Tuesday, September 28, 2010

Wednesday, September 15, 2010

Next 2 Blow DVD Cover

The homie Gutterman released several volumes of the underground DVD series Next 2 Blow which is not unlike Smack DVD but better in my opinion. It focused more on unsigned cats who had real talent. This edition was about the whole north vs dirty south comparison which is a common debate in Hiphop. He told me the concept and I came up with this image. A dude holding up two chains: one was designed from Busta Rhymes' Yankee medallion with the Apple behind it, a symbol for NYC. The other is the confederate flag which a lot of southern rappers use to represent their roots in the south. I like this a lot because its a still image yet gives off the feel of a showdown by the almost menacing way he's holding the chains. This is how chains are held up when someone is showing off a hot chain which he robbed a famous person for. This same pose has been done in real life by rappers who paid strong arm robbers to actually rob a rival artist.

The Foundling book cover

Here's the book cover I did for my father's memoir. Fascinating story, extremely inspiring, check it out at Amazon.com , barnes&noble.com , borders.com or authorhouse.com

The Hand Of God finalized album cover

Dutch40's finalized album cover. Its in the streets now so go pick it up and support underground hip hop

The Hand Of God album cover sketch

This is a sketch for a pre album cover I did for the homie Dutch40. The album title is The Hand Of God: Words In A Bullet

AK

It says "AK" which stands for Ace King, the highest hand in Poker. This is the 2nd wall I did at my brother's poker room.

Cashmere Soda

This was more of a joke/prank but I thought it was worth posting just for kicks

Coffee Cathedral 3

Coffee Cathedral 2

Coffee Cathedral

Inspiration for this is funny. You know how at work, generally in the AM, the break table is flooded with everyone's cups of coffee. How many times have you sipped the wrong one by mistake (yuuuuck!!). Anyway, we started writing our initials on them to prevent this. Mine went from my initials, to my signature, to packing tape, to any sticker I could find, to famous quotes, to this.....enjoy!

Big Slick

Hooked this up for my brother's poker room