very quick update, but another great Magic Bullet Records release featuring some of my artwork is available, and near gone already. the box set above for Forensics “YOU DON’T HAVE TO WIN, BUT YOU HAVE TO FIGHT” is available at their website. the box set versions are nearly gone, and i think theres maybe 5 or 6 skatedecks left.

…sorry for the delay on that jungle-y poster, ive been dealing with some health issues and have had my mind on other things and/or been sleeping. yes i know ive been sick for weeks, you can thank my lungs.

hey folks, quick note. im hopping out to LA this tuesday the 15th for the LOST art show at Gallery 1988. so come by and say hi. its going to be a really awesome event and certainly something for the fans of the show and fans of the artists.. listen to your friend paul scheer, hes a cool dude.

more details here… GALLERY1988

as for all the mailorder, were hauling a truck load down to the post office every day. there were hundreds and hundreds of orders given how much stuff went on sale and were hauling through it, and were hoping to wrap things up this weekend. we havent gotten a chance to send out shipping notices to everyone so its entirely possible your order is on your way even though nobodys said anything yet. 100 tubes going out tomorrow alone.
much much much thanks to my mailorder squad.

xo
-d

thanks to everyone who picked something up today. besides a few hiccups, the store held up quite well. most things sold out with some quickness. cant thank everyone enough for the support, it means a ton. were going to get everything squared up and start getting orders out asap. got a surplus of help this time around for the holidays.

coming up in a few weeks ill be releasing my posters for andrew bird, the decemberists, mogwai, grails, pinback, why?, additional sonic youths, and a few other things. i couldn’t do it all at once, so keep your eye out. as well, in early december ill be doing another fun project with justin myer staller involving a large pressure printing press and many inks. its going to be another pretty experimental ordeal, so ill be posting a process journal as usual again with videos, keeping people up on what were doing.

no apologies to those insta-ebay flippers and recent TME-comment-authors who had theirs orders canceled, got all boo hoo butt hurt about it, and then suggested that i should “get a real job” amongst claims i have a big nose. i do have a big nose, im polish. you guys should learn a thing or two about IP addresses. seriously. thanks for stopping by, so sorry i boo hoo hoo ruined your day boo hoo hoo, you giant baby.

i love the rest of ya.
xo
-d

seems like ive just got a run of things to talk about here… my print ‘lock and key or latchkey’ was featured in the book ’sargents daughters’ about the famous painting ‘the daughters of edward darley boit’ by john singer sargent, one of my favorite paintings and certainly an odd but important influence on my work. its featured on the last page too! what it obviously comes down to is that my piece is the final word on the subject. check it out at amazon, or the MFA in boston gift shop.

AMAZON

“lock and key or latchkey, a house you tricked empty”
20×30″ 4 color silkscreen, edition of 200, 10 on aluminum

…as i may have mentioned, the fine organizers of the 3 day OFFSET09 creative conference in Dublin Ireland flew me over to give a talk about myself and my work. it was a really incredible experience and i was so happy to be a part of this collective event. instead of a very genre-or-skillset oriented conference, this was simply a whole bunch of people who did a whole bunch of things and all did them in sincerely asskicking manners, all on their own terms. it was awesome to hear people talk so passionately about their work and how they work and their process and experience and everything. i wish art school had been like this, honestly. i felt i took so much from the whole event, and i hadnt even gone as a audience member. but i ended up sitting in the auditorium all weekend long trying to catch as many talks as i could, about things id never have thought id be interested in. typography? meee? noooo!

i mostly just talked about my background, my parents pottery business and how i could never wrap my head around a 9-5 job, and the idea of a DIY in-house business was the only thing that actually made sense to me. so i showed my work and process while talking about the importance of doing as many aspects of your work yourself as you can without relying too much on others. as well, about the huge importance of really putting yourself into your personal work, by talking about my work pre-and-post graces death and how that effected how i approached things, via conceptually and the desire to really sink myself into it the labourous aspect of it for the sake of facing it head on. i was certainly nervous really sort of spilling myself out in front of such a big crowd that i couldnt even really see, but im happy i did. thanks to everyone who came up to me or emailed me after my talk, i really appreciate that people connected to what i was doing.

some photos! ill save the stage/talk photos for when the videos are online and i can post about that. in the meantime, enjoy some photos of people you may or may not know!

our plane, video games and tv make time go by real quick. ..and the lecture hall, sold out crowd of 500 people!

met james jean the first morning (swooooooooooooon) whos sort of an illustrator hero of mine, my “assistant/handler” amy and i sat with him and his wife and had tea while our hotel rooms opened up. quick shot of dublin.

the vignellis! design gods as far as humanity is concerned. they did the NYC subway maps! and the national park maps! and bad ass chairs!

anthony burrill (of ‘work hard and be nice to people’ fame), and tara mcpherson (who apparently had cell reception).

chaz of the london police, and tara again motioning to a particularly awesome sign

monique and bob from the london police, myself and oliver jeffers

saying goodbye on our last night! brad downey is the one focused face. also to the far right is peter/obsolete.

all said and done, i had an absolute blast from the moment i landed to the moment i left. the organizers of OFFSET 09 were just the best dudes ever and i really hope i get to come out to one of their events again.