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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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nasty.

this weekend is memorial day weekend. yet another amateur holiday. a lot of people will be camping. a lot of people will be having bbqs. a lot of people will be down the shore. maybe the bubonic plague will be released in seaside and belmar and wipe out a substantial portion of new jersey's guido population. we can only hope. anyways, i have to work on sunday, so i really can't go away. it's all good though.

this weekend i will be dog-sitting. rather, wolf-sitting. i am one of a select group of people who can come near this beast. if you aren't familiar, i will be living with this animal for the next few days:




holler at me if you wanna meet him. he's a sweetheart. and he's the size of a small pony.

not quite sure what tomorrow will hold, but saturday come down to jannson's rootin' tootin' recession bbq. bring your own booze, food, plates, napkins, silverware, table and chairs. festivities start at 6pm. after that, big show at halligan's in west orange featuring the likes of shape, tmfse and pistol pete to name a few. that should be nuts.

on a side note, i hope that bubonic plague for the guidos also wipes out these wastes of flesh, who are equally as horrible:






















but i doubt we would get that lucky. what ever happened to masculinity? these fucking kids make me sick.

but i digress. anyway, i stumbled onto these cool illustrations today. they were done by some dude named yasushi torisawa. modern renditions of godzilla villains. pretty dope.










you can check out a few more here.

i found these gems at a funny website called whythefuckdoyouhaveakid.com:








looks like we have a lot to look forward to.

things are shaping up nicely in the division east warehouse:


and peep out the boner bolts sticker in paris:


some protesters at the g20 summit last month in england:


a list to live your life by:

note the very last item.

and lastly just a few goodies i found along the way in my online travels this week:















i plan on taking a lot of ridiculous pictures this weekend. well, if i don't get too wasted. we shall see. if you're not going away hit me up and let's get stupid.

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