I'm throwing this old profile away for something dark, moody, and very forboding. Coming Soon!
(as in, when classes are over next month - oh yes. it will be THAT good!!) -Mike
Studying the Bible…the bottomless depths of the riches of God’s word. Making sweet melody on the gee-tar. Tickling the ivory keys. New Mac stuff. Juan Carlo Santeeno the pint-sized PowerBook. Making vinyl sticky-ickies. Trying to understand Japanese car magazines and DVDs. Cars cars cars. Wrenching on Honda’s. Throwin’ down on the minibikes. Ripstick and Winterstick Sessions. For sure. Skateboarding sucks but it’s too fun to put down. Snowboarding is fabulous as long as you don’t get broke-off.
Art in all its glorious forms is so tantalizing! I mean, not that "stick-a-rock-on-a-TV-and-call-it-genius" kind of nonsense. Real composition, content, and innovation. I’ve come to dabble in conventional and digital illustration, graphic design, traditional and digital photography, paint, and working in 3D with sculpture in metals and other materials. Yeah, that's some'a my stuff at right... Influences: youth culture, graffiti, industrial design, and ArtCenter Pasadena.
snow bunnies...asian ones!
Bear Powder...on the Attack!
VeniceCA oil and acrylic on 2" canvas, 34"x 50" full view and detail
Self Portrait oil on canvas, 16" x 20"
Option Z33, full view and detail.
Scanned into Illustrator, finished in Photoshop. 21"x32" lam'd and mounted.
Anything to which I can get up and get my dance on, anything I can chill to, and anything in between, old or new. So much to love, so much to loathe...
Acoustic Worship like the Marvich Boys, Nick Donner, Ricky Bender, Phil Steckling, Waterdeep. Any Worship like Everybodyduck, Phil Wickam, SLSilas, SLOCrusade. Indie like American Analog Set, Appleseed Cast, ATDI, Ben-Gibbard-anything, Elliott, FLIPPIN’-THE-MARS-VOLTA-GOSH, Kings of Convenience, Owen. Hip-hop like A Tribe Called Quest, Hieroglyphics, People Under the Stairs, Souls of Mischief, Visionaries. Mainstream like Coldplay, John Mayer, Radiohead, and on and on forever. And if I can’t have any a that, I’ll DJ your next 80s party a new house of pain!!
I may die before seeing a better show...
Thrill me, entertain me, inspire me, don’t waste my time! That being said, anything ROBOTFOOD. Also, movies with ninjas, pirates, special-ops agents, or guys with brothers training to become cage fighters.
HGTV...what else matters?!!
The sixty six life-changing books of the world’s best seller in either the NIV, NKJV, or NASB translations. My Utmost For His Highest. Strong’s Concordance. Pocket Concordance.
Austin Boost, Ron-Jon, Super-Dan, the Tyteboiz – people who’ve been invaluably investing in me and forming me to be a man of God.
Memories of Bob Merrell.
Markers, pens, scanned and finished in Photoshop.
20"x28" lam'd and mounted.