A Baby Tattooville Thanks!

A public thanks to Baby Tattoo for inviting Alyson and me to the Baby Tattooville 2013 weekend of fun! We had a fantastic time and it was very flattering to be included in the array of very talented artists. I hope I held up my end of the deal by being enchanting and enjoyable enough company for all the paying attendees! If you like great art, and might find the illustrators behind the images fascinating, (or enjoy staying at a beautiful resort hotel/spa, savoring luxurious food and getting a carload of cool free stuff) make sure to sign up for Baby Tattooville 2014!

(to see more details, check out my previous post-
http://mitchoconnell.blogspot.com/2013/10/baby-tattooville-weekend.html)

Jar Jar Binks is DEAD!

DKE Toys presents “The 99 Deaths of Jar Jar”

A two day only group art show exclusively at

Designer Con 2013

Saturday, November 9 & Sunday, November 10,  9am – 5pm

Pasadena Convention Center, 300 East Green Street, Pasadena CA 91101

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

DKE Toys presents “The 99 Deaths of Jar Jar”, a group art show featuring 99 artists. Each artist was asked to submit a black and white, pen and ink illustration on an 8.5 x 11 sheet of paper and chose one way to maim, torture, and/or kill our least favorite Gungan.

Participating Artists Include:

64 Colors - A Little Stranger - Doktor A. - akirophoto - Ardabus Rubber - Asaad - Atila - Jason Atomic - Super Cooper Berella - Bigfoot - Joemm Blanche of CBNC - Botsch - Jon Burgerman - Candy - Nate Carle - Luke Chueh - Nicholas Dewey - Luis Diaz - Mike Egan - Dez Einswell - Brent Engstrom - Gus Fink - Frédéric Fleury - Brian Flynn - Steve (Go Hero) Forde - Free Humanity - Renee French - Gregg Gibbs - Darren Goldman - Dan Goodsell - Grenadier Stinny - James Hakola - Gary Ham - Nathan Hamill - Joshua Herbolsheimer - Jesse Hernandez - Francisco Herrera - Kerry Horvath - I Heart Guts - Jay222 - Jeremyville - JSalvador - kaNO - KiLL! - Sun-Min Kim + David Horvath - Scott Kinnebrew - Jim Koch - Frank Kozik - Wade Lageose - L'amour Supreme - Leecifer - LiLJAPAN - Abe Lincoln Jr. - Jerome Lu - Madtwiinz - Jim Mahfood aka Food One - Man One - Manly Art - Marka27 - Randy Martinez - Mauricio Tubesteak - El Maz - MCA - William Luke Miller - Miso - Nate Mitchell Squid Kids Ink - Nick the Ring - Brent Nolasco - Mitch O'Connell - Odio - olive47 - Jordan Owen - Virva Peikko - Ritzy Periwinkle - The Pizz - Playful Gorilla - PodgyPanda - Poulin Eurlegg - Dave Pressler - Ted Rall - Rob Reger -   Renone - Jermaine Rogers - D. Ross "scribe" - Johnny Ryan - Phil Ryan - Dave Savage - SERBAN - Skinner - Bwana Spoons - Scott Tolleson - Triclops Studio - twerps! - Gustavo Alberto Garcia Vaca - valleyDweller - Denise Vasquez - Scott Wilkowski - Neil Winn - David Zajdman

Images will be posted here  http://www.flickr.com/photos/dketoys/sets/72157635662424295/

DKE TOYS: Dov Kelemer & Sarah Jo Marks are Co-Founders of DKE Toys, the largest independent wholesale distributor of designer toys, limited edition art objects, collectibles, and gifts in the world exclusively representing hundreds of artists, designers, and boutique manufacturers. DKE also curates art shows, writes books, appraises and buys collections and toy closeouts of all shapes and sizes. www.dketoys.com

Baby Tattooville Weekend!

Read all about it @www.babytattooville.com

One of the (MANY) perks of attending the Babytattooville weekend party is this gift- the "X in 1" a group print that all the artists contribute a section piece to, this years theme being "Midnight". They're arranged in a grid patten, signed and numbered and given only to the guests. Here's my piece of the puzzle-

Also, each attendee gets a gift bag from every artist. In mine is a signed and numbered 'lil giclee print made just for the occasion. Since it's called "Baby Tatttooville" I drew a "Tattooed Baby." That's just another example of why I'm known as a genius.

Birthday Boy!

Today is the Birthday of "The World's Best Graphic Designer
(among many other attributes), Joseph Allen Black!
Joe put together the best reviewed book of the year (clue- it has my name it the title), DJ's throughout Chicago as Joe Black's Midnight Spookshow, is roommate to a beauitful black cat and always looks fashionable no matter what the hour he stumbles out of his penthouse apartment to get a cup of coffee.
So here are a selection of hand-picked cards for us to post on his Facebook wall today!https://www.facebook.com/pages/Joseph-Allen-Black/201234799898575

The greatest gathering of artistic talent in the history of mankind!

For details- go to-https://www.babytattooville.com/

Flea Market Finds!

Woke up at 5am Sunday morning with a refreshing 2 hours sleep under my belt after the wedding reception, with the equally groggy Amy Payne, Tom Dechristofaro and Mark Braun.
First find- if you ever want to recreate the men's restroom at Sidekicks- http://mitchoconnell.blogspot.com/2010/06/chicago-tours-is-back-3.html-
here's a giant step. After I snapped the pic, I was told it was just a dollar. But I shan't be greedy, and left it for you!

Hello Nurse!

Oh bright hobo nose, please light up to help me find my bourbon!

Why is this album valuable?
Because it's a rare find from the estate of The Jeffersons.

Jesus statue #138 is now at his new home. At 5 feet tall, he's the largest (so far) at the manor, and as soon as I fix his broken fingers he'll be as good as new!

I can't figure out if this is supposed to be hillbilly cute, hillbilly sexy, or just hillbilly.

After pleasing the ladies ("Number 27! Is there a 27?! OK, number 28!") I also like a smoke. But only if I'm doing it in the most awkward position that'll always result in burning all my fingers.

If you know anything about me, you know I'm a man of danger and action who lives life in the fast lane, windows down, music blaring, driving without brakes while doing jujitsu.
So this book was a must have!

Love Nest!

My bedroom was a bachelors paradise (at least to my way of thinking). Leopard sheets, nude velvet paintings, coin operated 1000 Finger bed massager, condom vending machine, fully stocked tiki bar, pimp mugs and more.
Now, being happily wed, that was retired, only to evolve into a cozy marriage love nest. Alyson was inspired by the bedroom of Jayne Mansfield and Mickey Hargitay, and we went to work...