I haven’t done much artwork in the past few years but tonight I decided to spend sometime doing something. I think maybe I’ve done one thing for “fun” in the past year, maybe only a couple others over the past three years since I stopped designing full time. I’d say I am going to get back into it but we’ll see..

Check out the Summer Time short I did….

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I have always been somewhat up and down on this band. Their first record on FBR release had some good tracks and for a while i wasn’t into the second album Santi.. After a while it grew on me a bit though I never could get into the singers voice on that album, but they wrote really good songs.

This new record though seems to be right where they need to be. The singer seems to have found his voice and the band seems to have found the style that fits perfectly for them. Below is a track that I am digging. Enjoy.

I used to never understand pop-art. I guess I grew up in a conservative suburb where life is more of a bubble than real. Recently I have became a huge fan of pop art and specifically a fan of what a few different artists in London have been accomplishing.

Banksy is one such artist that I am really into. Banksy is a well revered graffiti artist in London, perhaps the most famous in the world. The article below describes him and his work as “To some a genius, to others a vandal. Always controversial, he inspires admiration and provokes outrage in equal measure” [The Daily Mail].

Banksys work is always controversial as well as creative, innovative and full of talent. He is worth checking out at his website below.

View Banksy’s website here

I will be publishing some other photographers and pop artists work here in the near future. I hope you enjoy.

So back to the movie, Heath Ledger was amazing. The only scene where I really believed it was him was the part where he tried to shoot the Mayor during his speech and was disguised as a cop with no makeup. I got 5 bucks on Ledger winning an Oscar for this. Okay 10 bucks.

I didn’t like Katie Holmes in Batman Beyond - but I’ll take her any day over the new “Rachel”, Maggie Gyllenhall. Okay, I’m being mean - shes a good actress. But she’s really really ugly. Sorry I’m dissing your sister Jake. It is what it is. The leading lady, especially one being fought over between two successful hot men, should be a dime piece. Don’t read this next line if you haven’t watched the movie - but maybe that’s why she blew into pieces at the end.

Overall it was awesome. I can’t wait to see it again at an IMAX theater. I’m watching Gotham Knight now (the anime series that just came out on dvd. 6 episodes from different animators telling different stories of what happened between Batman Beyond and Dark Knight. ) I’ll let you know how this goes later.

Patty

Christian - YUM

Heath - YUM

Maggie - Not YUM

I just started using Posterous.com to help me post blogs while I’m on the road and running around everywhere. Used it for the first time yesterday night while at HardLA festival. Overall I’m pretty impressed. Check out my link to the right under Jason’s Twitter.  Posterous is pretty easy to use and actually allows someone to blog from their mobile phone and automatically post it online. I think twitter is cool - but it’s definately a novelty features, specifically because you only have 140 characters to work with and isn’t really considered a micro-blogging tool. Posterous is a micro - blogging tool because via your smart phone, someone just has to send their blog via email to post@posterous.com and the company will recognize it’s coming from your email and post your blog instantly to your posterous site.  Even more impressive, you can send photos and music to post on your blog. Check out the ringtone I sent in to post@posterous.com as an attachment. The ringtone was posted on my posterous site through their own propriety audio player.

The company is new (from what I know so far) and still doesn’t have the ability for one to customize their site. If they got that straightened out and also allowed adversting on Posterous sites — then I’ll REALLY have an incentive to micro blog via their platform all the time. Either that or wordpress needs to figure this out - so that their bloggers (me) can easily add blogs via mobile, considering I find myself on my phone more then on the computer these days.

Patty

The Crew is going to HardFest at the Shrine tonight. 9pm to 4am OPEN BAR!! Pretty excited to see NERD. Saw them at SXSW this year - they were pretty awesome. Only complaint was that there were so many damn people on the stage I couldn’t even find Pharell half the time. Damn entourages. Tomorrow if you don’t see a blog from any of us - then you know we had a blast and are recovering somewhere on the beach. I’m going to send live time pics and blog updates from the show on to my Posterous account - check out my Blog on the Go section to the right. Click on that to check up on my updates from the night.

Patty