i want to do everything

Samples!!!

2008-07-17T02:02:04Z

Today I had not one but TWO packages waiting for me at my front door. I got my samples from DMB and shirt.woot. It was like Christmas!

DMB girl's jacket

Detail of the jacket. They used a metallic gold ink that's slightly raised (puffy paints?). It looks really sharp!

Sea Wolves from shirt.woot is still available... http://shirt.woot.com/Friends.aspx?k=6034

Detail of Sea Wolves

DMB

2008-07-11T03:10:33Z

I did a couple of designs for Dave Matthews Band a bit ago, and got a free ticket (and bought two tickets for my sisters) to go see them play at one of the summer tour shows. Today I found out that we get to sit in the band's guest seating area AND we have access to the hospitality lounge! I'm pretty amped to go (hello, free food), and my sisters are super excited. My oldest sister started crying when I told her about it because she's such a big DMB fan. Ha!

How cool is this??

2008-07-09T03:04:22Z

Christian Finnegan wearing my shirt... at the Hannibal Rising premier?

Swimming Machine

2008-06-08T22:36:11Z

Lately, the nerdz have been taking over the community pool. One nerd at a time will sit by the pool with a laptop and a swimming machine. If anybody knows what it is, please tell me.

(I had to sneak in that shot from upstairs so he couldn't see me)

bloodstone_ @ 2008-06-07T15:18:00

2008-06-07T22:20:11Z

Went to a house show last night with Robby and Mark. It was surprisingly not bad and I got to see some old friends that I haven't seen in forever. Later on, Robby and I went over to Native, and were totally under-dressed. It was a pretty fun night, but my legs are sore from all of the walking.

Still waiting for my tires to come in for the new car. Can't wait to get them... I really want to drive my car!

Spindle & Blur (mix)

2008-06-03T02:43:14Z

Here's a mix I made. Let me know if you download it/like it!

Spingle & Blur • 1:02:06 hours • 82.3 mb
1. MGMT • Time To Pretend
2. The Helio Sequence • Hallelujah
3. Styrofoam • Lil' White Boy (feat. Josh Rouse)
4. Daft Punk • Something About Us
5. Sia • Breathe Me (Mylo Remix)
6. Tokyo Police Club • Tessellate (Remixed by Field Music)
7. Hot Chip • Over And Over (Maurice Fulton Remix)
8. The Notwist • Neon Golden (Console Remix)
9. Yppah • In Two, the Weakly
10. Matthew Dear • Don & Sherri (Hot Chip Remix)
11. M.I.A. • Paper Planes (Remix For The Children by ADROCK)
12. Enon • Murder Sounds (Inst. Mix)
13. Depeche Mode • Useless
14. Does It Offend You, Yeah? • Epic Last Song

bloodstone_ @ 2008-06-01T18:57:00

2008-06-02T02:01:01Z

So I got my new (used) car yesterday. I really like it, but on my way home one of the back tires blew out on the 101! I was able to exit in Orcutt and then a police man pulled up next to me and helped me out. I kinda figured the car needed new tires and this is confirmation that they need to be replaced a.s.a.p.

One of my friends found some pictures of the MTV Style Lounge and there are some shots of actors holding up our shirts from CommonThreadz! Awesome.

Here's a miniature shot of the girl from That 70's Show holding up my shirt!

Get Mugged

2008-05-29T04:47:59Z

I'm going to start selling some mugs. nikolina from Threadless bought one and gave me some really great pics (including the one above!). I'm also going to use them as thank you gifts and Christmas presents, haha.

Also, I recently discovered Free The Robots and I'm hooked. Check out their crazy awesome video!

Their entire EP is amazing. I already sent fan mail asking when more stuff is coming out... end of summer, folks!

I got a new car!

2008-05-27T06:33:43Z

Today I put a down payment on a used 2002 Honda Civic EX (5-speed). I told the dealer that I would be back on Saturday to give him another check and to get my hatchback cleaned out for the trade in. I can't wait! The car's pretty awesome. I'll finally have a/c and it even has a sun roof. Good times and it will be a lot better for summer driving. Huzzah!

New Tunes

2008-05-26T20:49:55Z

I made a mix the other day and thought I'd share it with you guys. I'm really digging Free The Robots and ediT. And of course, the new-ish Block head is great.

Fade In • 41:38 minutes • 56.2 mb
1. Blockhead • Coloring Book
2. Wax Tailor • I Don't Know
3. Free The Robots • Diary
4. Psapp • About Fun
5. Flying Lotus • Auntie's Lock/Infinitum (feat Laura Darlington)
6. Sonmi • Bad Days Revisited
7. Mahjongg • The Stubborn Horse
8. ediT • Ltlp
9. Lali Puna • 50 Faces Of
10. Free The Robots • Yoga Fire
11. Blockhead • Cheer Up You're Not Dead Yet

bloodstone_ @ 2008-05-26T00:01:00

2008-05-26T07:05:33Z

I've spent the weekend being a hermit and working on more design stuff. I've also been looking around for a new (to me) car. I'm looking to get a used Honda... hopefully I find something good!

Also, a friend showed me something pretty cool today. There's an artist called Pogo that sampled sounds from Disney's Alice in Wonderland and made some awesome electronica tracks out of them! It's pretty sweet and you can download all of the tracks here.

Watch the video – it's even more impressive seeing the animation with the music.

bloodstone_ @ 2008-05-21T18:16:00

2008-05-22T01:16:45Z

I ordered some stickers for promo and they came in today. Woooo!! I'm going to start throwing them in with orders for prints and mugs. And maybe just pass 'em out :-)

bloodstone_ @ 2008-05-15T18:31:00

2008-05-16T01:34:54Z

This weekend is Wine Fest in Paso! Tomorrow I might get to leave work early so we can go to the special reserve tasting (hello, expensive wines). Then on Saturday I'm going to the main Wine Fest event with my mom and maybe my sister. It's supposed to be 100 degrees! Hopefully I won't melt. I got four free passes from work and they're $125 each... yowza. Regardless of the heat and the drunkards, it should be fun.

My allergies have been out of control this week. I feel like I'm dying.

There was a little bit of drama with this new non-profit organization. Trying to sort things out with that AND do other freelance projects all while having a full time job. I think this means I'm not going to have a life for a couple of weeks. Awesome.

bloodstone_ @ 2008-05-11T20:37:00

2008-05-12T03:42:50Z

I went to L.A. on Friday to meet up with some Threadless people. We went out and walked around Hollywood Blvd for a bit. It was a lot of fun!

Then on Saturday I drove to Long Beach to pick up my sister and then we headed back to SLO. Then we had to head out to Cambria for a Mother's Day Tea party – it was a loooooong day of driving! I think it was also the first time in a long while that my entire family was together in one place. Luckily there wasn't too much fighting.

I talked to my oldest sister on the phone today. There's been a lot of family drama going on lately, with my other sister coming out as a bisexual recently, people going to jail, porn star shizz etc. So my oldest sister tends to get really sensitive and dramatic about things. And then she was saying at some point she wants to sit down with me and talk about my beliefs. Great... I already know she's going to disagree with me. Fun stuff.

bloodstone_ @ 2008-05-04T23:55:00

2008-05-05T06:56:38Z

My sister, Cathy, and her girlfriend came up to visit this weekend. We had a pretty nice time. I showed them around SLO, introduced them to the wonder that we call the Wii, and had a bit to drink. I guess they're wanting to set me up with someone... I don't know about that, but we'll see.

bloodstone_ @ 2008-05-01T19:21:00

2008-05-02T02:34:42Z

Last weekend I went out with Robby and met up with some people. We went over to Native and ended up at DT Brew – how do we always end up there?

Anyway, I've been working on more designs. Did another jacket idea for Dave Matthews Band. I got an offer to do a design for a charity called Common Threadz where they raise money for student uniforms + an additional themed fund. I chose to do the one on Human Trafficking, and if I can get the design done in time (two weeks! Yikes!) then it will be featured at MTV Style Lounge at the end of the month! So I'm going to do my best to get 'er done.

In other designy news, Maria Bamford has a poll up for shirt sizes. If you want to get one, you should go vote!

I just discovered Loch Lomond. I'm sure David knows all about them since they're from Portland, but I guess they'll be playing in town on Sunday. Anybody want to go?

bloodstone_ @ 2008-04-21T21:59:00

2008-04-22T05:08:22Z

I'm going to try and post here again more consistently.

Things have been pretty busy as of late. Still doing the Threadless thing, but I've been getting a bunch of freelance offers too which has been pretty awesome.

I've been trying to be more social too (or at least on the weekends). So I've been going out a bit. Eva came to visit last week and that was, of course, much fun. So much havoc was wreaked. We danced with some crazy guys at Marti's and then went over to Native. She got tanked and three random guys ended up taking us home. Crazy night.

I did this design for a shirt for Maria Bamford. She's a comedian and had a show on Comedy Central. She was a lot of fun to work with.

At my job, I did a painting for the Paso Robles Wine Fest. Sorry for the poor quality photo... it was taken with my phone.

A design I subbed to Threadless.

I was contacted by Red Star Merch to do a design for Dave Matthews Band! Here's the shirt design I did.

Another design I subbed to Threadless (it's up for voting right now!)

Red Star Merch asked me to think of an idea for the DMB Moto Jacket. I just turned in this idea to them tonight... hope they like it!

...and that's what's been keeping me busy.

Computer Arts China!!

2008-01-21T02:21:50Z

I was in December 07's issue of Computer Arts China! It was pretty awesome getting to do the interview and everything, but actually seeing the magazine in real life was beyond exciting!

It came with a disc and they printed My Father Was a Sailor on it!

I'm in the table of "cotents" too! UR In My Top 8 is pictured on the bottom right hand corner.

First spread

Second spread

They also gave me a little notepad.

[edit] There were some videos on the disc... and they're WEIRD. Robby needs to come over and see this one in particular.

Holiday Summary

2008-01-11T06:56:13Z

Over the holidays, I visited family in Solvang. It was alright... I was kinda put to work the whole time, so I was actually somewhat relieved when Christmas was over. As much as I love that time of year, having to help out when others are excused really sort of puts a damper on the whole experience.

Anyway, after Christmas and post-Christmas shopping I got to go see David in Portland! I hadn't seen him since he moved so it was really great to be able to hang out for a few days. I met his boy and boy numba deux and they're awesome! After visiting there, I can see why he chose to move there – the people and the entire area really seem like a good fit for him. Anyway, we did some shopping, and wandering around town. It was cold! We also got to go out one night too. Went to a couple of clubs and pretty much danced up a storm. The bartender hooked us up with free drinks! Which was basically my crowning achievement of the whole trip. New Year's was pretty uneventful, which seemed fine with all of us (I had to fly out the next day anyway). All in all, I had a lot of fun and miss everyone already!

I really need to update this thing more often.

bloodstone_ @ 2007-08-27T18:45:00

2007-08-28T01:36:39Z

New shirt!!

bloodstone_ @ 2007-08-16T23:15:00

2007-08-17T06:13:12Z

Quite some time ago, a random guy from a bar got my number. He came up on the dance floor pretty much right as we were leaving, and I thought I'd give him my number to make him leave us alone (figuring I'd screen my calls). He ended up calling about 3 times that week and left a couple of voicemails. I never called him back.

Tonight I got a call from an 805 area code. Remembering that my name was on the waiting list for the new imac, I picked up the call and it turned out to be that guy!! He started chit-chatting and I was in such a state of shock that I went along with it for a minute. Then he asked if I wanted to hang out. I told him that I was really busy for the next FEW weeks. So he was like, "Oh, so... uh... what if I call you in a few weeks? Can we hang out then??" So I said that he could try calling then. And then I saved his number under "Weird bar guy" so I now know not to take any calls from that number.

Seriously though... we met briefly for less than a minute a really long time ago at a bar. Does this strike anyone else as really really weird and/or desperate??

bloodstone_ @ 2007-07-20T20:57:00

2007-07-21T04:02:38Z

So my trip to Chicago was AMAZING. It was such a blast and everyone in the meet up was actually really cool! The weird thing was, even though it was a meet up with a bunch of internet people, we all got along like old friends.

On Friday night we got pizza at a really great pizza parlour. Afterwards, we went over to one of the guy's apartment (he works at threadless) for a kegger. Also, it was kinda strange, but before I even boarded my flight that day some random guy called me and basically invited himself along. Sure enough, he tagged along with us the whole time and he was WEIRD.

The next day we headed over to the Threadless headquarters for the party of doom. Their warehouse is awesome! They have video games, a ping pong table, a pool table and go karts. Also, we toured around a bit and got to see the millions of shirts in the warehouse. Upon arriving, we each got a goodie bag filled with fun tidbits. We worked on a super secret project while there, and learned some interesting secrets of things in the works. Also, we took product pictures! If you go Threadless.com you can see me wearing the select. Afterwards, we headed back over to Charlie's for another kegger.

Sunday, four of us went to Pitchfork Music Festival and saw Menomena, Junior Boys, Of Montreal and Klaxons. It was fun, and the bands were great! We made a ton of threadless tee sightings and even saw one of my (My Turn!). I, of course, attacked the girl who was wearing it and made her take a picture with me.

On Monday we went back to the headquarters to go buy the newly released tees. We also saw an improv comedy show.

There were a ton of little things that made the trip really great (like being packed into a tiny cab with 7 people, making fun of the creepy internet people, etc.). I can't even begin to list them all.

Oh, and I took PICTURES

BEST. TRIP. EVER.

bloodstone_ @ 2007-07-12T18:44:00

2007-07-13T01:36:39Z

Tomorrow I will be in CHICAGO!!!

bloodstone_ @ 2007-07-11T17:57:00

2007-07-12T00:52:14Z

Last night I saw the Mad Caddies with Tyler and one of my co-workers. It was pretty nostalgic seeing a show like that again. And I also saw a couple of guys from highschool (which only added to the nostalgia). Afterwards we went to a couple of bars, I ran into my cousin and his wife and friends, and met up with another friend. With the exception of temporarily losing my phone, it was a fun night! I was pretty much beat for today though and tried not to fall asleep at work.

Tonight is anime night!

In two days I'll be leaving for Chicago... on Friday the 13th!

bloodstone_ @ 2007-07-06T21:38:00

2007-07-07T04:31:13Z

We're going to a drag show tonight. Oh yes.