Sunday, July 31, 2011

A FISTFUL OF PAINTINGS

Dear Cowboys and Aliens, 

This is a collection of images from a small show I did in Hong Kong back in 2009. I was doing a series of black, red and white paintings inspired by the FISTFUL OF BLOOD graphic novel by Kevin Eastman and Simon Bisley. This was in the thick of trying to attain funding for the feature film and I wanted to keep forward motion so anything I got in my hands was dedicated to the property. 

There was a small unpromoted show at a gallery I can't even remember the name of in Central, HK. The images are courtesy of Shann Larsson who was assisting me on most every project I did back there. She's a brilliant dark artist who's come into her own now -you can find her and her continued adventures on Facbook. 

PAINTINGS:

1) Blondie Batta Foom
2) Batta Foom
3) Batta Foom Batta Foom
4) Blamm!

The medium was predominantly emulsion on wooden track palletes that I had procured from the harbour docks at night. The loft I built was sandwiched inbetween the Harbour front and the mountain side in an old factory building. The best location I had geographically while I was in HK nearly became tomb in more ways than one and I don't often miss it but as you can see I also received an able bodied assist from my 3 year old son Tommee  Sherpa Mesch and I certainly miss him. 

They are all in different cities across the world now. Scotland, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Hong Kong. I sold 1 of them and gave the other 3 to special people. 

LIVE LOVE DIG

Saturday, July 30, 2011

MASKS OF GOD / Pocket Arts Guide - PART 2

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Thursday, July 14, 2011

BIG MIKES MINIMATES ARE COMING !

DEAR MINIMANIACS, 

It's OFFICIAL! DIG DEEP ENTERTAINMENT in association with ART ASYLUM is proud to announce a very special KICKSTARTER limited edition available only through KICKSTARTER. 

BIG MIKES COMICS owned by the world's favorite british born comic/ strip club owning twins, THE BIG MIKES are about to take the toy world by storm !
BIG MIKE 1 and 2 as they appear in my short film A LITTLE LESS CONVERSATION are going to be immortalized in the MINIMATES universe alongside the XMEN,THOR, IRON MAN, SPIDERMAN and CAPTAIN AMERICA among countless others. 

This is a super kick for me to actually be doing what I had initially intended for MINIMATES in the first place...use it as a platform to launch original art and content. 10 years in the making - better late than never. 

A LITTLE LESS CONVERSATION needs a little more money for post production! 

:) 

Stay Tuned for more details. 

LIVE LOVE DIG!

Friday, July 8, 2011

JAPANESE HUMAN TORCH / DIGGER T MESCH / MASKS OF GOD international press

Sending out a big thanks to Remo Notarianni at The Pocket Arts Guide for the most excellent coverage of The Thirteenth Sign and Masks of God show at Petra Gallerie last month. 

You can catch Part 1 of the guide spread at this link below on page 28. 

They have included the individual stories written by Joshua Ortega in the article that were displayed next to each piece and available for QR scan during the exhibition. The buzz on the show is still flying and plans for a follow up show are in the works. I was honored to work alongside Snakebite Cortez, Joshua Ortega, John Felix and all the other powerhouse talents that came onboard to make this show the enormous success it was. 

DIG IT!

Dear Art Whores, 

Wednesday, June 8, 2011

MTV MUSIC AWARDS BANGKOK

Dear Yesterday, 

2006 Hong Kong. MTV Asia and my good friend Chris Lee approached me about designing and sculpting the MTV Asia music award. An animated story was being created in Sweeden ( of all places ) that was suposed to run throughout the entire awards. The animation was awesome for the time and budget. Very Gorillaz meets Book of Eli - Euro-Anime style. 

I was supposed to work on the very first MTV award ( Bronze popcorn ) with one of my mentors in NYC and it never happened so this project was a kick. KORN was among the many performers from all over Asia that came up to accept the award I had created and it was a good way to make up for the missing the boat on the first MTV award. 

I think we fabricated about 50 of these in all. Most of them went out that night to the celebrities. I was supposed to be at the show that night in Bangkok but I needed to fly back to the states to be with my father as his health was deteriorating rapidly from Cancer. They ran a documentary on big screens in the concert hall. Some of the images you see here are taken directly from the show. In retropect it's a good thing I didn;'t make it to this show. The state of mind I was in was certainly not a healthy one and I would have wound up needing Rambo AND the Ghostbusters to fish my dead body out of Irrawaddy River in Burma. 

I have the Behind the Scenes doco somewhere- I'll post another time. 

Check out the youtube's - good stuff. Thailand rocks! 

Peace Love
DIG

CODEHUNTERS

KORN performing Twisted Transistor/ MTV Asia Music Awards 2006

Twins MTV Asia 2006 / God help us all !

MTV Asia Awards 2006

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

MTV Asia Awards 2006
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DateMay 6, 2006
Venue(s)Siam Paragon, Bangkok,Thailand
Host(s)Wang Leehom and Kelly Rowland

The MTV Asia Awards 2006 was held at the Siam Paragon in Bangkok, Thailand[1]. The show aired live on Saturday, May 6 across Asian MTV channels. Like previous award shows, the show is best known for live performances featuring collaborations of Eastern and Western act[2]. The show was hosted by Leehom Wang together with Kelly Rowland[3] replacing Kelly Clarkson[4].


Performers

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Saturday, June 4, 2011

MINIMATES 2011

Dear Minimaniacs, 

I just stole a mess of images off of the Art Asylum site and thought I'd share. I sold Art Asylum and Minimates with it in 2006 but Minimates was still my baby and I love seeing the new lines spring forth and prosper. I hope the rest of the AA team that helped create them feels the same way. Against all odds and all competition we created the only brand to come out of that era that is still out there and still growing. 

Makes me itch to create the next designer thing soon....have 10 ideas a second. Just want to launch another brand for old times sake and incorporate it into my film work. 

FIGHT BITE CRY DIG!

Minimates

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Minimates are a block-styled miniature action figure originally created by Art Asylum and now released by Diamond Select Toys. The basic Minimate figure design has a 2" tall body that resembles an extremely simplified human form with 14 points of articulation, higher than average for block figures. Lines of Minimates have been released for numerous comic, TV series, movie and video game licenses and are primarily released to specialty retailers and aimed at adult collectors.


History
2" Spider-Man Minimate in early Marvel Minimate packaging

The line began in 2002 with a line of 3" Minimates based on several different licenses. These included Dark Angel, Star Trek, Bruce Lee and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon along with aRock Star line featuring KISS, Rob Zombie, Ozzy Osbourne and Alice Cooper. The 3" Minimate Line also included several blank or promotional Minimates, these usually bore the logo of a specific company and were used as give-aways.

Minimates came of age several months later, when following a partnership with Diamond Select Toys a range of 2" Minimates based upon the Marvel Comics Universe was launched. The 2" Minimate body type began to be used for the promotional Minimates in place of the 3" body type, and it was announced that the 3" range would be discontinued. This line was soon joined by a range based upon 'The Lord of the Rings.

Soon a new series joined the line in the form of C3 construction sets, which were accompanied by DC Comics Minimates in the 2" scale. In 2006 2" Minimates based upon the Street Fighter 2 and Darkstalkers video games were released, along with Minimates based upon the classic and new Battlestar Galactica TV series as well as the Speed Racer license.

While Art Asylum has become division of Diamond Select Toys, 2007 has seen the Marvel license continue, along with new lines of DC Comics and Star Trek Minimates and increasing number of TV and Movie based licenses.