 This is a drawing/painting I did for a little booklet of art inspired by Where the Wild Things Are. I drew my brother as Max since my brother seemed transformed by his anger and recently returned to me. Being in this book was a huge honor. Among the other artists are Tony Millionaire, Shintaro Kago, Matt Thurber, Ben Jones, Hellen Jo, Lisa Hanawalt and other people who blow my mind. Check out the other artists who were involved in the project at the 24 Artists Inspired by Where the Wild Things Are website. You can download a PDF of the book and download my image as an iPhone wallpaper image. You can even read an interview they conducted with me.  Here's the cover.  Here's my page.  The Front  The Back When I first met Franz he was working at Cosimic Cantina, serving tacos to NYU kids. I recognized him as the accordion player from World/Inferno Friendship Society and soon he was teaching me the instrument. When my moustache got long enough he gave me my first moustache wax. Now he's in a popular band called the Holdsteady who were referenced on Lost and opened for the Rolling Stones. He asked me to do album art for him and i did the front and back covers as well as those center circle stickers and a fold-out poster of this image. You can pre-order the record from Team Science Records.   I did this for the Spider bags, You can pre-order it here.  I didn't do the record cover, just this page for a little booklet that comes with a limited edition version of the album. The Intellectuals are a fun Italian band that make hyper stuff. Their last album was boss and it was neat to get to do art for them. There are 300 copies of their record that come with the added bonuses of a CD and a zine. You can buy it here for fifteen euros if you're in Europe or eighteen if you're outside of Europe. See the original drawing in more close up detail here.  A few months back I did a tour poster for King Khan and the Shrines and Golden Triangle's 2009 tour. They made it into a T-shirt that was given to the bands. I got mine the other day.  Buy buy buy from Mishka.  You can get it in black, green, or white.  One of my favorite modern rockers, Jay Reatard, asked me to do a tour poster and shirt for him. If you go to one of the shows on the Shattered Records Tour you can buy the poster and shirt I made. It was a big honor for me since I relate heavily to the violent paranoia of his lyrics and draw while listening to his music.  Here I am wearing this shirt. You can buy it on his tour. I don't think it's for sale on the internet yet.  I did my first sketch for this on January 14th 2008. I drew the final thing on August 18th, 2008. Now you can finally wear it.  It's part of the fall line from California based company, Rockett. You can buy it here.  My cute and talented eighteen year old friend Ines Estrada from Mexico came and visited me a couple months back and we did a bunch of drawings which are now available for you to own in a book which we titled Chinga Whatever. This is the info of what it is and how to get it. Buy it here. Compilation of all the drawings Nicholas Gazin and Inés did when they met, one afternoon at Cakeshop NY!! ▲ Contains 8 pages of full color drawings, in beautiful cream, thick and smooth paper and printed with pigment based ink. ▲ Each book comes numbered, inside a little folder-box (3 different designs) and with a limited edition sticker (5 different designs). ▲ 4 x 4 in, staple bound SUPER LIMITED EDITION PRODUCTION! hand made, limited to 30 copies.  INES SEZ THAT YOU SHOULD SPEND YOUR UNEMPLOYMENT CHECK ON IT.
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 1000 Homo DJs - Supernaut (1990) Al Jourgensen, Trent Reznor and Jello Biafra are known contributors to this project. The rest? A mystery. Kooky industrial. 02  The Kids of Widney High - Special Music From Special Kids (1989) Would you like to hear a record of mentally retarded high schoolers singing about insects, cars and taking out your trash? Now you can do that. This is supposedly one of Mike Patton's favorite bands. You better watch out or the insects will get you. 03  The Beatle Barkers(1993) It's a Beatles covers album except instead of vocals there are dogs, pigs and chickens n' things. And instead of you not having your mind blown, your mind is blown. 04  The Delfonics - The Delfonics(1970) This is a soul record that gets loud and quiet and is epic as hell. 05  The Gorilla Biscuits - Start Today Somehow I didn't listen to these guys ever before but I like them a lot now. 06  Pailhead - Trait(1988) I'm guessing that Nobunny takes his name from the last track on this record. It's Ian Mackaye and Al Jourgensen making music together.  The first episode of the web show that Matt and I make for Mishka is on their site now. It's an interview I did with Nobunny. If you like it please leave a comment on the Mishka blog about it.  This is art that I am donating to a charity fundraising book and art show to help out Bill Mantlo, creator of the Rom comic series and victim of a hit and run. Read more about what this is all about here. I'm unsure if the nudity is acceptable or not. |
  
I haven't submitted any photos. I guess I don't want free money.
                            
Who lives in a Pineapple under The Sea? Some say it is Spongebob and they may be right. Nick Gazin lives in an anbandoned Polish dentistry shed and calls himself The Toilet Cobra on the internet. His influences include The British Invasion, ska t-shirts (but not ska bands!) and Superman IV. He recently became friends with Napalm Death. Skinheads have commented on the size of his dong.
-Written by Matthew Caron |
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