THIS JUST IN!

I am just gay enough to want to go see this.

Exciting delivery!

I got home today to 2 of my most favorite childhood movies waiting for me in the mail on DVD.

The Super Mario Bros Movie.. (Shut your goddamn laughing mouths)
And the Brave Little Toaster.

Exciting! Even more excited to be disappointed by the Super Mario Bros move! Now I am going to go watch them while I scan in some new pieces!

The toy craze continues.

So this week we discovered Forbidden Planet on Broadway and 13th, and N&L Game Trading Inc. on Elizabeth.
If you click on those links you will realize why this is a problem for me. I am going to have to start paying for student loans soon and it seems this recent toy addiction has me going over the edge to bankruptcy. I get paid on Wednesday and I already have enough wants to kill the pay check. The poor thing never had a chance.

On a good note though I got this awesome mystery Blue Dragon figure from a blind box I bought at N&L!

Awesome huh? He was the only "???" in the series.

K so this wasn't really good news. I just wasted more money on a toy. /killself

On an even better note I have off this weekend for the first time in 3 weeks and hopefully I will be able to get son fun in my life.

In art news, I will soon be adding a Fashion category too my portfolio because I just finished designing my super cool friend Jeanette's van for her. Only one. The left one. I think. Her brother is also an artist so we collaborated and each took a shoe. I'm gunna start doing more for my friends cause I enjoyed it, it's fun trying art in a different medium. The update should be soon so check i it out. Also I will be starting my special project gallery soon also. It involves dead babies. Doesn't that sound exciting?

I'll update again whenever something more interesting happens to my life. Bye everybodys.

A good day for the city.

So I got out of work pretty nice and early today. Around 5:30. It was good because I got Joe to come out and hang for the day. I had a bunch of things I wanted to pick up around town and he needed to get out of his house since he's been playing World of Warcraft for the past week.

So at 5:30 we met by the fruit stand on Broadway right at the exit of the F train subway stop and went on our way. We hit some clothing stores, that we said we would go back to for sweet Tees but we didn't. Then I got to hit the book store to try and pick up a new read for my long rides home and I got to get Edward Gorey's "The Gashlycrumb Tinies." It's a illustrated macabre children's alphabet book filled with rhymes describing the deaths of 24 children, each with a name for every letter of the alphabet.

We got to St. Marks and we picked up some sweet new hats. I got a green and white trucker (that I plan on stylizing with love) to match this sweet black and green crossbones hoodie, while Joe got this sweet pinstriped fedora. It was naice!

So of course in the city you are expected to see some unique individuals. We were walking and stumbled across the most beautiful crackhead I've ever laid my eyes on. He was mumbling something incoherent to himself and we walked by with eyes wide open. I turned and asked the man if he liked photos and he said "Yah dip doodly dip do da photos gah gah goo!" So I pulled out my camera phone and he posed for me like crackheads like to do, and I promised him a front cover in GQ. I lied but the picture came out sweet.

Pretty isn't he?

Anyways after spending about 85 bucks on all sorts of things, we parted ways on the F train and went home. All in all it was a chillaxed day. Picturific.

Additions to the family and a Tim Burtonish sort of mood.

So one of our 3 family dogs, Sadie, got knocked up by one of the 2 other boys about a month and a half ago and just had a litter of adorable puppies yesterday! They are about the size of my palm and squeak like little mice. Here are some pictures of them.

They are great - and 600 dollars a pop.

So anyway I just finished the book Burton On Burton.

It was the revised edition that had a foreword by Johnny Depp, who explained how his experiences were working with Tim Burton. Burton has been like a lifelong inspiration for me so I had to read it after I heard how great it was and how in depth it explained his thinking/creative process behind his amazing stories and characters. It pretty much gave a biography on his life and a full analysis of every movie he's ever made as told through his words and narrated by Mark Salisbury. Explaining every detail behind conception and filming.

Now I am in a super Burton mood, after going out and buying Corpse Bride for 9.99 from Best Buy I have already watched it along with Beetlejuice and Nightmare. Be sure to see some serious Burtonesque stylized artworks in the near future. He is a genius. I want to meet him more then ever now.

I am spiraling into an addiction and sleep deprived driven state of insanity.

So now that I have a blog I figured I should like post and stuff regularly. So here I am. Extremely tired, and feeling as if death's cold hand is upon me for I haven't slept a normal nights sleep in what seems to be about a month due to the schedule Rockstar has me on. By the way I work at Rockstar Games NYC as a tester for anyone who didn't know, and as of right now I'm living there more then home. It's nice, the people are fun, and I get to play games and eat free food and enjoy city life on my daily breaks. But I am still slowly dying. I don't even know where I am right now.

I seem to have an extremely addictive personality when it comes to the dumbest things. I use the term dumb loosely because the current addiction I am involved in is nothing but fucking awesome to the max.

I've been a big fan of vinyl toys for the longest. The Japanese style of graffiti art transformed into tiny and/or gigantic vinyl art pieces are so unbelievable attractive to own you just can't help but drop your wallet when you find a place that carries them in bulk, and long story short I found that place and the wallet was totally dropped. It's a little place down 2nd ave. called Toy Tokyo.

I've known about Toy Tokyo for a while but it's one of those scary little shops that you find yourself entering and overwhelmed with the amount of unbelievable goodies they have to offer. You usually wind up leaving there dumbfounded, unable to buy anything because everything was just too cool, or you leave feeling like a champ because you just spent your entire paycheck on toys that are awesome until later when you feel like a tool because you just spent your entire paycheck on toys that are still awesome but make you hate life.

So anywho me and my friend Pete from work have this whole "let's cover our goddamn cubicle desks with as many tiny vinyl toys as humanly possible until we get fired" thing going on, or so it seems. We've already lost a lot of money to this horrible addiction to surprise boxes that you can get at most vinyl toy peddlers. Heres what they look like.

The ever popular Gloomy Bear Mystery Box

The Smorkin Monger

And the even more expensive Monsterism Island set

The whole addiction stems from their damn mystery - you never know what could come out of one of these insanely attractive boxes you know could possibly bring you seconds of joy. You can usually see on the side of the boxes what you are capable of getting. What you could get. What is possible! This is the catch, because no matter who you are there is almost always at least one damn mini-toy that you know you would kill a child to possess. This is where the credit debt begins.

I've threatened the shopkeeper with his life to only sell me one box per week from now on because he is raping my pockets in the most deviant of ways.

Damn you Gloomy bear. Damn you!

This is great

It's my first professional Blog. How unbelievably cliche' is this.

::high five::

Thanks to Joe Laurino btw for the online portfolio.
It made the phallus happy.

More updates on life will be on the way soon cuties. Maybe then you will care. :O