Justin Beaver

Has anyone ever noticed Justin Bieber looks like a Beaver?

Just sayin...

Treat Your Mother Right

Happy Mothers Day.

MidSouth Con Bios are up.

They put up our bios for MidSouthCon 28 today.

Just an FYI.

Fun Time Fridays - Avatar Review

My buddy Tom over at Geeks of Doom posted the Avatar review by the guy who did the 70 min. Phantom Menace review (If you do not know what I'm talking about... stop what you're doing, and watch it! ... well, after you watch this one. )

This guy hits all right points and nails every feeling I had towards this film. You might disagree with this entire review, you might hate this guy... but man does he make some VALID points!

Steampunk And Snow!

Well good things have happened this past weekend. Jeff Preston, my mentor and former instructor has posted a little teaser of the Illustration of the Abolishers on his Facebook page. It is truly an honor to see myself illustrated by such a master.

And here in Nashville we finally got our once-a-decade good snow. So me and Joy and My good friend Gerald and his kids took advantage of this by enjoying the weekend with a little sledding action, or should I say Snow-Tubing action!

Gerald made a pretty sweet video of our escapades.

Needless to say, good times all around. I have another treat I will be posting a little later as well. So stay tuned!

thinkbaker.com is....

Sorry if you have tried to visit thinkbaker.com recently. I am having an all out war with my web host service. Thus resulting in my good friend Barry with http://www.lookatbarry.com/ to come to my rescue. Yay for web savvy friends!

In the meantime, I will have a new Abolishers post in the VERY near future but just for giggles...

Joy wanted me to make her a flyer for her "Twilight Pajama Party" for the midnight showing of new moon.... so my only stipulation was if I could put this sweet doodle on there. All I need now is glitter paint and we have a masterpiece at hand.

-b

Gone Fishin'

Well.. white water rafting really.. maybe some fishing, who knows.

Speaking of fishin' here's a fun little doodle I recently whipped up that actually ended up on my resume as the background image.

Review ReCap

Well, the review is finally behind me now. It was alot of hard work and frantic last minute scrambling to get everything together. I must say it was well worth it too, I met many great people and possible new clients. I took home Third place in best Table display (oh yippee.)

For a fun little giveaway item, I found a place that sold "Gummy Brains" in 5lb bags and I thought it would be a tasty idea plus a way for people to take my info with them. So I drew up a fun little tag for the individually bagged candies (that my awesome girlfriend individually bag for me: ) and here's a pic of the final product and the box I used to put them in. (thanks for the box Kyle) In the top right corner you can see I made some stickers as well.

(sorry about the poor iphone pic)

I want to thank all the friends and family that stopped by and thank you for your support. And to all the future clients and competition.... watch out! I'm on the prowl and I'm hungry!

With that being said. I'll leave you with a picture of my inspiration behind "Unklbee and Me" (a post for another day) That's me.. holding the Unklbee card, and Aiden, holding the Aiden card. :)

Now, off to the RollerDerby. Go NRG!

Freaks & Friends: My Portfolio Review

I will be having my portfolio review at the LimeLight. As I understand it, from noon to about 4 or 5 will be the time for professionals in the industry such as art directors and/or creative directors to stop by and view the latest batch of Nossi's finest.

Then, after 5 will be for friends and family to come. The award ceremony will begin at 6pm (i believe?) If your in the area please stop by and say hello!

:)

The ZDS Project

coming soon.....

WonderFest 09

WonderFest 09 - ThinkBaker
Originally uploaded by ThinkBaker

The first batch of my recent trip to WonderFest are up in my flickr stream. I'm new to the Flickr thing as well and it only allows me to upload some obscure tiny amount of photos per month. I guess thats what I get for being a cheap-o and not paying to have the membership fee that would take the limit off.

I'll will continue to post them as much as they will allow. (I've got about 6gig's worth of photos to post. whoa!)

The models were absolutly mind-boggling, not to mention all of the amazing artist that I had the chance to chat/drink with! ;) Not many people at my young age have had the great opportunity to sit back and talk art techniques and J.C. Leyendecker with William Stout. Or "Hang with The Wang" in the Hotel bar until closing time. Steve Wang was a super down to Earth great guy to hang with and knock a few drinks back... matter of fact.. I think he might have bought me a round... (awesome... I owe Steve Wang a beer...)

I just wish that music in the bar, which was SUPPOSED to be a one man band, had not turn into a Karaoke contest for the worst country songs ever. Geez, and I thought Nashville was bad.. go to KY and listen to "Aspiring Vocalist" ...not so much.

Many other great artists were there as well Like Frank Deitz, Ken Kelly and David Fisher just to name a few. And Last but least i want to thank my former instructor / mentor Jeff Preston to whom none of this would have been possible. I had a blast guys! And I will for sure be back the many years to come!