Okay, fine I'll show you what the shirt looks like: This has got to be one of the coolest designs we've had so far, and we still have lots of shirts that we need to sell! If you want one, drop me an email, yournamehere19@hotmail.com and I can hook you up! they are 20 bucks a peice, and they're american apparel brand shirts. ooooo nice!

This is fun, here's an article that David Morrison, a fan of GMMF since day one, wrote about our little festival. It's super nice except that they've got an old version of the poster with the article, and I am pretty sure that we send them a new one. Now there's no Sun Wizard and a tonne more sponsors, too. show is in one week today!!!!! I am super pumped. I can't wait to wear a walkie talkie again. kinda makes you want to go into law enforcement or security, them things do! In other news, the design for this years T-shirt has been completed by myself and Mike from Top Drawer, and he made it look so incredibly hot that it absolutely puts me to shame, and I almost don't want to show you.

Helloo digital fanbase!!

Guess what time of year it is ???

This upcoming thursday there will be a fundraiser for the epic Green Mountain Music Festival 4!! one for every year I've been a teacher. It's going down at the Library Square Pub (which is in the library building, duh) in downtown Vancouver. This is also the first ever public show of MEGABEAR! The new band of Green Mountain founder, former Hotel Lobbyists frontman, and my friend, James Wood. I am so excited to see him play again and I want big bucks for this festival to go down! Get your hineys out peoples.

Ahh, Bison. Such fine metal we produce here in the Pacific NOrthwest.

Green Mountain is on again this year! The list of crazy awesome bands is getting longer and longer...I hope I can fit them on the poster. We have Bison on board for the headliners again, if any of you were there for Green Mountain 2, you will recall the absolute nuts it was.

Date is going to be July 17th, at Rogers arena...I mean, Tara's farm in Nanaimo again.

So I just got the news that there isn't going to be a Green Mountain this year. James, the organizer, won't have the time to devote to it this summer since his rehab has been ramped up. If you didn't know, James was in a terrible car accident last fall, while on tour with his band, The Hotel Lobbyists. He had a brain injury from a crushed skull, and spent 6 months in the hospital. Although James has been out of the hospital for about a year now, he is still working on getting a normal life together. We were all shocked and delighted when James decided to do Green Mountain last year, but he had a lot of help from his family and this year he'll be doing more job skill training and stuff like that.
I'm pretty dissapointed, but I hope that we can do it again next year. I think I might continue to work on the poster anyway and save it for later.
I probably should be focusing on my comic books anyway, even though I still haven't heared anything from Stumptown!!! you have my money, you jerks!

First of two Pre party posters!

Believe it or not, I have been drawing like crazy lately. Here are two more posters I drew for the Green Mountain Music Festival. We are having two pre-show/fundraisers at the Biltmore Cabaret on Kingsway and 12th. (this is in the basement of the Howard Johnson...it used to be the biltmore hotel, and the Beatles would have stayed there, seriously, but they skipped town that night). I've been inside the hotel...it needs a reno job. I am really proud of myself for drawing these in a timely manner and responsibly, but maybe it's because the show is in August this year instead of mid july, and thusly I have WAY more time to organize. Speaking of Responsibly, there are a half a dozen things wrong with the version of the poster I posted up here. I did a re-do (which I fully expected to be doing) and it is up around town in Nanaimo and also on the website of the show http://www.greenmountainmusicfestival.com/ and you can also read a great article about green mountain in the July issue of the CITR magazine, The Discorder www.discorder.ca/discorder-magazine/index.php/2009/06/30/the-green-mountain-music-festival/

The article in the magazine is illustrated by my poster! but the one on the website is not...you can view the real magazines with my poster online too, you just have to look for the link to the PDF version, and open it,...super easy.

any way here are my latest posters.

I just got word that The Green Mountain Music Festival will be happening again this year! I was assuming that James wouldn't be able to organize the show this year since he has only been back on his feet for about a month now. I talked to James on the phone this morning, and he said that the team made such incredible strides last year, all the logistical details seem to just be falling into place by themselves. It's James'es nature to want to do everything himself, but obviously he can't since he's still recovering from his brain injury. I learned a LOT last year about taking initiatives and being responsible, and just plain learning how to use photoshop. I am much much better at photoshop now, and I think my logistics are going to fall into place as well.
as far as artistically, I think I might use a bear for this years theme....that or something like a baby bird, or some other kind of bird, to use a heavy handed metaphor for Mike Gurr. James says that this years show will be the final show for The Hotel Lobbyists, then they will retire the name and reform as a new band. I'd like to use some kind of metaphors for that in this years poster, without using something obvious like a stupid Phoenix.
Green Mountain Music Festival!
August 8th, 2009
Nanaimo, BC