IMPORTANT IMPORTANT IMPORTANT

Call for asap art donations for a real cause....

Hello.
I'm emailing you because one of my favorite people, Justin Van Hoy, (which
some of you may know) has been suffering and battling with Leukemia for
quite some time now. He has just been released from being in the hospital
for 3 months undergoing chemo for the 2nd time, radiation & a bone marrow
transplant. Justin, and his amazing wife Holly, are struggling
physically, mentally and financially. We are organizing events for them
to show our love and support all over the US, and we are organizing an
evening here in Los Angeles on Friday June 5th at the Poketo Studio in
downtown. We are going to have a silent art auction, which we would love
if you could donate a piece for.. I understand that this is extremely
short notice but if anyone can participate or forward this to other
artists who may be interested or to anyone that could help in any way that
would be amazing.

Justin is an amazing person and artist. For those of you who think you
don't know him, well you actually do, Justin has worked with Shepard
Fairey, was the art director of Swindle Magazine, he's worked with Roger
Gastman for several years on a variety of projects including book designs
to projects with Boost Mobile, he's worked on projects for DKNY, DIM MAK,
American Apparel, Threadless, worked on a bunch of stuff with Mark the
Cobra Snake and on and on and on...

Here are some links relating to Justin -
a site with info & donation information :
http://cancersuckshelpjustin.com/
A blog Holly (Jusitn’s wife) kept since he was admitted to the hospital:
http://justinupdates.tumblr.com/page/1



We are trying to surprise Justin & Holly with all this, so please don't
contact them about any of this, but please feel free to forward this
information to anyone you think would be able to help in some way. Please
contact Chris Bettig -helpjustin@themountainlabel.com or Ted &
Angie at Poketo - poketo@poketo.com to confirm your participation in the
auction or in any other way you could help.

IMPORTANT INFO:

• 100% of all money will go directly to Justin

• This event is Friday June 5th from 6-10pm in downtown LA at the Poketo Studio
  

• we need an email confirmation of your participation & to coordinate delivery of art : helpjustin@themountainlabel.com
  

• all work must make it to the Poketo Studio by Thursday June 4th – Poketo 510 S Hewitt St #506 Los Angeles, CA 90013
  

• This is one of many events across the US that weekend that friends of Justin are throwing to help lift his spirits and to raise some $, please help out however you can. Any and all help is appreciated! Anyone anywhere can make a donation here: http://cancersuckshelpjustin.com/
  

Thanks from all of the people that love Justin & Holly.

New at Busy-Being!

ceramic cup from Katsuo Design

Bunnyfish toy by Kozyndan

2 new prints by Kelsey Brookes

Hand painted prints by Kime Buzzelli

Blue Deer & Red Fox children's book by Clare Rojas

Amazing New Species Discovered! Homo Reticulus Redonkuli!

Amazing New Species Discovered!

by Not That Mike The Other Mike on May 11, 2009

Friends, we stand at the threshold of evolutionary history, because the San Francisco Zoo has discovered the first-ever gorilla/giraffe hybrid! The Zoo has released this amazing photo of the baby “gorillaffe” (homo reticulus redonkuli), which should silence even the most doubtful skeptics, and you can see more on the Zoo’s Picasa pages.

(Thanks Niki!)

WHOA!!

I'm re-posting this from Saturday's dlisted because I was so amazed by this and I think you will be too.

Felix Crane - Felix is like the Michael Phelps of pole dancing (you're welcome for that image). Felix won Miss Pole Dance World 2009 in Jamaica! Watch her performance below. Bitch does some major Cirque de HOleil shit! Who knew that a woman with a name that sounds like a character out of a Charles Dickens novel would have serious moves like this? This is what we need to see at the next Olympics. Git that gold, Felix!

Going through some old pictures

I've stumbled onto a theme:

You may have seen this one from an older post but I'm onto something here.

There a couple of things that are "special" about this picture aside from my sweaty / deer in the headlights look.
1) The masterpiece by Alexis Ross in the background of Mix Master Spade that unfortunately no longer lives at my house
2) The wall unit just above the masterpiece
3) There is a bunny on my sweater

The awning!

Here is the documented process of the building of an awning by Sean Cassidy. The patio project is in no way over, the awning is only phase-1. Stay tuned.

Before: nasty, and sun damaged.

Sean brought over the necessary weapons.

He quickly assessed the damage and prepares a plan of attack. He has never built an awning before, he just winged this, but I had total faith in him.

5 trips to the hardware store later the awning was completed around midnight. This picture was taken the next day.

I put the awning to the test on Sunday with a 30-person, 15hr BBQ that ended up getting buck-wild, most of these girls ended up with their shirts off. No idea who the woman straight ahead was. The awning was a success.