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

Oh deer v2 MAX t shirt placement

Oh deer v2 MAX t shirt placement, originally uploaded by biotwist.

this was originally a smaller part or something else I was working on but I love it so much I blew it up and gave it its own spotlight. this combines my love of my new favorite color combination, my love of floral flourish and halftones. antlers are pretty awesome to draw also. I feel like have captured some sort of primal magic in this. purple is the new awesome

the shirt is currently up for voteing at DHB, the link is here

how about a song? how about Cryptograms by Deerhunter

T shirt is up at DHB, rock the vote

so I finished my first t-shirt contest in months
you may vote for it HERE


and in honor of a t shirt inspired by jack kirby, how about some crazy jazz inspired by the king of comics as well. I give you jazz drummer Gregg Bendian
Gregg Bendian - kirby´s fourth world

so yeah, go to DBH and if you like my design then give it a vote

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A vector graphic originally made to be submitted as a Threadless T shirt Design till I decided that it would probably do better at Design by Humans.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