merry christmas

hope everyone had a good holiday.

see you there

This is funny

Thought this was pretty interesting...

NME (New Music Express) is basically the UK's equivalent to Rolling Stone and they just recently ranked The Strokes "Is this it" as the #1 album of the decade. That's pretty big.

A couple of days ago I pick up Rolling Stones decade wrap-up issue, and which album is ranked #2 album of the 00's behind Radioheads "Kid A"? The Strokes "Is this it."

Thought that was pretty awesome.

almost done...

Fun with photoshop brushes.

Hello again

This is also for fun, but also informative in some way. Obviously, we're the new fish, so we're not headlining a show or anything .. but.... it's still kind of cool ...




haha , maybe someday

hello

It's been a while. School's hard! Anyways... I'm not really crazy about this, but it's something...

happy thanksgiving

Hope everyone had a good holiday. I had a lot of fun with Mia and her family. (special shout out to the Mahoney's for hosting me) The responses on I got from my friends on this special occasion made me really miss everyone though. Here are a few:

"Turkey time yeahhhh" - Tim (training day voice, I'll bet)

"Happy turkey day ya mook" - Alex Vasiliades

"You too man, get that bird" - Steve

"Happy thanksgiving to all and to all a good night" - George

and last but not least:

"Gobble gobble mother fuckers" - Dan O'neil

My friend, Rob

http://www.flickr.com/photos/31370183@N06/2936485461/in/photostream/

The world works in mysterious ways.

finished. . .

Better late than never

The Album

http://drop.io/juliancasablancasjustmadelovetomyears

yes.

book cover....

We had to use the title "elsewhere" and we needed to be the author. So professional, we even left a spot for the bar code.

hello

this is my newest digital illustration assignment...they aren't done yet, BUT... here's the million dollar questions...





a. Should the blue poster get a bar in the background or just the tables and chairs??

b. What should go in the turquoise circle on the yellow poster??

team effort

Take it easy...

hello

Portrait assignment . . .



see yaa

Thank you so much for Saturday. (you all know who you are) It was really amazing, and I'm proud/lucky to have such good friends. Special shout out to Alf.

NYH

The magazine I worked at over the summer has a segment called ''back porch'' on the last page. It's always a really heartwarming story written by whoever decides to write in that month. I got to do my first ever freelance graphic design illustration...for money! Anyways, it's about a brick ranch that was once beautiful, but is now falling apart and dead. so this is what I came up with..... Not the most exciting thing in the world..but hey, ''shit happens''.. That's my new catch phrase.

The next time I see all of you, which is about 5 people who read this, I will be legally able to purchase alcohol. Funny, right?

Take 'er easy.

Music

Well, Julian Casablancas does it again.

www.myspace.com/juliancasablancas

School...

This is my first digital illustration project...




This is gonna be a wacky semester.

more of the same

retro but modern?
old but new?
I don't know, you tell me...




An illustration for washing your clothes in cold water... Apparently it saves you a lot of home energy...




This is weird... There's a company in the UK that invented the "Eco-box"... It takes the carbon dioxide from your breath and turns it into food for algae, that is eventually refined into biofuel for an airport... crazy stuff huh?

stay tuned.

hello...

Celebrity crush .

Kevin's this weekend baby

July

Hello all,

Basically, Summer '09 is pretty tough. Lots of work, lots of bills, and lots of real life... But hey, we're still young, and we're still fuckin' cool dudes... This is pretty much my life right now...



That's Dan's instrument...



I didn't realize how serious this music thing was until recently... Then you have this on your hands... George is in...Who else is down for the cause?

workin' hard for the money...

Maybe not for the money, but workin' hard anyways.

Rockland County School District is going green...and I get to make some artwork for the story! I'm taking a break, so I figured I'd put up some early drafts...





Good friends this weekend. Take 'er easy

Hi everyone

What a summer it's been. Real life is busy, but kind of fun at the same time. My internship is at this magazine called New York House. A few weeks ago I got to go down to the Javit's Center for this green convention with all these cool appliances and home/business products. They used some of photo's in the magazine, but none of these. I figured I'd show you guys:

Lobby of the Javit's Center. Pretty Badass.


Solar panels that soccer mom's will love.


These guys wanted me to take their photo's. Look at what they sell.


Lighting of the future.



See everyone soon. Be good.

Rolling Stone Magazine

...is full of shit.

A mindless interview with Mike Tyson, famous for rape, assault and biting off a persons ear.

Another mindless interview with Sasha Grey, "Porn's biggest star."

A 4 & 1/2 star rating for Green Day's new album. "They've ended up the last band standing, the ones living up to their era's loftiest ideals and still writing their toughest songs long after they should have landed on Sober House."

...Last month they did a feature on Asher Roth, most notable for his deuchebag anthem "I love college." They praised him as the next Eminem.

I guess everyones got an agenda.

From Seattle

Hello everyone,

Today was Me and Mia's last day in WA. We had a fun filled, action packed week.

I learned a few important facts about the evergreen state this week:

1. American bald eagles are abundant here. They fly around like any other bird, just hangin' out.

2. Even though it rains here all winter, the summer weather is pretty much as perfect as it can get. 75-80 degrees, no humidity, pretty much from June-September. Very little rain. Weird how it works like that.

3. The West coast, generally speaking, is probably 10x more friendly than New York. Now, I'm not saying it's a good or bad thing, I'm just stating a funny fact....for example:

Yesterday in Portland, we found a hot dog stand. Envision what you think of a New York City, dirty water cart. This stand was run by a middle aged woman, looking like she could be anyone of our moms. The lady heated up our food, even though she was already closing down for the day. After putting Mia's mustard on her veggie dog, she asked "Is that enough?..Do you want more?" She then attempted to cut open my sausage to make sure it was hot enough for me....I stopped her kindness right in her tracks and took it the way it was....

There were a lot of really awesome things that we did, but I'll explain another time.

Take 'er easy.

important update!!!

Hello to all in the blogosphere,

It is with great honor, and much importance that I declare tonight on this blog....That there will be a Clark St. Art Gallery this summer. We will have an opening, with wine and beer and finger foods... Anyone who wants to submit artwork can, and it will be celebrated whole heartedly. We will accept photographs, paintings (alex), sculpture and any other types of art out there. I really mean it, we are very excited about this....all are invited. We will get together and enjoy each others creativity. Get crackin'.


!!!!

Lately...

Practice makes perfect. Right now I'm practicing digital illustration.

I call this one "Alex Unfinished"

Hey

One more thing I forgot about.

So a while back, I was working on those Darfur awareness posters. Well, I decided to change my direction after I stumbled upon a book in Barnes and Nobles titled Posters for the People. It's just an assortment of different awareness posters made during the WPA (Works Progress Admin.) during the Great Depression. Now, I'm sort of a fan of the New Deal, so this was extra cool to me. Basically these posters just tell the American people what to do. Get vaccinated, travel the country/world, support your local farmer...I really liked the idea of the government telling you to do something with propaganda but for positive causes. Anyways, this is what I came up with...





Fun stuff to think about...

Anywho, take care, see everyone soon.

Clark St.

Well, I'm procrastinating pretty badly right now. For my photography class, I needed to document a place. So I thought, where better than Clark Street? Spring time brings out the best in it.



Taking care of the Kids is a group effort.




Roofin' it.



Home sweet home. (Dan's spot)



Arrivederci

Real swamped with finals coming up and all. Just thought I'd update everyone:

1. I believe, according to James, that the mid-May camping trip has been rescheduled for May 17th??? Can someone please confirm this? That gives us about 3 weeks to plan who's going/what to pack/etc.

2. I am an employed member of society once again. Starting this weekend I'll be working here. I'm very excited, to say the least.

3. Lately I've been real hooked on The Clash. "The only band that ever mattered", some say. Anyways, I found this ABSURD cover of London Calling on youtube. Check it out. That's Elvis Costello, Bruce Springsteen, Dave Grohl, some dude from the E Street Band, and the bass player from No Doubt. Pretty wild, huh?

4. Advertising is fun. For my final assignment in Principles of Advertising, we need to come up with a new creative ad campaign for Altoid's... "Refresh Your Life" is the slogan I came up with... Clark St. helped come up with the creative concept, and we have to make a story board for a commercial too. This is where I'm at right now:




Oh well, good luck to everyone out there with the last couple of weeks of school.

hello

hi everyone...

It's been a while but....This weekend was so awesome.

It all started thursday. Connor came up, we played some jams, then started drinking. Our new thing is to go to Spanky's on Thursday nights because they have this open mic blues jam. Basically all these old locals play blues rock all night. Anyways, Connor shredded so hard on guitar (the regulars nick named him "young blood") and I rocked a little drums. It was so awesome.

On Friday Steve, Connor and I cleansed our Chi in the Catskills. We were going to stay over night, but the camp grounds were all closed. We ate a delicious mexican meal at Pancho Villa's and scaled Katerskill Falls, which was unbelievably beautiful. "Awe inspiring" to say the least.

Saturday was Georges surprise birthday. We tricked him so bad. It was the most fun I've had in a while. On top of that, I played music in front of a whole bar of people! Talk about nerve racking. Too bad that crazy bartender made us stop rocking out... Oh well. I think I'm going to do that again soon, except play more than one and a half songs.

I just finished this for my class. Check 'er out.

thank you

finally some good news

http://www.rollingstone.com/blogs/smokingsection/2009/03/the-strokes-are-back-in-action.php

Big Update

It's been a little while. I hope all is well in the blogosphere. I have a few things I'd like to discuss.

1. Michael Jackson's Thriller album is fuckin' awesome. Dan and I listened to it on cassette in his car and it ruled. I'm absolutely going to get a hold of a hard copy of this CD. It is dance rock at it's finest. Everyone should go listen to "Beat It" or "Billy Jean" and just feel good.

2. I'm going to be making a musical investment this weekend. Thanks to Craigslist, you can find instruments and equipment for dirt cheap...Sure enough, I'm getting a hold of a very nice microphone, adaptors and a tape deck. I'm extremely excited. I'll finally be able to do some good mixes. Music to come soon.

3. http://www.hollisterco.com/hol/homepage.html ..... I'm not sure what exactly I'm getting myself into, but I'm nervous and excited and well, it should be fun.

4. My graphic design teacher is having us make awareness posters for the crisis in Darfur. I didn't realize how serious it was until I had to do a project on it. Basically, the Sudanese government is allowing militant groups to kill non-arab tribes/civilians as well as the rebel groups that fight back against them. It's really intense stuff, and I'm very surprised/disappointed that the UN hasn't accomplished much in stepping in, just ceasefires and empty threats.

Anyways, we were supposed to base our ideas off a famous political artist named James Victore. I came up with this:




Take it easy everyone.

The answer my friend, is blowing in the wind.

this is what's going on in bob dylan's life these days:

Thanks to everyone for making my weekend / life that much better.


My muse...

A few things.

1. The band that is currently tickling my fancy at the moment are Born Ruffians. I'm a big fan of 'I need a life' and 'Foxes mate for life."

2. While I was at Super Stop 'N Shop yesterday, 'Someday' by The Strokes came on the radio. It made my day. I said out loud "I'm going to blog about this."

3. Last evening Mia and I saw Rachel Getting Married. It ruled. Anne Hathaway plays a junkie going through rehab, who takes a weekend to attend her sisters wedding. Apparently it won awards and stuff. I highly suggest it to anyone who can get to the South Hills Mall for a $2 movie, otherwise just wait for the DVD i guess.

4. Right now I'm reading Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. Well over Hunter S. Thompsons long career as an author, he has teamed up with friend and artist Ralph Steadman for illustrations of books/articles/etc. He also rules. His style is right up my alley. I think someday when I have a place to live and decorate, I'm going to hang a work by Ralph Steadman on the wall.

5. Finally, for my graphic design class we had to make advertisements for Kidrobot toys promoting their store locations. Finally have a reason to do that rising sun nonsense. What do you guys think?




Adios.

Chi Cleansing

So, as of lately the majority of Clark St. has decided they hate school. During these winter months, it can be hard to see the light at the end of the tunnel. Moustache March is coming up, which will be awesome, but it will leave the majority of people around campus disgusted/horrified by me. It'll be a tough month. One that will test my character.

After that though is Campin' April, baby. All camping all the time. If anyone wants to go camping during Campin' April, contact the members of Clark St. and we'll work it out. The key component of Campin' April is becoming one with nature, thus cleansing the chi. Standing on top of a mountain and taking in God's good green earth is going to fix all and any of our problems.

Our last project was to make book covers...Well, let's just say the outcome is about as exciting as the assignment...




See ya.

This is really funny.

So my little sister Alex is really into this LCD Soundsystem band. I think they're supposed to be techno, rock, "house" music or something. Anyways, apparently they're a big deal...

The one thing I've noticed however, is how surprisingly similar the lead singer sounds like Kermit the Frog. Don't believe me? See for yourself :

The resemblance is uncanny.

In more pleasant news, one of my favorite bands ever is getting back together to record a new album and tour the world. We're talking about none other than Blink 182 people. I guess Tom Delonge realized that Angels and Airwaves were the laughingstock of the music industry. Anyways, I'm stoked...Look it up on youtube or something. 

The Grind

School is pretty alright. For my photo class we had to bring in our own model and mess around. Tim Mcdermott ladies and gents' :



Well in other news, for my graphic design class we had to make a poster for the MoMA..Not a real one they use or anything, just a made up assignment:



Stay tuned.

Story time

Wednesday morning, as I was going to my 8 AM class, I saw a digital thermometer from a bank that read 0 degrees. While I was shivering my little ass off, I thought of the glory days of warmer weather.

Let me take you back to Summer of 2008. Kevin and myself went on an adventure to NYC. We drank, we had multiple run-ins with the law, and saw a kick ass band play at a shwanky club. The center point of this tale though, is what we found laying on the sidewalk at 2:30 in the morning.

A bike.


We rode it around the city together, I rode it through Penn Station full tilt (which got us in trouble with the law again) and I brought it back to Long Island until school started.

I love it. When the weather was good, I rode it everywhere. At the very end of August I went out with my bike and took pictures with some left over color film from a while back :


This one's for Dirk Mcgirk. Free Masons are real dude


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Adorable, really.


See ya next time.

Welcome to the Bronx...

Sometimes you find beauty in strange places. This is what was outside Mary's window one wet head kind of morning :

So lately I've been trying to imitate popular advertising trends and poster art and such ... You know, just being really artsy and edgy. Here's one I've been working on :

On another note :

I picked up the Litte Joy album. This is the solo project of The strokes' Fab Moretti...WOW.. This is by far the best thing to happen to me in '09. Try and imagine The Strokes being from Hawaii and surfing instead of dating super models and that's what you get. Please go out and grab a hard copy of this CD. Check this one out:

Little Joy

On the bandwagon...

Lately there has been a real surge in my friends posting blogs. Pictures from New Years and beyond by George and Dan, my lovely lady Mia, and even Kevin has joined the 21st century... It's got me thinking and well...I'm going to kickstart this dusty ol' blog I got...



First things first...while I wasn't blogging, I was creating my first webpage. It's not anything too great, but hey, you gotta start somewhere....I have this idea of making short cartoon videos and putting them on there on a regular basis....Does anyone want to help me write up some plots?


http://foxweb.marist.edu/users/kdlp7/


In the meantime, lt me show you all my get rich quick scheme. George doesn't believe in it, but I'm going to be famous for this one. This baby's copywrited, so don't get any ideas. Let me know what size T-shirt you want when I print these badboys :