Beggars Fortune European Tour

This great band from Tenessee gave me the honor of designing some cool stuff for their European tour called "The 808 Tour". Their singer Steve Savage will be touring countries in Europe first before they hit it with the full band. Here's the schedule, check him out live and accoustic if he's anywhere near you:

20.jan.2008 Steve Savage @ Songwriters Guild Den Haag, NL
21.jan.2008 Steve Savage @ Pony Bar Hamburg, DE
24.jan.2008 Steve Savage @ Cafe Soundgarden Amsterdam, NL
29.jan.2008 Steve Savage @ Kafe Nonnetje Live Amersfoort, NL
01.feb.2008 Steve Savage @ Dwaze Zaken Amsterdam, NL
01.feb.2008 Steve Savage @ Dwaze Zaken Amsterdam, NL
08.feb.2008 Steve Savage @ Club Meander Amsterdam, NL
09.feb.2008 Steve Savage @ Night of the Stars Burbach, DE, Rheinland-Pfalz
12.feb.2008 Steve Savage @ Kinky Star Gent, BE
13.feb.2008 Steve Savage @ Radio Kinky Star Gent, BE
14.feb.2008 Steve Savage @ Bare Bones Acoustic Cafe Alkmaar, NL
15.feb.2008 Steve Savage @ Oranje Koffiehuis Arnhem, NL
16.feb.2008 Steve Savage @ New Orleans Cafe Siegen, DE
18.feb.2008 Steve Savage @ Werk Stadt Witten Witten, DE
19.feb.2008 Steve Savage @ Toms on the Rocks Ratingen Ratingen, DE
20.feb.2008 Steve Savage @ Solaris Dusseldorf Dusseldorf, DE
21.feb.2008 Steve Savage @ Irish Pub Wesel Wesel, DE
22.feb.2008 Steve Savage @ Steinbruch Duisburg Duisburg, DE
22.feb.2008 Steve Savage @ Studio 47 (TV Apperence) Duisburg, DE
23.feb.2008 Steve Savage @ Schafer Bottrop Bottrop, DE
24.feb.2008 Steve Savage @ Hard Rock Cafe Munich, DE
26.feb.2008 Steve Savage @ Mausefalle Bonn Bonn, DE
27.feb.2008 Steve Savage @ Total Bar Zurich, CH
28.feb.2008 Steve Savage @ Tarterre Bern, CH
01.mrt.2008 Steve Savage @ Kaff Frauenfeld, CH
02.mrt.2008 Steve Savage @ Grenzwert Bar Basel, CH
06.mrt.2008 Steve Savage @ Verein 08 Vienna, AT

They'll be selling cool promo stuff there such as tour shirts, The 808 EP and posters. All design by me, so support them and pick up something neato after the concert!

The Baby Fratellis

It's been a while since I posted, have to get used to this whole blog thing. It's tough to determine what would be interesting to post and what not haha.

Anyways, I've been listening to this album almost non-stop the past week or so and figured I'd share it with you all. The album Costello Music is by a Scottish band hailing from Glasgow called The Fratellis. It's delicious garage retro party rock, just as I like it. Honestly all the songs are good on the cd, but the songs that get to me the most are the real party rockers mainly "Henrietta", "Country Boys and City Girls", "Baby Fratelli" and the probably already pretty famous "Chelsea Dagger"

Check out their website too www.thefratellis.com

Robotrock

The DJ's of Robotrock have been rocking the Amsterdam clubscene for two years and celebrate this saturday 6th of October in Club 8. Go pay them some tribute, see you there!

Darth Vader has a posse

Some of you might be aware of the OBEY Giant campaign, some might even know that it came from a stencil project in the 80's called Andre The Giant has a Posse. It has now turned into an icon of not only the advertising world but maybe even more the subvertising world, culture jamming and all that cool jazz.

I felt that Darth Vader, as an icon of popular culture and at the same time commecialism which the whole Star Wars franchise is would make a great icon for a revival and tribute to the OBEY campaign. So I went and had some fun.

Alpha Dog

Whaddaya know, got dragged to see "the new Justin Timberlake movie" by my girlfriend yesterday. It turned out to be a pretty damn good movie actually. The movie seems very true to life, the thoughts, the emotions, the actions, it all seemed very believable to me. Don't be put off by the fact that Justin Timberlake is in it, he actually did a good job.

The trailer actually doesn't do the movie justice at all, they make it look way too over dramatic:

I'm from Holland...

4000 miles

It was about a month ago that I flew back to Amsterdam from the Caribbean where I had spent a year working at a studio. I have been busy setting up my life here again in Amsterdam, meeting with friends, finding an appartment and moving into the appartment. All the crazyness seems to be clearing up slowly so I will start updating my website more regularly again and posting new work in the near future.

Anti-pirating commercial

Fine, I can't say I don't do it myself, but still this is as close a anti-pirating commercial has ever gotten to me paying attention to it. It's just really funny, the clue is "Original Software Works Better" or something to that extend:

Just Enjoy 2

The 2nd edition of Just Enjoy sold out last Saturday, Just Enjoy is a party concept by Jetreaction Productions that I am glad to do the visuals and part of the concept development for. JE2 selling out is a great motivation after the excellent but far from sold out first installment. The location was different, but still in the same town. Word of mouth was a good thing, the promotion for JE2 worked great, the organization was fantastic and afterall... the concept really worked!

I'll be back in Holland for JE3, so it'll be the first of the parties that I will actually be around to see. Maybe we'll come up with something extra special to celebrate!

28 Weeks Later

Went to see the movie "28 Weeks Later" a two days ago. I really enjoyed the first movie in this series called 28 Days Later which was about a virus called "RAGE" that turned humans incredibly blood thirsty, and transferred through blood or saliva. 28 Weeks Later picked up a few months after where the first movie ended, hence the name 28 Weeks Later. Have a look at the trailer:



If you're interested you can see the trailer of the first movie "28 Days Later" here:


Wonder if there is another 3rd installment in the planning. Honestly, I wouldn't be surprised. I think these two movies are some of the most potent horror movies around, combining elements, genres and with a huge potential for experiments.

Pumping On Your Stereo

Wanted to share this delicious video of the banging "Pumping On Your Stereo" song by Supergrass from the UK. I've known this song and it's video since it came out in the 90's, but recently re-found it after I heard the song in a movie soundtrack.

Have a look at this psychedelia meets the puppets meets Alice in Wonderland video, and enjoy the rockin' song!

Website improvements

After some feedback I'll be making some improvements to my website. The main improvement will be the clickable artworks. At the moment you can only see the "letterbox" images of my artworks, but soon they will be clickable with extended information, larger views and in case of commissioned jobs more items within that job.

The problem is the slow internet on this island, and the large quantity of images that need to be uploaded to make these improvements. I am returning back to Holland in the beginning of July of this year, so I might save releasing (uploading) these improvements until I am there.

Superstylin.nl

I launched my personal website on the 1st of May 2007, have a look here: www.superstylin.nl

I think I'm going to start using this blog for general news, thoughts, feelings, plans, rantings etc. pretty much the usual blog stuff.

So, if there's no new news here for a while don't get mad. Instead have a look at my website. There might be some new things there ;)

"Don't Smoke"

This design won me a cash prize in a stock photo manip contest at Fexboards. Don't Smoke.

"She's A Lady"

Design made for my girl for our anniversary, based on 1960's psychedelic gig-poster art. It was also featured in the international artgroup daGroove.

Website Launch

Decided to take part in the May 1st Reboot event. This website/event has been around for I believe six years now. It's a worldwide event where people in the graphic industry submit their new website or new website design all on the same day at the same time.

I had been working on my personal website for about 6 months now, only held back by my annoyance with my lack of knowledge. I am looking for a decent host to put my website on, I'm probably going for Media Temple. It's an obvious choice, but a lot of people are using it so I guess that means something...

Now I'll just have to ask around and figure out how this whole deal goes from having the files on your computer to having a working website. Stay tuned, the website will be uploaded on May 1st 2007 at 2pm GMT on www.superstylin.nl

"Discow Moscow"

This is what happens if a poster would be made in 1979 promoting a Soviet themed disco party using 60's style poster art. Discow Moscow...

Interviewed!!

The good people of design studio Etcetera were so kind to interview me on their website, it turned out to be a very refreshing and useful experience for me which I've learned a lot from.

Read it on Etcetera

"The Groove Project"

"The moonlanding on July 19, 1969 was a hoax. The US never landed there, it was daGroove."

Propaganda poster for daGroove. www.feeldagroove.com / daGroove.deviantart.com

The Digital Funk Initiative

Have a look at daGroove. This is a group of artists who produce packs and magazines based on certain themes of which I am proud to be able to say that I have been a member since summer 2004. November of 2006 marked a big return for this group as they released their first art pack since the summer of 2005 appropriately called "The Comeback". In February 2007 daGroove released their 7th art pack named "Stick To Your Groove" which was a pack of artworks suitable for stickering and the first artpack released in a magazine format with additional information on the artworks and the artists.

You can find the AP7 magazine "Stick To Your Groove" at www.feeldagroove.com/ap7 or visit the website at www.feeldagroove.com

Knows no html.

Artist in desperate search of HTML knowledge. Desire to customize blog header into a .gif image. Good with kids, not so steady income.