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The Adventures of Matt Gondek, Freelance Artist VI
Published by May 15th, 2008 in Art, Career, culture, zombies, Advertising, Video Games, Underground and advice. 1 CommentMatt Gondek’s Bogus Journey. Part Two
Published by May 13th, 2008 in Art, culture, vandalism, books, money and smart. 0 Comments
So yesterday I wrote about my encounter w/ the old dude in the leather cod-piece.
Today, I’ll tell you about something even worse.
As I was mentioning, I went to Mount Pleseant over the weekend to help w/ my GF’s yard sale. At one point in the day, her mom asked me to help her in the garage. When I walked in, I seen a comic book laying on a work bench. It was the Incredible Hulk, issue 181.
If many of you dorks like me out there know, this comic is the first appearence of Wolverine. It’s a classic. It’s old. It’s worth allot of money. About $1,000 to be precise.
There was a major problem though. Someone wrote, in ink, on the cover “Mom don’t throw in trash”. Also, someone cut out a coupon inside the book. Worthless. A classic comic ruined. For you non-nerds out there, this is the equivalent of a hot girl flashing her boobs at a party while you’re in the other room.
The irony in all of this is that her brother must of wrote this when he was younger and asked her not to throw it away because it would be valuable. But by leaving the note on the cover, he basically threw it away himself.
Urkel, Cody, Corey Matthews…. T.G.I.F. to the MAX
Published by April 25th, 2008 in Art, zombies, Design, Artist and weekend. 0 CommentsIt’s Friday and I don’t feel like writing anything poignant today. Instead, heres a picture. It’s of new line of four shirts I created for Bambino clothing. I like when I finish big projects like this because:
A: Its nice to finish a big project and relax for a second
B: I have a new portfolio piece
3: I get that sweet cash
So yea. Have a good weekend.
Everyone Loves Oral
Published by April 24th, 2008 in Art, zombies, Design, Artist, Entrepreneurs, advice and mexican. 2 Comments
Here’s another hot tip from my brain I’m sharing w/ all you hard working freelancers out there.
It seems in my research, I’ve discovered you’ll do better with people if you actually talk to them over the phone versus busting them a fly email. Now, of course, face to face is the best medicine, but this tip applies to when it’s impossi-bull to meet them in real life.
The best way to go about this is to simply offer to call them to discuss business. Just let them know it’d be easier to discuss matters over the phone and ask for their number. You can offer yours and ask them to call you, but research shows (my research) that they’ll almost never call. BUT, they will answer when you call them.
It seems like common knowledge, but it took over a year for an idiot like me to realize this so I thought I’d share.
The Adventures of Matt Gondek, Freelance Artist V
Published by April 22nd, 2008 in Art, Career, zombies, Artist, vandalism, advice and facts. 5 Comments
I dropped off some paintings at a store that sells art last year. They had me sign a contract w/ them that seems pretty basic and layed out. My pants tightened at the thought of our smooth transaction and the newly aquired legal tenders I’d soon be getting dancing in my wallet. Their joyous float from my hand to the shopkeep as I exchanged them for goods and services was something I was quite looking forward to with deft anticipation.
A few months past. Thanksgiving… Christmas… and I never heard from them but never gave it more than a second thought as I tend to not distribute second thoughts so easily. It wasn’t until I was in the area last week dropping off some handmade comic book noise to the local stores that I noticed the store was now defunct. A big closed sign, flipping me the bird and booting my thin wallet right in the ass.
I snagged the contract and dailed the number on it. No answer. I left a message. No reply. I repeated this. Twice. Fuck. I am out two paintings.
The point is, before you sign something over to someone, be sure to have arrangements if something like this were to happen. Situations like they contact you if they’re going out of business, or if your item doesn’t sell. Don’t be a fool like Matt Gondek and leave your work to strangers with loose morals and sticky fingers.
The two paintings I left there retailed for around 180 million a piece, so I am out a considerable ammount of money.
New Albums, Old Pals, New Artwork (make money online)
Published by April 1st, 2008 in Art, zombies, Design, Punk and Artist. 5 Comments
Anti Flag’s new album came out today. With it, came an awesome CD design by my pal Rob Larson, a quite handsome fellow. You may remember (or probably not) that Rob and I did a colaborative piece together last summer based on the video game “Rampage”. You can check out more of his work if you’re so inclined at www.destroydestroyer.com
Sorry I haven’t updated in the last week. I got swamped w/ some projects, then I took off work for a couple days to visit an indian shaman to help improve my freethrows.
Seeing as how Jackie, KP, and Aaron suck at posting, that meant this blog was D.O.A. for the last week but I’m back now with some more personal gratification.
Anyways, in every single Hot Topic in America, you can go pick up a new shirt design I did for the band “The Devil Wears Prada”. Here’s what it looks like.
I guess you could just go on Hot Topic’s website and check it out, but Spring is here, so get out of the house and get shopping. This looks like a job for Legal Tender!
Nude Codes for Super Mario Brothers 2
Published by March 6th, 2008 in Art, culture, Design and Apparel. 2 CommentsIt’s always nice to see a project come together and even better when you get the final product.
I’m talking about the new limited edition shirt that was just released from chestlaser.com. You may recal me asking on this blog or on myspace about your opinions for the colorway. The majority of you picked the orange and white on black design.
So, without further ado, here’s the tee with my design.
The shirt, Hippies Love Pop Rocks is available on chestlaser.com and comes with free goodies like a mini comic that I have provided them. They’re limited edition though, so pick one up quick or you’ll miss it!
Below are a few of the new shirt designs I’ve done in the past week. There are a few more, but I’ll save those ones for when I can’t think of anything interesting to write about 
Casablanca is a brand new clothing company based out of Texas. I was hired to do their initial 2 shirt designs, as well as web banners, a myspacespace layout, and a logo.
My pals TDWP hired me to do 2 more shirts for them. This is one of them. TDWP is based out of Ohio and signed to Rise Records
www.myspace.com/tdwp
A Day to Remember is a punk / hardcore band from Ocala Florida. They’re signed to Victory Records.
www.myspaces.com/adaytoremember
This past weekend my friends and I went on a roadtrip to Columbus Ohio. Our main reason for going there was to see The Hives perform at the Newport Music Hall, which is supposedly the oldest rock concert venue in the United States.
The Donnas opened for the Hives. They were pretty good. Nothing special. The lead singer tripped and almost fell during the second song and their drummer was hot as usual.
After that the Hives took the stage and put on an amazing show. They have amazing stage presence and can really work the crowd. Their entire hour plus set was fast paced and aggressive. I would definately go see them again.
After that, the group broke off into two groups. My group started walking the streets around the area looking for something to do. We wandered into a tiny little basement of a bar called Bernies. There was a band setting up their equipment in the corner. They consisted of 2 big fay guys dressed weird w/ glasses, and a skinny little guy on drums. They didn’t look like a real band, but when they started playing I was definately wrong. They were amazing. They had a real original thing going on for them, and they were hilarious too. The songs were about being gay, emo kids, and crack cocaine. On top of that they had lasers attached to their instruments. It was really fun to watch them. When they were done playing I bought their CD/DVD immediately. The band is called Downtown Brown. Check them out on myspace.
Other highlights of the trip included sleeping on an air mattress, seeing a BuffMonster wheatpaste downtown in Columbus, a metal porta-potty, and eating at the Noodle Factory.
