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MIKE

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About Me

I am the human version of this:

+ + + DJ gigs can be found at myspace.com/mikethe2600king

My Interests

Graphic design, rap music, adjectives, food, buying and scratching records, stickers, BBQs in nice weather, Boggle, pinball machines, Jello pudding pops, skateboarding, rock music, books and magazines about any of my interests, psychedelic screenprinted posters, t-shirts, gettin' real paid, Giada DeLaurentiis.

Music:

Black Sabbath
James Brown
Eric B & Rakim
The Kinks
Jus†ice
Converge
The Zombies
Talking Heads
The Supremes

Movies:

City of God, Goonies, Empire Strikes Back, Raging Bull, Young Frankenstein, Style Wars, The Warriors, When We Were Kings, Yellow Submarine, Capri Sun Challenge, and anything with Rambo in it.

Television:

Backyard Barbwire Wrestling Date, Hideous Physical Feature Surprise Date, Arrested Development, Prison Break

Books:

Herb Lubalin: Art Director, Graphic Designer, and Typographer, Credit 00: I Love Game Graphics, Yes Yes Y'all, the Ego Trip books.

Heroes:

Herb Lubalin
Richard Proenneke
OSPAAAL

My Blog

New graphic design feature / interview on Grain Edit

Just got back from SXSW. Many photos coming soon.In the meantime, my dude Dave in Oakland has put up an extensive interview and graphic design feature with yours truly for his excellent graphic design...
Posted by MIKE on Tue, 18 Mar 2008 08:00:00 PST

SXSW 2008

It's that time of year. We're Texas-bound on March 12th. Here's where I'll be and when...THURSDAY MARCH 13Daytime: Flatstock, slangin' posters and t-shirts with the rest of the Burlesque crew. We'll h...
Posted by MIKE on Fri, 07 Mar 2008 09:12:00 PST

As if we needed more distractions in the studio...

We got a pinball machine!(my unfuckwitable high score)...
Posted by MIKE on Fri, 29 Feb 2008 07:26:00 PST

N.W.A.

I'm about to drive to the airport to go pick up an original member of...and he's flying in on...See you beeeitches at Dre Day tonight....
Posted by MIKE on Fri, 22 Feb 2008 10:55:00 PST

Failure for lunch

I managed to make myself hungry for chicken pot pie today. It's the only food I could think of and the only that would do. I drove to the grocery store up the street and gave them the benefit of the d...
Posted by MIKE on Wed, 13 Feb 2008 12:38:00 PST

I would like to eat an eagle.

They're off the endangered species list, right? An eagle would probably be delicious. Like imagine a lemon and garlic-basted rotisserie eagle breast with sage and andouille sausage stuffing, green bea...
Posted by MIKE on Fri, 11 Jan 2008 02:26:00 PST

New Years in Winnipeg

Holy moly was this a good time! Snakebird, Espada and I hit the road as the Men of Leisure for a couple of out-of-town shows over the last week. We kicked things off at home for a dynamite show at 7th...
Posted by MIKE on Wed, 02 Jan 2008 02:32:00 PST

New design stuff: Diplo poster

Just wrapped up the design for this Diplo / Catchdubs poster for their New Years Eve gig in San Francisco. Whew. I feel really good about this one, ie: I'm really getting a good hold on successfully r...
Posted by MIKE on Wed, 26 Dec 2007 09:32:00 PST

Alphabet poster as graffiti clip art?

Local celebrity Portnoy sent me this photo of some graffer dude Bonus borrowing heavily from my alphabet poster. I think it's pretty hilarious. He effed up the "O" but kinda nailed the other letters....
Posted by MIKE on Tue, 18 Dec 2007 12:30:00 PST

I’m on TV.

Have you seen this iPod Touch ad running on TV? For the part where they show the ipod running Safari, they go to the Nylon Magazine website and then zoom in on a photo of the Kidrobot Dunny series wit...
Posted by MIKE on Mon, 10 Dec 2007 08:39:00 PST