The cutting room floor

Jon Dragonette handled my first official photo shoot a few weeks ago. I say "official" because i dont think spending 20 dollars on every type of fake mustache you can find, and photographing myself at a mustache party, though it takes an extreme amount of set up time and a caring touch, constitutes the word "official". And i've done that a ton of times.
So we went out to Mare island in Vallejo, home of the Hyphyness, equipped with torches, ready to burn and pillage any building we came across in order to make it have "that urban look". We mentally built our hatred up for these buildings beforehand by imagining that they had kidnapped our daughter, and were keeping them captive inside themselves, and were forcing their brick and morter selves on her innocent and frail, cancer-ridden body. That way we wouldnt feel too bad when we burnt them down. And we'd have an excuse if we got arrested.
However, to our dismay, someone had beaten us to it, and the buildings were already destroyed. "NOOOOOO!!" I screamed. "My daughter was in there!" and i commenced to sobbing profusely. Until Jon saved my sanity and replied "Dude, we PRETENDED that you had a daughter. You dont. Fucking weirdo."
and thus, that is the begining of Jon Dragonette and my friendship.
Then we went to Chili's to celebrate something we didnt do, but took credit for it anyway, because we are the only people dumb enough to admit to a crime we didnt commit for hopes of free Ranch BBQ burgers and RESPECT!
Anyway, here are a few photos from that shoot that didnt make it into the Juxtapoz Issue.
Thank you, Jon, my new friend.
CARDBOARD CITY, BITCH

Duh.

Relish

ALEX PARDEE x NATHAN CABRERRA for HELIO

HELIO MAGAZINE, should be out in a week or so. I also have an interview in here. Check for it!
I drew and colored the teeth-mouth-eye thing in the background, Nathan did the critters running for their lives!

CERO AMIGOS

Looks like the homies over at ZeroFriends are hard at work on a new apparel line. I took these photos the other day when i stopped by to check out what they were up to. I thought they were working, until i realized that there were only passing the time in between letting their stomachs settle from alcohol and plotting the deaths of everyone who drives a Prius. We have a good handful of new designs that I did that are coming out in a couple of weeks. And we've been experimenting like curious alchemists with different inks and printing methods, so expect this new ZeroFriends shit to be GOLD. More on that on News at 11.
Nothins sexier than a drunk man with a pressure washer in the forest.

AIDEN: CONVICTION

I did all of the artwork and package design for Seattle-based rock band AIDEN for their new album, CONVICTION, which comes out August 23rd on Victory Records. Here is a look at the cover, and a look at the only piece i have ever done with absolutely no black in it, unless you count the parental advisory sticker. but hey, blame that shit on NWA.

Sorry, no PARK-IG here!

Good thing Anya doesnt have a car because unfortunately there is NO PARKIG please.
Berkeley is pretty much the Twilight Zone, so it wouldnt surprise me if Anya and i simply walked into a portal and emerged in a similar universe, one that looks exactly the same, with the exception of one thing: Every other "N" is taken out of conversation and writing, turning a simple sentence like "Hey, Nancy, go dance somewhere else you elephant, we are trying to sleep in the garbage can!" into something far less appealing to me because i love ALL "n's": "Hey, Nacy, go dance somehwere else you elephat, we are trying to sleep in the garbage ca".
Fun.

RIDE or die

New "HAVOC x ALEX PARDEE" pro-line snowboards available from RIDE SNOWBOARDS. Should be in high-end shops. dont know where though. Thanks to General Public for helping with the Graphic design of them.

High 5 on I-5

I've driven back and forth to LA so much in the last year that i can do it blindfolded. Unfortunately, it doesnt look like EVERYONE can do it blindfolded, as i saw this happen 3 weeks ago outside of Fresno on the 5. Looks like someone needs more experience with no eyes.




In reality, this guy who was driving this was hurt really badly, and his entire body and clothes were drenched in red as you can kinda see. It was weird. There were too many people trying to help when it happened so we didnt want to complicate things more, but when we stopped, we at least saw him moving. a little. hope he's alright. but i'll never know.

American Walrus

Here is the original artwork that was used in the "AMERICAN WALRUS IN LONDON" campaign for Upper Playgrounds new flagship store in London. And the ad i designed is below. I wish movie posters were still hand drawn.

Bleed It Out, Tinkle Tinkle

I got to go check out my friend Mr. Hahn's new video shoot for Linkin Park last week. He directed a ridiculously crazy fight scene in a bar that is made up of 100 people, or 8 people, or 8 people that are computer-composited to look like 100 different people, or maybe everyone was holograms. I dont know. I was told to wear special glasses to protect my eyes the entire time, but perhaps those special glasses protected me from seeing holographic people doing karate in reverse. Either way, the video is going to look insane, and Hahn used a huge Milo crane (i think they called it that because it was invented for that Milo n Otis movie with the fiesty dog and the stuck up cat). The camera was a gigantic robot that ran by itself along a track, and they also referred to as the Genesis, which i thought was odd for something so state of the art, as it was surely more powerful than 16 bits. Either way, heres a blurry picture of the band in front of a giant green screen so Mr Hahn can composite BADASS MOUNTAINS or something so it looks like the band is FLOATING ABOVE MOUNTAINS!!! ummm....he's not doing that. but he should.



Also, Mr Hahn just got his new toy out, and you need it. Go check out www.suru-la.com for more info yo.

You lying, handsome liar.

Youre Awkward.
Continuing the crazy Used/Chadam "hard-to-find-every-one" theme of doing different art for all advertising, etc. I did 2 additional covers for 2 additional songs from the USED album, Lies for the Liars.
HANDSOME AWKWARD is gonna be huge. Video out in a couple weeks i think.
These albums are imports. Dont know where or when to get em. I dont have em either.

The WitchKing Of Chicago

I think Chicago is the only place that Kings truly exist. After hearing Ferris Bueller address himself as Abe Frohman, Sausage King of Chicago, the word KING doesnt sound complete unless its followed by "of Chicago". Try it. It feels natural. Your tongue will thank you after spewing any word followed by "King of chicago". Bagel King of Chicago. Progeria King Of Chicago. Unnatural Death-King of Chicago. and so forth.
So the whole meaning behind this was because i took a picture of a small cave on the beach that had "Here lies the Witch King" above it and it was really dumb, but kinda creepy. Like, i'm all for scaring myself, but none of us ended up going in said cave because it was full of water and pitch black. and if by any chance the witch king did indeed have enough self esteem to announce where he lives, i doubt he's a pussy.
But i cant find this picture, so instead, here's a picture i took of a hissing coacroach giving birth. Its so magical!!! Just look at those tasty babies.

New Set Of Prints Available on ZeroFriends.com!!

So, there's a lot going down following the release of the Used's "Lies for the Liars", which is killing it on the shelves. If you don't have it, please pick it up and help support the dying art of CD packaging, which is slowly deteriorating, like Lindsay Lohan's sanity.
Anyway, here is a peek at the 2 new prints available.
Each one is a Limited Edition Of 200.

17" x 17" Printed with Archival Inks on Acid Free Fine Art Velvet Cotton Rag.

Each print is hand signed and numbered by Meeeeee and my right hand.
More updates soon.

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