It's been a while

It's been forever. So many things have been made and procrastinated. Website is still going on, I actually had to get some consulting done just to get motivated. Painting is going strong, about 3-4 paintings deep, and still working on more. Most important is I've been making new apparel for the Timbers Army and there is a ton of it.

So the Timbers Army are going to do shirts of the month. 50 tees of various sizes, one design, every month. No reorders, no saving shirts, nothing... and real talk, they're all awesome. The reason they are all shirts of the month is that they are either out there designs or homage back to our punk rock inspired tees of yesteryear. The first one (below) is the CBGB inspired PTFC shirt. The next one will be done probably the game after the home opener (we got shipping problems again). There will be a special cascadia design for the month we play seattle at home... It's going to be a great promotion to go find the fan and get some super limited swag.

We are also doing about 5-6 new shirts that will be around all year. Really fun designs, and in womens sizes too. These shirts will be for sale around the second game of the season. Unfortunately we ordered our made blanks that get sent to our local screenprinters months ago, but they got behind tagging them and just shipped late. So our poor girls at Ink Brigade are going to get boxes of shirts next week and have a week to do 6 orders of shirts... We can't put that on them, so when they're done their done. That being said we already have them working on 3 of our new shirts that will be available opening day, the new PTFC tour shirt and a special shirt for the ladies.

Anyways, it's gonna be a good year for TA merch... Besides the new t-shirts we have polos, new snapbacks, a lightweight hoodie and at least 3 new scarves. Doing work.

So below are two of my new paintings, a series I am working on throughout the summer, hopefully to do a show by the fall. I tend to go years between painting series, and every time I start up again I wonder why I stopped. Things just get drained out of me and I run out of ideas... So I stop and then procrastinate starting again. I guess you could call that my process.

The other personal front, I have been laying low in order to get work done. I've been doing some design work for some political campaigns, other apparel groups, and just general crap. It is nice to have things slow down, but when the Timbers season gets going, the summer will fly by.

Also gotta send some love to by boys a Homage Clothing for this gem

Though I wasn't alive when the miracle happened... I spent my adolescence living by and going to the Richfield Colosseum. I have a lot of good and bad memories there (One of many reasons I loath Jordan). It was a sad day for me when they tore it down... Every once in a while when I'm back in Ohio I'll drive through there to pay respects and also visit the "hell town" that's a rock throw away in Boston Mills. Not really I stopped going to "hell towns" before the Colosseum was knocked down, but there's some good ones in Ohio.

Alright I'm out.

Listening to
Jay Mohr Podcast Mohr Stories w/ K.P. Anderson

Also MGK for my little brother

and watching the new Odd Future video for Rella... This cracks me up for all the wrong reasons, good job by them. It's so bad I don't even want to put a link to it on here.