my blackfirday sale at DBH

DBH's blackfriday/cybermonday sale is looking sweet



go buy some stuff

Become a fan of me on facebook

Started up a Facebook fan page to promote my art so please become a fan
http://www.facebook.com/pages/the-art-of-Jonah-Block/116483831730748?filter=1

art and stuff

submitted to threadless for their throwback contest







last week I subbed this astronaut shirt which i feel should have gotten a better score. I'll try it out on DBH next.


also I'm going to have a shirt for a sale over at TEEFURY on the 19th but Im not sure If I'm aloud to tell you what it is yet

my first threadless print abd belated happy 420

I meant to post this on monday but better late then never.
this past monday, on 4 20 I got my first Design printed on threadless. While the design didn't come out exactly how I envisioned it it has been extremely popular and I am quite happy with that. once more you can find the shirt HERE

also in other art/me related news I finished this nifty 420 apparel design inspired by the tatooish textured gore style that's always popular on Emptees.

I personally would never wear blatant pro drug artwork but i know there is a market for it and I wanted to try my hand out it. please show it some love on Emptees.com

Finally I also finished a new painted that is now at display and for sale at the tinderbox, the coolest smokeshop in New Brunswick, NJ

octofarian sketch

octofarian sketch, originally uploaded by biotwist.

I decided im going to start posting random stuff of mine from when ever in the name of more content.
the Ocotofarian was inspired by how i thoght thoses awesome knitted hats rastafarians (and other people) wear to hold their dreadlocks resembled octopus heads. it didn't hurt that by being born in october I love things with "Oct" and my favorite number is 8.

I have had the "song air traffic control" by Luis XIV off their third studio album 'Slick Dogs and Ponies'. they just made a video for this song too. Louis XIV - Air Traffic Control
if you like it go out and buy it because it rocks

coloring books for hippys

I've been lazy and been ignoring this blog but my new years resolution has been to update this at least once a week so I thought I would post this page from a serious of random drawings I made for my hippyish friends to color in

back with new shirts

Its been a bit since I last posted but All I have done inbetween is miss out on some awesome concerts, go to lame job interviews and design a few shirts.
here are those said shirts available for voting at DBH
first up is "art skull" A statement for all the edgy and renegade artists out there. I originally wanted to have the words "ART" written above the image filled in the the same abstract water colors.
see A high quality pic of the graphic here
if this doesn't do well I'll try it again as a super large maxi print because there is a redic amount of color and detail in this. you can vote for it at Design by humans.com here

Next up is "metal cables remix" its an older Design that I couldn't let go of so I tried some new stuff with it

you can vote for it here

Finally I have "Celestial (upper) body. its another trippy Jack Kirby spacescape inspired shirt. The Idea for this shirt was inspired by common comic book illustration effect where the artist fills in large black areas on a character with cosmic space. you can see examples of it here here or here

you can see A large copy of the graphic from this shirt here, I hope to make this a Blacklite sensitive print at some point
if this is something you would wear then please vote for it here

New shirt on threadless "word to the herd"

People seem to react much more positively to this then any of my previous work.
the shirt was inpsired by my girlfreinds love of elephants

head over to threadless and rate it, maybe even buy some shirts?

art is gun / Atmosphere - Guns and Cigarettes.

art is gun
Originally uploaded by biotwistbiotwist

I had this idea to make some edgy graphics and incorporate the word "art" into them, challenging people with the idea that ART can be anything and everything. the design is a little to simple for Threadless or design by humans so might just screen print this my self

the art is about guns so ill post a song about guns. Guns and cigarettes is probably my favorite atmosphere song. If I had to pick one song to make people a fan it would be this one so enjoy

Atmosphere - Guns and Cigarettes.

Kirby's Cosmic Sun

Kirby's Cosmic Sun
Originally uploaded by biotwist

A vector graphic originally made to be submitted as a Threadless T shirt Design till I decided that it would probably do better at Design by Humans.

there is tons of detail in this so view it as large as possible

This Image made use of my love oh Comic book Legend, Jack "the King" Kirby, tripped out cosmic space as seen in issues of Fantastic 4 and silver surfer. what I always loved about them was Kirby's use of a technique he pioneered often referred to as "Kirby dots" or the "Kirby krackle" the Krackle was the use of representing energy with different densitys of scattered black dots creating fantastic kinetic kinetic imagery with the negative space, a wild halftone if you will.

if you care you can cheack out my DBH page HERE and my Threadless page HERE


In other news I saw one of my favorite bands, CAKE, a week ago and it rocked. The only real downsides were how long the show took to get started, the crappy opening band (winterpills) huge people in the front blocking me, and the fact that I love so many songs by them it was impossible for them to play all my favorites. so have decided to post some of the songs i really wish they played

Cake - Carbon Monoxide
Cake - Sheep go to heaven
Cake - Strangers in the night (a Sinatra cover)
Cake - Commissioning a symphony in C

These files are for sampling purposes only. If you have a problem with them being up just email me and I will remove them

First post

well this is my first attempt at this. so i should probably tell you about my self. I'm a 27, soon to be 28 year old artist from new jersey.
Besides being an artist, i have been a professional wrestler, a performer for kaiju big battel and a teachers aid. I also am afflicted with all sorts of things like color blindness, hyper atenshon deficit disorder, dyslexia, dysgraphia, dyscalculia, and chronic depression.
I love to creat things I think i get a high of of turning nothing into some thing or even taking some thing that exists and making it something els.
as for things I do, I draw, paint (mostly acrylic, sculpt, preform, graphic design, photography, and video editing. I think I impulsively want to do any art that I see and if you have read all this so far then you are probably aware that i have no focus and dont know how to write at all. BUT HEY! I'm mostly ok with that and you should be too.
now to talk about this blog I have two goals for this, to share my love of music of all kinds and to showcase and hopefull get feedback on my art. sooner or later I will start posting music but for now Ill start posting my art. If you want to see more of my art you can head over to my flickr page. this is probably most I will ever write here.

I think I will leave you off with one of my old paintings... that I cant seem to post under all this text so instead you can see it at the top left of this post. the painting is called "Strange things under the moon and it is an acrylic painting on 16" by 20" stretched canvas. this painting is a reincarnation of a doodle I have done in many difrent forms and medias. I fell that I want to want to do a whole bunch more weird plants like this if I ever get the focus. cheers!