Monument - The Visual Liberation Army Blog

Was pretty busy this week working on numerous projects at the same time. I did 3 shirts for 30 Seconds to Mars, 2 for Rage Against The Machine, and some web work for my regular clients. I had to work during the weekend to finish stuff up because I am going on vacation tomorrow. :) We were suppose to go to the British Virgin Islands (paradise on earth to me) but we found out she needs a visa just to transit in the US (pfff). It costs 130 bucks and it takes 6 weeks, so we were too late. We settled on going up north to do some kayaking and other outdoors-y things.

I just bought the new Canon EOS 450D DSLR as a reward for my hard work. :) I’m really looking fwd to playing with it and using it to grab textures and elements for my work. I also look forward to bug Dennis and ask him more photography questions every 2 minutes.

Will post pics of my trip (taken with my crummy pocket camera!). :)

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Hey guys,

We just finished up a few Disturbed t’s for the current tour. I’m also working on a tour poster for Russian Circles and in the process of getting 3 new art prints together. I’ll start printing tomorrow!

Iron Fist Clothing’s next line should feature about 8-10 designs of mine either done specifically for them or converted from poster art i’ve done over the past few years. Keep an eye out for it. I’ll be posting here again when it’s available.

I’ll be out in CA in a few weeks for this year’s California Screamin’ art show at Gasoline Gallery in El Segundo.

French Design blog Artskills did a neat interview with yours truly. He asks us about our workflow, inspiration, and future plans. It’s in french though so you might need Google to read it.

http://www.artskills.net/archives/921

Google Translation

enjoy!

Just had a very very nasty “wisdom” tooth pulled out. It was the worse the dentist has ever seen. He had to freeze me up 5 times to begin with, and then pull like a maniac for about 20 minutes. He had to cut my gum open to make it pop out and even when the tooth was out it wouldn’t let go. The roots were big, and they obviously looooved my precious mouth. I’m in pain.

On the plus side of things, I am alive. And so are we! I know we haven’t posted in a while but it was because of the CD contest we had going. We didn’t want to pile more stuff on the top of the page. We’re such marketers.

We’ll have some brand new work to post soon, including some shirts we did for one of the coolest and bestest artists around. It’s a surprise, sort of.

We’re currently working on a bunch of CDs, shirts and a website for Luthor.

I’m rocking out with my brand new monitor, the NEC 2690WUXi with Spectraview II. It’s nice to have dual monitors, especially in Photoshop. It cost me 1400 bucks but it’s worth it for a wide gamut monitor that is awesome and reliable. My other monitor is a Samsung 244t which I will use for web work since it’s an sRGB while the NEC is Adobe RGB (tho it can be both if I want I’d rather calibrate it for print work),

I Want Your Skull #4 is our best issue to date! Featuring 35 of today’s hottest illustrators, designers, painters and sculptors from all around the globe, our fourth issue is packed to the seams with skully goodness. We interview Jason Goad and Luke Drozd, two illustrators who have really been making a mark on opposites sides of the pond. Brian Morris (aka ooo000ooo) contributes a stunning 3 color serigraph print, which was masterfully printed by the fine folks at The Half and Half in Columbia, South Carolina. Justin Kamerer (aka Angryblue) lends his signature style to our first ever official IWYS logo sticker, and the whole thing is wrapped up in a hand-printed envelope design by Ryan August. Limited to 500, hand-numbered copies. Grab one while they are still available!

Buy one in their web store!!!

We’ll be adding more stuff very soon, but for now you can still come join the ongoing welcoming party: http://www.myspace.com/monumentstudio

Also, our good friends Sworn Enemy have officially released their new album “Maniacal” (the one we designed) in North America. You can grab it for a very cheap 10 bucks here: https://www.cmdistro.com/specials.aspx It kicks ass, so go buy it. :)

Since giving is so cool we’re thinking of starting up some sort of “contest”. We’ll be giving away a free (yes, nada, zilch, zero, rien, niet) CD packaging done by us. The only conditions would be:

#1 We would have to enjoy the music the band plays. That always makes for better work on our part. We’re not very difficult when it comes to that though, we like all sorts of music.
#2 We’d prefer to get a band that isn’t metal, to vary things a bit. We love metal but we’d like to show different things.
#3 The deadline would have to be not crazy as hell, to give us time to really do something special.

We’re also thinking of tying this up into a charitable cause. For example, we do the packaging and you donate 200 bucks to a charity. Maybe even auction the offer on ebay for charity? It would be great, but we’re not sure we’ll do that as well yet.

Stay tuned for more details :)

I just bought a couple of gifts through WorldVision for people in need. It’s little for us but a lot for them. You can even buy them rabbits, how cool is that? They have stuff for 20 bucks only so there’s no excuses!
http://www.worldvision.org/

We just finished some shirts for The Clash, Led Zeppelin and Iron Maiden. We should be able to post them up soon. We also finished a cd for Norwegian metal band Showdown, and a couple of other CDs as well! We rock. It would be nice to get work outside of the metal realm as well. I don’t think our potential there has been tapped enough.

I’m going skiing this weekend at Mt. Tremblant with my sister and my nephew, should be a lot of fun. :)