grab this print at
http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=33697514

http://cubecommunity.ca/blogs/chrismusina

I'm blogging more on this site than on on blogspot, its my nissan blogging that I am doing, but its not just about the cube, so if you're interested check it out.

http://www.arrenwilliams.com/
I did some graphics for this webisode, more to come possibly

design lab with arren williams: webisode 1 from Arren Williams on Vimeo.

I haven't blogged in a while, man I'm a slacker. I have been busy going outside, working, doing other things that don't involve me being stuck in front of the vacant glow of a computer screen.

oh yeah and loving my free car btw...
still haven't shown it off to everyone.
man, I gotta get on that.

Finally Picking up my new car today!
Yay Nissan cube!
stay tuned for pics...

until then here is another little part of the painting I am currently working on...

a little preview of the painting I'm currently working on..
I know I said I quit painting (to a couple of people at least)
but I lied.
couldn't stay away..
this painting is one that will be pulling further in the direction I'm trying to move.

Art I Like: Animations

1st one is by Skinner
2nd and 3rd Chad VanGaalen

ART I LIKE: part 3 (awesome fantasy art edition)

these are so awesome. I kinda wish I painted like this.

Frank Frazetta, he's awesome.





If you like Frazetta watch Fire and Ice, I watched that movie when I was probably too young to watch it. It's one of those things that got me into art at an early age.
An awesome movie about warring barbarian cave clans and there's magic and blood and beasts and breasts (these are a few of my favorite things...)


Old rumple minze ads were so awesome too! bad-ass chick on a polar bear!?! Giant Ice Sword?!? really? so
cool.



And then there is another early favorite of mine William Stout




I wish they went with his designs for Pan's Labyrinth.


Man if only I had a van and an airbrush.
maybe if I win the cube...

I used to be in a band, not a great band, but a band.
our name was "cortez" not my choice I was out voted.
i wanted "the black mambas"
mind you this was before black mountain or the black lips existed as bands...

we recorded 3 songs though we had alot more.
ok we had a few more.
we played a couple of parties during our reign.
when we recorded we had already been broken up for 6 months
and hadn't touched our songs since then.
The recording was never mixed, and only had a couple takes.
We did it in someones living room with my friend Chris Cucci at the helm.
I wish we went back in to finish it up.
I couldn't get my solo right during the song "fire, sweat, whiskey"
so james says "now touch me" and there should be some hot guitar action.
i still think if we kept jamming, we could have been a viable band
(i.e.: current hit-makers the black lips, the vivian girls, etc ad. infinitum)


anyway to the point, i've got the songs on my itunes and i like to throw one on every so often,
but we never had a cover or anything.. it never got that far.
so i decided to make an album cover for our ep.
"legends of the black swamp"

if you care : listen here
www.myspace.com/cortezrockandroll

in case you forgot.
this time with music
(that i wrote and recorded)
I was trying to embody nature.
I should have added some whale song.

My whole thing is nature vs culture

but not so vs, more of a clash and combination.
i think that's an important place to be currently
nature is where we came from culture is what we made, where we're going, but we shouldn't
forget nature, we need to keep it safe, we need to come up with a
wholistic approach, combining the two in a sustainable yet progressive way.

Man, the voting is over, its all a waiting game.
Its in the judges hands now...
I really hope to be one of the 50 winners.. but I don't have any expectations of winning.
Maybe I should? But I've never won anything, ever... so..
I thought my page was one of the prettiest. but I don't know if there was enough about the cube.
I thought my animation was awesome, i worked hard on that. it came out exactly like I thought it would. but it ended up looking small on my page.

Any way enough with the negativity!!!
I'm gonna win.
gotta think positive.

keep your fingers crossed.

Discovery Channel Tonight!

http://www.discoverychannel.ca/Showpage.aspx?sid=13287

I will be on Discovery Channel tonight witht he rest of the crew at Hall Train, building the indricotherium.
check it out..
tonight @ 7 pm.
canada only (i think)

but if you're in NYC you can see her in person ant the American Museum of Natural History!

Exhibition Review - Warm-Blooded Reunion at American Museum of Natural History - NYTimes.com

yeah the indricotherium I built with Hall Train Studios got some props in the NEW YORK TIMES!




pretty cool.

so the cube competition is coming to an end.
http://www.hypercube.ca/en/Canvas.aspx?id=75a7d705-bc98-40f5-96e6-7593459ba96a&lang=en

30 minutes left....
maybe i'll win.. i hope so.

I met up wth other hypercubists last night, and was quite impressed with everyone.
what a great bunch of people. and
strangely though no one really knew each other, it didn't feel that way.
who could imagine.

i met this guy stu and now i'm going to his wedding...
weird.

So last night I was having a conversation about Los Angeles, and if there was a quintessential
band from LA in the last two decades, and we couldn't think of a band that was worthy of the
title quintessential since Guns and Roses. There has to be a band from LA in the last 2o years
worthy of that title, if not that's pretty sad for the 2nd largest city in the USA.

And by quintessential, I also mean good, and influential (so the Red Hot Chili Peppers don't
count, they started in the 80's anyway). And I guess you could look to rap, and maybe say Dr.
Dre, Snoop Dogg and TuPac, but "the chronic" dropped in 1990, still about 20 yrs ago.

Any input?
let's discuss this.

DON'T FORGET TO VOTE!
ONE WEEK LEFT!
www.tinyurl.com/votemusina

i made the animation, the song, took the photo.
its all me.

-c

check out my song at www.tinyurl.com/votemusina

REpost from stuforthecube.blogspot.com

Chris: CANVAS
Telma: CANVAS

Stu: CANVAS

1) What's the Best Driving Album EVAR?

tswizz
Its a custom album... Put all my fave misfits songs on 1 disc. All stuff when danzig was still in the misfits :)

chrismusina Bruce Springsteen - Nebraska. Probably the best album ever. recorded at home with a 4-track in '82. its so stripped down, its folk, its punk rock (in ethos, though the two chords and howling in state trooper is pretty fucking punk in my opinion), amazing song writing, its everything just right.
And most of the songs feature driving, cars and locations, so you couldn't ask for a better driving album.

essteeyouTough one. I've been tossing Slayer's Reign In Blood and Busta Rhyme's Extinction Level Event around, but I may have to go with Propagandhi - Less Talk, More Rock

2) Top 7 songs that you HAVE to hear on a road trip

tswizz

1. What's my name - snoop dogg
2. Last caress - misfits
3. Waiting room - fugazi
4. Sexy back - justin timberlake
5. My pants keep falling down - frenzal rhomb
6. B.o.b. - outkast
7. Beggin - madcon

chrismusina There are so many great songs to hear on a road trip, but the ones that always hit me reference traveling, locations, and cars.
but i also had to pick 10.. love music too much just to pick 7...

1 Ryan Adams - Let it Ride
2 Bruce Springsteen - Thunder Road
3 Band of Horses - Great Salt Lake
4 Murder City Devils - 18 Wheels
5 Hot Snakes - 10th Planet
6 Beach Boys - Sloop John B
7 CCR - Travelin' Band
8 Bright Eyes - Classic Cars
9 The Shangri-Las - Train from Kansas City
10 Dr. Dre - Let me Ride

essteeyou
1 Broken Social Scene - 7/4 Shoreline
2 The National - Fashion Coat
3 Fugazi - Waiting Room

4 Arcade Fire - Keep The Car Running

5 The Constantines - Young Lions

6 Volcano, I'm Still Excited! - In Green

7 Mastodon - Iron Tusk

3) You have to drive to work at 5:30 in the morning, what are you listening to to wake up?

tswizz Britney spears - womanizer or any annoying high bpm song :)

chrismusina Black Mountain, Black Sabbath, Danzig, The Dwarves, Rocket From the Crypt.

essteeyou Mastodon. Maybe Slayer. I'd want to put on Cult of Luna, but would likely drive into a lamp pole.

4) 1 song that will ruin your drive, every time?

tswizz Its not 1 song... Its a band... Nickleback!

chrismusina Nickleback. Agreed. They are the bane of Canadian music, actually no the bane of music everywhere.

essteeyou THREE STRIKES! Nickleback is OUT.

5) Best driving + music memory?

tswizz Listening to snow patrol while driving along on highway 1 from san francisco to LA

chrismusina Highschool road trips in Florida.. Driving over the Sunshine Skyway (super long bridge) or across Alligator Alley (long stretch of Highway through the Everglades) - stoned out of our minds.. Soundtrack? - Bone-thugs N Harmony E 1999 Eternal, NOFX- Punk in Drublic, and Pink Floyd Dark Side of the Moon.

essteeyou Being on tour - listening to Busta Rhymes and Slayer, repeatedly and on cassette tape.

6) Guilty pleasure

tswizz Anything by kelly clarkson :)

chrismusina Once again Agreed. Kelly Clarkson. Since U been Gone specifically.

essteeyouFlock Of Seagulls...I Ran. I know...

oh yeah please please please vote for me here!
i can win a car!

Brand new hypercube animation, by yours truly...

There was a young fellow named Freeman,
Who told girls he could bang like a demon,
At the end of the day
He never got laid,
Only his hands got covered in semen.

Miss me? is any one actually reading this regularly?
I haven't posted because its kind of lame to blog about your own life.
But I did start a project working for Hall Train Studios, building an indricotherium for
the American Museum of Natural History (the best museum in the world really).
It will be part of a traveling exhibit about mammals, so it may come to a town near you sometime. I'll post pics when there are pics worth posting.

so for now
here is a limerick.

There was a young fellow of Kent,
Whose prick was so long that it bent,
So to save himself trouble
He put it in double,
And instead of coming he went.


I have this awesome book of dirty limericks that my good Floridian friend Chris Cucci
(real name) gave me long ago...

This guy is a friend of mine and he makes awesome work.
Love his stuff.

Matthew Guest
www.matthewguestart.com

ART I LIKE: part two

FRANCISCO DE GOYA
"Witches Sabbath"
1798


BAMBI
1942


NORMAN SAUNDERS (painting), WALLY WOOD (rough pencil), BOB POWELL (finished pencil)
"Mars Attacks!"
1962



RICK FROBERG
200?



ERNST HAECKLE
Late 19th Early 20th C.





SAWAKI SUUSHI
"Mikoshi-nyudo"
"Ushi-oni"
1737
*1737? can you believe that? awesome...

ART I LIKE: part one.
I'm going to be posting some art / artist I like every so often, this stuff influences my directions.
check this!

WALTON FORD
"Tur" 2007


FRANS SNYDERS
"Still Life" 17th c


DR. SEUSS
From "Yertle the Turtle" 1958


PHILIP GUSTON
"Painting Smoking Eating" 1973


MARCEL DZAMA
untitled 2003

thats it for now, next post will have more.

I'm working on a new painting of bats. It's big, 7' x 4'.
Its inspired by demons, Bosch, Afghanistan, genies, and of course bats.
I only did research on Wikipedia / online, and hopefully my information is flawed.
That is really the point.

You can see more of my stuff at flickr.

Some cool stuff I got to make for Food Jammers
Best day job... EVER!

Strawberry rhubarb pie animation for food jammers. Sometime soon I will post more of the animations I did for the show...

coeur du bois
5ft x 4ft
acrylic on canvas

my first Canadian Specific Painting!

notes: Coeur du bois : hearts of wood. Also a play on courier du bois, look it up and it will make sense.

still life after a brutal rain
5ft x 4 ft
acrylic on fabric

notes: get it? brutal rain / brutal reign

behold! a pale horse.
acrylic on linen
16" x 20"

notes: Though I have presented it in portrait here, this painting is meant to go either portrait or landscape. The decision lies in the person hanging it, which changes the painting incredibly. In portrait the horse head is active, and the maggots are coming from the head as if they were fire. In landscape the horse head is passive and the maggots are moving towards it.

still life with minor casualties
acrylic on canvas
30" x 40"

notes: get it? minor / miner ? i love puns...

angel of death (of the arctic)
acrylic on canvas
36" x 36"

"seven ravens" series.
screen print, ink, acrylic and watercolor on paper, varying sizes.

winter's grim harvest
acrylic on paper, varying sizes

head of the beast
30 x 44
ink, acrylic and watercolor on paper

"this cowboy's spittin' up rat'lers" "the bhurka hides the beauty / bruises, but it can't control the cobras" and "charles bronson is spitting up common vipers"

mimic octopus: as octopus
30" x 22"
ink and watercolor on paper

from the regional rabbit mythologies series

regional rabbit mythologies

operation egg liberation

http://www.nowtoronto.com/challenge/

untitled ink and watercolor 12 x 12 for "Small Talk" At BETA Art Space in Orlando, FL.