I recieved notification that I got this picture into the black and white show.

AndĀ didn’tĀ getĀ thatĀ celloĀ pictureĀ in,Ā soĀ I’mĀ 1Ā forĀ 2Ā whichĀ isn’tĀ thatĀ bad.

Every other day or so Trace comes over to my house forĀ an Art Day. Art Days generally consist of us drawing and painting for a couple of hours. Afterward we usually go buy stuff. It’s not a really great habit.

This is Trace with his entry to the black and white show. When I was taking this picture I was hoping that heā€™d look like his drawing, but he just looks uncomfortable.Ā SorryĀ dude.

Speaking of the black and white show, Trace and I sent in our entries last Thursday and should know if we got in this week. Keep your fingers crossed.

You can see one of my entries here.

Back when I was into being punk and into being a Sophomore I emailed the owner of a locally run clothing company about how to become a designer.

After a month or so he emailed me back asking if I wanted to meet with him to propose some shirt designs.

We met at a skatepark and talked about xok for about an hour while I showed him some designs.

He said he liked my stuff and after the interview I emailed him the designs.

After that our correspondence fell apart and I figured that was the end of it.

Well today I decided to check out xokclothing.com for kicks and if you click on ā€œstoreā€ youā€™ll see a splash screen featuring a cartoon I used to draw that I called Anarchy Bot.

A little more investigation lead me to theyā€™re myspace pageā€™s blog which features a new list of shirts, one of them featuring xok bot.

So thatā€™s whatā€™s new.

It’s sort of funny that they changed the pages background color to blue, because it looks like real shit that way.

This is the photo that I won 1st for in my schools art contest.

This is the photo that got 3rd.

I bought a Yashica FX-D Quartz on Craigslist last week. They guy was using it for a photo class and had put in a roll of Ilford HP5 (400). I messed around with the camera the following days and had the film pushed to 600.

My dogā€™s name is Puck and she looks like this:

Rather stately, no?

Trace and I are preparing a gallery show. Iā€™m doing photography and heā€™s doing illustration. Weā€™re getting into it so much that weā€™re now planning ā€œart daysā€ where we get together and draw ā€˜n stuff.

These are pictures from the last time we got together. Neither of us felt like drawing much so I got out my camera and he started reading a skate mag.

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Ā Trace and I have been getting together to paint nā€™ stuff lately. The mangled body at the desk is Traceā€™s.

Itā€™d be sweet if I said that the camera was a self-portrait.