it's nucking futs to think about all the super advanced technology that we have at our fingertips to produce the fastest and brightest art . there are a shit ton of drawing programs out there in the world today. converting images to half tones, sepia tone, black and white line art, inside out..ect...ect... don't get me wrong, i'm down with the tech. i have a HP SCANJET 6300C scanner that converts my art directly to a vector format. this scans in every line, bump and dust to a tee. it doesn't round anything out. it's fuck'n awsome!!
 the key tool for make'n prints for me is to trace my drawings (try to clean up lines and unwanted images) by useing this 20yr old tracing table (it's my wife's from when she was a kid).
    

for THE FALL OF TROY 2008 spring tour poster I learned that it is very hard to print 3 colors on 200 posters in one nite.
why didn't anyone tell me that shit before i started???

guess the trick and you could win a CEASE ROBOT SK8BOARD "if i ever make them"...someday...maybe?????

this is my good friend "Chip DeLam" with some of his examples of what screen printed graphics look like...fuck that heat transfer shit!!

   
here is a print that i designed for CHUCK RAGAN and his friends for their european tour. chuck said this print should be around 18" x 24"..... and it was. they did not want to bring a shit ton of posters to europe so i seperated the art and sent the files to chucks booking agent in europe. they had a screen printing co. print the posters. now keep in mind the files that i sent were to scale but the european printer might have messed up just a little bit. the posters ended up being 2' x 3'. HELL YEAH! that's awesome!!
 you know what europens like to eat on there fries? mayo...they drown them in that shit.

here is a close up of a print that i did for STRUNG OUT. this was pressed on textured card stock. not all of the ink hit the stock in the same place.

if you want something done right...you best do it yourself!
this poster gave me a shit ton of problems. the plan for this print from the start was to be large. i did not have screens large enuff to print the desired size. so i used 3 screens from my good friend TODD HERMAN. i did this print before i had my exposure unit..ect..so i employeed a local screen printer to burn my screens and told them this needs to be done ASAP. well...2 weeks later i got a fone call from them say'n they burnt holes in my screen..WTF!! i'm already strapped for time and out of screens. how the fuck do you burn a hole in a screen? so i had to take a day of vacation and drive 4 hours to STEVE WALTERS SCREWBALL PRESS in CHICAGO. i got the posters done..but it was a day late for VT's tour. luckly i have some great connections. i sent the posters overnite ups to MIKE THRASHER (i did some work for him in the past) and he was kind enuff to past the posters along to VT.
YOU LIVE AND YOU LEARN 

yo..what time is it? FLAV KNOWS!! dude. i meet flav in las vegoose. he gives off the most craziest energy...everybody just feeds off that shit!! 

SET UP FOR MINUS THE BEAR POSTER. this ended up being a sweet trade for some prime seats to see
CARLOS MENCIA...thank you turner hall!!

 pic of myself catching a smith on a ramp that was made from old high school gym lockers..CHECK THE SHADOW.
CONGRATS!! you made it to the end of the CEASE ROBOT site. now that you are done lurking around.....go draw or paint a picture, listen to some new music with an open mind, ride a bike or go skateboarding and give someone a hug.

in the words of JERRY SPRINGER, take care of yourself and each other - Wade