party like its 2099.

if you are smart, you will be at this:

if you came or attempted to come to our video premiere at bear country last month, you know that it got shut down by the police before midnight which really sucked. we were planning to go on all night. we had live bands. we had three djs. we had live comedy lined up. we had a ton of booze. anyway, being that it was ruined and a lot of people never even got in the door, i needed to re-do the party. here are all the details:

SATURDAY DECEMBER 26, 2009
DINGBATZ / 620 VAN HOUTEN AVE / CLIFTON, NJ
DOORS OPEN AT 8PM / VIDEO AT 9PM / BANDS AT 10:30PM

LIVE PERFORMANCES BY:
FLESHTEMPLE
McRAD
COUGH
THE DIRTY STAYOUTS

PROJECTION SCREEN SHOWING OF DIVISION EAST "TOMORROW" AT 9PM

$30 - OPEN BAR FROM 8PM-10PM AND SHOW
so basically the show plus $20 for 2 hours of limitless drinking which is a pretty good fucking deal if you ask me.

$10 - AFTER 10PM JUST FOR BANDS (OR ANYTIME AFTER 8PM IF YOU DON'T WANT OPEN BAR)

DVD COPIES OF THE VIDEO WILL BE AVAILABLE FOR SALE. WE WILL ALSO HAVE TONS OF SHIRTS/HATS/STICKERS AND OTHER MERCH AS WELL.

COME DOWN AND DRINK YOUR HOLIDAY PAIN AWAY WITH A BUNCH OF PARTY ANIMALS.

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if you are in the design field, you undoubtedly know the usefulness and necessity of having a ton of good textures. they have so many different purposes and can turn something plain into something totally sweet with a simple place underneath a layer and a change in blending modes. along with my obsession with vintage flicks, posters, ads and all that, my other obsession most definitely lies with textures. i can never get enough, and i search far and wide to find as many as possible. you can really never have enough.

generally, i don't give away too many of my sources. especially when it comes to design resources. i look at it like this. i'm not going anywhere special to find my shit. they are all freely available on the web. i just dig and search and click on links upon links and sometimes get lost in the vortex of the internet for hours. and i find a lot of cool shit. anyone can find the things i find, they just need to have the patience and dedication. but today i'm in a good mood, so i'm going to give out a few things.

first, a couple links to some sweet websites where i download a lot of free hi-res textures:

circleboxtextures.com
lostandtaken.com

you can find some really cool stuff there if you need some background textures for design projects, or even if you want some dope flicks for your desktop background. i'm also going to do something that i've never done before. i'm going to give away some of my very own hi-res textures in the spirit of circlebox and lost and taken.

you can download all of them as a zip file here, or you can click on the thumbs below if you just want to download individual ones. i have so many of these and i will be giving out more for free in the future. i just have to organize the thousands of photos on my hard drive. anyway, enjoy and if you ever use them for anything, hit me up and show me what you did with them.

































and while we are on the topic of design, check out some of that recent flyer game:





this voice or no voice show should be pretty wild in august. they are doing a video shoot at the end of the show, so make sure you get your ass down there and get your face in the video.

on a side note, my man gdp is on tour right now with pistol pete and daniel joseph. they started a blog with tour photos and words of wisdom from the road. check it out.

found this website today called threeframes.net. the name is pretty self-explanatory:



(these are all animated but for some reason, they don't seem to be working on here. but check out the site for the real versions along with a lot of others.)

also found this site which had a lot of funny shit:










but i digress. anyway, there's a family of stray cats that live underneath some huge trailer outside my building. i bought food for them and i feed them all the time. a mother and three rascally little kittens. they like to sneak up on me when i'm smoking cigarettes:






















and finally some random weekend flicks:

yo she slapded that shit.

















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vacation

one beautiful thing about having a "real" job is getting paid vacation. today, i returned to work for the first time in 9 days. people at my job asked me where i was going, to which i simply replied "my couch". but i did a little bit more than just sit on my couch. right in front of my couch is my laptop which i sat on for like 8-10 hours on some days working on some projects.

first of all, i finished up the layout for the new GDP album. it's a double-disc release (cd & dvd) with an 8-panel booklet insert complete with lyrics and a bunch of ill flicks taken inside GDP's house by this dude named tone, and some sick piece of cover art that was hand drawn by one of his boys.

besides that, i finished up artwork for a bunch of t-shirts. four shirts to be exact. they will all be available at division east in the near future. no previews right now. i'm keeping them a mystery. but i will be sure to let everyone know when they are in the shop so you can all go buy them.

besides sitting in front of my computer, i did manage to get out a tiny bit. last saturday, my homegirl mimi was kind enough to hook me up with a ticket to nine inch nails and jane's addiction at the PNC art center. typically, i like shows in dive bars where i can be about 2 feet from the stage and occasionally grab the microphone and get all up in that shit. for the most part, i am totally opposed to large venue shows. they are so impersonal and they attract tons of people who don't know shit about music. not to mention 9 dollar beers, overpriced snacks and other bullshit. like for example, you couldn't bring your own blanket into PNC, but they were selling blankets for 15 bucks. fucking scumbags.

anyway, as much as i'm ranting, i can't take anything away from either one of those bands, regardless of the venue. we got in as nine inch nails was starting and we were pretty far from the stage. i managed to get a couple OK flicks from far away:




the rest all kinda looked like this, although they are pretty cool and i might use them as background textures in some design projects:




photos of jane's addiction weren't too much better:


we even snuck onto the special needs lawn seating, but we got kicked out of there and i still didn't get any good photos:






luckily for me, i'm the fucking man and i randomly ran into my boy by the bathrooms and he hooked me up with a couple of fake VIP laminates for me and my homegirl:




they worked like a charm:










all in all, i have to say those bands put on a good fucking show. obviously, it was much better once we were 5 feet from the stage, but i grew up with both of them and i can't take anything away from them. they had that place roaring and honestly, i didn't see quite as many eyeliner/fishnets/black fingernail freaks as i thought i would at a nine inch nails show.

leaving PNC was a shitshow, but we managed to get back up to clifton in time to see NJDOTS at dingbatz which ruled:
















obviously we all got shit hammered and had a blast. sunday we woke up bright and early (5pm) to attend the pig roast at dingo's den and check out for the love of and agents of man at dingbatz:












for the love of was amazing. brought me back to my cassette tape days so badly. i remember driving around in my silver oldsmobile in like 96 listening to those dudes and screaming at my windshield. so fucking good. i even got to grab the mic and scream along with the singer for a song. it fucking ruled. i was real busy enjoying myself, but i did grab a couple flicks:




i was so shitfaced that after those dudes i went outside to smoke a cigarette and wound up at dingos, thinking we had plenty of time to get back for agents of man. i walked back in as they were finishing their set like a fucking asshole and totally missed them. but, i did have the pleasure of seeing my homeboy kevone and bulldoze do a quick, last-minute, 3-song set. so fucking good. kids were so siked on this:












we finished the night off across the street and closed the place out:




















the week basically consisted of drinking, sleeping, working on designs and then doing it all over again. early in the week mimi stopped by with this bottle of plum moonshine from switzerland. it wasn't actual moonshine, but christ it really tasted like it:


throughout the week i grabbed some random flicks here and there. i ran into marlene who used to be one of my co-workers when i was bartending full-time at dingos. she rules:






bite it.


bootylicious.


thursday night my boys anthony and brother bob played with their band, the dirty stayouts. they were awesome:








grabbed a few more over the weekend and now i am back to my regularly scheduled program:




























there were a few faces that i'm surprised weren't involved in any of these pictures. and you know who you are. get on top of that.