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Fake Louis Vuitton trash. Seen. Googled. And purchased.

Very “this is the piece that’ll get me into art school.” Drag queens standing on a black shard. Sharks (a metaphor?). And a primitive Basquiat-inspired demon figure. Shit like this plays well in a crowded BFA portfolio review meeting – “This one’s got the passion, he just needs to focus.” – but after you’re accepted you don’t know what to do with it, and lord knows your parents don’t want it, so you stick it on your wall in a desperate attempt to deny it’s true fate: the thrift store. And it’s there a couple kids will find it and have a great “omg look at this” moment, maybe snap a pic on their cell phone, and then go to lunch without buying it.

Art like this is only acceptable to display if your mother painted it, and that’s what you see when you look at it. Because the rest of us see the most boring and overused image ever. Flowers in an old-world windowsill. And it’s horribly composed and poorly rendered (as this scene so frequently is). But again, if mom painted it it’s great and warm and u can keep it.

I bought this exact same print on a family trip to Laguna Beach when i was 15 or so. I didn’t care about the joke: “Sitting duck” har har. I just liked the chill nature of the duck. I needed any image supporting relaxation to be on my walls at that time.

I really try to be supportive of people being creative. But sometimes it’s really REALLY hard. I mean you have no idea how badly i want to put quotation marks around “creative” here.

Blurry squiggle flowers in a penis vase is a new way to combine two common subjects and secure a purchase from a gay buyer.

Great example of the piece that didn’t get you into art school.  You hang it on your wall in a sour grapes victory. Who needs art school anyway. Theory just turns you gay. I like colors. Immago paint my walls yellow.

20 years later you think about the suckers still paying off their CalArts loans while they work at a brand licensing firm and insisting finding ways to put Dora the Explorer on a toothbrush is “still being creative you know.” You might be working as a bar back and considering charging guys to watch you jack off online but u know that’s still better than Sallie Mae having a $50,000 grip on your ass into middle age. OMG this has nothing to do with what i’m supposed to be talking about. What’s happened to me. I’ve become an LA Weekly film critic.

Kent Anderson Butler’s “Chic” spotted today at Carl Berg Projects at the Pacific Design Center.

PLASTIC! VINYL! VINTAGE PORN! AND STRIPES STRIPES AND STRIPES! It all goes in the magic design blender and then i pour out a delicious gay sex club smoothie.

I’ve been working on the lobby/entry and ticket widows, and new ads all week – photos next week after the lighting is done.

Blank black corridors get tiresome, so liven up your sex club’s walls with super-graphic super-graphics. Here I’ve chosen a nice bj image to set the mood. To add texture I’ve designed a subtle background diamond-plating inspired pattern using the logo of the club.

Paint the wall black – a flat finish is nice and velvety but a bitch to keep clean. I’ve chosen a Dunn Edwards interior black in eggshell finish – a nice amount of gloss. (Don’t get high gloss or u won’t be able to draw on it with chalk in a later step.)

Draw a grid on the wall in pencil based on the repeat size of your pattern. 18″ in this case.

Cut an 18″ square of Gatorboard, then Spray 77 a 1/4″ piece of foam to the board, overlay your logo (remember to reverse it), then cut it out of the foam. Using the grid on the wall, start stamping. It’s ok if some drip or don’t fully stamp – it’s a sex club, things should get a little messy. I’ve chosen DE6356 “Sheet Metal” although the lighter gray, DE6348 “Draw Your Sword,” seems more appropriate given the venue.

Now, in Photoshop make a scaled 18″ grid over your artwork, then divide each of those squares in half and print it out. This is our guide as we draw the line work on the wall in chalk. It’s easy because you’ve already drawn a grid on the wall for the pattern, now divide those squares again. It helps if you number the squares along the side so u don’t get confused as you begin drawing on the wall.

Time to run a paint test. Because i want the blue linework to fluoresce under UV light I’ll be painting it with Wildfire brand blue UV reactive paint. I find it’s best to paint a flat white undercoat, then the UV paint on top. UV paint is very transparent so it will take a couple coats. Because i want this to really pop, i’ve mixed 7 parts UV blue to 1 part UV white.

Now wipe off all remaining chalk marks with a damp rag, and light with UV fixtures. To avoid blasting the hall with UV light (which would cause anyone wearing a white shirt to light up the whole area when they walked by) I’m not using blacklight flourescent tubes, instead, 6 mini-UV-LED-spotlights and 3 blue UV mini-spots from MiniSpotlight.com. Now you’ve got a hot sexy wall that looks great under under bright lights for a photo or porno shoot (and promotes your venue by stamping your club name all over the image!), as well as regular, dark, club cruising conditions.

Here’s the guest rooms. Again i’m using other people’s pics and don’t know when i’ll  see it myself. That’s what sucks about these projects – you work on them for years then they open without you. FYI my commercial work site is here showing other projects.

You can find small versions of the over-the-bed prints on ebay.

These are shots other people took of the art in the public areas. (I’m purposely not mentioning the name of the resort to avoid search engine queries – this blog doesn’t share the same “family” audience as the resort.) It opened last week and I created 30-some pieces for it’s walls and most of the art in the guest rooms. It’s located between the neat A-frame resort with monorail going through it, and that famous park with the big castle. Sadly it’s only available for members of the company’s time-share program so the rest of us will have to settle for pictures. To see my other commercial work go here. (But i can barely show anything as almost EVERYTHING I do is part of a confidentiality agreement or something.)

All pieces were created digitally by me sitting here working in Photoshop with a Wacom tablet. There’s two pieces on each of the 14 floors (each floor gets the same art in two colorways.)

While working on this i also made an iPhone wallpaper out of rejected concept art for this project.

Leather. Angles. HAUTE. Here. Very if Mugler did decor.

Personally, I’d rather not sit in a prolapsed anus.

From the premier issue of the ever inspirational magazine Nest – of which i have every issue – Raymond Donahue’s bedroom shrine to that nice lady. I put the rest of the pics on Flickr.