This is awesome.
The kind folks at Octopus Books have published a magnificent book of poems from Eric Baus. It’s good stuff. And Eric was kind enough to ask me if I would design the cover. And I DID. You may be thinking it looks familiar. That would make sense. Anyway, it fit like a glove, so we went with it. I like it. They seem to like it. All is well.

So the site is going to look like this until I touch up the Sandbox theme from Andy and Scott (who coded the foundation of the previous version of my site). I really love the super-simple foundation that they’ve provided, and the (apparent) simplicity of customizing the appearance with just CSS and no screwing with the PHP or any of that madness.

We’ll see how it goes.

Leo’s Aunt Zoe knitted *KNITTED* that fish sweater for him, and made the pants, as well. Unbelievable.

This is going to be great. Be sure to get there early. At least 5:00. At Philbrook.

We have limited seating in the main auditorium. It is first-come, first-served.
Overflow seating will be in a room with a live video feed.
No food. Eat before you get there. Cash bar.
ADCT and Philbrook members are free. Non-members are $7.50.
Semi-annual ADCT memberships will be available for $50 at the door.

EVEN if Mr. Kidd doesn’t see Tulsa as important enough to mention on his website, we’re excited. I saw him speak in Dallas for the DSVC back in 2003 or 04. I don’t know. Anyway, it was really great. During the question and answer portion of the evening, I felt compelled to ask something… poignant. I wanted to ask something creative and compelling, but still somewhat ironic, or self-effacing.

Of course, at the time, I knew exactly NO ONE at the lecture. I was sitting completely by myself and when I stood up to ask the question I was immediately beet red. And so I asked: “If Chip Kidd were a car… what kind of car would you be?”

The entire room of about 300 people immediately stopped what they were doing and stared directly into my increasingly reddening face.

Silence.

Mr. Kidd seemed kind of “put off” by the question. And while it was, on some level, my intention to catch him off guard, I hadn’t properly considered the consequences of such. He took a couple of seconds, which felt like about an hour, to muster his answer.

“I’d be a d!©k-mobile. A f*#king d!©k-mobile.”

The end. Wow. Ok. I pretended to make a note in my sketchbook and quickly sat down. Everyone was trying to laugh without laughing. It was awful and amazingly awesome at the same time. I was kind of proud of myself for doing something I would normally NEVER EVER do. Anyway. The thing ended and everyone went home.

Then the DSVC had their year-end meeting a few months later, and started off with a re-cap quiz. To my surprise, one of the questions was, “Who said that if they were a car, they would be a f*#king d!©k-mobile?” It was the most glorious recognition of my utterly stupid that I could have ever asked for. I still count it amongst my favorite memories.

I won’t likely ask a question this time.

YES YES YES YES!!!

I’m so excited about this. Clay (of gigposters.com) got in touch with people about this (super-super-secret) book project a long time ago. FINALLY, it’s available for pre-0rder from gigposters.com. Buy a bunch of them. Please. And I would be remiss if I didn’t mention that there on the waaaaay lower right-hand corner of the FRONT COVER of the book is MY MELVINS POSTER. Awesome. I’m so psyched.

Go here for more information: http://www.gigposters.com/book/

A long old time ago, I got an email from the people at Maomao Publications putting together this book asking me to submit some work, and I got my complimentary copy just the other day. Here it is! I’m so stoked!

As you can see, the work featured is the poster for Kristin Martincic’s gallery show at Tugboat, as well as the multi-colored poster for Of Montreal playing at the Conservatory in OKC. Needless to say this is totally cool.

The book is packed with really awesome work from all over the world, as well as really insightful information regarding color theory. It’s a really cool book. But then again, I’m kind of biased.
For more information, visit maomao publications and choose English, and then New Releases.

I change my desktop pretty frequently. Here’s the first one of 2009 on my laptop.

You can download it and use it yourself HERE. It’s 1440x900px, so you may have to adjust it to fit your monitor, but you’re a smart fella. You can do it.

19″x25″
3 color screenprint
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