While in NYC over this past weekend, I met up with my friends Andie + Nicole at Andie's workplace, Dunderdon. They were having a cozy little opening for the new artwork that was on display.

I met some new + old pals.

Hot cider was the perfect antidote for the crumby, cold weather.

I want this photo so bad.

Andie, Nicole and I grabbed some takoyaki after catching a wonderful movie-- The Fantastic Mr. Fox. I definitely got all teary eyed when the wolf in the distance raised its paw.

Chomp chomp chomp.

Oh yeah-- I forgot to mention that I played some serious tricks on people in the city of New York. We went to some fashion party shindig, and everyone there seemed to have been taking themselves far too serious. To lighten up the party, I pulled out this fake, realistic, human finger. While carrying it around in a dirty, crumpled up napkin- I would ask people if they knew where the trash was. I would pretend to be freaked out, and unveil the very real looking severed finger. I think I made 30+ girls scream, and 40+ dudes give me disgusted looks. Some repeated quotes were- "What the F%&# is that?!" and, "Who the F%&# are you?!"

Just because you wear fancy clothes, doesn't mean you have to have no emotions and a cold heart. Lighten up people.

Also, we were at the corner of an intersection, waiting to cross. I knew this one guy was eavesdropping on our conversation, so I played a little trick on him. While talking with my friends, I said, "Guy's, I really don't know what I should do with this. I'm definitely bringing it to the police station, I just feel sick carrying it around." I then turned towards this eavesdropping stranger, and asked him for advice. This guy jumped back 4 feet and nearly puked. SCORE!

I've been living out of a suitcase for a while now, but it's been well worth it. Below you will see a photo of my luggage. Just kidding.. sorta.

Below you will find a cluster of photos from some of my most recent lecture series travels.

Nati Jay is a long long time customer. Very genuine dude, has a wonderfully creative sister, and a sweet mom. My whole family knows Nati Jay's name by heart from seeing so many of his orders over the years. This guy is going to do something big some day.

Thank you for the lifetime support Nati Jay. You're a good dude.

Catch Phrase 'til the break of dawn.

Thank you everyone for inviting me to lecture at your schools, and for doing a wonderful job setting everything up. And thank you all for listening. Hopefully you can all learn from my learning lessons, mistakes, experience, tips, tricks + advice. Judging from the positive feedback and overflowing amount of e-mails, you now have a great start to building your own independent business.

Rufioooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!

Tickets available through our online shop! See you THIS weekend! Be prepared to feel like a kid again.

I've been living out of my suitcase for a long time now. Half from traveling and half from not ever un-packing. I was recently in Kentucky + New Mexico for lectures (in which I still need to blog about). I decided last minute to get away to New York City. Both to check out my good friends band, and to visit friends. I have some photos that I'm going to post in the next couple days. Right now I'm checking out of my hotel, snagging some toast + jelly, and catching a ride home from a friendly stranger.

Originally I was going to be leaving around 5pm, but I'd like to get home and pick up my New Mario Bros Wii game! Yeah, I'm a nerd. However, if you have any childhood that has involved Mario, and you've seen the new trailer for this game, then you'll know where I'm coming from. I know people who are purchasing Wii solely because they want to play/own this new Mario Bros game.

I don't think I've ever been more excited to visit google.com than as of lately. I think this is brilliant marketing for both Google and Sesame Street. It's funny how some companies stress out trying to come up with all of these over-the-top ideas to grow their business, and then Google comes out of the woodwork with the most simple, clean, crafty solution.

Changing Google's logo artwork on a daily basis keeps everyone coming back. Some more excited than others, some just curious as to what the next graphic is going to be-- even if they're not using Google's search engine. Doing this neat, daily change also gives people a teeny-tiny bit of warmth & happiness inside. It's that little extra detail that a lot of companies look over in order to save time/money.

In business, design, and even cooking-- it always goes back to simplicity. Many try too hard and over do it. Keep it simple + clean everyone. The outcome seems to always be a positive one.

Good job Google.

Yep. I think I just went pee pee in my pants. New Super Mario Bros for Wii is dropping Sunday, November 15th. This game looks delightful, nostalgic, and jam packed with fun for the whole family.

If you're like me, then you have a short attention span. I've got Mario Galaxy for Wii, but I gave up sooner than I'd like to, because it's not a game you can just pick up and play without thinking too much. Just the fact that you can walk anywhere is a bit overwhelming. Don't get me wrong, it's still a wonderful game. However-- simplicity is beautiful. We all enjoy Nintendo + Super Nintendo games for a reason. Well, besides them bringing back memories... they were just real simple and straight forward.

Up to 4 players can play at a time! Peep the new suits that you can get! There's even a penguin suit that allows you to spit snowballs in which freezes the bad guys. Also-- there's a propeller suit that allows you to fly! I honestly feel like a little kid right now. I'm contemplating on camping out for this game. There's nothing like a brand new game to play just before and around the holidays.

This first t-shirt is part of the Baker Dozen. It is only available in stores and not online. There are 130 made and each individually numbered.

A few others from this batch, which are available for a limited time only...

Check the online shop for more products, new kids t-shirts, and a pullover hooded sweatshirt.

Free + open to the public! If any of you live in or nearby New Mexico, come hang out! I usually do cartoon trivia after all of my lectures, so that everyone has a chance to win some free items.

I've been up late night watching all sorts of old Wu Tang Clan videos. Classic song + video right here. My friend Jonn and I used to take turns rapping this song in my parents basement when we were about 15 years old. I remember having my first DJ set and Gemini mixer/sampler. Every time that Spider-man verse would come on, I'd sample it and scratch it on my turntables while trying to create some homemade remix. I bet my DJ cassette tape is floating around my parents basement somewhere. Man...I really want to get back into DJing some day.

In October I had the pleasure of attending the opening of Alex Pardee's Hiding From The Normals. Alex's style is very original-- reminiscing of a warped fairy tale world filled with unimaginable creatures with grotesque features. When I entered Gallery 1988 for this, I felt as if I was stepping into another world.

The time, thought, overall details, and out-of-the-box ways that Alex Pardee displayed his art work, was very refreshing. It wasn't just a piece of art, he actually made this art have it's own life by displaying key features and evidence of their existence on the walls.

Some throwback, homemade masks was a nice touch to go with this Halloween-y event.

Alex was mobbed by his people. His costume was brilliantly put together. Alex was Stephen King's moss man role from the classic Tales From The Crypt movie.

I met a bunch of solid Johnny Cupcakers. Jose and Elias along with their lovely girlfriends.

Long time pal Peekaboo was hanging out. We did a collaboration a couple years back. Who knows, perhaps we'll work again soon. Check out some of his awesome work online. He's always got some stuff in the works. Peekaboo also just opened an art gallery in Echo Park California, called The Ronin Gallery.

Peekaboo was dog sitting that night. Look at this amazing little creation! I've never seen anything like this dog in my life!

QUADE!!!

CARL!!!

Next door at Golden Apple Comics they were projecting the horror movie, Trick-R-Treat, on the back of their building. Inside picked up the newly released dvd and met writer + director, Michael Dougherty. That was a neat little surprise.

Back to Gallery 1988 where owner Jensen was holding down Alex Pardee's jam-packed show. Jensen, an amazing dude, has created a wonderful place where anyone who grew up in, or has an appreciation for the 1980's (and just about anything rad + original) would go berserk. Jensen has a lot of shows that revolve around certain themes, video games and/or movies from the 80's. It ends up being a plethora of unique, nostalgic submissions/treasures by all sorts of artists. However, every now and then he'll have other shows, such as Alex's.

Thanks for the great time everyone-- I can't wait to come back!

A few selected puzzle pieces from a few selected items which will come real soon.

Just a small portion of some of this years Johnny Cupcakes pumpkins that our wonderful customers submitted.