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Mic}{e

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About Me



View My Blog | Artist | Designer | National Alliance of Art Scenarios | micketong.com

Spectacle Show Preview:

Window display at Black Market LA:

Black Ink Drawing on Japanese paper for the upcoming show at Ritual in SF:

My Interests

guitar, Art, dreams, rock climbing, electrobleep.com, Illustrators, Epsons, I.D., Polaroid, comedy, world travel, culinary, Creation records, Fuji Digicam, monkey knife fights, psychic midget mind wrestling,Sk8tboards, Digital Art Movement

I'd like to meet:

Other Artists, Interesting and Inspiring People, Vampire Beavers with Capes, One Eyed Designers with One-sided points of view...

Other Alumni at The Black Devil Wizard School for the Visually Impaired
Let me introduce you to PAUL McCARTHY. He rules without rules.
Another great Mind is TIM HAWKINSON

Music:

Field Music, Sufjan Stevens, Grinderman, Ratatat, Robots in Disguise, Andrew Bird, Pretenders, Stars, SuperFurryAnimals, Teenage Fanclub, Velvet Underground, Add N to (X), Stone Roses, MyBloodyValentine, Primal Scream, T Rex, Blonde Redhead, Spiritualized, Junior Panthers, Jason Falkner, Libertines, White Out, David Bowie, DEERS, M83, Rapture, IDM, Loquat, Arctic Monkeys, Jesus Mary Chain, Mash-Ups, YeahYeahYeahs, Trance, Breaks, Grime, Mice Parade, Ilkae, Kasabian, Hot Hot Heat, Magnetic Fields, Mr Projectile, Proswell, Super Grass, Miles & Coltrane, Verve, Unkle, Ian Brown, Broken Social Scene, Diplo, Detroit Cobras, Cars, Danger Doom, Felix Da Housecat, Fourtet, Tom Recchion, Cure, Clash, Smiths, Arcade Fire, Human League, Chameleons, Joy Division, Eastern Lane, Block Party, Fischerspooner, Modest Mouse, Radio Dept., MUM, Super Grass,& the list goes on...

Movies:

Donny Darko, Barbarella, Blade Runner, Trainspotting, Gummo, Starship Troopers, David Lynch flicks, Dark City, Frida, Jeunet works, Requiem for a Dream, Conan the Barbarian, Pollock, WillyWonka, ClockworkOrange, Basquiat, Drugstore Cowboy, Battle Royale, Save the Green Planet, Old Boy, Rumble Fish, Ed Wood, The Outsiders, Blow Up, Roman Holiday, Brasil, Cinema Paradiso, Time Bandits

Heroes:

Duchamp, Deitch Projects, Assume Astro Vivid Focus, Matthew Barney, Matthew Ritchie, Rinzen, Vik Muniz, Paul Klee, Damien Hirst, Kai Althoff, Lee Bul, John John Jesse, Dana Schutz, Julie Mehretu, Leo Koenig, Beardsley, Warhol, Tim Hawkinson, Basquiat, Murakami, Francis Beacon, Rauschenberg, Pipolotti Rist, Rhizome, E-flux, etc. +++

My Blog

Rewind: Beautiful Losers

Just wanted to see if anyone wanted a blast from the past.  I've posted some images that I took at the "BEAUTIFUL LOSERS" opening at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco Jul 17 - Oct...
Posted by Mic}{e on Fri, 08 Jun 2007 02:53:00 PST

MATTHEW RITCHIE: PROPOSITION PLAYER

Score!  I just recently bought MATTHEW RITCHIE'S : PROPOSITION PLAYER, a rare hardcover book, put out in 2003 by Hatje Cantz and the Contemporary Art Museum of Houston.  All for $55 dollars...
Posted by Mic}{e on Fri, 08 Jun 2007 02:40:00 PST

Quantum Theory Realized in CAD: Arthead: Group Exhibit :Swarm Gallery

  Quantum Theory Realized in CAD  2007 Digital Illugraphy, Wood, Resin 20" x 60" (2ftx5ft)   by Micke Tong     QTR in CAD was created in particular for an upcoming show in Los A...
Posted by Mic}{e on Fri, 06 Apr 2007 12:27:00 PST

DAMIEN HIRST DUCKS

So Tara and I completed our "Ducks" for Damien Hirst's project.  You can visit this project at http://www.myspace.com/damienhirst He has asked the public to submit over a 1000 ducks.  I'm st...
Posted by Mic}{e on Thu, 15 Mar 2007 09:57:00 PST

Shapetionary

Things have been quite hectic as I am working on my debut solo show in LA at Blu82 and Black Market Boutique.  Just recently lots of opportunities have a risen and I'm not sure if I can keep up w...
Posted by Mic}{e on Wed, 28 Feb 2007 10:47:00 PST

Femme Fatale

I've hopefully returned to Hamburg's Destructed PDF mag.  I posted a new piece and hopefully they will use it for this months issue. http://destructed.info/ I'm starting to experiment more w...
Posted by Mic}{e on Wed, 31 Jan 2007 10:15:00 PST

TLM Collaboration

I just finished a collaboration with THE LOVE MOVEMENT.  An art panel that will raise money to help a small village in Benin Africa.  Just a small gesture of how artists can really make a ...
Posted by Mic}{e on Mon, 22 Jan 2007 02:10:00 PST

Hello Dolly!

Here's my latest for Project Gallery LA's season Opener.  The show opens January 20th 2007 in Culver City... Titled: Dolly of Edinburgh meets the Llandscape of Tomorrow 35"x35" - Digital Illugr...
Posted by Mic}{e on Fri, 12 Jan 2007 02:25:00 PST

Nick Cave Sound Suits

This is awesome.  Nick Cave shows his art installations at Jack Shainman Gallery NYC.  Check out these amazing suits dedicated to sound! http://www.jackshainman.com/dynamic/artist.asp?Artist...
Posted by Mic}{e on Fri, 10 Nov 2006 02:25:00 PST

Cote D'Azur

So Finally, I've posted some pics up of my trip to the South of France.  For one week I spent taking in as much culture as possible travelling from St Paul De Vence to Nice to Canne. This trip wa...
Posted by Mic}{e on Fri, 13 Oct 2006 09:18:00 PST