From abidevisuals.com :
"A strong drive to excel and achieve in the creative arts has led to a very broad practical design experience — as well as an adjunct professorship at American River College. Once webmaster for Vapors magazine, Aaron has since provided art direction for COLOR skateboarding magazine, THELEGEND, California Landscaping and Fork It magazines and the Weird Forest record label. AVMJ handles a wide variety of freelance projects ranging from magazine design to event promotion to t-shirt and toy design.
"Aaron's enthusiasm for the design is likewise apparent in his fine art pursuits, having shown in and organized group shows from San Francisco to San Diego, and from Las Vegas to the United Kingdom.
"His work can be found in Faesthetic, Wonderland and Anti- magazines as well as the Semi-permanent06 and iDN's Vinyl Will Kill books. AVMJ also publishes Exit Strategy , which showcases the international talents of dozens of artists and musicians in print and vinyl mediums."
I'd like to meet:
Folks that do stuff. Like DO stuff, not just say they do stuff. And I dont even mean that in a dirty way or anything... I mean, like, just dont sit around watching sitcoms all night and bore the shit out of yourself and then complain how you would do stuff, but you just dont have any time.
Join my Behance circle.
Music:
A Minor Forest, Baroness, The Shipping News, Joan Of Arc, June of 44, Slint, Shellac/Rapeman/Big Black, Charlottefield, Richmond Fontaine, Pelican, Aesop Rock, No Age, Unwound, Fugazi, etc etc etc.
Oh and John Cougar Mellencamp.... don't sleep on The Couge! Dont make me karaoke the shit out of "Jack and Diane" on y'all!
Movies:
MVP 2: Most Valuable Primate (For those not in the know, a monkey plays hockey in this one. The sequel MVP: Most Vertical Primate, in which the same monkey now skateboards, is off the charts!!!) Office Space. The Big Lebowski. Science Of Sleep. Planet Of The Apes #1 and 3-5... #2 sucked.
Television:
Friday Night Smackdown.I'm dead serious.
Books:
Most recently I finished Craig Thompsen's Blankets and Willy Vlautin's Motel Life, Henry Miller's Tropic of Capricorn, Raymond Carver's Will You Please Be Quiet Please. I've also been about halfway through Erich Fromm's The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness for about the past 5 years.Color, Juxtapoz, Lemon, iDn, Lodown, Skyscraper, Semi-Permanent, Faesthetic, Beautiful Decay, Swindle, Hi-Fructose.
Heroes:
All around devours of planets Kevin Grady and Colin Metcalf, Mark Searcy and Brian Gibb, Sandro, Wes and Ben at Color, Jessica Hopper, Grant Purdum, Michael Gondry. Biggest Influences Andy Howell, ESPO, Ian Mackaye, the Skinn Dogg, Aaron Cometbus, Sean Cliver, Jason Lee, Bam Bam Bigelow, Larry Hama Jr. Artists In The Cars That Go Boom Aaron Horkey, Emil Kozak, Steven Harrington, Scott Barry, Mike Giant, Geoff McFetridge, Jakob "Plastic Kid" Printzlau, Gunsho, Dan Mumford, Ryan Waller, Waste, Pushead, Todd Francis, Jim Phillips, Todd Bratrud, UPSO, Craig Metzger, John Dyer Baizley and probably like a million more.
