4 years ago this 21 year old kid told me he was gonna change the world, here it is 4 years later, at 25 years old, i think it's safe to say mark zuckerberg has changed the world, david fincher is in talks to direct the movie about facebook, i asked mark if i make a cameo, if william hung or bobby lee can play me. i got the cobwebs off the whip, and took a cruise in the Lincoln. i paid for this car ,cash money after gambling for 36 hours straight. even though this is a shitty camera flick, it's one of my favorite photo's cuz it shows bros being bros. two of my favorite comedians ,yoshi obayashi and russell peters, with his brother clayton at russells new house in the hills before his canadian tour.... fuck canada joe to and ely kim, these two look like bro's but they are not. saelee oh,caroline hwang and Ely kim visited me and joe in the studio last year before my london show, and we watched ely get down, if you havent seen ely get down on it, watch this
i'm going back to cali, later this month for work and relaxation. I havent figured out my route yet but i need to go to L.A. , san diego, mexico, the bay area and of course las vegas, maybe vegas, the bay,l.a., s.d., and then vegas again? i dont know i'll figure it out i first met the guys at GIANT ROBOT over a decade ago at san diego comicon this year giant robot turns 15. we are gonna have limited skatedecks and a new version of my wood toy called, WOMBAT. i dont know how many or how much the decks are gonna be, but the toy is limited to an edition of 200 and will be around $60. This might be your only chance to get this stuff, if it sells out. i'll be there to sign some shit, at the giant robot booth, but mostly i'll just be wandering around. i need to find a copy of this Comic-Con International: San Diego 2009
All Memberships Are Sold Out!
JULY 23-26 Preview Night: July 22
San Diego Convention Center 111 W. Harbor Drive San Diego, CA 92101
the con has been sold out for months, but i been sneaking in every year, it doesnt take a genius to figure it out. so figure it out. and nerd out.
It’s 7 a.m. in new york, I haven’t slept in two days ,I’m working on my 300 page book(out next year with chronicle) I’ll probably go to sleep in a few hours(or maybe not, they have a good shrimp burrito at broadway east on the weekend), in the meantime I’m filtering through decades of art, photo’s and stories, so here’s some random old shit from back in the day, with some new shit from this week in new york city.
Some wood sculptures from the first show at GR2 in l.a. (by the way I haven’t gone to san diego comic con in 5 years, but I’ll be there later this month, I have two different limited versions of my wood toys and 2 limited skate decks with giant robot, both will probably only be available at the con, see you fellownerds there!) this is one of the skateboard designs kevin ancell, the perverted mickey avalon, and another pervert, at the MGM for the last BJ Penn fight. Kevin is one of the best artists in the world , but more important than that ,he’s one of the best dudes ever, he’s a drifter like me, so I can relate to him better than old married people, if I was a chick I’d probably marry him and we’d be even more fucked up then woody allen and Soon-Yi(by the way I saw the third installment in the trilogy of: old salty and vinegary,bitter white man teamed up with young, lost ,looking for guidance kid, becomes an unlikely friendship movie, which was 1) gran torino 2)UP by pixar, and the one i just saw, 3) whatever works, the larry david/woody allen movie, and you know woody wanted to make the lead girl, asian ,but everyone would’ve frowned , he shouldve made her asian). Here’s a little bit about Kevin
JJ, Horny Kim, Pat, and Eric, at the Penn fight. My mom cooks an amazing Korean dinner in Koreatown, los angeles, for all the lost boys and lost souls and those who have halitosis of the heart. Harry kim, eric nakamura, bobby namba, james jean, and Mr. Hahn
Here’s some down and dirty quick watercolor sketches from new york Supermodel,and all around cool chick, Erin Wasson , changing in front of us, showing off her new clothes line for RVCA at the Barney’s HQ in midtown I’ve never seen a girl so lost in the city before, I don’t know if she was lost or homeless, but she looked like she had stepped out of an Charles Lutwidge Dodgson novel or tim burton movie from the 80’s. I felt like I just wanted to give her a giant bag of candy laced with elf tears and a giant horse made out of taffy and cotton candy to carry her out of this city, and this time period on giant mammatusclouds back to where she belongs, but I just drew her instead. I got to be completely honest, I actually feel like total shit because when these old identical twins got on the L, wearing the same exact clothes, even at their age, I did the typical Korean pre-judging ,and the first thing I thought was, Danny DeVito from the movie twins, and his rant about being the genetic shit and Arnold being the genetic gold, and I thought here’s two genetic shit’s. and I couldn’t stop looking at them. I saw them be completely loving to each other, how they touched and talked to each other, with patience,kindness,and tenderness. I could see they were totally dependent on each other, and I got sad thinking one of them might die before the other one, and they were so brotherly to each other, and I loved them too, and they were not genetic shit, and neither was danny devito in that movie and/or in life Chizzzzzed in china town (maybe one of the best drawings I’ve ever done in my life)
My mom dropped by new york this week, so she made me breakfast every morning, with a little drawing, and I took her back to see Bacon with my bro. On her last day she cooked for us and my friend mike namba , and my niece Maya.(Mr. Hahn gave me this Mickey Mouse zombie brains t-shirt, that my mom stole from me, and wears all the time now, after i threw all her ed hardy bullshit out) Maya got down on the drums likeMeg White,she got so worked up she had to take a nap standing up. When she woke up , she was like,"what the fuck !? who told you to stop partying?!?!"and she started to scream, LET’S KEEP PARTYING!!!!!!!! So we did
Here’s the complete partylist: YALL SO STUPID-introduce me DIZZEE RASCAL- sirens GARY NUMAN -M.E. LIL WAYNE -shoot me down SONIC YOUTH- drunken butterfly THE GZA -liquid swords YO LA TENGO -our way to fall HANG ON THE BOX -no sexy GUNS N ROSES -rocket queen DEPECHE MODE -taking a ride with my best friend STEELHEART- Ill never let you go (angel eyes) TRIBE CALLED QUEST -buggin out SUPERCHUNK -Connecticut KORN- porno creep THE CONCRETES -foreign country MONEY MARK -sometimes you gotta make it alone APHEX TWIN -alberto balsam ANDREW WK -I get wet KEITH FORSEY - love theme (breakfast club soundtrack)
AXIS BOLD AS FUCK!! I remember listening to the ,wind cries mary, for the first time over and over, again studying the words, the background snare noises, the rhythm and guitars ,till it drove my ,in the closet at the time roommate insane enough to throw my alarm clock tape player against the wall, smashing it to pieces. After I smashed his head against the wall leaving the embossed wallpaper pattern imprinted on his forehead, I grabbed all my blue cans, and proceeded to paint all the streetlights blue, for tomorrow. I fell asleep with the sun coming up blue paint all over my clothes, face and hands. The sounds of confused traffic horns in the background. "The traffic lights they turn blue tomorrow And shine their emptiness down on my bed, The tiny island sags downstream 'Cos the life they'd lived is dead."-JIMI HENDRIX That’s jimi Hendrix, he fucking ripped the shit out of life and then died My fellow left handed bro died when he was only 27 years old. This extremely limited print is of the legend jimi hendrix, in all his glory and inspired madness, there will only be 27 editions of this giclee’ print, at $600 plus shipping, all signed numbered, and left handed guitar drawn on some of the prints, I already gave 8 of them away to friends and family, so really there’s only 19 left. This print would not be for my ex-roomate ,You will really have to like Jimi or have manic depression for this one, my largest print to date, the print will be reproduced the same size as the original 4 foot painting on, Breathing Color's Elegance Velvet Platinum Edition ,It’s a high end digital water color paper at ,44" x 51 5/8" . Longtime family friends the namba’s ,will be producing this bad boy, 30 years in the business with top secret custom silk screening techniques, look for totally mental prints in the future. For this JIMI print Contact bobby namba at bnamba@live.com, the prints are huge so expect at least 3 weeks for delivery. He will be handling all orders and sales . he’s in l.a. I’m in new york ,Don’t email or call me, I cant help you. be nice to bobby and he'll be nice to you.
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