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What you see above is the first part in The Odyssey of Doctor Wax, a new record from Seattle hip-hop producer Doctor Wax and his compatriot, Odyssey. The music is an uplifting mixture of late-60′s and early-70′s soul samples and current, positive hip-hop trends. I have loads of fun doing work for these guys, as you can see by the art above. The second part will be the back-side of the record’s release. That will come eventually, as the music gets completed. Should be a blast!
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Friday the 13th seems an appropriate day (y’know, both a ‘bad luck’ day and a horror movie) to reveal the first in a hopefully long series of prints. Taking cues from the old days of film poster design, I’m putting out a series of ‘vintage’ posters with accompanying lobby cards. Posters to non-existent movies. The first movie in question? A little flick called Two-Wheeled Death Machine.
I feel that this is a great way to give props where props are due to the creatives that collaborate with me on these endeavors. People like Myla, of course, with her make-up and costuming skills (not to mention brainstorming), Kat Von Pire’s make-up skills, Dave at Detroit Bros. Custom Cycles and his sweet-ass rides, and of course featuring the models (in this case, Sandra Shay of the Detroit Derby Girls, Brandy Dawly, Nicholas Comeau and Kris Machnicki, all people I’ve worked with while having stints in Toronto). And the best part is (to me, anyway), they’re all featured right in the credit block on the one-sheet. It just seems so right when many people are involved in a project.
As for the story of this set, it’s funny how you have one thing in mind, then things happen and it evolves much differently than you planned. This went from being a piece set for cross-marketing of one of Dom Kreep’s projects, to becoming it’s own, individual project. And the design itself evolved greatly from my initial drawings to what you see above. And hopefully, if this does well enough, there’ll be more, too. Ranging from retro sci-fi, to blaxploitation, carsploitation, b-movie trash, zombie, kaiju and, of course, straight up horror (just to rattle off a few).
As for this set itself, there will be 50 sets made. All signed and numbered by hand. They will only be sold as a set (one sheet and three lobby cards). And as of right now, I don’t have a price yet (but I aim on keeping them affordable). Nor do I have a firm release date. I’m sure they’ll be available by October. So keep your eyes peeled here for updates, release dates and future pieces from Coming Soon!.
As always, click the image above for a higher resolution version.
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A couple years ago I was contacted by Geoff Bough to do a poster for his Revenant Film Festival. It is, to this day, one of my favorite pieces. I spent way more time on it than I should have, but it’s just tops. Fast forward to this year, Geoff contacted me again to do the poster and collateral for this year’s festival of the undead. And I love the fact it’s light-years different from the one I previously did. But still totally my schtick.
In any event, we had a hell of a time getting the photography done for this. We thought we had an old moving-pictures film camera, but after unearthing an entire packed storage space, we had found nothing. Then I asked around if anybody had a vintage film camera (not still, mind you) to no avail. We, eventually, starting hitting pawn shops around Toronto (as that’s where I was at the time) and came across this crazy guy who had dozens of these cameras! All we needed to do was have Myla hold it in her hand and I’d take a quick shot with my Canon point-and-shoot (mind you, it’s a bad-ass, 15-mpx P&S). But this guy was a real ass. And drunk. We walked in and he was saying to some fella that I was there ’cause he called me in to kick his ass for whatever reason. Not the case.
So Myla and I started talking to this drunkard, desperately trying to let us see the camera we were interested in, merely so she could hold it and I could click a frame. He wouldn’t budge and insisted we were interested in a late-1980′s model Sony handy cam. Could not be more wrong drunk. So we ambled on over next door and found what you see in this poster, and under the guise of “we need a reference shot for whom we’re buying it for”, got a few shots. A couple hours of photoshop adding flesh-rot and bones later, here we are!
Don’t let anybody ever tell you this job is without it’s occupational hazards.
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One of Myla’s friends (and ergo, my friend) Salar Madadi, came to Detroit for his first time in search of awesome urban decay and good, undead times. And as you can see below, a good time was had, indeed. Salar has his own zombie suit which he is sporting, and as always, Myla kicks ass with the zombie effects. Even got an old suitcase and filled them with parts and fake entrails. How appealing. The best part? After the shoot, we went to Detroit’s own Slows Bar-B-Q for some much-earned dinner. And Salar was in full costume still. Fun times!
Hopefully this won’t be his last trip to Detroit. Even if to just come down and get some of those jalapeno blasted cheetos.
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I love doing these DDG posters. I don’t get to do many Detroit shows, believe it or not. So when they come around, I try to do my damndest. Featured on this particular poster is the derby girl, Yin, of the Detroit Pistoffs. I shot her at her boyfriend’s house and my lovely lady did her make-up (not that you can tell in the poster’s style). Anyway, enjoy! As usual, click to enlarge!
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