7/18/08
you didn't ask for them but here are more people i see.
6/26/08
that nice gal meighan over at her website
my love for you is a stampede of horses
just emailed me and told me she put up a nice article about my actor buttons.
thank you!
6/13/08
new actor buttons at lost weekend video.
here are the actors.
also i put up the entire marlon brando volume one comic.
i made it seven years ago. it's kinda dorky.
looking at it on a computer is no where near the same as sitting and reading a comic.
6/6/08
i am bad at photographs.
but check out iowa if you'd like.
5/28/08
my friend cody is a GREAT musician.
he's playing clarinet along with a score he made (with John Ridener) for Roger Beebe's short film, Tour/Tower, at A.T.A. in SF Saturday, May 31.
his music makes me want to make my art.
and just so ya know.. i got my enjoys zine volume two
and Family
and soon to be at needles and pens
and N&P are having a 5 year anniversary art show on the 7th of june. thumbs up andrew and breezy.
i'll have some art in that.
and here's a nice little article about my director t-shirts at lost weekend.
thank you!
okay.. see ya later. i'm off to iowa.
5/17/08
way super nice review from folks at aquarius records for read this to get your enjoys volume two.
(scroll down to "f" for "forde")
ah geez thanks.
5/12/08
a very cool psycho path
5/08/08
been working on a book the last couple of years with this guy paul paper from lithuania. (check out his work it's great!)
i had so much fun working on it.
and paulius is real nice and cool and all that.
a couple things have change since we made the art.
my bike got stolen. ouch.
and my mom lost 60 pounds. whoah.
no matter how big or small my ma is perty.
hope you have fun looking at it.
5/5/08
finished enjoys zine volume two.
lemme know if you want one.
4/9/08
added some more people i see.
and my latest mini comic about music.
my friend danny is going to europe to play music in may.
he said he'd put my little mini comic on his merch table.
3/30/08
i got this book from the library about this danish photographer. maybe everyone already knows about jacob holdt.
i don't really know photography all that well, but his work really stopped me in my tracks. it's very raw and honest.
he traveled the u.s. in the early 70's and was so shocked by the social differences in the population that he ended up staying for 5 years.
he sold his blood plasma for film. he didn't even have a nice camera.
i couldn't believe the poverty. it looks like the depression. but he stayed witih rich folks too. like the rockefellers. makes it all really bizarre.
i dunno how he gained the trust of the people he took pictures of. he's like a fly on the wall.
here's a few. and here's some info. read about how the kgb was trying to involve him and his book in the cold war. it's wickity wack.
jacob holdt and frank king are my favorite artists of 2008 so far.
2/07/08
my friend chad makes music. he's good at a lot of stuff though. (he did a review of the elephant man movie in my last zine)
he is one of those people who will make a bunch of incredible songs and record it on a cassette tape and then
lose the cassette.
luckily he didn't lose this tape.
he recorded it all live with a sampler, record player, guitar, and voice.
also got about 15 or so junk food calendars at aquarius records.
might be gone already.. i dunno.
here' s their incredibly nice review of it.
Cautionary Calendar About Junk Food zine calendar 4.00
We've said it before and we'll say it again. We love Maria Forde. She can
draw anything. Famous directors, zombies, vegetables, and eventually, she's
gonna draw all of us! You'll be able to see all the
various AQ folks rendered in Maria's inimitable style.
But until then, you can count down the days with this bad ass Maria Forde
calendar. A Cautionary Calendar About Junk Food you can hang on your wall,
small enough to keep in your bag or even your pocket, and packed with awesome
drawings. And it's not just the drawings, it's the subject matter. Just like
her various series of directors, actors, her choices are unlikely but so so
perfect.
So here we have a year's worth of images, legends and misfires of the junk
food world: the inventor of Dubble Bubble (originally called Blibber Blubber!),
Hostess cupcakes, Frosted Flakes, Lik-M-Aid, the man who invented the process
of freezing McDonalds French fries, and helped create Cheez Wiz, the inventor
of sliced bread, Baby Ruth bars, one of the possible inventors of the TV dinner,
the inventor of Mountain Dew, Gene Hackman as Willy Wonka and more!!!
We're having a snack attack already!
oh.. and next t-shirt at lost weekend video coming very soon.
it will be roman polanski.
if you haven't seen repulsion, cul de sac, knife in the water, rosemary's baby, the tenant, fearless vampire killers, chinatown and my favorite version of macbeth..etc. etc..
...you should.
1/09/08
my friend matt made a video about me and my art.
if you didn't already know i was dork you will now.
matt, you rock.
thanks.
12/30/07
put some new stuff up.
more people i see.
and my fetching veggie etchings.
and a mini comic.
and i also got an illustration in the sf chronicle.
it was for a book about food.
happy new year.
11/28/07
the folks at lost weekend told me that an assistant to les blank (he directed "burden of dreams")
bought a herzog t-shirt for blank. i guess blank hung out with herzog and he saw it and wanted one. so the gal got another for herzog.
hard to believe. how i'm just nobody scratching pencil lines on a piece of paper in my garage
and then somewhere down the line the big man himself got to see my drawing.
that will be my xmas present this year.
11/9/07
got a show coming up on december first.
there will be some homemade calendars at the show too.
bout junk food. 
also working on some collaborative drawings with my friend wiley. his art is grade A plus.
and not much really gets me super excited. so that means somethin. he should be in museums.
also i am totally blown away by this persimmon tree in my back yard view.
it's colors are so incredible i am convinced it radiates heat.
latest people i see.
10/3/07
working on my second Read This to Get Your Enjoys zine.
i think i pulled together some real nice folks.
some of the stuff inside the zine will be about...
hip hop and surfing and the alphabet and a place called "rebel plaza".
got a show coming up in december. stay tuned.
8/10/07
gunna be goin from sf to nyc.
i will be strategically placing several mini comics along the way.
be back at the end of the month.
7/30/07
i'm in a group show in seattle at the Bookatorium Gallery
Thursday, August 2nd 7.oo-11.3oPM
The Bookatorium building, 1016 1st Ave, 3rd floor downtown.
my friend ron lives there. i hope he goes.
7/21/07
so i should mention that the t-shirts are at lost weekend video now.
it's been a couple weeks i think.
they made about six dozen of em. and they are a limited edition.
here is the drawing they made them from.
this is the start of a series of director t-shirts. buckle your seat belt.
and more people i see doodles.
7/18/07
with help from my friend jesse (sweetest fellah ever)
i got the rest of my crap up on my website.
the music stuff was shown at my friends' store Record Collector.
it is sadly no longer around but it was a sister store for the original one in iowa city.
please go there. kirk is great.
7/15/07
i got my A strange 31 years paintings up.
and this wedding invitation. letterpress is real awesome.
oh.. my friend hunter helped me take some digital images of my art.
he's learning how to document and has a nice camera and is a real nice fellah. so if you need cheap help..
add13@hotmail.com (hunter lydon)
also got a swell review from aquarius records about my ENJOYS zine. just scroll down alphabetically to "R".
gunna be in a group show in seattle early august. more later on that.
still putting up more art but my 'puter was a real asshole today.
it's almost midnight and i need to eat some food. i'm plum tuckered out.
6/18/07
i'm in a group show next week about best friends. here's the info i was given:
"Best Friends Forever" featuring work from over 20 local artists
On display from June 25-29th at Space
Gallery, 1141 Polk Street, SF
Closing party on Friday, June 29th at 8:00 p.m. featuring live music from
Brian Glaze
this will give you some idea of what my art will be like.
(oh.. and that "yay" before summer
is compliments of
miss bandy)
5/29/07
more people i see doodles. here are some older ones.
and director t-shirts coming soon to Lost Weekend Video.
you might see something like this.
5/15/07
enjoys zine available at quimby's.
4/29/07
i did some illustrations for this children's book. it's called exactly.
4/15/07
finished my zine. READ THIS TO GET YOUR ENJOYS. get it from me or needles and pens.
also put up my mini comics. they are pretty retarded but fun to make.
there is one in each of my zines. oh and the back cover is on the front page of my website.
( i stole that quote from an old radio program called "the escapist")
and then more to come soon.
12/14/06
so i added more stuff.
my friend galen is part of my advice stickers project (coming soon). if you don't know galen you are really missing out on life.
this guy named chad got ahold of me several months ago (he moves all around but i think he's from wisconsin)
and so he wanted to do a project with me. we each picked ten friends and asked for some advice.
i'm almost finished. i got my last person and advice today. we communicate by letters to each other so it's a little slower than email but i'd highly recommend it.
chad is at some army barracks or something in texas and i guess mail is extra nice to have when you are forced to get up at 4 a.m.
i actually jump up and down when i get mail. it's just so cool. and chad's handwriting looks like aaron cometbus. nice.
i put my sticker packets up for view also and i got about 25 of them left if you want one.
i also added some more of my dorky people i see doodles.
and i'm finishing my book up with my friend from lithuania. we are figuring out the details of where we should print it.
and he sent me his photos yesterday and they are super amazing.
there are a couple people i wanted to thank for being really cool and liking my art.
first this guy billy. here's his blog. he has some shots of my solo show that was at little tree.
then there's this magazine called Mesh. they talked about my buttons at Lost Weekend Video.
i don't know who wrote this little article about my buttons but they mentioned that they wanted a harry dean stanton button.
if someone knows who it is tell them i have a harry dean stanton button waiting for them at my house.
12/11/06
how bout a nice little article. (on page 4 & 5)
it has a goofy photo of me and brent and forest at the little tree.
11/27/06
i'm going to have a sticker packet in the post-postcard show.
Opening Reception and Sale: Thursday, November 30, 6-9 PM
Exhibition/Sale Dates: Friday, December 1, 1-8 PM, Saturday & Sunday,
December 2-3, 11am-6pm
i know you've all been wanting something to stick on to something.
you know... for the holidays and shit.
11/20/06
holy shit.. i just watched the coolest thing in the world.
you can actually watch my library song (see in my 10/21/06 news for details) being played by my friend john and his band. wowee.
it's called "maria stacks"
check it ouuuuuuut.
11/10/2006
so i added a few things to my home page.
buttons are at Lost Weekend Video and the zine is available at the little tree gallery.
I got a nice thing written about my paintings in the newspaper.
10/25/06
This nice eye-talian fellah named Claudio asked me some questions and put it on his nice blog
10/21/06
okay.. first things first- i got a solo show coming up at little tree gallery
i was told there will be cheap beer and some vegan finger food.
and i'm making a little zine for the show too.
that same day.. november 4th i got some drawings coming out in this art magazine called faesthetic.
(this issue is about death and love) mine are about a dog getting shot and the first valentine i ever received.
you should be going to lost weekend video Anyways but go there to see my new buttons. they should be there within a week.
(they are "ten movies i think are good") and they are bigger. 1 1/2" (see my july news below for image of "the jerk")
and i can't emphasize enough how rad the lost weekend people are. they helped me pay for my buttons because i have no money. so cool. please support them.
then go look in newspaper. the sunday issue of the sf chronicle on october 29th. i did a colored drawing of a grandpa in a dress. fun.
so then i was in a group portrait show this summer and i painted this really nice guy andee. he is way cool.
and you know.. it's weird to have someone paint you and i was a bit worried that andee would think it was retarded.
then i got an email from him and he said stuff like this.. "just saw
the portrait.
WOW. i love it. really. i'm so flattered that you wanted to paint me at all,
and i think it's awesome."
holy shit.. am i hhhappy.
so if you keep your eye on the aquarius records website (which you should be checking out Anyways) his portrait will be there soon for you to see.
another cool thing that happened was that i asked my friend john if he wanted to do an exchange with me.
he is into werewolves so i asked him if i made him a drawing of a werewolf then he could make me a song. i said it had to be about libraries cuz i like them so much.
here is the werewolf. (it's called "why you be frontin wolf man?") -and next time you come over i'll play you my library song. i can't tell you how cool i think it is. incredible.
and i've been working for rent money and alot of my projects have been put on hold cuz i have no time.
paulius - my lithuanian friend- broke his arm and our book was slowed down a bit. i think we'll print it in his country cuz it will be cheaper. we're aiming for the end of the year.
and finally i have been working on collagraphs in my printmaking class. it is frustrating as all get out. i've never done them before and it is very humbling.
the collographs are called " the Guiness Book of World Records collagraphs". here is one of the drawings i am working from.
and i'm trying to save up to go to nyc and l.a. (i've never been to l.a.)
money is retarded.
and i'm going to see crispin glover tonight. could life be any more awesome than that?
huff.. puff.. whew.. okay.. nuf said.
9/1/06
so about a year ago i thought i was losing my marbles and i went and bought some little pieces of manilla paper.
and i told myself to try to just draw someone i saw. i did about 20 of 'em last summer and then i started to do them again.they are here.
here are the last 3 i have done.
they are nothing special.
so all you all don't go asking me why i drew you weird or something.
working on these vegetable etchings. here's one. (it's a parsnip)
i made some buttons at the zombie show i was in. my name wasn't on 'em or anything so i thought i'd put them up here.
making stickers for my friend jason's band miracles of god and those nice japanther fellas.
and finally.. i gotta mention my grandma drawing (that was) on the intro page. i feel kinda weird about saying this because her hands are all crippled.
but after i drew it i was staring at it and man.. it totally looks like she is throwing up a sign or some shit. i laugh when i see it.
7/08/06
I got some groups shows coming up...
Little Tree Gallery "Grand Opening Group Show" Saturday July
15th 6-9pm. 3412 22nd St. (415) 643-4929.Through Sept. 3.
Tin Horn Press Gallery "Facing West-A Portrait Show" Thursday July 27th 5:30--8pm. 511 Laguna. runs July 27th through September 4th.
Space Gallery Friday August 4th 7pm. 1141 Polk St (this one is about zombies)
If anyone knows that nice guy Andee at Aquarius Records I painted him for the Tin Horn Press show.
I have been finished with my movie buttons since mid may but I can't seem to finds someone with a 1 1/2 inch button maker.
i know all you all are are dancing on one leg waiting for a button of the jerk.
and jenny says she's close to finishing up her alphabet so we can start making an edition of our drawings. (see 4/26/06)
me and this guy chad from wisconsin are gunna make some stickers. "ADVICE STICKERS" (more on this later)
5/18/06
I went back to Iowa to see my fam-damily. i am from a small town. and there is this sign that i have always looked forward to seeing.
it has been in this guy's yard for a really long time.at one point an extra sign was added. "accounting". but i was crestfallen to see that it had been changed.
see for yourself..krazy's. if you squint you can still see the "guns". he must have lost his license ... for some reason. (he still does accounting.)
i also made a drawing for a t-shirt. the band is called t.i.t.s.
4/26/06
Okie Dokie.. so first off Cody finished his album. the rhombus. hell yeah.
I finished my paintings. "a strange 31 years". trying to figure out where to put them. here is 1981.
I also finished my alphabet. here is letter G "goiter". i am patiently waiting for miss dupont to finish hers. you can coax her in a gentle way to finish if you'd like. jenny
Something else that is awesome is this guy paulius from lithuania somehow found my website and emailed me. we are making a book together. he is cool.
And and.. i'm also making some pillows with my friend sarah enid. she is cool also. she makes videos. she likes monsters and spooky stuff.
so the pillows i'm hoping will be called "durable demon defense cushions". cause i think that's funny.
and finally i am half way through with another series of movie buttons for Lost Weekend Video.
3/13/06
THE RHOMBUS has a new album coming soon. "Margins". therhombus.org
(i'm all excited)
2/23/06
I made a drawing for this article about a cool black explorer dude.
It wasn't printed in color. which kinda sucks but oh well. it was fun to do. here it is in color.
I'm donating stuff to a couple different things.
My friend Brook asked for "bicycle art" for a fundraiser.
Here is the art fart.
Also donating stuff to The Lab for their 10th Annual Art Sale.
2/1/06
I put up some new etchings.
And those nice folks at Southern Exposure asks me to make a postcard.
1/22/06
My friend john said, "hey can i ask you some questions?"
so i said, "okay just don't ask me if i'm wearing clean underwear."
check it out. (thanks john)
fecalface.com (email john if you wanna read it. he told me he has to put it up on his new site and i know he's busy)
1/6/06
So yeah, the reproductions of the Pick Pocketer Series are now available. finally.
There are two additional ladies to make it a set of 8.
The prints can be purchased directly from me and picked up at the printer. shipping is an option too.
click here for size available and price list.
If you live in the city and are interested in seeing a set of the prints, I have a set and you are welcome to come and look at them.
i''m on painting "1996".
11/26/05
I will have some work at The Lab for the Post-Postcard Show next weekend.
Sorry for the delay with the reproductions. I will be going to the printer next week. More info very soon.
I didn't get the xeric grant for my Marlon Brando comic. boo hoo.
Working on some paintings. a strange 31 years I'm on "1989".
8/26/05
New contact info up here.
Reproductions of the pickpocketer series (from the art on market street kiosk
posters)
will be published soon. Please email
if you want to be contacted when they're available.
Might make more buttons. Gonna make some t-shirts too.
8/17/05
I made some art that will be shown at the Record Collector (485 14th St, SF,
CA).
The opening is this Saturday, Aug 20, 5-9pm. You should come.
Show will be up until mid to late Sept. Open 12-7 daily.
6/8/05
My women pickpocketer posters are up on Market St in San Francisco until
mid-August.
Three have been stolen from the kiosks... Weird.
Guy actor buttons are were up at Lost Weekend Video (21st and Valencia)
and all the buttons are available from me.
I'm applying for a grant to help publish my Marlon Brando comic, the cover
of which looks like this.
3/4/05
