You take your chances rolling a digital die, kill stuff, get rich, and have adventures.

Advanced Dungeons & Dragons; Hillsfar

2007-02-27T21:32:00.000+01:00

Advanced Dungeons & Dragons; Hillsfar

I think I can safely say that Hillsfar is the Worst Role-Playing Game Ever Made. Actually I changed my mind, it's only safe to say that if you accept that this is an RPG in the first place, which it really isn't, despite the AD&D title.

There is absolutely no role playing involved. Your primary goal seems to consist of breaking into people's houses and stealing all their money without getting caught by the guards. Even when you are doing your job, following the missions given by your guild or whatever, you are always an outlaw. Your alignment doesn't matter. Your class doesn't matter. Clerics can't heal themselves, Magic-Users can't use magic, and Thieves are the only class that have any trouble stealing things, because everyone else can just break the lock, while a thief is supposed to use lock picks, which is nearly impossible and results in a bag full of broken tools rather than getting away with the loot.

via console classix dot com

2007-02-26T20:51:00.000+01:00

Sorry for the lack of posts as of late. My poor little laptop died. Hardware failure. Platters scratched. We tried to put her in the freezer for possible ressurection but sadly nothing helped:(

Advanced Dungeons & Dragons; Heroes of the Lance

2007-02-26T20:48:00.000+01:00

Advanced Dungeons & Dragons; Heroes of the Lance

Based on the later parts of the Dragon Lance book Dragons of Autumn Twilight, the heroes are descending into a ruined city in search of the disks of Mishakal. The gameplay consists of horizontal fighting with a maze like map using doors to change the view. The convoy consists of the eight Heroes of the Lance, you have to use one at a time but, you can change characters whenever you want. Each character has different types of attacks and spells making them more suited to fighting different enemies as well as acting as lives.

via console classix dot com

Advanced Dungeons and Dragons; Dragon Strike

2007-02-26T20:44:00.000+01:00

Take to the skies as a mighty Dragon! Defend your homeland from the threat of the Dark Queen Takhisis and her evil dragon invaders. A standard overhead-view shooter, with a dragon instead of a plane or spaceship, and of course fire breath instead of guns.

A Nightmare on Elm Street

2007-02-12T21:52:00.000+01:00

As you walk down Elm Street, look for open buildings. You have to go in, collect all the items there, and then fight the boss to get out. Freddy will also come occasionally and try to get you, just fight him off as best you can. There several items which are important to collect. First, obviously, the bones, which will be scattered throughthe various buildings. Next are cups of coffee which refill your sleep meter, and a radio which will wake you up from the dream realm. Finally, the Dream Warrior tokens which give you special powers in the dream world to help you defeat Freddy. The runner icon gives you a javelin attack and a somersault jump. The yin-yang gives you a throwing star and jump kick. The wizard hat gives you a magical attack and hovering ability.

Nightamre on Elm street is actually a pretty interesting game. The graphics aren't great but the gameplay is decent. The Dream Warriors add some variety, since you need to collect them all to get past certain areas, and you get to choose which one is most effective for any given situation.
via console classix dot com

8-eyes

2007-02-12T21:49:00.000+01:00

After hundreds of years of chaos, mankind has finally emerged from the ruins of nuclear war. This world of the distant future has once again flourished under the guidance of the Great King, who harnessed the power of the 8 Eyes to rebuild the planet.

These strange jewels of power were formed at the eyes, or centers, of the eight nuclear explosions which nearly destroyed the Earth. In the wrong hands, the 8 Eyes could cause untold destruction... and now, they have been seized by the Great King's eight Dukes, in a desperate bid to gain control of the world for themselves. They have banished the King to the nuclear wastelands, and already their squabbling threatens to plunge the world into war once again!

The task of retrieving the 8 Eyes falls to you, Orin the Falconer, the bravest and mightiest of the King's Guardsmen. With your fighting falcon, Cutrus, you must penetrate each of the eight Duke's castles. There you will face the Duke's soldiers, and battle strange nuclear mutants such as living skeletons, giant wasps, and mud men. You must defeat the monstrous Boss of each castle to retrieve the Jewel of Power he guards.

Then, to complete your quest, return the 8 Eyes to the Altar of Peace to await the return of the Great King, so that he may finish the rebuilding of Earth. Your reward will be the eternal gratitude of all mankind!
--from the NES 8 Eyes Instructioon Booklet

3-d-woldrunner

2007-02-12T21:47:00.000+01:00

In the game, the player assumes the role of WorldRunner (known in Japan as Jack), a wild "space cowboy" on a mission to save various planets overrun by serpent-like beasts.[1] For its time, the game was technically advanced; the game's three dimensional scrolling effect is very similar to the Mode 7 graphics seen years later in popular Super NES titles such as Super Mario Kart.
via wikipedia

Abadox

2007-02-11T21:54:00.000+01:00

ABADOX is a shooter that see you as the last remaining captain of the fleet, your goal is to fly into a monster and destroy it from the inside. Hindering your task are captured spaceships, parasitic worms, and even cells from the monster's immune system. The boss you encounter in the first level is a semi-digested dog, which conveys a certain amount of revulsion not easily achievable on the system
via game pawn dot com

portrait of me in the studio

2007-02-08T21:40:00.000+01:00

My friend Dennison Bertram came over today and took some pictures of me in my studio.

720°

2007-02-06T17:19:00.000+01:00

720 Degrees, or 720°, is a 1986 arcade game by Atari Games. 720°, a skateboarding game, is notable in that it is the first extreme sports video game, and has a unique timed structure that requires the player score points in order to keep the game going. The game's name comes from the "ultimate" trick, turning a full 720° (two complete circles) in the air after jumping off a ramp. 720° has the player controlling a skateboarder ripping around a middle-class neighborhood. By doing jumps and tricks, the player can eventually acquire enough points to compete at a skate park.

10 Yard Fight

2007-02-06T17:17:00.000+01:00

10-Yard Fight is a 1983 American football arcade game, developed by Irem and published by Nintendo (NES) and Irem (Arcade).

The player does not select plays for either offense or defense. On offense, simply receive the ball upon the snap and either attempt to run with the quarterback, toss the ball to one of two running backs, or throw the ball to the one long distance receiver. On defense, the player chooses one of two players to control, and the computer manipulates the others. The ball can also be punted or a field goal can be attempted.

1943 The Battle Of Midway

2007-02-06T17:14:00.000+01:00

1943 The Battle Of Midway was the sequel to the classic game 1942.

1942

2007-02-06T17:10:00.000+01:00

The daring Super Ace must fight through 32 stages of dogfights to reach Tokyo and destroy all of Japans aircraft.

1942 is very simple and very addictive. The classic arcade gameplay that made 1942 a hit in arcades is all here.

2007-02-06T17:07:00.000+01:00

The beginning of a new project. we ll see how it goes.

PacMan Ghosts

2007-01-23T21:11:00.000+01:00

My girlfriend Jana made me these pacman ghosts for my birthday. They are super cute! sorry, they aren't for sale:)

The Last Starfighter

2007-01-21T20:28:00.000+01:00

The last starfighter was a science fiction movie which came out in 1984. The film's basic premise was based off of current urban legend of the time. The legend was that video games were actually secret training stations which harvested data for military recruitment agencies.

In the last starfighter we see Alex Rogan, a teenager living in a remote trailer park named "star light star bright". One dark night after beating the high score on the game he is approached by the games inventor who is named centauri. Centauri takes him into his vehicle and he quickly realises the vehicle is actually a spaceship. Alex needs to defend the galaxy from the evil Xur and the Ko-Dan.

I've put my portrait in the space suit of the Star League fighter pilots. If you are interested in a similar portrait of yourself wearing a similar space suit you can email me, and we'll work out the details.:)The l

Aero Fighters

2007-01-18T11:30:00.000+01:00

Aero Fighters was a cabinet game later adapted for the Neo Geo system. It was a scrolling fighting game where you blow up many different targets which are trying to get you. In this painting I have chosen to paint only one of the gun turrets that was trying to take out your jet.

Pig Lungs Digitized

2007-01-17T18:37:00.000+01:00

I found this image in an old biology textbook. I'm still searching for more information on the subject and practice of this early form of digital x ray. This painting depicts an image of pig lungs done with one of the first digital x ray machines.

Sign in to Gmail

2007-01-16T16:01:00.000+01:00

The internet is always in flux. Well, that's really the understatement of the year. The internet is always being overhauled, re-designed, and broken links are being fixed, and people are spamming, and etc. etc.. Managing a webpage reminds me of my grandfather who was a farmer. While he did produce flax, and wheat which was for sale. The majority of the time I remember him was spent fixing broken tractors, and welding already precarious scoops onto loaders. Now, why do I bring this up in connection with a painting of the Gmail login? Well, from an early age I had a specific propensity to archive things. Things that were changing. I organized the world according to time periods, and kept a diary of both my dreams, as well as my life since age 8. This is the way the Gmail login looks today. But who remembers the original webcrawler icon? For me, while this electronic image is merely a logo, the time period in which I used Webcrawler reminds of a certain period of my life as well as a very specific period of time in which I used it. By creating these paintings of digital imagery, Im not only archiving bits of nostalgia. I'm also organizing different periods of my life. Some days when I'm visiting a page I ve been going to for years and there's been a major site overhaul I almost feel betrayed. Where is my login button? Why did they change the banner? Something that has become automatic is slowed down a bit, and suddenly that gmail page I've been using for years looks totally different. So, the painting above is the way Gmail looks as of Tuesday, January 16. As it changes through the years (probably many years since google rarely changes their design), the painting will stay the same. I like that.

Data in Star Trek

2007-01-15T01:48:00.000+01:00

Who dosn't love Data, and his quest for human emotions? Data is played by Brent Spiner in the classic series Star Trek The Next Generation. Data's originally planned backstory was that he had been created by aliens. The backstory appears in the novelisation of "Encounter at Farpoint" by David Gerrold, which has Data having been built by alien machines from Kiron III, in order to preserve the memories of a wiped-out human colony.

The episode "Datalore" abandoned this backstory, and instead had the cyberneticist Dr. Noonien Soong creating Data on Omicron Theta after several attempts. In the episode, Data's immediate predecessor, Lore, Data's "evil twin", is reactivated. Data discovers in the episode that he was active on Omicron Theta, but Soong deactivated him and erased most of his memories (although he retains the contents of the Omicron Theta colonists' journals) at some point prior to the Crystalline Entity's attack on the colony. The creature destroyed almost all the life on the planet, and Data was then found and reactivated by Starfleet officers. Another of Data's predecessors, B-4, is discovered in the movie Star Trek: Nemesis. He is functional but dim-witted.

ASCII

2007-01-14T17:54:00.000+01:00

Here is my first attempt at some ASCII art. I'd like to do more, but damn, this stuff is time consuming.

Found Pixelated Quick Time Player

2007-01-14T15:03:00.000+01:00

I must start this post by saying. This is not a painting. It's a piece of found internet art. While watching the video for the World Chess Boxing Organisation I paused it to buffer the video. As I sat and stared at the screen I saw this great pixelated image which came up between edits during the video. See? This is how you start seeing the internet when you've been painting these pixelated paintings for the last 6 years.

human cut-out

2007-01-13T18:48:00.000+01:00

quick video from my new opening

2007-01-12T22:54:00.000+01:00

hee hee

Qix

2007-01-10T16:51:00.000+01:00

I really liked the abstract nature of this game. Abstract as it concerns painting, not in gameplay. I won't make the easy correlation to Mondrian, but the elements are there in a funny sort of way. :)

The objective of Qix is to fence off, or "claim", a supermajority of the playfield. At the start of each level, the playing field is a large, empty rectangle, containing the Qix—a sticklike entity that performs graceful, but unpredictable motions within the confines of the rectangle.

The player controls a small diamond-shaped marker that can move around the edges of the rectangle.

To claim an area of the screen, the player must detach from an edge and draw Stix within the rectangle. Stix are simply lines traced out by moving the marker. When the marker completes a closed shape, the captured area becomes solid and points are awarded.

Q Bert

2007-01-10T11:33:00.000+01:00

A two-legged, big-nosed, orange creature jumps diagonally around on a pyramid, changing the color of the blocks he lands on. Avoid most moving objects and characters while luring Coily, the snake, to his demise by jumping off the edge of the pyramid onto one of the flying disks. The game has nine levels of four rounds each.

Darth Vader

2006-12-29T14:04:00.000+01:00

I had to show my girlfriend Star Wars last night. She hadn't seen it before so naturally I had to start with episode 4. Here's an image I repainted from Darth's targeting computer during the final battle sequence of the film. Sorry, the original painting is already sold:( But if you really want it, send me a message to the address in the right column, and we can work something out.

I had to make a gif from this image. It was way too conducive to leave alone.

King Hippo

2006-12-28T13:00:00.000+01:00

I just started playing Mike Tyson's Punch Out again, and upon seeing the great contender King Hippo I knew I had to make a painting of him. It was fun to figure out every contenders weaknesses again. If you don't remember in order to beat King Hippo you have to wait until he opens his mouth, then pop him in the jaw, and then go to town on his enormous stomach. Once he is knocked down, he is unable to get up again.

Total Recall

2006-12-27T11:35:00.000+01:00

Total Recall is an American Science Fiction film released on June 1st, 1990, starring Arnold Schwarsenegger, directed by Paul Verhoeven. It was based on the novelette We Can Remember it For You Wholesale. by Philip K Dick. At the time of its production Total Recall had the largest authorized budget for a film produced by a Hollywood studio.

Douglas Quaid is a construction worker who has been having dreams about being on Mars with a sexy brunette. After seeing an ad from the Rekall company, he decides to get implanted memories of a vacation in Mars. But something goes wrong during the procedure, and the doctors discover his mind has already been wiped. Returning home with no memories of ever going to Rekall, his wife tries to kill him. Later, she tells him that everything he remembers, including their marriage, is false— only implanted memories. Thanks to a case he left to himself before being wiped, Quaid starts piecing together the truth about himself. Pursued by Richter, who's working for Mars administrator Cohaagen, Quaid travels to Mars to discover the truth.

In the above painting, I have chosen to paint my most memorable scene from the film. This is where Quaid has to pull this giant red tracking device through his nose with a special tool he has left for himself. After pulling it from his nose, he somehow puts it into a rat which is tracked by the Cohaagen goons. When they turn up they begin blasting away thinking that Quaid must be in the room, after deducting that it is inside the rat they blow it away and splatter blood all over his laptop type thing which is still brodcasting Quaid's face. How Quaid managed to get this huge red glowing ball into a rat is beyond me, but who cares:)

Wargames computer screen

2006-12-21T18:21:00.000+01:00

Oil on masonite. 125 Dollars

WarGames was promoted as a cautionary tale about technology and the dangers of leaving machines in control of unleashing destruction, in an echo of the Doomsday Device of Dr. Strangelove. It also prominently featured the common idea of the Cold War period (particularly the 1970s and 1980s) that somewhere there was a "button" that, when pressed, would nuke the whole world away. This button, marked "LAUNCH" and installed after the WOPR was to simplify release of nuclear weapons, had several prominent close-ups in the film.

2006-12-15T18:48:00.000+01:00

Ok, I didn't make this. My girlfriend Jana did. But it's still a super cool Pacman pillow!!:)

2006-12-14T18:09:00.000+01:00

Here's the cover for my new cd. SHould be otu within the next few months.

Bid on this item on Ebay now!

2006-12-13T18:03:00.000+01:00

This is my take on Magritte famous "This is not a pipe" painting. In the original Magritte painted a pipe, and then below the pipe, Magritte painted This is not a pipe (Ceci n'est pas une pipe), which seems a contradiction, but is actually true: the painting is not a pipe, it is an image of a pipe. In my painting I ve implemented the use of the code for blink tags in order to blink in and out of the idea of whether the pipe is a pipe, or a painting of a pipe.
This is not a pipe.

Bidding begins at 100 dollars US on Ebay. Enjoy!!:)

Bid on this item on Ebay now!

Check out more of my Nerd Art here!

Konami Cheat Code

2006-12-12T18:10:00.000+01:00

Up Up Down Down Left Right Left Right B A START

The Konami Code (popularised by the nintendo game Contra) was a cheat code that could be used on many Konami games. The code was inputted during the title screen. This gave your player 30 extra lives. For me, this code has extra signifigance. I got my first real girlfriend when I was 13 years old. I rode my bike to her house which was in some rich subdivision. I cuddled with her while watching The Little Mermaid, and then her mother came home. We decided to go into her basement rec room to play some nintendo. Once there we turned off the lights (much to her mothers dismay) and began playing contra together. We tried pausing the game, but apparently just the music going on without any explosions or sounds tipped off her mom to come back and make sure we weren't making out. Then I brought the mighty Konami code from the depths of my brain. After a few botched attempts I finally got it. As our avatars were being slaughtered on the first level we started kissing. It was actually a pretty good first kiss. Her mom came down while we were kissing and made me go home even though it was raining outside. I rode my bike home in the rain out of the weird cookie cutter suburban landscape. I didn't really mind the rain though, who would?

oil on masonite. 125 Dollars

New t shirt shop open

2006-12-07T20:07:00.000+01:00

Buy it here!

I ll have some more vector based printed shirts available soon.

time lapse video of mike tyson painting

2006-12-05T20:52:00.000+01:00

2006-12-05T18:26:00.000+01:00

MIke Tyson's Punchout. I still remember the urban legend about this one. If you recorded yourself beating mike tyson, and sent it to Nintendo headquarters you could receive a new NES system. Too bad it wasn't true.

Oil on Masonite. 125 Dollars.

2006-11-24T17:32:00.000+01:00

Skate or Die! is a skateboarding game released by Electronic Arts in 1987 for the ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64 and Apple IIgs. It was ported to the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) by Konami, and published by Ultra Games.

Skate or Die! (whose title is likely inspired by a catch phrase from Atari Games' popular arcade game 720� or possibly the 1986 film Roller Blade which has the tagline "Skate or die!") is a multi-event game, in the style of the popular Epyx "Games" series of the time, where players could compete in five different skateboarding events, either individually or sequentially. When the events are challenged sequentially, up to eight players could sign up to participate.

The game featured two ramp events, the freestyle ramp and the high jump, two downhill events, the downhill race (in a park setting) and the downhill jam (in a street setting), and the pool joust. The pool joust, downhill jam, and the downhill race (in two player mode only) were all head to head, while the ramp events were single player. Except for the joust, which was a hand-to-hand knockout competition (literally and figuratively), all of the event winners were decided by a point system.

Two popular characters were featured in Skate or Die!: Rodney Recloose (pictured above), a wild man with a purple mohawk and a USMC tattoo (and a great facial resemblance to comedian Rodney Dangerfield) who runs a skate shop in the game, and his son Bionic Lester, an even wilder kid with a green flattop, who you were able to take on in the joust and the downhill jam. In the joust, Lester and his two cronies await the skater. Poseur Pete challenges beginners and Aggro Eddie takes on intermediate players, leaving Lester with the advanced pros.

2006-11-16T15:41:00.000+01:00

moog

2006-11-15T15:30:00.000+01:00

Mc Blob rockin da mic

2006-11-13T16:34:00.000+01:00

Britney Spears wins upset against George Bush in 2006 election.

2006-11-12T17:17:00.000+01:00

A picture of me in my installation. I sectioned off an area on the main floor, and installed a bed, television with vcr (which plays a video of me playing video games), a guitar with an amplifier and headphones, and a really cool glowing yellow bear. More pictures of the installation to come soon.

2006-11-12T17:15:00.000+01:00

King Vitamin performing with the flintstone kid. Yes, that's the chipmunks being projected behind me.

2006-11-12T17:13:00.000+01:00

Here's a picture of Bethany aka "the flintstone kid" warping, and mixing my beats. She also played her own set under the name beseppy.

2006-11-12T17:12:00.000+01:00

I hooked up a little tv plug and play joystick into a video projector so people could play video games while Moldoror mixed. It proved to be very popular.

How to make an origami paper crane

2006-10-22T19:06:00.000+02:00

Starting off with a square piece of paper. Your first fold will be to turn the square into a triangle by folding the piece of paper in half.

this is how your triangle will look

Now, you're going to take your triangle, and fold it in half once again to make a smaller triangle

now, you've got a smaller triangle. See the opening underneath the top section of paper. Your going to fold that out into a square on both sides.

by putting your finger on the inside, and to the back of the triangle, you can fold that triangle into a square.

now you've got a square on one side, and you're about to turn it over to make what looks like a shark fin on the other:)

See that opening on the shark fin? stick your finger in there, and flatten out the fin in order to make a sqaure on the other side.

see, now you've got a square on both sides with an opening on each side. The next step is a bit tricky. You're going to turn that square into what looks like an ice cream cone by folding the edges of the square inside to the center. You want the tip of the bottom of the cone to be the side that has an opening on it.

just fold those corners to the center.

see, now you've got half of your ice cream cone. Do the same to the other side now.

take the top triangle part (where the actual ice cream would be on the cone) and fold it back and forth. This is just a helper fold, but you'll see why you need to do this in the next step.

Now, you need to open up the previous folds of your cone so it looks like this.

putting your finger into the opening at the bottom of the cone, what you're going to do is push the inside up to make a diamond, this is a bit tricky at first.

see, now you've got your diamond. Repeat this step on the other side. It's like a diamond that has little legs on the bottom. The next step will be to make a helper fold with those little legs.

You're going to now take one of those legs and fold it at an angle up towards the top of the cone. This is just a helper fold, your about to turn that leg into the neck of the crane.

This is probably the hardest fold to understand. What you're going to do is to take that leg and open it up along the side of the cone, and push it upwards, and inside out.

See, now you've got the neck of your crane. Repeat these last step on the other side as well.

Now, all you have to do is bend the end of the neck down a bit to form the beak.

And now you've got you're crane:)

the entire last year of painting as a video

2006-10-21T15:21:00.000+02:00

here's a video i made of some of the 213 images i ve made over the last year. Enjoy:)

2006-10-20T18:14:00.000+02:00

One of my grandmothers paintings

This is a painting my grandmother did around 1967. It is entitled "creation" and is a large oil painting on masonite. Measuring more than 6 feet wide, this was the painting one first saw when walking into her house in rural Kansas. Her name was Frantiska Brzon Palecek, and she was a strong supporter of science, and evolution. While the painting is entitled creation, the painting had much more to do with amino acids forming into proteins than any ethereal cloud being. I m sure that my early trips to my grandmother's house (which doubled as her own personal gallery) were influential in my own interest and early development as an artist. She was not professionally trained, and started painting very late in life, nonetheless, she made some beautiful paintings that I will be posting alongside my new works.

2006-10-19T16:11:00.000+02:00

Fuck You, I won't do what you tell me!

The term "mook" is an advertising industry word which denotes a certain type of character which is easily marketed towards teenage males. Tom Green, The Characters of Jackass, and the South Park characters are all examples of mooks. Mooks many times have an attitude that exudes an ideology of "I don't give a fuck of what you think about me". Mooks are predominantly anti-everything, the idea of a mook being involved in politics, religion, or politically correct terms is totally foreign to their universe.

Mooks do come in different forms, and it's important to differentiate the different worlds in which they inhabit. For instance, there are some mooks which wish to be counter-cultural in their dress, music, videogames, and sexuality. These types of mooks would be more geared towards the music of marilyn manson, gothic dress, and black eyeliner on both men and women. While the message, and its popularity remains the same (Fuck everyone, but me) the way it's marketed must evolve in order to capture this section of the market.

One of the most succesful things captured by the advertising industry was the skateboard. Once, a symbol of countercultural individuality, freedom, and punk rock music (suicidal tendencies, and dead kennedies being the most important of these), the skateboard was succesfully co-opted by mass media to sell everything from mountain dew, shoes, and hoodies, to films, music, and even christianity. The marketing of the skateboard read directly into risk taking behavoir of teenagers, combined with a "fuck the system" sort of attitude. It was perfect, and the fact that the characters of jackass were also accomplished skaters was no accident.

The american-male-heterosexual-teenager is the most powerful force in advertising, with young males spending more money than even their shopaholic female counterparts. However a problem arose because corporations are generally full of old bureaucrats who were out of touch with youth culture. This was remedied rather quickly, and now young american teenagers are paid up to 150 dollars an hour simply to talk about what they think is cool. The term for this practice of focus grouping is called "trendspotting" or "coolhunting". So there is a sort of democracy involved in the process. In a sense, the mooks are driving, and choosing what they want marketed to them.

In this installation I give an inside look into the most cherished private space of a young male:his bedroom. A boys bedroom will tell a lot about his personal decisions, as well as the final step in the marketing process directed towards them. I have chosen to appraoch the imagery as cultural iconography, and this is why I repaint, or redraw every poster, or image held within it. I also chose to use different time periods in the project in order to give a larger thematic whole that goes back many years. The viewers have the oppurtunity to sample music, as well as play video games which will afford the viewer a glimpse into this world in which many teenage boys have, and still do inhabit.

and the czech version

Jdi do prdele, neudělám, co mi říkáš

Anglický výraz “mook“ představuje v reklamním světě určitý typ člověka, který je blízký a tak snadno prodejný především chlapeckým teenagerům. Tom Green, postavy z pořadů Jackass a South Park jsou právě takovými příklady “mooks“. “Mooks“ často zaujímají postoj “seru na to, co si o mně myslíte “ a staví se proti všemu. Politika, náboženství či snad politicky korektní termíny jsou jim v jejich světě cizí.

“Mooks“ se objevují v několika podobách a je tedy důležité rozlišit různé světy, které obývají. Například jsou takoví, kteří se chtějí stavět antikulturními a vyjadřují to oblečením, hudbou, videohrami či sexualitou. Tyto typy by byly přitahovány hudbou Marilyna Mansona, gotickým oblečením a černou oční linkou, kterou by si malovalo jak ženské tak i mužské pohlaví. Jejich oblíbený přístup “seru na všechny mimo sebe“ zůstává neměnný, ale způsob kterým se zajistí odbyt na trhu, se musí rozvinout tak, aby se pokryla tato sekce prodeje.

Jednou z nejúspěšnějších věcí, které se zmocnil reklamní průmysl, byl skateboard. Kdysi symbol antikulturního individualismu, svobody a punk rock muziky (skupiny Sebevražedné Sklony a Mrtví Kennedyové se řadí k nejdůležitějším v tomto žánru), skateboard byl úspěšně kooptovaný hromadnými sdělovacími prostředky, aby se prodalo vše od Coly, bot, mikin s kapucou až po filmy, hudbu a dokonce i křesťanství. Prodej skateboardu měl za následek spojení chování teenagerů s postojem “seru na systém“. Bylo to dokonalé a fakt, že představitelé show Jackass jsou také uznávaní “skejťáci“ není náhodný.

Americký heterosexuální teenager mužského pohlaví je nejmocnější silou v reklamě. Tito mladíci utratí více peněz než jejich nakupováním posedlé ženské protějšky. Nicméně objevil se problém. Obchodní společnosti jsou přeplněny starými byrokraty, kteří mají daleko k této mladé kultuře. Naštěstí se tato situace vyřešila velmi záhy a v současné době si mladí američtí teenageři přijdou i na 150 dolarů za hodinu, když jen mluví o tom, co si myslí, že je “cool“.
“Coolhunting“ tedy “honba za tím, co je “cool“ je termín, který označuje zmíněnou činnost. V tomto procesu je určitá demokracie. “Mooks“ si vlastně řídí výběr toho, co chtějí, aby se jim prodávalo.

V této instalaci nabízím vnitřní pohled do nejsoukromějšího místa mladého muže: jeho ložnice. Chlapecká ložnice řekne mnoho o jeho osobních rozhodnutích stejně tak jako o konečném výsledku procesu prodeje a nákupu, který k nim vede. Vybral jsem si přiblížení se fantazii jako kulturní ikonografii, a proto jsem přemaloval nebo překreslil každý plakát nebo představu skrývající se uvnitř. Také jsem zvolil různá časová období, abych rozšířil tematický celek, který se vrací o mnoho let zpátky. Návštěvníci mají příležitost poslechnout si písničku nebo si mohou zahrát videohru. To jim umožní nahlédnout do teenagerovského světa, který tito chlapci obývají.

2006-10-19T14:51:00.001+02:00

Wolverine. Another poster for the upcoming installation.

2006-10-19T14:51:00.000+02:00

Marijuana poster for the upcoming installation.

2006-10-19T14:49:00.000+02:00

bikini girl. Another poster for the upcoming installation.

2006-10-16T21:24:00.000+02:00

Im currently working on a series of posters for my upcoming installation. I m going to be re-creating a 15 year old males room. Here we have a great icon of young male heterosexual prowess and aggression, Eminem.

New King Vitaman video

2006-10-12T18:07:00.000+02:00

2006-10-11T21:08:00.000+02:00

Here's a preview of the wallpaper pattern I will be using for my installation. It was quite easy to make, and you can view my tutorial on how to make a stencil in the archive section of this blog, in the month of october. Here I go step by step through my method of how to make a stencil on a t-shirt.:)

2006-10-11T20:30:00.000+02:00

Robopope sees all, and is all knowing. I ve been working on an installation for the last few weeks, I ll start posting bits and pieces of this project which is to be finalised by november 3rd.

2006-09-27T21:16:00.001+02:00

We will miss you Josh. I'm not going to say give the angels hell, because that's too easy. And kind of lame. fuck. peace bro. (A) is for (E)ffort.

Lonely Girl 15 meets He Man

2006-09-27T18:23:00.000+02:00

I made a mash up of heman and lonelygirl15. First try at this, but i enjoy working with video, expect more video updates in the future.

2006-09-26T17:31:00.000+02:00

I made a new stencil for a hoodie, it's a tank, and I also had a special visitor who modeled it for me:)

2006-09-21T19:21:00.000+02:00

Another mario-corot mash up

Acrylic on masonite. 125 dollars

2006-09-18T19:37:00.000+02:00

corot super mario brothers mash up
Acrylic on Masonite. 125 Dollars

2006-09-16T21:02:00.000+02:00

Pissaro space invaders mash-up

Acrylic on masonite. 125 Dollars

2006-09-15T17:09:00.000+02:00

Zork
Oil on Masonite. 125 Dollars

2006-09-14T19:26:00.000+02:00

excite bike

Oil on masonite. 125 Dollars

Step by Step painting, Lonelygirl15

2006-09-14T00:15:00.000+02:00

Watch how I block in a painting, in this video I made a painting of Lonelygirl15. I know, I know, she's a fake. But I still like you lonelygirl:)

2006-09-03T17:43:00.000+02:00

a pixelated drawing from Doom

2006-08-30T17:00:00.000+02:00

fisr in the series of youtube portraits im doing

2006-08-29T20:10:00.000+02:00

I hate to be the bearer of bad news, however today I must be. I have learned that my friend Nick, who was the co-owner of a bar I frequented a lot last year, passed away on monday. We'll miss you man. I hope you can find some Schopenhauer wherever you are now. Peace

2006-08-11T16:58:00.000+02:00

My first attempt at a page for a comic book. I ve got to learn how to get the resolution higher in the images. Something is still going wrong with the scaling of the image.

2006-08-03T22:47:00.000+02:00

Digital portrait of my father

2006-08-02T00:48:00.000+02:00

Digital portrait of Jana

2006-07-27T16:45:00.000+02:00

This is the first of a new series of drawing using grud paper and colored pencils. I then retouch the image with photoshop. My first subject for this new style is a coyote.

2006-07-25T16:35:00.000+02:00

A brief journal through the history of video game avatars in paint. Pitfall, Legend of Zelda, and Tekken

2006-07-14T14:50:00.000+02:00

blast

2006-07-12T17:44:00.000+02:00

casio meets laptop

2006-07-11T19:10:00.001+02:00

Kling Hop

Im finally back from my vacation, and happy to anounce that I will be back to normal updates again. Im also working on a new Hip Hop cd, so stay tuned!!!
tlhIngan maH!

2006-06-28T18:38:00.000+02:00

My brother Justin, and his wife Meredith had their first child in the middle of last night. So, I made a painting for little Celia today. Happy Birthday!

2006-06-26T17:22:00.000+02:00

Quake