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Scrappers putting on the final touches during the G1988 Grass Hut Show installation 2/3/10

2/6/10 Metal Mad at GRNY

2/13/10 Year of the Tiger at GR2

10/24/09 Giant Robot Biennale 2: 15 years art exhibition and celebration
I have a new piece on display at this amazing event at the Japanese American National Museum. I will be in attendance early - maybe around 7:30 to 8:30
All the info is here.

* Thank you Eric Nakamura

10/24/09 Mixed Species x Lucky Nakazawa
Now I can show you guys! They say if you see a jackalope in the wild it's good luck. Mixed Species proves it's true with the release of this beautifully done collaboration t-shirt with my art work. Available now through their Etsy store. The printing and t-shirt quality are seriously top-notch. WILL MAKE YOU SEXY and BAD ASS. Check out the Mixed Species link here to purchase.

9/25/09 Bad Fortune Fail Cat

9/15/09 Updated Lucky Nakazawa

This is what you get when your digital camera goes bad.

8/15/09 DRUNKEN MASTER ISSUE 11 OUT NOW
DM11 has the next installment of the Prize MMA saga, interview with LA rocker Sid Brown and a plethora of art only seen previously at art shows. You can order your own copy of DM 11 for $4. plus $1.50 shipping and handling per copy. I accept personal checks (just contact me first) and paypal at dmz777[at]gmail.com. First 50 orders will get a free bonus surprise print included with their order. BAM!

Drunken Master zine issue 11. 60pgs b+w. Color cover. 7" x 9.25"

Drunken Master issue 11 also available at these fine stores in the LA area ...
Meltdown
7522 Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles CA 90046

Skylight Books
1818 N. Vermont Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90027

Secret Headquarters
3817 W Sunset Blvd Los Angeles, CA 90026

Comics Factory
1298 E Colorado Blvd, Pasadena, CA 91106

Golden Apple
7018 Melrose Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90038

BTW that's red ink on my drawing table... not blood.

8/7/09 I will have some prints available at GR2
Junk In The Trunk
August 15/16
GR2
2062 Sawtelle Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90025

8/7/09 I will be exhibiting in Melbourne Australia.
Galaxy Trio
August 15th
Outré Gallery
249 Elizabeth St.
Melbourne VIC 3000, Australia

I am exhibiting in Melbourne Australia at Outré Gallery with Bwana Spoons and Martin Ontiveros. This is a very exciting show for me as both Bwana and Martin are my bros and I hold both in high esteem.

Little Tokyo
Ink on Paper. 25" x 11"

8/7/09
Tonight at Grass Hut
Inkwads

I'm in a group show tonight in PDX! Grass Hut art market. Grass Hut
811 EAST BURNSIDE
PORTLAND OR 97214
www.grasshutcorp.com

The artists I will be showing with are emerging super talents Brent Wick, Tom Neely, John Black and Hellen Jo.

Miss Cosmos 2012
ink on paper 15" x 22"

Even After You Kill Me
Ink on paper. 15" x 22"

My Programming Changed
Ink on paper. 15" x 22"

8/7/09
Razorcake 50th Anniversary Cover
Sorry this is a very late post!

4/27/09

I got to do the cover art for Razorcake's 50th issue anniversary. This is the kind of work you live for. I can't show it just yet because the cover story is always a secret until the fanzine streets, in this case mid May. I can leak a teaser image of the issue for you though and I encourage all of you to pick up the issue at your local news stand, magazine/book store or punk zine rack or order direct from the source. If you are into DIY punk rock, excellent writing and the independent press you should check this rag out. Highly reccomended by Drunken Master.

These are some pics of the custom figures I have been doing recently for different art shows.

Standing roughly 6 inches tall this figure is covered with human hair adhered with acrylic polymer. The eye is a found object (a taxidermy eye probably for stuffed fish) as is the veneer of teeth which you can get at any good joke or disguise shop. If you take a close look at the teeth below you can get a sense of how short all the hairs are since there are a few strays hanging around like so much spinach.

This piece was a huge learning process for me since I had never painted a vinyl figure before. I have to admit that this isn't the most original approach in the world. The eyes can use a litle more attention and I should have done something to set it apart - make it my custom, rather than a paint job. If you have any appreciation for Japanese vinyl toy monsters (kaiju) than this sculpt produced by Gargamel has a lot to offer but I'd like to take another crack sometime to really do something ... more engaging. I was stoked to do it and now I have been bitten by the custom vinyl toy bug! I need more!

roughly 6.5 inches tall ? (I forgot to measure). Acrylic ink on clear vinyl. You get a whole new level of respect for custom painters after attempting, and nearly failing, to do your own simple paint job. I think I'm going to stick with human hair again on the next one.

I recently had the opportunity to do some letter press printing at Fugu Fugu Press in Pasadena. They are a small indi printing company that specializes in greeting cards and special one of a kind art print jobs like wedding invitations and birth announcements. While most peole are trying to move into the future with digital on-demand web printing or other forms of digital off set printing this young couple has gone the opposite direction with their approach using vintage letter press machines and an old school hands on D.I.Y. work ethic. The print shop consists of husband / wife team of Ken and Shino and also their dog Morgan. Shino has a succesful illustration background that blends well with Ken's mechanical adeptness. The machines they use are ancient, make beautiful pressings and are probably a bit illegal by todays work safety standards. Don't use these machines while on cold medicine.

A Chandler Price press machine that works just as good as it did almost a hundred years ago. Keep your hands out of there.

Shino works on another print machine in their studio. It's a later machine and is the Model T to the Chandler price's horse drawn buggy. Shino looks like she's driving a steam powered locomotive or something. Next stop, the olden days - choo choo!

Ken, like the lion tamer in a circus, is master of machines. Check out the stiched leather timing belt on the large left wheel.

You gotta stay sharp or say good bye to your delicate drawing hand. It's difficult to tell in this photo but their is a stamping process about to come down where my right hand is and meanwhile the giant wheel of misfortune is spinning by my left hand. Love might be scary but art is dangerous.

It was an amazing experience and the prints came out really nice with that unmistakeable signiture embossing that can only be truly appreciated when you hold a print in your hands. Sometimes it boggles the mind to consider how much printing was done on these machines before everything went digital and you gotta wonder how those old printers were able to do it so fast.

I am happy to announce the completion of my first poster for Pancrase of Japan. For those that aren't familiar, Pancrase is a Japan based Mixed Martial Arts organization similar to the U.S.'s Ultimate Fighting Championship. They have been around for years and I have always been a fan of watching their fights whenever I could. Their roster of world renowned fighters includes Bas Rutten, Josh Barnett, Frank shamrock, Ken Shamrock, Masakatsu Funaki and Yuki Kondo to name a few.

My good friends in Japan Yutaka Taguchi and Kiyoka Ikeda were able to organize the project and act as translators. Another friend from the same gang in Japan, Hiroaki Okada AKA Chanmen, did the design work utilizing my illustration. He did a great job and I couldn't be happier. I'm looking forward to doing two more posters for Pancrase later his year.

2/4/10 Upcoming shows

2/4/10 Gallery 1988 - TONIGHT

9/25/09 Bad Fortune Fail Cat

9/15/09 Updated Lucky Nakazawa