2012 ((( MOON ))) CALENDAR

Today marks the last full moon of the 2011 year. December's moon is the Cold Moon and what a cold and rusty beauty was she during the 6 a.m. lunar eclipse.
Today also marks the arrival of this years 2012 moon calendars! I have them available to purchase via my Big Cartel site. The calendars are 11" x 17" carbon black photocopies on 90 lb. Rives BFK paper and they come from a limited edition of 30.
Please click  H E R E to check them out!

HEAVEN

Misfit Toy Factory opens this Saturday at Root Division in SF. This one night event features 35+ artists making a variety of small scale works which can be cash and carried away for a mere $40.   John Casey!         Bobby "Boss Cougar" Lukas!     Joey Castor!     Kate Stirr!     Andy Witrak!     Its a hit parade from here to the moon!
I'll be contributing to the factory with my dear friend and frequent collaborator, Ethan Worden. We've dreamt up a project that, in my biased opinion is as beautiful an object as it is a gesture. Come join us for some good times under the Full Cold Moon!

Can you dig it, baby?

BRIAN WOIDA is the greatest. In all honesty and speaking directly from the heart chakra, its that simple- he's the greatest. He's pure love and one of the most fantastic folks I've ever known AND on top of all that, he's a damn good artist.

His most recent body of work, Diggin', Can You Collect Them All?? is near and dear to my rock and roll heart and can be seen at First St. Gallery's Holiday exhibition in Old Town Eureka.

Smiley Smile by the Beach Boys
Photograph and Paper Collage
Brian Woida, 2011

                   I can dig it. I think we all can.

HOLIDAYLANDIA!!!

Holidayland is adorable, affordable and open for business!
Marion and Roses's Workshop in Old Town has blossomed into a warm and cozy holiday pop up shop featuring affordable crafts and wares made by local artisans. Nothing gives the middle finger to the 1% quite like supporting small businesses, so seriously, get down there! And then go get a frosty one from the Trappist.
The shop will maintain regular hours, T-Sun noon to 7 until Christmas eve.

This year i've contributed some posi ju ju love candles. For less than the cost of a pizza pie, you can take home one of these little gems-

Just add fire and let your love light shine.

BEARDSHOW

Emulsion Apparel and Aviary Gallery have come together to present BEARDSHOW!

Beardshow is an exhibition of mega hairy proportions opening December 1st at Aviary Gallery in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts. Everything I know about Mass. I learned from this guy---> (click here)
I contributed a magic man of sorts made of ink and photocopy on watercolor paper.

Search and Destroy 666
2011

* Big ups to my dear friend Stu Pittman for unknowingly titling this piece. xo

Life is like a Mondrian

I once told Sonny Smith that he was the best thing that ever happened to me. It was on accident. Accidentally on purpose.
His words are true.

From The Holy Nail
my new favorite thing ever.

P. Mondrian
Composition With Grid

SHOTGUN WILLIE AND THE HAND JIVE

I finally finished my collaboration with John Casey just in time for Tall Tales: Collaborative Projects by John Casey & Friends which opens at Swarm Gallery in Oakland on Saturday, October 1st.  The show is a MUST see! John dished out drawings of hands and pants to a fantastic variety of bay area artists and the resulting body of work is an exhibition of those collaborations. Muito bein! 

Shotgun Willie and the Hand Jive
Acrylic and photocopy on Rives BFK

-=>>> M A M A + R O U X <<<=-

Opening Friday September 9th at Missing Link Records in Arcata, California
MAMA ROUX, new work and old gris gris home made in Oakland by me.
DJ Mantease will be spinning records which is the real event to not miss. His record selection is pure top shelf and his presence is transcendentally luminous, like the star you never knew you always loved.

night tripper

So be there cool bear.
1073 H St. 6-9 p.m.
Bring cash for cool art merch and records from Missing Link!

-= Double Time =-

How long has it been since you've listened to the Jungle Book soundtrack? It's completely brilliant!

Salty dog

-=>> N O R T H W A R D <<=-

SOLO LOBO

Tomorrow i'm gettin' behind the wheel of my automobile to listen to 5 hours of classic rock while I drive north and north and north............

"Come in" she said, "I'll give ya- shelter from the storm".

All to deliver this card.

CHET BAKER

Very few souls can sweep my soul away like Chet Baker can. 

And because of this, I will draw him.

ROCK AND ROLL REDUX

I taught a 3rd/4th grade art class in Walnut Creek this summer. It was exhausting to say the least but also pretty inspiring and hilarious. Children's minds access art in the most beautiful and unapologetically imaginative way. Their aesthetics and intentions aren't questioned, just put onto paper and then they're on to the next thing. They undoubtedly taught me more than I did them.

The whole shebang for parent teacher night

Our final project was Rock and Roll Redux. Everyone drew the name of a real band and one of their albums out of a hat. The students then made album sleeves out of 12" squares of tag board and fake vinyl records out of black tag. There were three rules: 

1.) The band name has to be on the album cover

2.) The album name also must be on the album cover

3.) You can listen to the music from that album but you can not look at the original cover art

Blue snake, blue cookie, blue tree and blue cheese

Those are saguaro cactuses, birds and hearts

Baby, baby, baby, baby, oh baby.

The annual di Rosa auction is coming up in October! I'm donating an edition variable from the beard print series. There are gold glitter lyrics from the profoundly heartbreaking Bonnie Bramlett song, Groupie (Superstar) growing from his face.  Legend says the song was written about Eric Clapton but God only knows if that's true or not. God and Bonnie Bramlett.

Superstar
Photocopy and glitter on Rives BFK
2011

Todd gris gris

Stills from Todd Rundgren's performance of Hello, It's Me on the Midnight Special

^^^ S U P E R G R O U P ^^^

New text based work soon to be finished for Pizzaiolo!

Bob, Jeff, Tom, Roy and George

-VS-
Neil, Bruce, Dewey, Richie and Stephen

just the tip of the supergroup iceberg

CALLING ALL ANGELS

This is quite possibly the most beautiful three minutes and fifty nine seconds of all time.

<<< WILD ONE >>>

Acrylic on found photo, 2011

OTHER MOONS

The nicest thing about having my studio in my house is being near my record collection.
I've been making collages for days to the soundtrack of all the vinyl I've loved since I was a little one, including this gem that was purchased for my mom, by her mom back in 1963.

almost finished....

You, in the moonlight

IF THIS IS THE END, REMEMBER... ITS ALSO THE BEGINNING

Chant down BABYLON! All the cool kids are doing it.


If this is in fact the last day on earth, Jah has blessed the west side of Santa Cruz with near perfect conditions. Waves for days! Opah!





"Let's do some living, after we die." -Jagger and Richards

S T E V I E

Collage on paper
2011

MY SPY BOY TOLD YOUR SPY BOY

collage on paper
2011

Just a little bit shady

One of the raddest things about having a musician for a parent are lullabies. I had the most incredible collection of songs sung to me as a little one, most of which went on to build a rock steady love and devotion to singer songwriter hits from the 70's. Curiously, lots of the songs I remember hearing either from my father or the turntable as a kid were about some shady ladies.
Shady lady uno-

Shady lady dos-

Shady lady tres-

OUTSIDE IN

Creative Growth's staff show opens Thursday, May 12th! I am incredibly honored to be a part of the Creative Growth family. It's a magical place filled with even more magical minds that bring me a constant flow of motivation and inspiration. Needless to say, I am stoked to be a part of the upcoming staff show where I will be contributing my most recent tattooed bro drawing. For more info on Outside In and Creative Growth, click HERE!

True Love Could Have Been A Contender
graphite on paper, 2011

What would you do if you were handed a John Casey?

No really, what would you do?

So far, here's what i'm thinking......

A little bit of this-


With a little bit of this-


And a dash of this for good measure-


Who knows what'll really happen.......wish me luck.

LIVE ART WEDNESDAY'S AT LEVENDE

This was last week's Levende outcome. It was a colorful night in the strangest of ways to say the least.

MEGA MEGA MEGA!!!!

Southern Exposure's annual fundraiser and art auction opens Saturday, May 7th at 7:30.
There is a long and diverse list of artists who donated work to SOEX to make this event possible, including yours truly. So, come out, come out!
For more details about artists participating or anything really concerning the event, please click HERE!

SAD VICIOUS sings WITRAK BROS.

Sad Vicious performing Under African Skies by Witrak Brothers

Royal Nonesuch Gallery, Oakland, California

All you've got to do is win

From the book of Bowie

FOOL YOUR BRAIN WITH HOMEGROWN TROPICAL VIBES

I'm totally ready for some sunshine. Rain, rain, rain, rain, rain......

Its all part of my rock n' roll fantasy

Why I never filled this out and sent in my ten year old opinions, I'll never really know. Perhaps it was because I was waiting until the moment that the poll would be twenty years old and I could use it as fodder for a Live Art Wednesday event at Levende. So put on your good times shoes and shuffle your booty downtown so we can shuck and jive some over happy hour beers and beautiful drawings made by beautiful Oaklanders!

VOODOO IN THE VIBES

RIP RONNIE HAMMOND

RELAXATION INFORMATION

The view from the bathtub

Abilene

Somehow, somewhere, sometime ago, Tom Waits reminded me that I know and love this song:



Thanks Tom, you old so and so.



Listen to Tom Waits and Terry Gross shuck and jive some HERE!

Like Paradise

Happy birthday Andy darling!

George Michael

Sensitive Soundtracks For Big Trucks, Vol. 1

Kanoa Zimmerman

A friend of mine just got the biggest truck i've ever seen. Its a beautiful thing. Its the kind of truck that makes you want to drive to La Paz without stopping while listening to Sweethearts of the Rodeo on heavy rotation. Trucks of this caliber require their own arsenal of sensitive slow jams hanging out in the glove box, which is exactly what I intend to curate today. So if you have a truck and want a copy of Sensitive Soundtracks for Big Trucks, Vol. 1, send me an email with your address and i'll send you one!

JUST ASK THE AXIS

Mucho mahalo to all the beautiful faces who made it out to the Monster Drawing Rally tonight. The heart of gold dream team straight crushed it with love, so much love!

Drawin' like a monster!

This year will be my third year drawing in Southern Exposure's Monster Drawing Rally. Its a crazy good time with so many fantastic artists all drawing like little monsters side by side under the prom like twilight of SF's Verde Club. This year I am super stoked to be drawing with three of my best friends in the whole universe, Steuart Pittman, Annie Vought and Andy Witrak. Together we are a heart of gold dream team that should not be missed. Get to the Verde, bring cash for the door, the bar and the art!

I'll be working on a little something like this.......

Prince - I would die 4 U/ Baby I'm a Star from mark Daley on Vimeo.

1994

Nowhere to go and all day to get there-
Lesley, Karen and Liz
 Santa Cruz, California