I sold merch For Dinosaur Jr a couple weeks ago in Cape Cod. Then I wrote about it for Impose Magazine. Read the rest of this entry »

Caught up with some Brooklyn homies and headed to Wizard World Philly this weekend. Did merch for Kaiju Big Battel, and checked in at Space 1026 to see the Matthew Palladino and Eric Shaw show. Visited Ben Sisto’s Brooklyn studio on Sunday. a couple more pics after the jump. Read the rest of this entry »

Official Cut&Paste Barcelona website here. More Spain pics after the jump. Read the rest of this entry »

The Berlin show was bananas. The owner of the venue, a warehouse turned club, was riding his motorbike around while we were setting up. The crowd was really lively, and weren’t bashful about expressing their opinions. More Germany after the jump. Read the rest of this entry »

London was stop two on the tour. I had the pleasure of meeting a ton of rad people, and totally had the confidence to speak their native language! Here is the link to the official London Cut&Paste web page. More London flicks after the jump. Read the rest of this entry »

Amsterdam was the first stop on my European Cut&Paste adventure. The venue was this beautiful canal-side building with Louisiana paddle-boat type architecture inside. I had an oppertunity to quickly catch-up with Femke Hiemstra, who is a crazy-talented painted, in-tune with the Ice Cream People community. Official Cut&Paste Amsterdam web page here.

First off, Dan Deacon hates this poster. Specifically the way I drew him. (I’m sorry man, I draw everyone grotesque!) The flyer was for one of the shows I threw at Mass Art, in conjunction with BOWAAC and Urban Monsters. First Time I met Mr. Deacon was at the Avalon in Boston, when he was opening for Girl Talk. I was around because I was painting this wild roadside DKM mural on the back of the club, and I overheard Dan talking about the band Neptune. I interrupted to announce they’d be playing later that night at the Milky Way in JP. I went to that Neptune show, and sure enough Dan Deacon jumped on the roster last-minute for a midnight neon-skull freak-out!

The Ultimate Reality show advertised above was a blast, Jimmy Joe Roche had made visuals for the tour, and Deacon was providing the score. I remember they wanted to push the sound up to 11. Lots of concern over the volume. Local heroes Ho-Ag and Big Digits opened, alongside my pal Dank of Main Fader.

After the Boston Cut&Paste, I spent some time in Brooklyn. I was trying out for their Traveling Production Assistant position at the New York event in Webster Hall. It was bananas! Sold out the 1500 person capacity venue. It was packed and sweaty and charged! People from the audience were heckling the designers for typography related issues. “Your kerning sucks!” type stuff. Big-Ups to my man Tunde Ogunnoiki, for coming up to NY from Atlanta to compete. Read the rest of this entry »

As an alumni of the 2007 Digital Design Tournament Cut&Paste, I had to get involved when I heard it was returning to Boston in 09. I synced up with my friend Kristen, and scored the title of Design Ambassador for the event. Which ment we were responsible for assembling all the calls for talent, test rounds, judges, themes, and comunity outreach. Quite the responsibility, but absolutely worth it. It was great to feel out the Boston Design scene, both emerging and professional. In the photo above, Chris Piascik, Dan “Props” Amalbert, Kyle Brandse, and Matt W. Moore addressing the crowd.