This is the cover to a note book I wrote poetry in over the summer.

One time a bee flew between the cover and the first page, so I squished him, then glued him there, and named him for his sacrifice.

Listen to this song and you’ll really understand the name.

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Pedro Bell is the artist that did the artwork for the Funkadelic and George Clinton album covers.  His stuff is amazing.  I’ve searched up and down for a book of his work but have never been able to find anything anywhere.  I’ve made as comprehensive a catalog as I’ve been able to below.  The work is in no particular order, but it is all great.  There are a couple images that may not be his, but still good.  There were liner notes that he wrote too, but I can’t find them. They’re good. I will update this as I find more. Yip Yip.

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Made these paintings last night, not sure how, but they represent everything I think about birthdays. Fuck it, Siamese Dream time. Art show July 22nd. Coming up fast. Coming up HARD!! Click images for larger/detail.

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I found this book used yesterday. It is a series of sketches on place mats from restaurants while waiting for food by Robert Crumb. It’s called Waiting For Food. Volume 3. Below are my favorites.

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I went to Montreal for two weeks, shot scenes for my movie, did a bunch of drugs, got obsessed with the word Triangle, came back to Toronto and made these paintings. Their shit.

It’s hard to size these images properly in this layout but if you click the images they will open at a proper size in a new window.

ALL MEN ARE FEMINISTS AND ALL FEMINISTS ARE DOGS - acrylic, oil pastel and spray paint on bristol board.

HANS THE MATH HORSE – acrylic, oil pastel and spray paint on bristol board.

TRIANGLES - acrylic, oil pastel and spray paint on bristol board.

TRIANGLES 2 – acrylic, oil pastel and spray paint on bristol board.

TIMMY AND THE TECHNOCRATS – acrylic, oil pastel and spray paint on bristol board.

VENA CAVA – acrylic, oil pastel and spray paint on bristol board.

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FILIPPO TOMMASO MARINETTI.  1909.

MANIFESTO OF FUTURISM

1. We want to sing the love of danger, the habit of energy and rashness.
2. The essential elements of our poetry will be courage, audacity and revolt.
3. Literature has up to now magnified pensive immobility, ecstasy and slumber. We want to exalt movements of aggression, feverish sleeplessness, the double march, the perilous leap, the slap and the blow with the fist.
4. We declare that the splendor of the world has been enriched by a new beauty: the beauty of speed. A racing automobile with its bonnet adorned with great tubes like serpents with explosive breath … a roaring motor car which seems to run on machine-gun fire, is more beautiful than the Victory of Samothrace.
5. We want to sing the man at the wheel, the ideal axis of which crosses the earth, itself hurled along its orbit.
6. The poet must spend himself with warmth, glamour and prodigality to increase the enthusiastic fervor of the primordial elements.
7. Beauty exists only in struggle. There is no masterpiece that has not an aggressive character. Poetry must be a violent assault on the forces of the unknown, to force them to bow before man.
8. We are on the extreme promontory of the centuries! What is the use of looking behind at the moment when we must open the mysterious shutters of the impossible? Time and Space died yesterday. We are already living in the absolute, since we have already created eternal, omnipresent speed.
9. We want to glorify war — the only cure for the world — militarism, patriotism, the destructive gesture of the anarchists, the beautiful ideas which kill, and contempt for woman.
10. We want to demolish museums and libraries, fight morality, feminism and all opportunist and utilitarian cowardice.
11. We will sing of the great crowds agitated by work, pleasure and revolt; the multi-colored and polyphonic surf of revolutions in modern capitals: the nocturnal vibration of the arsenals and the workshops beneath their violent electric moons: the gluttonous railway stations devouring smoking serpents; factories suspended from the clouds by the thread of their smoke; bridges with the leap of gymnasts flung across the diabolic cutlery of sunny rivers: adventurous steamers sniffing the horizon; great-breasted locomotives, puffing on the rails like enormous steel horses with long tubes for bridle, and the gliding flight of aeroplanes whose propeller sounds like the flapping of a flag and the applause of enthusiastic crowds.

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A couple new paintings. Acrylic/spray paint on Bristol board.

YELLOWHEAD.

PARTY PETE (70$).

PIP PIP.

Here is how the bristol board looks framed.

HORSE FACE…..SOLD.

FAYDRA…..SOLD.

100 dollars no frame. 150 with frame.

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This is a collection of concept sketches for the movie Labyrinth starring David Bowie.  I love this damn movie, and finding this book in the library was pretty exciting. The images are drawn by Brian Froud, with adjoining descriptions of the goblins by Terry Jones (From Monty Python fame, and here’s a little fact to stuff in your bonnet, Terry Jones was also the writer of the screenplay.)

Some of the descriptions are pretty funny. Here are some of my favorites from the book. You get the sense throughout the book that Brian Froud would send a series of images too Terry Jones and he would make quick descriptions based solely on the image.  Pretty fun stuff. First you get the image, and then you get the description. My favorites are Boink and Fowler.  Go forth and ENJOY!!!

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