For MikeyBeepz

Ive decided to clean up my act, no more looking like a bum, I need to get classy. And whos classier than Mike? So say hello to my new look.

PS. on further inspection of the picture, Im slightly looking to the left, but it looks like my eye is most fucked up

Of Course

Plans failed
Beryl is a BUM
Pat Gerity saved the DAAAY
wrestler chicken and rice
brian walsh amazingness
stealing alans methods, what a genius
Jonathan is a traitor and ditched us all 3 days to hang with Tina

Plans That Will Fail

So I got home last night because Nicole wasn't coming back, and me and Pat made plans, pluuuus it was suppose to snow and ice, so I ditched that Jenky BoBo city early and headed for home. After it taking over 2 1/2 hours to get to Princeton, which certainly cant be the fastest way, since they took me all the way to philly, literally i past the lincoln center, and then across on 206 around Yardley, I finally got the Sushi Palace, and was ready to consume. I hadn't eaten in 24 hours so I was so excited, and unlike last time I wasn't fucking around. Also I def didn't have 25 dollars on my card, so i probably overdrew in the proccess, but it was worth it. Well after about 30-40 rolls and god knows how many sushi pieces, all topped off with several servings of ice cream and fried bananas (holy shit fried bananas are amazing) it was time to leave, and we were all stuffed and felt like dying as usual. So night one of the break was good, got to meet Pat's friend who was at one time a top 10 WoW players, as well as were loud as shit laughing about simpsons, south park, and other great things because we were the last people left in the resturant, then I drove home and got to catch season 3 of Dexter, which I thought was good, but people are gonna be like "it was slow, he barely killed anyone.... IT WASNT AS GOOD AS SEASON 2" but these people didnt even like season 1 and got into dexter on dvd so fuck them.

Anyway, now for the plans for the next few days which will probably fall through as everything I try to plan always does cause people are lame-azoid (geometrically lame, predictablly lame in an equation form). Today Im headed out to the mall with Kenny, who I havnt seen in so long, and hopefully we have a good BOP convo and get some shit done for once (usually my laziness fault), then Jon will hopfully be home at a decent hour and we will hang. Tomorrow on Monday, me, Jeff, and Jon are all suppose to head to the city to see the wrestler which WILL be amazing, no hoping here, and until it gets more press and publicity will still just be looked at as a dumb movie about wrestling, (like Nicole who thought it was stupid for the past weeks ive been talking about it then I showed her the trailer the other night and she practically begged me to go see it with her). Hopfully we will also spot some Madheads gear in the flick.
Then monday night after the movie, I (and HOPEFULLY others) make their way to Parsons to invade Beryl's personal space and read her super thesis comic about her in china, which i was edited out of, what bullshit. Then tuesday morning I want to force myself to wake up early to go to her final crit, which I will sit in on, not say anything, than afterwards make fun of pretty much everyone in her class including her, cause illustration majors are beat. Then she has class later that day, what a clown, so Ill probably head back to the train station alone, with no goodbye or handshake, as Beryl a true friend often ends our hang out sesh.
AND THEEEEEEEEEEEEEEN, its Wednesday, CHRISTMAS EVE, which at this point is just as bad as Christmas day and Thanksgiving, where we dont do anything worthwhile, but HAVE to be there, and can't go hang out, and then we are draaaaggged to the CUT, which thankfully we are NOT doing this year.
So thats my week, Im guessing besides the mall with Kenny, the rest will not happen do to the shitty snow and just plain laziness. Also I have no money for gifts, and forgot to hand make some like a cheap art student, so we all might be doing xmas the week after, which will make shopping alot easier hopfully. Hopfully I get what i REALLY WANT.

Alan's always gotta go

So after having another conversation cut short with Alan because he "Has to run" which always seems to happen with that fool, cause he's a big new yorker now, anyway the convo was about how my internship is allowing me to print a run of shirts for my own use, so get ready for either some sick SailBone shirts or if you have better ideas let me know.

anyway, why I came here, wanted to post up some sick videos we watched today in class, these awesome Sony Bravia commercials are for the new Colour Like.No.Other campaign... and yes its from the UK so it has a U, idiots. anyway, befor you watch them just know that none of these have computer animation or digital color enhancement, everything you see actually happened and was shot on location. the only special effects is for the claymation one they digitally erased the rods holding the bunnies in the air.

Bouncy Balls


Paint Cannon


NYC Bunnies


Thread Spools


Domino City


there are a few more but these are unbelievable, and are completely real, heres a behind the scenes on the bouncy balls one, so good, you can find a few money on youtube if you search, i suggest the bunny one as well.




Also for your enjoyment, heres Busta Rhymes new amazing song ARAB MONEY. also Young Jeezy's MY PRESIDENT IZ BLACK, and no I didnt change the S to a Z.

Spill the Beans

First night being back in Jersey, and it was amazing. Though it started slow cause everyone lied to me and said they weren't going to the show then did, it picked up when they came back and we went to ACs. a night of fun games, and classic Andrew moments reminded me how much i love dxc's and affiliates, how I wish one of us had a bitty that could cook so that we could have a thanksgiving together instead of having to make awkward conversation with grandparent and uncles who we have nothing in common with. from 1-4 am, we had FUN.

On a Side Note

Why the fuck would they make Tootsie Pops? even if they came first, as soon as the BlowPop came out, they should have realized they lost and stop making these gross turds on a stick

what school did this idiot actually graduate from?

big crit ova, time to do more work

Here are finally pictures of some of the stuff I've been working on that don't involve my thesis, which in my critique no one liked because they had nothing to do with my thesis. dummies. I guess I only have one non thesis thing and thats my sheikh portrait which I am still working on and need to put in a text layer but its in arabic so i need someone else to do it. So here is the portrait of Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Muktoum and eventually there will be the text "Tangible dreams, happiness inevitable: money is possibility eternal." which was written my my good buddy Jonathan. The other pictures are of the wallpaper I created that will eventually be made up of thousands of pictures of me which will never repeat. besides that I aint got much more.

Mike will make an inappropriate comment about this one

Did it on both white and light gray paper, not much diffence

Sean Wallpaper

Full wall, almost covered, with prints on it

Sail bone... A mail bone... and a sail throne

Nothin but Bidniss in my world.

front

back

artistic cause I'm an artist dummy

Tworkin

So im standing here because there is no chair, not even a stool, at my first day of paid work in about 2 months, and probably my last until Christmas break when I return to the deli. Luckily Nicole has come to my rescue and not only bought me McDonalds when I was starving, but has lent me her laptop for the day so that I don't go insane. I wouldn't say it's a slow day, but compared to working the lunch rush at a food establishment it's been pretty boring for my taste. I've sold a few items, and I'll say that being on the other side of the counter at a boutique esq store is just as awkward as when you are the wondering costumer, and you dont want to buy anything just look around, then wonder out the door and feel obligated to say bye, as if the clerk helped you or even introduced themselves. Well, I dont really have much to say cause I have no new news or any pictures to put up yet, but sitting here writting this is helping me pass the time so whatever. I also found a container of my boss' comix from years past and there are some pretty funny ones that I actually laughed out loud at, thank god there was no one in the store when that happened. Here are two I particularly liked, cause I know specific people I can link
them too, and feel like I've been in both situations verbatim at some point in my life.

A NON-ART POST!!!?

so I wanted to write and post some stuff cause its just too funny. After reading Alan's latest post about fat orgies, and proceeding to laugh out loud in the computer lab, I then proceeded to read Mike's about Alan's tuna salad, which made me repeat these actions. Also the fact that when mike posts from his phone it puts text ads which are bigger than the post itself is hilarious.

I dont really get how you guys write these long ass blog posts, i guess its casue your using real keyboards not some shitty old mac one that takes for ever casue you gotta push the buttons so hard like an old SNES controller when your up at 9:30 skipping class trying to beat the Flyers with the Penguins in the NHL 92 Stanley Cup finals... yes thats a true story circa 2005. Anyway, I originally came here to post up a nice little article out of a UAE fashion magazine Grazia, featuring the one and only Lawrence Ryan Kiefer. Its about ExPATs in dubai and the election, click the picture for the full size, its very large.



so what else can I say besides that, I have nothing going for me, I have a few pieces I still need to photograph and put up, nothing really that good. Also my big midterm review is up next monday and I am NOT ready for it. booooo.

Also I have decided that after school I will be living at home for the summer to make enough money at the deli to buy more screenprinting equiptment, then get an internship at a shop in NYC, then in the Fall move to a warehouse loft in JC where I will hopefully work at earlier said shop during the day, and then print shit and party at night.... anyone is welcome to live with me. I also plan to eventually make my click famous for being the anti-NYC art group, and Jonathan will be the guy who does no art but photographs and write about it and puts out a book.
So thats all I got, I'll see you at thanksgiving.

New SITE! not quite up yet.

so i built my site this weekend, and though there are some kinks to be worked out, its looking pretty good and hopefully I will have it up and running this weekend. The address to my site will be www.KieferUSA.com, but if you go there right now its just a godaddy ad. I dont have much to say about the website, its basically just a personal portfolio site for now, hopefully eventually I can use it for more, but for now its pretty basic, yet out of control because Im tried of everyones boring basic sites. here are some screenshots of the main page, and how the layout will look when you click each section.

screenshots

Here are the screenshots from my piece, I dont have pictures from the piece just yet, ill put em up soon, but for now here are the pics, and you can try to guess them all before you scroll down, also the link under the picture is to a "key" that shows where each number is. click the image to see the hi res
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3055/2989968298_a488197cd5_o.jpg

Screenshot Answers

1. South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut
2. So I Married an Axe Murderer
3. Farris Bueller's Day Off
4. Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure
5. Mallrats
6. Rocky IV
7. Freddy Got Fingered
8. Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade
9. The Great Escape
10. Pee Wee's Big Adventure
11. Full Metal Jacket
12. A Clockwork Orange
13. Stripes
14. Maximum Overdrive
15. The Jerk
16. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
17. Total Recall
18. Ace Ventura Pet Detective
19. Snatch
20. The Shawshank Redemption
21. Haggard
22. Bender's Big Score
23. Back to the Future
24. Dr Stangelove: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
25. The Evil Dead 2
26. Clerks
27. The Goonies
28. Spaceballs
29. Saving Private Ryan
30. The Big Labowski
31. The Cable Guy
32. First Blood
33. The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou
34. The 5th Element
35. Goodfellas
36. Heat
37. A League of Their Own
38. Die Hard
39. Platoon
40. Reservoir Dogs
41. BASEketball
42. Good Will Hunting
43. The Pest
44. Beer League
45. Caddyshack
46. Lost in Translation
47. Big Trouble in Little China
48. ConAir
49. Tremors
50. Star Wars VI: Return of the Jedi
51. The Royal Tenenbaums
    

as usual

Jonathan as written a crap load in his blog and showed me up, fuck that dummy, but today is halloween which means  free chipotle.  also im dressing up as juelz santana, pics to follow

Best Poster Alive!

So I finished my Lil Wayne poster and it came out amazing, had a few errors so my run came out to 8 good ones instead of 10, but it looks "illie"  its 3 layers, the layer of text is a light transparent gold but is glossy so from certain angles you can read the text, it looks beautiful to say the least.  it reads..

We're both here with the TV on, I don't know what I'm watching

the gloss layer gets darker at an angle

close up on the shine

BONI! continued

Finished up the posters, basically the image thats below but these are the actual prints.  The quality of the pics kind of sucks, they have a weird blue glow around everyhing, plus the photo part looks sepia for some reason.

BONI!

so I was asked to make posters for the October 25th Birthday bash of Alan and NickFit, so i kept it simple with the picture they gave me and then some nice eye of providence of my own, heres the sample of what the final is going to look like, its almost midnight and im starting the 2nd layer now, Ill post up some pics when I finish.

BOP IT!

just wanted to post up my first time printing with plastisol, the printing went pretty well but i was not prepared for the clean up, it was a huge mess. anyway, here was a test for a new design i want to do, now i just need to improve the type a little and blow it up to full shirt size. Sorry for the crappy picture, its from my phone.

BACK WITH A BANG!

ok since Japan is over I figure instead of starting a new place to keep track of things im doing I'm just gonna post new ventures here and turn this from the Japan blog to my art and other things blog until I have a real website. 

So anyway, I finally did a real project for school and finished it today, it sucked, 110 edition, 7 colors, thats almost 800 pulls.  So anyway here is the Mongoloids poster for their THIS TOUR SUCKS tour.

sittin' pretty

110 prints, such a pain, took up 1 and half racks

final poster, CLICK HERE for HI RES

so check them out on tour with the Mongoloids, KLU, and YSC starting this friday, and yes the pyramid is silver.

Kyoto Schmoto

So Kyoto was amazing, and everything was sweetness, don't have much to say because like I have said before I'm not much of a writer, but I did take tons of pictures that can speak for themselves. We had a wide variety of activities throughout the weekend including many a shrine, and a monkey park. We stayed at a hostel that had the hardest beds I've ever felt. Anyway here are some pictures.....

Karaoke the first night

The Golden Palace

Monkeyz at Monkey Park

Many Many Gatewaysz

The Greatest Sundae Ever

And Like I said these are only 5 out of about 250, all of which you can see here KYOTO-BUCKET. Also you can check out my facebook if your into all of that stuff.

Relief sux, and Kyoto shoudl save me

So this week I have come to the conclusion that I hate the medium of relief printing, especially when its done by hand. its just so sloppy and inaccurate and dumb. Anyway, I feel weird writing a blog with no pictures to talk about or to show because I'm not very good at writing, but the next week or so should make up for all the shitty school I've had to deal with.

This weekend we are using the 4 day weekend to go to Kyoto. Should be a big change from the busy life of Tokyo, and we get to see shrines and what people call "the real Japan". We have planned tons of stuff to jam into the short 4 day trip, so there will definitely be tons of pictures to be posted later.

After this weekend Nicole is coming to visit which should bring me up aswell. We plan on visiting tons of stuff that I havnt gotten to see yet in Tokyo, ad well as revisiting some of the better places. Again there will hopefully be a ton of great pictures to post.

Theeeen, about a week after Nicole leaves, Ryan will be coming to visit, so again I will be running around checking out all the sites again. Somewhere in there, I have to shoot video for my digital class, print my final book 10 times, and write a paper.... should be tons of fun.

UPDATE: Purchases

Got a nice couple things to my display collection mentioned them below, and here are the pics.

Jabbas palace and characters model

Some new Be@rbricks.

A nice 1/6 model of Lando

2 new editions to my favorite toys PUPPET MASTER

Pinhead Regular version

Six-Shooter Regular Edition

Im so sick of all these star waaarrz

So today I went out on my own in search of toy purchases, I attempted to go found BountyXHunter, but like most cases my map didnt help me at all so I couldn't find it, though i did stumple across Stussy Undefeated and the X-Large stores which were all really nice and had some cool stuff. So after a good walk around in Harajuku I decided to head down to Nakano to find another toy store i read about that was on the 2nd floor of a mall. Last time I tried to find this store we walked around for like an hour and couldnt find it, but now i knew it was in the mall so I headed out. When i got there is discovered quite the site. About half the upstairs was toy stores, and each store had atleast a whole wall dedicated to Star Wars, and we're not talking about like the new episode gayness, Im talkin about mint original episode IV figures in their boxes priced at about 300 a pop. There was also a sick airsoft gun shop, as well as a real gun store, that i think only sold unusable guns, but i have no idea. One store also had a whole collection of Battle Toads and Madballs, Noel would crap himself. Overall I came back with some key purchases, 2 bearbricks, 2 puppet master figures, a Lando 1/6 scale model, and a model set of Jabba's palace and all the figures including non other than Max Rebo and his band. Ohh and last but not least I came away from the whole adventure with a sweet plastic full sized storm trooper mask!

the REAL gun store

the AIRSOFT gun store
looks like something out of a movie

A full scale replica ET

Noel F would crap himself if he saw these



Bringin it back to 92'. a full BATTLE TROLLS collection

Ohh the amazing Star Wars finds I wish I could afford

I wish i took more pictures but I promise I will be back and load up my camera, also pictures of my purchases will be up soon. Also if I had to sum up this mall's 2nd and 3rd floors and give it a new name I would have to say "Nick Poyners Dream Mall"

MY SPECIAL DAY!

The whole gang decided to head out to the Juke for my birthday, but when we quickly realized there wasn't much to do we caught the last train (literally) out of the area and back home and decided to Karaoke all night, well of course I mean AFTER we got some beef and rice, the equivalent to the greatness of a Crunchwrap Supreme back in the states. SO the night started pretty slow, except for MarioKart arcade game, which I didnt even know they had. But by the end was extremely radical and my voice was shot. Best songs of the night for me were Johnny B Good, Smack That, I don't Wanna Know, and of course Happy Birthday, which Jonathan and Hannah were great enough to karaoke for me. We ended the night with Welcome to the Jungle which was quite the moment of greatness for me and Jon, too bad we didn't get video of that.

Me and Jon killin the drums in the Juk

Helping ourselves to some delicious BEEF and RICE with white spout red cap sauce

the BIG ECHOOOOOO

Me and Jon opening the night with a Linkin Park medley

Jon and Hannah doing a Mariah Carey duet (Jon doesn't know as many words as he thought)

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU

Beryl and Hannah singing GIMME MORE (nice teeff)

Ending the night with a bang, WELCOME TO THE JUNGLE!