Pile o' Garbage

Pile O' Garbage From the Futureeeeee..

drawing for a black and white zine we're making about apocalyptic survivors.

the "blind"

this was done in the summer. never got around to foto-ing it until now. here you go.

its fairly large 38" x 50".

i told you i'd be back

readers, im back..

this is something i should have updated at the end the summer, but kind of got lazy.


over the summer, i got an opportunity to make the album artwork for The Nehemiah Band. I may have written about them before. It first started off as a "fake application/project" for a class at school, but after proposing the work to the band they took it. I had to change up a couple of stuff from the previous design, such as album title, some imagery, the way the cd case works, and some layouts. it was a fun project. challenge to deal with the requests by the printers and the band. i definately want to do more album projects.

this photo below was taken when i finished the "fake application" last spring.



pretty amazing photo ey.. i had to pay big bucks for that from a professional fotographer. kinda sucks that i have this nice photo of the "fake" version instead of the actual cd that was released. but it works nicely as a portfolio piece anyways. (side note, if any photographers have any tips on white balance please let me know. i have a dslr, i usually shoot auto, or tungstein when im indoors and rely on auto levels in photoshop to help the white balance. im a noob. i'd appreciate any tips either through comments or through email. Thankssss!)

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couple weeks ago i made the band a t-shirt design. recently, i've been liking the look of blowing a small doodle up huge. the grittiness and the unspecificity (yes, i just made up that word) of the blown up lines/drawing is quite awesome.



i havent seen the shirt yet, but i hear there was a lot of printing problems. sadly, of all the t-shirt jobs i did and sent to printers, on almost 90 percent of them something goes wrong and doesnt come out the way i had expected it to. its one of the bigger let downs and it takes a couple hours to a day for me to get it out of my mind. i cringe everytime i see someone wearing a messed up t-shirt. sucks. thats why you gotta print em yourself~

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i'm not sure if i had written about this, but i just moved out to pasadena. its awesome, a lot more places to grub at night, a lot more sirens and car alarms going off, and a lot more opportunities to ride the bike. two weeks ago, i took a spill cause some bad driver in a suv. long story short. i have this battle wound thats spewing out dark red orangish puss. its awesome. enjoy. hope you're not eating as you're reading this entry.




if you in pasadena lets hang. call me. lets get together and work. call me. lets give james more jobs. call him.


bbl.
james chong

lot of sketches

i was gone for a minuteee. but i'm back. sadly, with nothing really to show yet. but i am in the mood to update so here are some random sketches i had around.


here, read this poem

Feel new,
here are some cloths.
Be who you want,
thats just a pose.
Pour it away,
uno to dos.


-by yours truly.

i'll brb.

everythings clonable

cloning.. quickies

"the day i tried" zine for free

been a long time. need to get back on track with this stuff.

heres a very small zine made from a "think green zine" class from ArtCenter. decided to use this world wide web to spread this zine. click the bottom link to download a pdf version of the "the day i tried.." zine from uploader.com. this ones more of a test run to see the response to this. i will be making a lot more freebie zines for cyber space, so please stay tuned. in process of making a zine from a compilation of sketchbook drawings. in the mean time please enjoy this short and sweet one.

click to download zine from uploading.com

In China

I've run away off to China. I've been working with this one musical organization and they flew me over to do some direction stuff working on props and backdrops. This summer I worked on some posters, tickets, postcards and shirts for them. if you ever go out to korea town, you might have seen some. But yea, free trip to China? i'm down. Here are only a few of the pictures i took from China either from Beijing, Xi'an or Qingdao.

Go to the flickr for more pictures and in higher quality.