Hey guys n girls. This piece is giving me a lot of trouble. I did it like 2 years ago and occasionally I take it out of my closet and work on it. I've been trying to add colors to it for awhile now, but it just aint working. Feel free to give me any suggestions or if you want to calab on it, you are more then welcome. The subject is LIFE if any one has ideas on what to put on there.

BYOA

BYOA in san francisco is always a good event to look forward to. my second time being a part of it, and this time i had a whole tall panel to work with. this was my largest solo piece i have worked on so far...















thanks goes out to Almarie for the photos.


the next one is coming up soon so blast the flyer!

Art Book call for entries.....

Hey IC! I just found out about this on Thursday.
Illustrator Alberto Ruiz has just opened call for entries for his second annual art book:
"Eye Candy from Strangers". My boy Rob from NY was in last years and it's been great exposure for up incoming artists . If your interested all the rules and regulations are on the link below. I'm going to enter this year because I was invited last year and didn't take the opportunity. Well I'm just sharing the news. Also I'm reading the transcript for the Graphic Novel job the Goudeau's offered us. I'll let you know the goods on this project soon.


http://processjunkie.blogspot.com/2008/04/eye-candy-20-call-for-entries.html

-Brandon/SRS

aaalllriiighty...

so seeing that i haven't made a contribution to the blog yet i would like to post the following:





yay teamwork!

-jess

I.C Collabo

aquafresh

tanooki's giant turtle festival

Launchpad Progress

Thanks to everyone who came out and helped piece together the press kit tonight. I'll try to have a draft out to you guys as soon as I can. Before people started arriving, I worked on Launchpad a bit more... here's the latest, Enjoy!



Get up. Stay up.
-Nick

P.S.: For those interested in building their vocabulary while at the same time helping to feed the hungry go to http://www.freerice.com

i got these critters for a buck a piece on kidrobot.com...  

i made this mega dope creature

it got wobbly after i added the ghettoblaster

;p''''''' ' ' ' ''

Dyno on MYX TV and umquabajaaja bank news.

MYX TV VJ James rocks a DYNO is my homeboy shirt on his show, Loveable.



check out http://myx.tv/
for more info on your Asian-American Music Channel.

ps. i called up Sharron, the one who invited us to do a show at the bank across starbucks, and she says its on May 30th.
i asked if we can have our names on the flyer and shes going to try her best on that one. i think we can really throw a good event with this. and even a place to exhibit our pieces. what you guys think?

Progress Bar

Here's a piece some of you may have seen me work on at the last meeting. Thought I'd share how far I've gotten with it...



There's still a lot of details to work out, but so far I'm happy with it. Enjoy!



Get up. Stay up.
-Nick

New Myspace Layout

Check out our new layout on myspace. I hope you all like it, lemme know what you think!

this is straight off of my own blogger..

i don't know why i started a seperate blog from myspace...i guess to not get distracted of all the myspace features and such...
whatever here it goes...

Last week was a pretty busy week. im glad to say that im pushing out alot of art these days. i guess being influenced by graffiti has taught me to be quick at finishing up pieces. new pieces and collabo's with Individual Collective artists being posted up soon.

last week i got a message from this guy mike putting a 'graffiti' video project together and wanted to interview me and get footage of me live painting. here goes a good shot of that...


i asked him in return to model one of my new designs titled RNB (can you guess what that stands for?) he ended up buying the live piece i did...


i also got a chance to be featured as an artist in the Vallejo Art Showcase in VHS. the people i met there were cool. got a live painting going on while displaying a few pieces this dude wanted a print straight out of my portfolio which i wasn't planning on selling...but since he liked it so much i let him buy it. later for appreciating my art i ended up painting him an original on a wood panel for the heck of it. i had the free time...


then came Saturday's Artist Square! i love this event because it brings most of Individual Collective together and get creative while onlookers from the farmers market pass by and mingle with us. here are a few photos from my intern: Diamond...





if only jess was looking up then it would look like im painting a portrait. haha...


and to end off the week i was especially happy to see my nanay and my uncle joel randomly show while i was painting. thanks for the photo uncle.


i wish i could just paint and be this happy all the time.
plus spend more time with my girlfriend. a shout out to Christy..i love you.

-JR aka DYNO

The Grouch - ARTSY

The new Individual Collective theme song!! Haha, nah its some dope eye candy though, I had to post it up and share with my brothers and sisters. Enjoy!

Work in Progress....

Hey Yallz! I wanted to post up a illo I was doing for practice. Would love some feed back from the IC. Any ways I'm working on my Bio and remembered that we wanted to see what everyone is working on besides our colabs so here's one from SRS. Had fun on Saturday and this Saturday is going to be wild for me cause I got a Caricature Job at at SF City Hall for a Prom with my former Boss and mentor Rene Pulido! I'll talk to you all tomorrow night!

-Brandon/SRS

importance of Bios

After the last meeting with Ms. G I think that we have a better understanding of what we need to do as a group.

I realized that our bios are very important. If we are not clear what we want and what our own personal goals are, we will not know what we want from IC. In making our bios, we can get a better understanding of where everybody stands in the group. Also getting to know one another will make us more unified as a group. These bios are not only for people to see what we are about, but to make clear and make us remember why we are artist and why we are in IC. Once everyones bios are done, we can all read them and to find what our common goals are. This will enable us to make a stronger mission statement and a stronger press kit.

As of now, it is really important for us to get this all done because we are meeting a lot of important people, but it is hard to represent ourselves because our mission statement is not set in stone.

All we need to do is just keep pushing forward.

-Mark

Our Bios and Press Kit

Hey IC!

Just got done with a very informative meeting with Jeanette and here's where we stand. Before anything happens, we need that press kit completed with all of our bios and mission statement. So, after talking amongst everyone at the meeting, it was agreed that by the next meeting (Tuesday, April 22nd @ Federley Gallery... or however you spell it) everyone should have their bios completed. Here's what you should have:

- A photo of yourself
- No less than 4 images of your work. (Some current work, and some older stuff to show your development)
- A written bio about who you are
- An written artist statement about your artwork

The written stuff can be in any format: typed, handwritten, stone tablet, whatever... your images, since they will be used in print should be as big as you can possibly get them. Either take photos (call our photographers!) or high res scans (300dpi at least). No matter how you do it, get it to Nico at nrafael@myway.com before Tuesday or bring it to the meeting to ensure you make it into the press kit. If not, we cannot promise that you will be represented!! So there it is! TUESDAY TUESDAY TUESDAY!!!! You have been warned!!

If there are any questions, concerns, or you just need some help, don't be afraid to hook up with someone so that you can get this done. Never forget, we are here to help each other out and to look out for one another. This group isn't called Individual Individuals... Plus I need other people to call me besides my girlfriend an my mommy because I'm not using enough minutes on my phone to justify my rate plan.


Oh... and, Tuesday! ... *one more for good measure*


Get Up. Stay Up.
-Nick

Reality Check

Controversy is a foe the collective has met numerous times before, that being said i would like to state the it has been thwarted once again.

We set some things straight tonight and I didn't observe any one that was at tonights meeting with Ms.G becoming discouraged.

I observed a refocusing of devotions and an steps in the right direction .

She laid it all out a bit and tonight being the second meeting, we are more incline to listen and co-operate with Ms.G. I'm not saying that she has me sold or that I'm all in, but she has a lot of knowledge, know how, and resources. We stand to gain the most in this partnership and that is what matters to me the most.

I see that we need to work on organization which we know, but if we do not learn to communicate and keep one another on the same page things will start to fall apart.

So lets grab it by the throat y'all we have some shit to do!!!!
"excuse my French"

THings to think about.

Hey guys,
So because there was some kinks that had to be worked out the equipment wasn't available for the shoot at the farmers market. So we will commence with production as spoken about in the last meting . Same time same place hopefully every body can make it.

If you are not available for the farmers market shoot consider us filming our next meeting to allow a presentation of our commitment to be available for the future.

Oh and our myspace is looking a little boaring time for a new back ground. Im thinking once we have our head shots we could put them all on one jpeg and boom a cool back ground. Im just hoping that we stay focused so things dont fall through the cracks.

--the YOung one VIRGIL--

Attention all Artists!!! Distressing News.....

http://mag.awn.com/index.php?ltype=Columns&column=MindBiz&article_no=3605


Hey yallz. I haven't read this all the way through but from the jist I get that congress has a bill called the Orphaned Works Bill that will allow any one to take your art and use it and not pay you or credit your creation. Check this out and spread the word to all IC and friends.

Here is an interview about this issue:

http://www.sellyourtvconceptnow.com/orphan.html

Please everyone spread the word to all your artists friends and colleagues!!

-SRS