I also did the graphics for all of their tour merch and vinyl including: A Skateboard, Vinyl Album, Special Edition Single, T-Shirts, Poster. I will upload pictures of that stuff once it is finished and I get my hands on it.

Oh, and go buy the CD it's great! And please please go see them live if you can, do yourself that favor!

Related Links:

• Die Tornados on myspace
• Buy the record here!

2008 was a special year for the safari as they joined forces with the BEAT EXPLOSION and moved the festival from it's remote locations in smaller towns in east Germany to the capital Berlin. The poster pais tribute to that by having King-Kong invading the infamous "Alex" with a Rickenbacker guitar!

While waiting I finished my painting "What happens on the Deathstar stays on the Deathstar" that I started some years ago. I also started with creating the costumes for the next Shake it Wild Record Hop. I will have pictures up here asap.

Also I found the time to take some photographs of the "Die Tornados" Album I did a few months ago as well as the Summer Safari / Beat Explosion Poster from 2008. These items can now be found in the portfolio.

I also took some pics of the new Spermbirds CD that Jürgen from Rookie Records sent last week. I'm still undecided if I should wait for the whole packages - vinyl, single, skateboard, poster and all - to upload to the portfolio or if I just start with the CD. We'll see how long I keep waiting...

Now it's off to the beach-bar for a coffee and then dinner.

Here's the current state of the new Rock'n'Roll Wrestling Bash Poster I'm working on. The show will be called "High Voltrash". More soon...

This is the Poster for our monthly party at the local pub here in Mannheim. We squeeze ourselves in ridiculous costumes every month and play our favourite 60s garae, Beat, Soul and Rockabilly tunes to a growing crowd of dancing subculture people. After dressing up as Beatnicks, Astronauts, It-Girls, Frogs, Cavemen and Indians, this time it' a Summer Tiki Fez-Out! It's gonna be great!!

SHAKE IT WILD

"SUMMER TIKI FEZ-OUT!"

Saturday 14. August 2010
Blau, Mannheim
www.myspace.com/shake-it-wild 

I'll become a dad in about 2 and a half weeks and have to prepare a lot of stuff for that (myself on top of all). In addition to that I'm determined to finish all outstanding projects, so no time for regular updates.

Here's what I'm working on:

Today I finalized the artwork for the upcoming new album of my personal heroes SPERMBIRDS. The record will be called "A Columbus Feeling" and I created all the artwork for teh CD, Bookle, Vinyl, everything with more to come. As said, today I sent the last files to the lable.

This weekend I finished the new Poster / Flyer for our little record-hop at the local pub. Just in time as the August date (14th) is already around the corner. Because of the Spermbirds project I was not able to create something completely new, but I figured this will do the trick. The theme in August will be "Summer Tiki Fez-Out".

Also I started working on the new Rock'n'Roll Wrestling Bash Poster. The show will be called "High Voltrash" and it will be electric!! Spark! Spark! Everything else is still a secret.

Then the Tornados sent their latest record. I will pick it up at the post-office this week, so this weekend I will be able to take some real-life pics and update the portfolio. Watch out!

Alright, no off to band-practice!

This is the Poster for our monthly party at the local pub here in Mannheim. We squeeze ourselves in ridiculous costumes every month and play our favourite 60s garae, Beat, Soul and Rockabilly tunes to a growing crowd of dancing subculture people. After dressing up as Beatnicks, Astronauts, It-Girls and Frogs, this time its Indians (Native Americans). It's gonna be great!!

SHAKE IT WILD

"Auf dEM kRIEGSPFAD"

Saturday 10. July 2010
Blau, Mannheim
www.myspace.com/shake-it-wild 

Other than that as mentioned before I'm again working on some ink / watercolor illustrations to show soon. And also of course the cover for the Spermbirds upcoming album.

Shake it Wild

"Be a Teenage Caveman!"

Saturday 12. June 2010
Blau, Mannheim
www.myspace.com/shake-it-wild 

My girlfriend and mother of my child (as of August) was kind enough to agree to marry me, so we did just that while on a trip to NYC for 10 days. And that actually kept me busy quite a bit.

In addition to that I was of course working on some art stuff, namely various posters, banners, logos for the “Rock’n’Roll Wrestling Bash” (as usual) that has really gained some momentum and is getting big. Also the next “Summer Safari” is due and I created some illustrations for flyers and posters for these guys. I had to update the flyers and posters for your monthly record-hop “Shake it Wild” and I created a poster for a community-fair here in Mannheim called “Max-Joseph-Strassen-Fest”. Pictures of all of that stuff will be added to the portfolio as soon as I can take decent pictures!

Currently I’m working on a record cover for Ska-Surf Combo ”the Tornados” as well as drafts for “the Spermbirds” upcoming Album and Single. There will probably be a show of some black and white drawings of mine at the Blau in Mannheim in June, so I’ll have to plan that too. Also I’m kind of busy with getting ready for the kid and going to a bunch of festivals and concerts this summer.

So bare with me for not updating more often.

Anyways. This time the motto is: Shake it Wild in Space! I've been working on the outfit for almost the whole month now. It's a surprise, so I will post pics after the event.

Until then, here's the Poster:

Another "project" of sorts that myself and my buddies "Saschberto del Mongo" and "Little Jimmy Bond" have been working on is our monthly Record Hop at the local Pub "Blau" in Mannheim. We will spin the wildest mix of 60s Garage, Beat, R&B, Northern Soul and Rockabilly (of course!) and try to give this city some kind of a schedule for Rock'n'Roll.

Of course that will not be possible without proper propaganda, so I came up with this littel illustration. we will use it on flyers and maybe posters once we have some money left. until then it's used asa digital version for myspace and shit and also for a few digital prints to hang at the pub.

Here it is:

They even show the poster I created for that show!

It's funny to see that there seems to be a rising interest in the rockposter movement at least in the US as just a few month back the "Died young stayed pretty" another documentary about that subject was released. And from what I see in the trailers pretty much the same artists get a say here.

I didn't get the chance to see either one of the films yet, but will order both DVDs of course. I wonder if there are even more movies out there? 

19. January 2010
UT Connewitz
Leipzig 

Via: Z10

RELATED LINKS:

• The Schogettes
• Rookie Records

All the Artwork I created for the Schogettes.

This annual tradition also includes presents under a plastic christmas tree for everyone brave enough to grab one and the DJs in proper x-mas attire to help lift the mood.

Tonight Tonight Tonight 23. December 2009!!!

Jungbusch City Limits DJ Team is waiting for the Christkind
23.12.2009 - 22:00 - Blau, Jungbusch, Mannheim, Germany
Indie, Punk, Soul, Sixties, Garage, Trash, Rock'n'Roll, Oldschool-Hip-Hop, Pop & X-Mas Favs with DJ Maierkurt & DJ Götzilla
Live: PSYCHOSOUL

This is what I came up with. It's still work in progress. I wanted something froovie in wyld 60s colors. I'm really looking forward to seeing this one printed! Maybe I can even get my shit together and work on a screenprint in my x-mas vacation.

Oh, and please come to the gig:

Rude! Wild!! and Reckless!!!

19. February 2009
UT Connewitz, Leipzig

All the Artwork I created for the Schogettes.

The Schogettes are an allmost-all-female sixties soul group from mannheim. Tey have a drummer, who also plays in my band Achtung Spitfire Schnell Schnell!! Also my girlfriend plays in that band. So naturally a create all the artwork for them.

This is a list of artwork for the schogettes that is up on this site so far

• Chin Up! Button
• Classic Button
• Queens of premium Soul Buttons
• Shoppingbag design
• Move Something / Girl stand next to your Man Single
• Chin Up! Single
• Tourposter 2010
• Buttons, Buttons, Buttons
• Band T-Shirt

Other Stuff I created for Loaded can be found here.

The book will of course be printed at one of these online-photobook-vendors and is quite expensive given the ammount of pages. If the outcome is OK I'll think about offering the book -  maybe in a slimmed-down version with soft-cover - for sale on this website as well, we'll see.

Here's the cover (work in progress) and some finished pages, let me know what you think, would you be intrested in such a book?

The design of course is based on Jim Phillips Slimeballs Logo he did for Santa Cruz Skateboards / Speedwheels in the 80s. This was one of the many graphics that had an everlasting impact on me and my wish to become an illustrator. So: all credits to him!

All the Artwork I created for the Schogettes.

All the Artwork I created for the Schogettes.

Loaded is the band of good friends, Nick and Julia. The band has been playing ska-punk and skinhead-rock'n'roll for the last 15 years and I've been creating all their artwork for the past 5 years. Unfortunately I do not have pictures of everything, but I'm working on that.

This is a list of artwork for Loaded that is up on this site so far

• Sugarskull Button
• Proper Villains
• Star T-Shirt Design
• Fearless Street LP
• Fearless Street T-Shirt Design
• Comeback Show T-Shirt
• Anchor T-Shirt
• Halloween 2009
• Hold Fast
• Buttons, Buttons, Buttons
• Comback Special Offset Poster
• 15th Anniversary Show

Achtung Spitfire Schnell Schnell!! is the 60s Garage-Punk band I've been playing guitar in for the last 12 or so years. In that time I created a lot of artwork for that band from flyers to shirts, from buttons to backdrops for the stage. Unfortunately I do not have pictures of everything. But I'm working on that.

This is a list of artwork for Achtung Spitfire Schnell Schnell!! that is up on this site so far:

• Cartoon Button
• Amp T-Shirt
• Tour CD I cover artwork
• "What's Up with" cover artwork
• "From the unbearable..." cover artwork
• Spitfire T-Shirt
• Some more Buttons
• Screenprinted gigposter Ravensburg
• Screenprinted gigposter Paris
• Tourposter

Oder them now, just 50 are available!!

• Buttons for Achtung Spitfire Schnell Schnell!!, The Schogettes, Loaded and some promotional buttons for myself (www.rockposter.de)
• Record covers for Loaded and the Schogettes
• A new Poster for the Rock'n'Roll Wrestling Bash
• A new T-shirt for the Rock'n'Roll Wrestling Bash

Today's work is a button for my band Achtung Spitfire Schnell Schnell!!

Some of you might have noticed that the daily upload from my back catalog stopped a few days a go. The reason for that is that I just don't have any pictures of old stuff. I will take some more pics soon.

All the Artwork I created for the Schogettes.

I also created a t-shirt and some buttons for the release-party of the record.

Begin of this week I started to upload pictures of T-Shirts and Paintings. I will continue to update the page on a daily basis now as there is still some stuff left. In doing so however the new works I did, namely the cover of brand new Schogettes 7" single got lost somehow, so if you'd please diret your attention here.

Look-out for updates...DAILY!

Best
Goetz

This painting has been featured in german low-brow art magazin "LOW"'s canvas stories.

The cover Photo was taken by Eric Carstensen - www.superart.de

Related Links:

• The Schogettes
• Rookie Records
• Superart.de

All the Artwork I created for the Schogettes.

It's a tribute to Blondie of course!

Photo was taken by Eric Carstensen of www.superart.de

Related Links:

• The Schogettes
• Rookie Records
• Superart.de

All the Artwork I created for the Schogettes.

The fact that my bands get's some attention is great because I just came home from playing two gigs in Switzerland this weekend. The first gigs with Christoph "X-Ray" "Maierkurt" Rumble my DJ- Screenprint and now Band-Buddy on the Farfisa Organ.

Thanks a lot!

• Friday 23rd October - Kofmehl, Solothurn
• Saturday 24th October - Dynamo, Zürich

Don't panik! We don't suddenly play Ska, we've been asked to play there and hope that all the rudeboys are openminded ;)

There is an impressive list of Artists on the flyer including Shag and my Buddy Haikai, so as we are big Tiki-Lovers and Berlin always is worth a trip we already booked the hotel and ironed our Hawaii-Shirts.

And as Berlin is the city that never sleeps there also is a After-Artshow-Party with the Montesas playing and Mr. Kawentzmann DJing.

India Ink, Sharpies and Copix Pens on Paper. approximately 13cm x 15cm Framed.

This is a tribute to one of punk's greats. India ink on paper, roughly 13cm x 18cm, framed.

This one is a Skull! It's about 13cm x 18cm and it's framed!

This one is a Fezaffe (Fez-Monkey!) It's about 40cm x 30cm and it's framed!

The Schogettes - Chin Up! 7"

The first solo-single of mannheims trash-soul ladies will be available in october on Rookie Records in transparent-green vinyl.

The Schogettes - Move Something / Girl stand next to your man 7"

And this one will also come out in october on Rookie Records in white vinyl of course. Everybody loves Blondie

Anyways, hoping that there's also some people from outside Germany and possibly the Bay Area reading my little page, here's the Info on this:

When:

Thursday, September 10, 2009
11:00 AM to 4:00 PM PDT

Where:

63 Bluxome Street Gallery
63 Bluxome Street
San Francisco, CA 94107

Haikai is showing his Tiki Art and writes the following:

Aloha friends, "5 years of Tiki" this is my motto of my next tiki artshow in my hometown Regensburg/Germany. The "Grand Opening show" with exotic music and drinks will start at Saturday - 7.00 pm - 3th October 2009.

The show includes many different artworks of the last 5 years, from the first tiki to the last. I will also report about the unforgettable impressions during my tiki time and show two new tiki dioramas. So, I would like to see you at the opening show to have a fantastic tiki time. Mahalo!

The first set was taken in West Hollywood from the balcony of our hotel room and in the backstreet of the hotel (on Melrose)

The second set was taken in Morro Bay by day and night.

The third one was taken at a fisherman's place in San Francisco just next to Pier 39 (which you should immediately leave after visiting the seals)

and finally the last set is the golden gate bridge.

I'm back from vacation in NYC and the Westcoast with loads of impressions and ideas i developed while driving along endless dessert highways. so watch out for things to come.

But first I'll have to finish some projects I'm working on since my return, namely the cover for the upcoming Loaded Single "Proper Villains", that will be out Mid of this year. Nick liked the Idea of a "Sin City" Comic theme. This is the current status, now I will try to illustrate the band in various "villain-poses" and add all the libernotes and work on the lable-stickers.

Along with the Loaded Record I'm working on a T-Shirt Design for my pal Carlos aka. El Brujo from the Rock'n'Roll Wrestling Bash. This has to be finished by Sunday, so I better get going. The shirts will be produced by Dickies I think, maybe they need some more stuff in the future, cross your fingers.

Also I finished the Poster and Flyer for the next Rock'n'roll Wrestling bash before my vacation and will post it to my portfolio once I receive the posters and get a chance to take some pictures of the finished products.

While on vacation I was contacted by Jörg from the Summer Safari Team with the good news that there will be a Summer Safari Festival again in 2010 and that they will need some pre-info-flyers to announce that at various festivals this year. So I threw something together from material I had on my laptop.

Besides these burning projects that need to be finished I'm already sketching and thinking about the next Rock'n'Roll Wrestling Bash poster as these guys have some wicked ideas already. I will also start working on the Summer Safari Poster for 2010, and a logo for a local girl's basketcall team.

Oh, and don't forget to come to Hamburg to the Reeperbahn Festival and Flatstock Europe. I can't make it this year because I was so busy this year with other stuff so that I don't have new Screenprints to show, but I will try to get there and "hang-out" with some of the guys and maybe visit some gigs.

It looks that the people who organize the Summer Madness Festival in Duesseldorf (a neat Festival with bands like the Adolescents, Dickies, D.O.A. and others playing) felt it's OK to just take my Adolescents print and turn it into this mess...

I know these things happen, but it still pisses me of, since I would probably have loved to do a decent poster for that great festival if they'd have asked.

Check out his website were you can find his later , comercial works. Unfortunately the record covers can not be found here.

Here are some of the covers I'm talkin about:

Bongout is proud to announce its Summer Exhibition with works by Blexbolex and ATAK.

16. July - 20. August.
Opening 16. July at 7 pm.

Bernard Granger is Blexbolex, Born 1966 in France, studied at the École des Beaux-Arts d'Angoulême, lives and works in Paris and Berlin.

Blexbolex is an illustrator and comic book artist. His work, which is inspired by vintage design, mixes old printing methods with new interpretations and techniques. This creates a stylish design in which features from children's and adult books are seamlessly intertwined.

Georg Barber is ATAK, born 1967 in Frankfurt/Oder, studied at the Hochschule der Künste, Berlin, lives and works in Berlin

ATAK is a freelance illustrator, graphic designer and artist. Currently a teacher in Halle, he is known for giving every aspect of the printing process careful consideration, thus creating work that bridges the gap between art and craft.

Both Blexbolex and ATAK have been self-publishing their books, which allows them to retain control over all apsects of the production process, down to the creation of their own fonts. When shifting from the underground press to mass production, their work has managed to maintain the raw vintage style for which they are known.

The Exhibition is not too big and focuses on H.R. Giger's Set Design for various Movies like the Aliens Series, Poltergeist II, Species and some more, of course, given that the Museum is a Movie Museum which features a lot of interesting information on old cinema-projectors and tech-stuff from the 30s.

Besides many pictures from the set of above mentioned movies, Gigers Diaries and Costumes & Prototypes for the Alien I was most impressed by the Scribbles and Notes Giger noted down in various notebooks. To read the notes that further explain his thoughts on for example how Sil form Species gets pregnant is quite amusing and reveals some additional twisted thoughts of the master.

In addition to the Film related works there are also two famous portraits of Debbie Harry from Blondie as well as a Harconen Chair and A Mic-Stand for the Rockband Korn.

All in all really worth the 80km drive and the 6EUR Admission.

Here's a quick little review of 2 days of Belgian beer, Belgian food (more on that later) and some of the best Rock'n'Roll Bands I've seen lately.

After a 4 hour drive we arrived at Retie a small town next to the other small town of Gierle where we rented plenty of room at the hotel / youth-hostel which was cheap and a sufficient place to spend the night with buzzing ears and a headache on its way. After getting our stuff in the rooms we decided to have a quick lunch and head for the festival, so we stopped at the next best restaurant to discover the strange stuff Belgians call food.

Sascha meets Eric Haamers the Bass player of Batmobile and one of his "heros"

We figured that there are basically two types of food: Fried everything and pancakes. As I was not in the mood for some sweet pancake I decided to go for something fried. Well there's french fries that come with loads and loads of mayonnaise, which is ok for me, but I wanted more. Sascha, who went for the Curry-Sausage (essentially ground and pressed meat of some sort pressed into a sausage-form the Belgian call "Frikandel") hinted that he thought he remembered "Americain" as something a vegetarian friend had last year. Me, being vegetarian myself, trusted his advice and had one of these "Americains" with fries. What arrived at my table was - well - an experience, at first I was unsure what that pink paste that tasted vaguely of chilli-powder was, but after a round of sampling we all agreed that this must be raw uncooked "Frikandel" that was not pressed into any form and was spiced with chilli. I just ate the Fries... Well, to cut the essay on food short. French fries were the only thing that was remotely eatable this weekend. They had terrible vegetarian spaghetti, and burned veggie pizza at the festival too.

OK having that off my chest let's get back to the Festival itself. After 2 Rockabilly-Combos that were OK, but not so thrilling the mighty "Jim Jones Revue" entered the stage and kicked major ass! It reminded me of the Dead Boys or something else from CBGBs Times. Great show and well worth a visit on myspace or even a trip to their next gig.

The Souther Culture on the Skids rock out Hillbilly Style!

The next Band we saw were: "The Southern Culture on the Skids" Oh boy oh boy, I was waiting for the to come over to a place near enough to drive to for about 10 years and now I got a chance to see this great band! An excellent, fun show! Thanks so much!

Next came Eddie Spaghetti from the Supersuckers with his acoustic folk-country set, that was OK for me, but I was too much in a party-mood by now.
Same goes for the headlining bands the "Supersuckers" and "Mike Sanchez," I was too thrilled with having seen "Southern Culture on the Skids" to care.

Day Two!

The Next day started with a great show by the Oblivians followed by the Gories. Two cool bands that you probably should see at a small club and more important at night. It was bright daylight which was a bummer really. But still great shows.

Next band we wanted to see were Deke Dickerson's "the Untamed Youth". Also a band I've been waiting for years to see. What a fabulous show! Fratrock at it's best! The crowd went nuts on Songs like "Papst Blue Ribbon" or "Beer Bust Blues"!

The New Bomb Turks before everybody went crazy

After having some more french fries and some more beer "the New Bomb Turks" entered stage and just destroyed everyone! W.O.W. that was one explosive show and easily the top-act of the weekend! During the first encore the security had to give in and let people over the barrier in front of stage and stage-diving hell broke loose! Crazy!

After that it was pretty evident that this won't be topped by Turbonegro. Which it wasn't. The Denim clad Norwegians played a solid set that did to me what it always does: it amused me, I liked it, I liked it very much so, but it did not make me go apeshit. When they started their encores we got ready for Deke Dickerson at the tent-stage.

Deke Dickerson and the Ecco-fonics really tore the house down then with their roots rockabilly hillbilly country set. Especially the drummer "Crazy Joe" who also played with "the Untamed Youth" impressed the crowd when he picked up the guitar and presented what was easily the fastest and craziest guitar-picking I'd ever seen. And this guy looks like one of the nerds from old high school movies, mind you.

Anja and Deke Dickerson at the Aftershow Party

Several beers and some fries later we found ourselves at the after show party at a local youth club where we met a lot of the bands like the Gories, New Bomb Turks, and Deke. drink drink, dance dance. home bed.

My people with the Gories's singer at the aftershow party

All in all this was a great festival that is not to be missed! We'll be there next year - for sure!!!

I don't know about all the stuff they say about him, but I always have to grin when people around me, who have massive 3cm holes in their ears, fullbody biomechanic tattoos and an iro tell me what a freak he was and how he tryed to become "white". People, that is none of your business!! Besides that his music for long stretches of his career was really inspiring, even if not always to my taste.

R.I.P.

17. July 2009
Blau Jungbusch
Mannheim
Germany

It's roughly 21cm x 15cm and framed. As I said it's a piece for an gallery show, but what the hell, if you are interested let me know.

VBS.tv has a very interesting docu about Skateboarding in Germany up on their website. Realy amazing what happend here since I was a little skaterat myself. Makes you think about starting again...

There will be an in-depth review on here as soon as I get my hands on it. for the time beeing here's the Synopsis from the Website and the Trailer.

Synopsis:

Died Young, Stayed Pretty is a candid look at the underground poster culture in North America. This unique documentary examines the creative spirit that drives these indie graphic artists. They pick through the dregs of America’s schizophrenic culture and piece them back together. What you end up with is a caricature of the black and bloated heart that pulses greed through the US economy. The artists push further into the pulp to grab the attention of passersby, plastering art that’s both vulgar and intensely visceral onto the gnarled surfaces of the urban landscape. The film gives us intimate look at some of the giants of this modern subculture. Outside of their own circle, they’re virtually unknown. But within their ranks they make up an army of bareknuckle brawlers, publicly arguing the aesthetic merits of octopus imagery and hairy 70s porn stars. They’ve created their own visual language for describing the spotty underbelly of western civilization and they're not shy about throwing it in the face of polite society. Along the way, they manage to create posters that are strikingly obscene, unflinchingly blasphemous and often quite beautiful. Yaghoobian shows these artists for what they are: the vivisectionists of America’s morbidly obese consumer culture.

Found on: designyoutrust.com

Last night I did not go out but was working all through the night on this. Its the new Poster for the next Rock'n'Roll Wrestling Bash and I want to finish it by tomorrow so that it can get printed. Colors are next.

This is what you get whe your client demands a poster with:

• Monsters
• Earthquakes
• Volcanoes
• Giant Wrestlers
• Apache Helicopters
• Fire
• Tornadoes
• Ufos...

I played the lottery this week. Should I win (and I'm pretty confident...) This will be my new home: A Skateable House.

This one is a portrait of Harald Juhnke a very famous German singer, actor, entertainer who unfortunately had an alcohol addiction and was kind of out of his mind at the end of his days. I really liked his movies and shows as a kid. He was - or wanted to be - the Frank Sinatra of Germany. He truely was one of Germany's last great showmen.

It's roughly 21cm x 30cm and framed. As I said it's a piece for an gallery show, but what the hell, if you are interested let me know.

We drove down to Paris on Thursday night to visit a friend and go see the Swinging Neckbreakers and The Mummies at the Born Bad Anniversary Festival.

Here's The Mummies:

and here's the Neckbreakers:

As you can see these bands where amazing. Unfortunately the audience seemed to be too expectant of the main acts to really go wild for the Attacks or Cecilia & the Sauerkrauts. Especially the Attacks were not too bad, even if they seemed to take themselves way to serious.

Also cool was that we met fellow poster artist Fritte and some other Germans there, so we had people to talk to that where not blubbering in that strange gibberish called french. I even got a new screenprint they sold at the show. No idea who's the artists yet, I'll need to get a closer look and update here, cause it's a pretty little number. Posters are always a great souvernier even when I was tempted to go for one of those small Eifeltower things...

The Summer Safari is one of the biggest 60s Music Festivals in Europe with dozends of bands on different Stages playing everything from Skinhead Reggae, Ska, Soul, Garage-Punk, Mod to Rockabilly and Swing. Besides Live-bads there's differently themed parties, art exhibitions, car-shows and much more.

Sadly I thik this year there won't be a Summer Safari, as nobody contacted me yet.

The Summer Safari is one of the biggest 60s Music Festivals in Europe with dozends of bands on different Stages playing everything from Skinhead Reggae, Ska, Soul, Garage-Punk, Mod to Rockabilly and Swing. Besides Live-bads there's differently themed parties, art exhibitions, car-shows and much more.

Sadly I thik this year there won't be a Summer Safari, as nobody contacted me yet.

You are cordially invited to go nuts this Saturday at Balada Na Rua! INOPERAbLE is proud to present an all brazilian themed party at the Meridien Hotel in collaboration with Vice magazine and every one's favorite color store Somogyi.

Starting at 15h, 4 Brazilian Artists will be painting live in the park across from the hotel. Come by and have a drink or some brazilian food while Fefe, Rafael Dodo, Tika, and Kiko mash up their styles!

Later in the evening we will be moving inside for an exhibition of Photos from Louise Chin customized by artists such as Os Gemeos, Herbert Baglione, Nina, Vitche, Titi Freak, and many more!

Chere Moya, Fefe, Cee, and Stereotyp will be spinning some hot tracks at the bar to keep the energy up and your ears as titillated as your eyes.

Weather forecast for Saturady June 13th, is Brazilian hot, so come by as of 15h to the Meridien Hotel (Opernring 13) to cool off with a Caipirinha and some great live art action!

Saúde, 401RUSH & Nathalie

When discussing the project the band completely trusted me and just wanted me to go crazy with the design. The Zoltar fortune-telling machines came to my mind at some point and it fitted with the brighton-skinhead-bank-holiday theme we discussed earlier.

I wanted to have references to classic Skinhead icons, like the brighton beach but also do something that was not too cliché.

The Record ist still available of course and it's a great piece of Puk'n'Roll with a little ska and Oi thrown in. Go get it!

at this Night Indie Pop band Timid Tiger played live and were not too bad at all.

Unfortunately not too many people made it to the parties and the series stopped after 3 or 4 Nights. Too bad. These days the same people are pretty successful under the name of  Blitz Lovin' Productions with their concerts and parties at ZumTeufel in Heidelberg, you should check that out!

at this Night Electro Pop band Client (Toast Hawaii / Mute UK) played live. I could not be there and can't tell you how it was.

Unfortunately not too many people made it to the parties and the series stopped after 3 or 4 Nights. Too bad. These days the same people are pretty successful under the name of  Blitz Lovin' Productions with their concerts and parties at ZumTeufel in Heidelberg, you should check that out!

Halfway through printing the first design of the poster (that can be seen here) I came up with the idea to pay tribute to one of my artistic heroes Jim Phillips who created all the great Skateboard Art for Santa Cruz throughout the 80s and invented such iconic logos like the Screaming Hand or the Slimballs. Well, wait a minute... Slimeballs? Spermbirds! Slime... Sperm... Tada!! So this is the second Poster for the same show.
As I said, it's totaly a tribute, all credit for the illustration goes to the man Jim Phillips and I even noted that down on the back of the poster. Sue me...(no don't, please)

4 Color Screenprint
50cm x 50cm heavy paper stock
Edition of 40.

Some are still available, go get one now!

Halfway through printing this poster I came up with the idea to pay tribute to one of my artistic heroes Jim Phillips. So I also created a second version that can be seen here.

4 Color Screenprint
70cm x 25cm heavy paper stock
Edition of 40.

Some are still available, go get one now!

Sold Out! Let me know if you think we should have more of these!

• A big bouncy castle on stage (and later on top of the crowd, stage-diving style)
• 80s Gym Treadmills
• Neon, Neon, Neon everywhere
• Beer-filled Supersoakers
• Ripped-open bedsheats and pillows (down all over the place)

This poster is a Killer too!

Unfortunately I couldn't find a video from this gig, but I think you'll get the picture when seeing this:

this one is also quite funny.

At the show there were not only posters by the above mentioned artists that where present, but also a wild mix of originals by Kozik, Coop, Derek Hess, Tara McPherson and basically everybody who has a name in the gigposter-circus. These posters were taken from Stewo's extensive collection. All Posters were up for sale.

It was a great night with lot's of talk, beer and not to forget music by such great bands as: Rad Rooster & Farmer Geil, Hobo Johnson II, Wiskey & Coke, Jack Oblivian & the Tennessee Tearjerkers, Harlan T. Bobo & the Chimps, Kitty Reed.

This event takes place every year I think and it's well worth a trip!

Here's a Video / Slideshow of how I screenprinted this one:

Originaly the poster was in landscape format to represent the turned-around right-handed guitar that Dick is playing, but the booking agency thought that this would be a  problem when hanging the posters.

Unfortunately the Tour had to be canceled because Mr. Dale was sick and could not make it to Europe. The booking agency already had the poster printed. Thousands of them, so I ended up with loads of them. Chances are that you'll get your screenprints wrapped in one of these.

The gig was great, the Fuzztones are always a great band to see live. Rudi Protrudi kann still kick some ass.

This has been one of my favourite clothes for a long time.

Buy it here:  www.gulaschbaron.com

Anyways, it's Joey Ramone. A good Guy that passed away much to early. R.I.P.

too bad, this could have been a great poster.

I've decided to give these away for 5 EUR now, so If you still like them, that's a bargain.

I think I saw my illustration of the iconic Chucks shoes on a converse shirt some year later. I was too greedy to buy the shirt and had no camera on me, but I swear I it was exactly this illustration.

There are three versions on different paper: dark-grey, light-grey and silver.

Fun Fact #1:
I was at the (International) Noise Conspiracy Show at the 2007 Reeperbahnfestival and Flatstock Poster Show and there I saw a girl with exactly that outfit. She had two Radio Birdman Logo Patches on the collar of her sleeveless top. Strange thing is that at that time the illustration was already finished but the poster not yet printed nor released...

This is the official t-shirt that is worn proudly by the members of the Rock'n'Roll Highschool. Still available, order one now!!

The show took place at the Rollercoaster Indie Night at Karlstorbahnhof Heidelberg.

The poster comes in two versions on dark- and light-grey heavy paper stock.

The Robocop Kraus - You Don't Have To Shout

All the Artwork I created for the Schogettes.

I experienced problems with my Macbook Pro Combo Drive when burning CDs or DVDs from iTunes or just via the Finder. The burn-process started OK, but stopped after a few minutes or even seconds with a strange errormessage. After searching for Macbook Pro burner issues across the web I read about that there might be an issue with dust settling on the Lens of the CD-Drive, causing the burn-process to fail.

Well, I gave it a try and blew into the slot-in slot of my CD-drive with all my might. I was-a-huffin and a-puffin allright, since I don't have a compressor or any special equipment. And guess what! Burning CDs works alright again! wow.

I think it might be much healthier for your hardware if instead of using you lungs you would use an airbrush or something, but for me even this worked. Great! Now on with the Art and Design stuff and back to Poster Business!

The Poster comes in Neon-Orange and Dark red on White paper stock and in a very very limited edition on Neon-Yellow Heavy Cardboard.

Almost Sold Out!

Die albernsten Horrorfilmplakate
(The Most silly Horror-Movie Posters of all Time)

Amazing what these people thought would be shocking to the audience. I bet some of these movies are real killers...

Die grässlichsten Filmplakate aller Zeiten
(The Most horrible Movie Posters of all Time)

Wow! I mean, realy, these posters are hillarous...

It could have been so cool if me and my band Achtung Spitfire Schnell Schnell!! could have played that gig together wieth Eddie Tornado et les Scandaleux at La Mécanique Ondulatoire in Paris. Unfortunately the Gig had to be canceled due to some serious illness of one person involved, we hope he is better now.

Andyways, I already printed about 40 of those babies and i think it's one of my best. Screenprints anyways. Beautiful Neon-Colors that are much much brighter than on this image. Go get one!

Jasmin wanted to have the Bang Bang Rock'n'Roll image i had on a painting before and even named the Festival after that. Unfortunately she had some differences with the venue and had to postpone the gig. The posters were already printed however, so I endet up with a lot of them.

The design made it to T-Shirts and Buttons and will make it on a poster some day when I'll find the time. It was very well received by Ingi Pop and the Boys as well as by the Punks in the audience. Go get one at their next gig!

Jeff Divine!

Jeff Devine has been around taking photos of surfers and the surfing-culture since the 60s. On his website you'll find beautiful beaches and cool dudes with surfboards. I especially like the 70s era pictures.

http://www.jeffdivinesurf.com/

and

Corey Arnold!

Corey Arnold is a photographer and fisherman from Alaska. On his website you'll find beautiful and disturbing pictures of live at sea and live off sea as well. I first came across his work in JUXTAPOZ magazine and was thrilled! I think there is some connection with the TV show "The Deadliest Catch"  that runs in the US.

http://www.coreyfishes.com/

If you are interested in Skateboard Art and Deck Graphics you'll  need to get this book, and probably you'll have to pre-order the new one as well. I's full from front to back with all the great Board-Graphics you loved as a kid, Interviews with Artists, Skaters and Industry Mogules and did I mention Skateboard Graphics?

Nick just brought a bunch of them over and I must say that I'm delighted by how they came out. Great matte offset print.

Go check out the bands on tour in Germany if you can, always worth a visit!

Carnal desire

Gregory Jacobsen & Myriam Mechita

05 June - 11 July 2009
Opening: Thursday, 04. June 2009, 7 pm

Organs, entrails and genitals leading a life of their own, heaps of flesh interacting with creatures with mask-like faces, fleshy and wrinkled skin and open wounds, which, despite bearing human traits, look as though they had escaped from our worst nightmares. Shining strings of pearls are flowing from a deer's open neck, as though the animal's bowels were spilling onto the floor, intertwining and forming mysteriously glittering shapes.

Despite obvious differences, the works of Gregory Jacobsen (USA) and Myriam Mechita (France) have in common that they turn reality upside down. Bringing the inner life of things to the fore, their near-surrealist stagings make visible that which usually lies hidden.

"Dance of the Retarded Girl Slumped Sideways", "Massive head, foul smelling", "Choked off Clotting Lamp" - Gregory Jacobsen?s song titles could just as well apply to his oil paintings, which he executes in the style of the great masters. Whether he makes music, paints or stages performances, the Chicago-based artist creates disquietingly grotesque atmospheres, which are partly owed to his creatures' facial expressions: they look happy and satisfied, and not in the least affected by their physical impediments or state of decay.

Myriam Mechita has scattered body parts and cut-off heads of animals throughout the exhibition space. These physical remains are clad in polished surfaces, a coat of shining lacquer, and glass beads. The contrast between the mutilated body parts and the glistening materials creates an almost unbearable tension. The mirrors and the glass reflect the light and the surrounding space, producing distorted perspectives that challenge the viewer?s perception. Mechita's sculptural elements seem caught in the moment - before everything starts flowing again.

Project Description:

In German the word Anschläge has a double meaning. It can refer both to "attacks" and "posters". We believe there is a truth in this double meaning.

Every day people are attacked by commercial posters. They face them almost everywhere. That's why we commissioned some creatives to develop Weapons against boredom and mental congestion.

Project Website:

• http://30anschlaege.de

Then I created and printed this and realized too late that I'll havt to cut them all by hand with a tiny little scissor... bad luck but worth it.

A reason for building my own CMS is that I was unhappy with most stuff that was available for free because I felt that all systems, while beeing very very impressive, are much to complicated for my needs. I maintain my website on my own, so I have no need for workflows or multiple authors. I also have very specific needs for representing my artwork.

I'm thinking about offering my CMS or page-engine or whatever you wanna call it for download under GNU License. Maybe there is someone out there who wants to either use the code for their website or take the ball and run. We'll see.

Stuff I'm still working on includes:

• Comment Approval Workflow
• CAPTCHA (if possible?)
• Link-List
• Event-Calendar
• RSS-Feed
• Dynamic Sitemap
• Search
• Shopping Cart Integration

besides that I'm starting to get all the content in, so visit regularly for updates (even if most stuff is old stuff)

Anyways, it also was my first go at a gradient and this worked out quite well.

This one is limited to maybe 5 or so as I stopped when the results got worse and worse. It's not even for sale. This will be a rarity some day.

This actually is the second version of the poster for the second part of the Europe-Tour. The first edition was greenish.

I was very thrilled when I was asked to submit images of my painting "Can I keep him? He's so cute!" to the 2nd volume of LOW magazine, Germany's answer to JUXTAPOZ if you will.

Thanks to modern web-technology here is the Issue as an online version.

"Knarrenbräute" und leuchtende Totenköpfe

Künstler Götzilla entwirft knallige Pop-Art-Plakate für Rockbands / Bei Vernissagen gibt's Bier mit Würstchen statt Sekt

Von Christian Hoffmann
13.12.2008 - Mannheim

Götz Bockstedte ist zu beneiden: Auf einem Konzert von "The Nomads" im "Bimbo´s 365 Club" in San Francisco begegnete er 1996 dem Underground-Künstler Frank Kozik. Dieser hatte die Plakate zu dem Gig entworfen - Kozik ist für seine psychedelischen Poster in rauschhaften Farben bekannt. Ein "Nomads"-Plakat bekam Götz Bockstedte vom Meister persönlich signiert. Der Mannheimer leckte Blut und fühlte sich bestärkt, selbst Rockposter in knallbunten Tönen zu kreieren. Kulturnische Neonfarbene E-Gitarren, fluoreszierende Totenköpfe, weibliche rote Teufel oder verwegene Knarrenbräute sind auf seinen Rockpostern abgebildet. Häufig entwirft Bockstedte (34), dessen Künstlername Götzilla ist, Plakate für den Heidelberger Karlstorbahnhof - nicht als Werbemittel, sondern in einer Kleinauflage von 50 Stück, die dann das Foyer des Kulturzentrums schmücken. So durfte Götzilla bereits Poster für Bands wie The (International) Noise Conspiracy, Robocop Kraus, Spermbirds, Deichkind und Dick Dale im Siebdruckverfahren gestalten. "Ich würde schon sagen, dass es Kunst ist, aber nicht verstockt oder elitär", erklärt Götz Bockstedte den Hintergrund seiner Arbeit. Deshalb gibt es bei seinen Vernissagen keinen Sekt mit Häppchen, sondern Bier mit Würstchen. Immerhin atmen seine handgefertigten Druckobjekte den schroffen Geist der Rebellion. In Hamburg nahm Götzilla auf dem Spielbudenplatz an der Ausstellung "Flatstock" teil, der deutsche Ableger einer amerikanischen Posterschau. Götzilla freut sich jetzt schon auf das nächste "Flatstock" 2009, darum ist er gerade dabei, fleißig neue Poster herzustellen. Seine Plakate druckt er in der Werkstatt vom Bund Bildender Künstler in der Alten Feuerwache auf Pappe. Zuerst muss er daheim am Rechner mit der Maus die Entwürfe skizzieren. "Oft zeichne ich Motive auf Papier, scanne sie ein und bearbeite sie am PC nach", erläutert er. "Ich hab´ mir meinen eigenen Dreh ausgedacht und komme damit gut zurecht." Meistens versucht Götzilla, die Wirkung der jeweiligen Musikgruppe einfließen zu lassen. "The (International) Noise Conspiracy sind sehr sozialkritisch, das spiegelt sich in meinem Plakat wider", berichtet Bockstedte, der selbst Gitarrist in der Garagen-Combo "Achtung Spitfire Schnell Schnell" ist. Im Gegensatz dazu versprühen Deichkind hedonistische Partystimmung: In dieser Band sucht man politische Aussagekraft vergebens. Nur die Beatsteaks waren mit ihrem Poster von Götzilla nicht einverstanden - und verhinderten das Aushängen. Die Begeisterung für knallige Pop-Art scheint Götz Bockstedte von seinem Vater vererbt bekommen zu haben, der für den Carlsen-Verlag als Comic-Vertreter tätig war. Dem Sohn brachte er regelmäßig Hefte von "Tim & Struppi" mit. Der Mann lebt indes nicht von der Kunst. "Meine Siebdrucke sind Liebhaberei, da mache ich mehr Minus als Plus". Seine Brötchen verdient sich der Mannheimer als Solution Manager bei SAP. Internet-Kontakt für Bands und Musiker, die Poster, T-Shirts, Plattencover von Götzilla gestaltet bekommen möchten: www.rockposter.de

Naja, Godzilla ist schon ein ganz cooler Typ, richtet Verwüstung an wo immer er hinkommt ist aber eigentlich ein ganz netter und Japaner finde ich auch lustig, da würde ich auch gern mal hin, aber eigentlich kommt der Name daher das wir in Mannheim früher den Ring-of-Fire hatten und einer der Mitglieder heißt Gerd und wollte partout als DJ Namen nicht Gerdzilla, da hab ich das einfach geklaut, wer da ursprünglich drauf gekommen ist weiß ich gar nicht.

Was war denn der „Ring Of Fire“ genau. Mir ist das zwar oberflächlich ein Begriff und warum gibt es besagten Ring nicht mehr?

Den Ring of Fire wird es immer geben, auch wenn wir im Moment nicht wirklich was los machen. Das ganze ist vor einigen Jahren entstanden als 12 Leute aus Mannheim und Umgebung die sich alle irgendwie über mehrere Ecken kannten gemerkt haben dass sie die selbe Musik mögen und das in Mannheim überhaupt nix in die Richtung geht. Das war noch zu Neckarpark Zeiten. Also haben wir den Ring of Fire gegründet und losgelegt Parties und Konzerte zu machen. In der Zeit haben wir einige richtig coole Bands wie die „The Woggles“, „Boonaraaas!!!“, „Bambi Molesters“, „Cellophan Suckers“, „The Satelliters“, „The Cheeks“ und so nach Mannheim gebracht und legendäre Parties gefeiert. Ganz nebenbei haben wir glaube ich einen Standart gesetzt was Poster und Flyer in unserer Gegend angeht, der Seinesgleichen sucht. Leider gibt es ja wie wir alle wissen in Mannheim keinen vernünftigen Live-Club in dem man Konzerte organisieren könnte, und das nach etlichen Jahren Pophauptstadt und Rockbeauftragten… Deshalb mussten wir auch leider aufhören, weil ein monatliches Konzert und wöchentliche Parties kannst Du nur sehr schwer machen wenn Du immer einen Veranstaltungsort suchen und eine Anlage mieten musst. Schade, aber vielleicht ist hier das letzte Wort noch nicht gesprochen, wenn wir alle 50 sind oder so.

Bis vor kurzem spieltest du noch in zwei Bands – Panda, Spitfire, jetzt nur noch bei Spitfire. Was sind das für Bands?

Zuerst heißt das „Achtung Spitfire Schnell Schnell!!“ das ist wichtig, weil es auch noch eine Skaband gibt die Spitfire heißt, und das sind nicht wir. Also Achtung Spitfire Schnell Schnell!! Habe ich zusammen mit einem Kumpel vor 10 Jahren gegründet um Surf und Garagenpunk zu spielen. Wegen Pulp Fiction war Surf damals der Hit und sehr beliebt, wir fanden das aber schnell langweilig und sind dann bei Garage hängen geblieben. Mittlerweile mit Orgel, aber dafür immer weniger Retro. Wir sind keine 60er Revival Band die probiert genau so zu klingen wie die Bands auf den Back from the Crypt Samplern sondern machen einfach was uns gefällt, ein bisschen Soul mit dabei und fertig. Solche Bands, z.B. die Staggers aus Österreich finde ich super, aber für uns ist das nix.

Panda Playschool entstand vor ein paar Jahren aus dem Wunsch heraus Indie-Rock im weiteren Sinne zu machen der nicht so tief wie Achtung Spitfire in der Garagen Szene verwurzelt ist. Ich finde die Musik der Pandas immer noch richtig geil, eine Mischung aus Britpop, 60er Kram und so Bands wie Robocop Kraus oder so. Leider habe ich keine Zeit mehr für 2 Bands plus malen plus Arbeiten plus Freundin.

Im echten Leben arbeitest du bei SAP. Was machst du dort?

Marketing Manager, Projekmanagement für Werbekampagnen in Zentral Europa. Nächste Frage…

Du hast nen Job, ne Band, machst Kunst und auch eine Freundin. Wann schläfst du?

Der Satz ist so falsch, ich mache Kunst, mache aber keine Freundin, die hab ich, hahaha und noch 2 Katzen obendrauf. Ich schlafe in der tat relativ wenig, meistens vorm Fernseher. Das Nervt gewaltig und ich probier gerade meine Wochenenden ein bisschen besser zu nutzen damit ich wenigstens mal ein bisschen Zeit hab nix zu machen. Fällt mir aber schwer, meistens denke ich dann ich verschwende meine Zeit und fang an zu malen oder so. Ich kann z.B. nicht länger in einem Cafe – oder Adria –sitzen ohne zappelig zu werden, dann muss es weiter gehen.

Logisch: Wie bist du zum Malen – kann man das überhaupt so nennen? – gekommen und welche Künstler haben dich maßgeblich beeinflusst?

Ich hab schon immer gemalt. Meine Mutter und mein Vater malen beide ich habe auch immer solche Sachen wie Tuschestifte oder Zeichenbretter zum Geburtstag bekommen. Außerdem war mein Vater Verlagsvertreter beim Carlsen Verlag, ein Verlag der super Comics veröffentlicht und daher habe ich eine ziemlich beeindruckende Comic-Sammlung und kam früh in Kontakt mit Tim & Struppi, Spirou & Fantasio, und so weiter. Meine ersten Einflüsse der Popart sind demnach auch Künstler wie Hergé, Franquin, die ganzen Comiczeichner eben. Als nächstes kam das Skateboardfahren und der Punkrock / Hardcore wo mich die ganzen Boardgraphics und Cover beeindruckt haben. Leute wie Courtland Johnson, der Typ der die alten Powell Peralta Grafiken mit den Totenköpfen gemacht hat, Jim Phillips der alles für Santa Cruz gemacht hat und auch Pushead oder Raymond Pettibon, der die Black Flag Flyer und Cover gemacht hat hauen mich immer noch weg. Daneben natürlich auch einen Haufen „seriöser“ Museums-Künstler wie Alfons Maria Mucha, Otto Dix, Van Gogh. Und eben auch Rockposter Künstler die mich immer wieder pushen weiter zu gehen. Hier mag ich besonders Bongout aus Berlin, Tanxx aus Frankreich, und Adam Turman aus den USA. Superstars wie Kozik, Coop oder auch Tara McPherson sind natürlich auch toll. Eigentlich mag ich vor allem Leute die „verrückte“ Ideen haben und nicht zu sehr in Rock’n’Roll Klischees denken. Über kurz oder lang langweilen mich Würfel, Flammen, Karten, Teufelfrauen und solches Zeug.

Du erzähltest mir, dass du demnächst nen Siebdruckkurs machen möchtest, damit du deine Sachen vervielfältigen kannst. Heißt das, deine bisherigen Arbeiten sind alles Einzelstücke!?

Den Kurs mach ich gerade und es ist richtig geil. Vor 2 Tagen habe ich das erste mal selber gedruckt, das Angry Samoans Poster das eigentlich ja für das Konzert das Du in Mannheim machen wolltest gedacht war. Jetzt stimmt der Veranstaltungsort nicht mehr, macht aber auch nix. Das Poster wird super, ich geb dir dann mal eins. Das gibt’s dann auch auf meiner Homepage zu kaufen. (www.rockposter.de). Ich denke ich werde in Zukunft immer mehr Siebdrucken, weil das so gut funktioniert und die Leute so nett sind da. Als nächstes Projekt ist ein Poster für meine eigene Band dran und dann mal schauen, vermutlich für die Bastard Sons of Johnny Cash.

Die meisten meiner anderen Poster sind Offset-Druck in größeren auflagen, oder Digitaldrucke in Mini-Auflagen. Aber das wird sich ändern, hahaha, hoffe ich.

Wenn ich das mal recht verstanden hatte, dann arbeitest du an deinen Werken sowohl mit Farbe, Leinwand, etc., aber auch mit dem Computer. Wie geht denn so etwas?

Also neben den Postern male ich ja auch „richtig“, aber nicht auf Leinwand sondern mit Acryl auf Hartfaserplatten, das ist besser für mich, irgendwie. Hier meistens relativ groß, also mindestens 1m x 1m oder so. Im Moment habe ich mir vorgenommen jeden Monat mindestens 1 solches Bild zu malen, damit ich endlich auch mal was ausstellen kann im Blau oder so. Die Poster sind meistens komplett mit Illustrator im Computer gemacht, das klappt ganz gut, ich kann mit der Maus ganz gut zeichnen und muss danach nicht aufräumen! Manchmal nehm ich aber auch Stift und Papier und colorier das dann im Computer. In langweiligen Meetings male ich immer Skizzen und Ideen in meinen Notizblock, daraus werden dann die Poster.

Da wir hier ja ein Zine sind, dass zum größten Teil im Dienste der Musik steht, welche Scheiben hörst du aktuell so?

Ganz aktuell höre ich das neue Loaded Album, das nächste Woche rauskommt, hier hab ich, wie auch schon beim letzten, das Cover Artwork gemacht und dafür eine Vorabversion bekommen. Super Platte!!! Ansonsten höre ich im Moment und auch sonst immer wieder mal das Trio Livetape, von Oasis die letzte Platte, Beatles - Revolver, Superpunk – ein bissel was geht immer, Angry Samoans – Box set, Nuggets – Box Set, Devo, Black Flag – Damaged und Random Play mit dem iPod. Sehr gemischt also. Bei der Arbeit höre ich Internet Radio, neben Rüdie’s Pogoradio noch BBC Radio1 (http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/rockindie) und Rock’n’Roll Dance Party (http://www.wusb.fm/rockandroll/listen.html). Kann ich alles nur empfehlen.

Du hast schon Cover für deine Bands entworfen, bastelst öfter Plakate für regionale Konzerte und momentan arbeitest du an Tourplakaten für bspw. Angry Samoans. Wie kommt man an dich ran, wenn man dich nicht kennt. Also kann man dich einfach für evtl. Arbeiten übers Internet anfragen?

Ja genau, ich habe ja eine Website: www.rockposter.de und freue mich über jede Anfrage. Da meine Zeit ein bisschen knapp ist und ich eigentlich auch kein Geld will muss mich ein Projekt schon interessieren. Ich sehe mich tatsächlich eher als Künstler als als Grafiker. Ich habe meinen eigenen Stil und mache keine Arbeiten bei denen ich mit Photoshop das Bandfoto mit ein bisschen Text dazu in eine Druckvorlage umwandle. Meistens ist das auch kein Problem. Wenn also jemand was haben will: einfach melden und wir sprechen drüber. Am besten früh melden, dann kann ich das Zeitlich besser planen. Ob die Bands jetzt aus der Punk-Ecke kommen oder Pop macht ist mir eigentlich egal, solange ich was damit anfangen kann und die Leute nett sind.

Wäre es für dich erstrebenswert von deiner Kunst zu leben. Oder müsstest du dann vielleicht zu viele Kompromisse eingehen und die Kunst würde an Zauber und Magie verlieren, die sie momentan evtl. für dich hat?

Ein ganz klares Nein, ich will dafür einfach kein Geld haben. Wenn jetzt jemand z.B. ein T-Shirt Design von mir haben will um damit „richtig“ Kohle zu machen, also kein Bandmerchandise oder so, dann finde ich es Opportun ein bisschen Kohle zu verlangen, aber für meine Poster und von Bands will ich kein Geld, oder nur eine Aufwandsentschädigung, weil ich die Sachen auch zwischenzeitlich mal zur Voransicht ausdrucke und so. Der Grund dafür ist einfach das ich nicht für jeden Arbeiten will und auch nicht alles so malen will wie sich der Auftraggeber das so denkt. Und das könnte ich einfach nicht wenn ich dafür Geld bekommen würde. Außerdem komm ich finanziell ganz gut über die Runden, die Kunst ist quasi Herzensangelegenheit, ich bin kein Grafiker!!, hahaha!

In deinen Bildern fehlen deinen Personen gerne mal ein oder mehrere Gliedmaßen. Was hat das für einen Hintergrund?

Gute Frage, keine Ahnung! Da bin ich irgendwann drauf gekommen und mach das in letzter Zeit so. Vielleicht bin ich ja gestört? Auf jeden Fall macht mich das nicht scharf oder so. Es gibt da diesen Film „Boxing Helena“, den fand ich immer irgendwie faszinierend und krank gleichzeitig, da geht es um einen Arzt der von einer Frau besessen ist und Ihr nach und nach in seiner Villa die Gliedmaßen amputiert damit sie ihm nicht weglaufen kann. Am Schluss sitzt sie, nur noch ein Torso, schick dekoriert auf einem Tisch im Wohnzimmer, fügt sich aber immer noch nicht in Ihr Schicksal sondern gibt ihm saures! Wie auch immer das geht auch wieder vorbei und dann sind die Damen wieder heil in meinen Bildern. Ich arbeite aber gerade an einem Bild wo die Hand amputiert ist und stattdessen ein Meerschweinchen drangenäht wurde. Wie krank ist das denn????

Hauptsächlich sind Frauen dein Motiv. Hast du was gegen Männer, haha?

Nee, Männer sind super, aber die sollen meine Poster ja kaufen oder gut finden, und da mal ich lieber Mädels, das ist Zielgruppengerecht! Das ist aber in einem Punk-Fanzine auch eine gefährliche Frage, da kann ich mich ja um Kopf und Kragen reden! Ich glaube der Grund warum Künstler immer wieder Frauen malen ist wirklich hinreichend diskutiert, und ich hab von so was ja auch keine Ahnung. Ich finde Frauen schön. Ich denke keines meiner Werke ist irgendwie frauenfeindlich, wenn überhaupt menschenfeindlich.

Deine „Modelle“ sind die echt oder einfach der puren Phantasie entsprungen?

Das ist unterschiedlich, natürlich verwende ich meistens irgendwelche Photos als Referenz, ich bewundere Künstler die alles aus dem Kopf malen können, ich kann das leider (noch) nicht. Allerdings sind die Referenzen eben nur das. Körperhaltung etc. Ab da geht die kreative Post ab so zu sagen. Wenn Du erstmal so ein Meerschweinchen aus dem Kopf gemalt hast…

Während dem Zeichnen hörst du da Musik und wenn ja welche?

Das kommt drauf an was ich gerade male und wo. Ich versuche schon meistens mich in die richtige Stimmung zu versetzen, vielleicht sogar die Band zum Poster zu hören, aber ich bekomme relativ wenig von meiner Umwelt mit wenn ich male, meistens läuft das dann entweder im Dauerloop weil ich vergesse was anderes aufzulegen, oder, wenn ich Platte höre vergesse ich umzudrehen. Am liebsten höre ich etwas ruhigere Musik dabei, so Beatles oder gerne auch die Braindrops Platte von den Fuzztones.

Kann man in absehbarer Zukunft mit deiner ersten Ausstellung rechnen?

Ja, man kann, ich arbeite wie doof daran endlich mal ein paar Bilder fertig zu bekommen um das dann im Blau auszustellen. Das ganze wird dann wohl eine Mischung aus meinen Postern, Siebdrucke, Gemälde, alte Flyer, Plattencover. Mal sehen. Aber irgendwann muss das ja mal sein. Das soll dann heißen: „MÖNSTERS of RÖCKPÖSTER“ oder so. Cool fände ich aber auch eine reine Rockposter Show mit ein paar anderen Leuten, vielleicht kommt so was ja auch mal in Mannheim zu Stande, obwohl über die Kunstszene können wir uns ja, dank dem „Büro für angewandten Realismus“, nicht beschweren.

I was visiting a friend in Vienna last weekend and was lucky enough to see the Alfons Mucha Exhibition at the Belvedere there.

The exhibition gives an excelent overview of his works starting with his lithograph posters for sarah bernard movies and other comercial projects in the first room. From there you'll see book illustrations for various publications including a breathtaking interpretation of the Lord's Prayer. Some jewlery, furniture and interior design as well as drafts for church windows of the St. Vitus Cathedral in Prague and, in the last room, large murals of the "The Slav Epic".

The exhibition will now move to Munich if you can't make it to Vienna in time. 

Mexican Wrestling is really well received in Germany - at least amongst crazy rock'n'roll people - these days and the guys of the GTWA (Galactic Trash Wrestling Association) do their best to take it eve further.

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The poster came out great, hughe A1 Offset, I'm quite pleased with it. Unfortunately I didn't make it to the show myself, but I think it was a great night with the pirate love.

For this poster I wanted to capture the revolutionary feeling of their songs and lyrics (”let’s make history tonight”) and also the element of beeing sexy and stylish while fighting the power. There are 2 versions of this Poster, one with a purple transient in the background and one with a silver background.