NEWS

SEPT 8: Updates! It has been a busy couple of months for Labour, things are going swimmingly. Firstly, awards season! Labour made this years ADC Young Guns list along with Rad Mountain pals Damien Correll and Garrett Morin. Congrats fellas. Labour will also be talking about our work with several other fellow designers on the 18th of this month so get your tix if you want em. In other MEGA news, I've been nominated for an EMMY award (no joke) for my work on NY77. Officially, the title is "Outstanding Individual Achievement in a Craft: Art Direction and Graphic Design". I'll be at the awards ceremony in my suit on the 22nd. Pray for me America. ALSO Labour has a piece in the 2008 RISD Biennial, one of about 70 pieces from thousands submitted by four decades of RISD grads. So that's pretty cool. We are finishing up a sweet new batch of videos to hit you guys with in the fall. I'm also in the process of redoing this site so things will be looking nicer shortly. Out!

|FEB 9: Bout time for an update! First, Ryan Dunn and I have made it official and have started our new company LABOUR which we be launching soon. Also we have updated (slightly) the Rad Mountain site with Garrett's impressive spinning mountain man. In other simpler news a new t-shirt dropped a week or so ago at Threadless, go check out Folk Rock and Roll and maybe take one home yourself. Also have done a design for Chris Sleboda's charity-benefitting graphic product outpost Part Of It which will be arriving soon. Rad Mountain contributed a graphic statement to this month's issue of Good magazine, and Justin and I are finishing up animation work for a web video series they are producing (Hi Lindsay) about robots and technology being used in the war. More to come soon! Also will be making updates on the Casual Aesthetics blog once I get my ass out of the work mud.

OCT 31: Yes it is halloween. On Saturday I went as beluga caviar, tonight I am passing as yacht captian of the SS Asshat or something of nature. In bigger news, the new Mobius Band video has finally dropped! Amen. Look to yr left.

OCT 8: So I'm trying to pick up where I left off on my Casual Aesthetics expedition – have tentatively started a lil blog to go through lots of fun stuff. Czech it out here if you dare, not much up at the moment I'm afraid.

SEP 2: We are closing in on finishing a new video for the Mobius Band, and Ryan and I are now being represented by Greencard Pictures for all subsequent music videos and commercials under the new working name of Labour. Keep an eye out for subsequent Labour projects, we have em in the works!

AUG 1: Ryan Dunn and I are starting production on a new video (or two!) for Mobius Band. Their new album comes out in September and is excellent. Go check it out.

JULY 30: Spent the last four months cooped up finishing a monsterpiece for Vh1 called NY77, all about New York City in 1977 and how the destitute city was a crucible for artistic genius. Check it out on Vh1 on August 11 at 9pm eastern, 8 pacific. I art directed and composed some music, aided by my good pals David Ahuja and Todd Neale. Also Max Nova handling the editing.

APR 13: Thank you to everyone who came out to the True Believers opening last night… and seeing how packed it was, there were lots of ya. Show is open til mid May, check it out if you're in the neighborhood, gettin a haircut at Public or having hipster brunch at Relish. I'll put some pics up as they come in.

MAR 4: Doing some large format pieces for an upcoming exhibition at the Riviera Gallery – curated by Matt Owens and featuring lots of awesome folks that I'm honored to share space with. Also currently collaborating with old pal Joe Marianek on the graphics package for the High Line Festival curated by David Bowie.

FEB 7: I did some graphics for a new LCD Soundsystem video directed by my pal Ben Dickinson of Waverly Films – super space adventure coming soon.

JAN 29: I have a featured profile in the Jan/Feb edition of Step magazine for my work in Casual Aesthetics – which, I swear, is coming once I get all this BS freelance out of the way that's been riding me since the end of last summer.

DEC 3: The Mobius Band video is nominated for Subterranean Video of The Year 2006 – go cast your vote for it whilst you can at sub.MTV2.com and get us into the top ten. Rounding out the year with some good stuff.

NOV 14: New work update – currently working on several animated sequence for a new documentary film by Hopper director Nanette Burstein, as well as doing some work for our friends at Good Magazine. In the springtime, I will be art directing a cool music miniseries on Vh1. Best part – it involves Talking Heads, Suicide, and the trash strike. What else would you want?

OCT 27: Congratulations to Nat and Melody, wed on the 21st in an excruciatingly lovely ceremony in California. Tres moderne. In other news, Rapture video is finished, waiting for OK to post, with Sundance stuff to come soon. Lots of new projects for November. ALSO cashmere sweaters and hoodies available at 2K, with two new designs and tote bags to come.

SEP 13: Check out the very nice editorial and layout design of my pal Scott Buschkuhl – good stuff. Finished up a show package for Sundance Channel's "One Punk Under God", also designing animated sequences for the new Rapture video directed by Ben Dickinson and animated by Ron Winter.

AUG 15: Been awhile. Mr. Mark Owens updates Life of The Mind with some fantastic work. Czech it out. Finishing a show package for the Sundance channel – updates later.

JUNE 26: Mobius video premiering on MTV2 on July 9th on Subterranean, hosted by The Streets. Rawwk.

JUNE 15: Ryan and I helped out Adam from Associates in Science on a video for Regina Spektor, doing some on-the-spot stop-motion animation of desks and basketballs and stuff. Check out the whole video here on youtube.

MAY 21: Ahh… the MOVE conference is finally over (and had its moments). I'll be posting the rest of the material we made for the thing later but here's our collected speaker titles, about half of which unfortunately weren't screened. Ryan and I also completed a photo shoot for the band Golem which we'll have up soon once it's out, and otherwise I'll be doing a slight redesign of this portfolio site and over the summer creating the home of Casual Aesthetics, the non-manifesto that is my live/work approach to all that is worth doing. Soon soon.

APR 27: The Mobius Band video is done and crossing all entertainment dimensions! My directorial debut and a lot of fun and work, with big thanks to Ryan Dunn (of course) for helping film and edit the piece and give critical advice and to the boys in the band and Sam at Ghostly and Jacob Harris at JDub for smoothing out the process and Alex D for lending a hand. Dudes. off tha chains AIGA style.

FEB 15: Two things – I have a spread in the center section of the new RE:UP mag, themed 'dreams'… second, visit thedramastore.org and click on "new items" – there's a new button set featuring myself, Garrett Morin and Ryan Waller, the 'crazy boys of Rad Mountain' aka our studio. Also in the corner my new print, "100000 Fireflies" from a show at the Nonesuch gallery in VA. Big thanks to Joel for both of those.

FEB 08: Ryan Dunn and I are shooting a music video for the Mobius Band, due to be finished by the end of March before their tour in April. Be sure to check 'em out if you can, and listen to their free download track on their site, "The Loving Sounds of Static", which we're making the video for. And be sure to observe the lovely portrait photos done by Emily Keegin. Keep an eye and ear peeled.

JAN 23: The new season of 2k shirts are out, with 2 new designs by myself. Introducing Harsh Patel with an awesome design too. Check it out fo real.

JAN 22: Ryan Dunn and myself are doing the identity and graphics/videos for this year's AIGA MOVE conference, set for late May.

JAN 02 : Much thanx to Joel at www.thedrama.org for having me up for two weeks as featured artist. Many cool things to see there, check out the mag and shop and see fellow mates Ryan Waller, Garrett Morin and Alex Lucas as past artists.

IT'S 2006 Y'ALL – WHAT'S GONNA HAPPEN?

NOV 21: Check out awesome work from my good pal Joe Marianek – professional through and through. Also, happy birthday, duder.

NOV 21 : part two – added Getty Images Big Idea contest clip. If this makes the next round and you have an account with Getty, vote for us! Otherwise we'll keep rocking the watermark clips.

NOV 20 : Updated work, including preview reel of Dennis Hopper project, art directed and animated by yours truly with Evan Dennis and Todd Neale of Trollback. Grreat. Also added MTV Orb thinger done with Karlssonwilker over the last year and a half. I guess it's finally up on TV, for better or for worse. Original 3D animation by Jason Goodman.

OCT 31: Not only the spookiest day of the year, but the AMC Dennis Hopper project has concluded. Be on the lookout for various screenings and Hopper-related events in December. No word on air date yet, but late 05/early 06. Thanks to Trollback, Autobiography Films and the rest of the gang for rad work.

OCT 10 : And congratulations Nat and Melody – my bro is engaged. No f'ing way! Be on the lookout for genius babies round '09.

SEPT 24: Congratulations Hjalti and Vera! A beautiful wedding and lots of fun. Best wishes for your continuing happiness.

AUG 20: Upcoming stuff – Third installment of the Free Library opening on the 8th in London – I also have a piece included in the new euro-CMYK festival book (not the magazine) arriving on domestic shores soon, as well as likely inclusion in the forthcoming New Masters of Poster Design coming out from Rockport, and work on an animated biopic coming out in the fall on AMC.

JULY 28 : Brooklyn warmly welcomes Mr. Garrett Morin to the fold – check out his bitchin illustrations and enjoy.

JULY 1 : New season of 2K shirts set for 2006 – 2 new designs. Keep yr eyes peeled.

JUN 29 : Back from a fun month in Finland/London. Much love and thanks to Emmi for taking us around and to James, Miika, Mariana + Topias, and all the kids in Turku and Helsinki for rad times. And thanks for nothing, Estonia. Look at fun pics here, if you know us. Otherwise it's kinda weird.

MAY 22: My good friend Mark Owens was asked by Space 1026 in Philly to reprise 2004's Free Library Show, originally at the Riviera in Brooklyn. Make it to Philly if you can on Friday, June 3rd for the opening. Featuring work by lots of awesome folks, from Ryan Waller and Harsh Patel and myself to Experimental Jetset, Practise, Michael Leon, Andy Mueller, Todd St. John, Gary Benzel, and just about everybody else that makes sweet stuff. Czech it out.

MAY 6: Put together a demo reel – not a final thing but you get the idea.

MAY 1: Move Conference went pretty well. Czech out the movies and poster and stuff.

JAN 1 : Brooklyn welcomes Mr. Harsh Patel to the slope. A fine fine gentlemen and ridonkulously prolific designer. Czech him out at www.harshpatel.com.

NOV 7: Our old RISD Yearbook wins some award for book design from Print magazine. You guys!

SEPT 26: Ein Zwei Drei FUN with karlssonwilker. Results coming SOON all over the place.

SEPT 20: Thanks to Harsh for an awesome fun week. Hope to see you here more in months to come.

AUG 25: Turned 23. Reelin' in the years.

AUG 15: New site up up up.

JULY 31: THE UNBEARABLE BRIGHTNESS OF NEON
Two-man show opens at the Selective Hearing Gallery in San Diego, courtesy of RE:UP magazine and 2K.
New Prints and Installation with Ryan Waller.

JULY 30: New series of shirts available at 2K by Gingham.
Three designs in girls and boys sizes.