starting this 2010 thing off RIGHT

took a midnight moon light walk in the woods with my mother…

as you can see, its cold here.

i was about to tap-in with some of my own “2009″ stuff, but as it turns out i have H1N1 so my brain is functioning even crummier than usual. sooooooo, this is what you get… i set up a dumb little tumblr page a bit ago to let my family and friends see where i was and what i was up to. its actually the Rated G version of what im up to  as my relatives look at it and i doubt they would approve of even a fraction of the stupid shit i do to amuse myself. at any rate, this is my half assed attempt at talking a little about the last few months of MY 2009 filtered through a little swine flu…

click the image below or the following link to visit…  TIMES IS WEIRD THESE DAYS

stay tuned for much more of the same in 2010.

got an iPhone? if not maybe its time you got one if for no other reason than to lace it with one of these cases…

the good people at Uncommon hit me up to do some art for these things and from what i can tell its a pretty slick opperation. you can pick the art you want ( dosnt have to be MY art, there is a grip of good stuff on their site ), rotate it, scale it, make it fit your case the way YOU want it to. i believe i have 9 graphics on there you can pick from. go have a look around and if you are in the zone, swoop a new case for your iPhone…

click here for Todd Bratrud iPhone art by Uncommon

Its officially official! Part two of the two part Fuko print set is available TODAY, July 18th, 17:00 PM (Japan time zone)!! Please visit the Grace From Falling SUB page, or if you are in Tokyo pop into the MEGAFAUNA shop space and pick one up there!

ill try keep this short and to the point, altho there are a few points so ill just do my best…

Grace From Falling is a project that myself and Shingo (the eyes and ears of BRLSQ in Japan) have started as a vehicle to make handfuls of odd ideas into actual physical objects that you can buy and love for the rest of your life! sound good? yup, you are right, it IS good.

first thing out the gates is this Poster i designed for our friend Fuko who because of her modeling has become a bit of an icon in Japan and soon to be the world.

if you already get the BRLSQ news letter (if not, see above and get you some), you know all the details, but just to be safe, here’s everything you need to know…

Going on sale this weekend ONLY IN JAPAN is Todd Bratrud’s art print commissioned for Japanese model and mega-celebrity FUKO. The first in Grace From Falling’s “Idol x Art” project, the posters were printed here at Burlesque and signed both by Bratrud and by Fuko herself.

5 color print on French Parchtone Relic Gold paper.
63 x 45.8cm
¥6,800 + ¥840 shipping in Japan (¥2,500 international)

For purchase information, visit gracefromfalling.com

so im trying to get back on the blog tip these days, i have a few i contribute to, the one that used to get the most attention and the bulk of photos posted on it was the Skateboard MAG blog, so im making an effort to post things on there every few days. ive been on the road steady for the past almost half a year i think, and i have photos of a lot of the goings on. i would imagine you wont care about most of the stuff i post, but here and there there might be a gem, so go kill some time…

the Skateboard MAG

well hello there! im mentioning this a little late, maybe near a year late at this point, but thats how i roll i guess. Jai Tanju has been making zines and little art books for a while now, you may or may not know about his MUTE series of books, its a collection of photos taken by his friends. MUTE #2, 116 pages, 8.5″ x 8.5″, perfect binding, full-color interior ink, compiled by Jai Tanju, photographs by erik olsen, chris patton, ken nagahara, louie barletta,sam milianta,luda crooks, b. fonville. jonathan hay, matt price and he axed me to give him some photos as well, i think i got 20 some odd pages in it. just dumb photos of my friends doing the dumb stuff we do day in and day out.

here is a few little images of mine…

you can order the book by clicking HERE if you feel like you need it, and if you feel like you dont need it, let me tell you that you DO need it, trust me on this one, as a whole its a pretty rad little thing.

thanks Jai!

i had to dip outta the states for a minute and get back to my roots with some raw watercolor paintings, best place to REALLY watercolor paint the way God intended you ask? the Cayman Islands…

expect not to see any of the paintings i make anywhere ever, im stuffing each painting into a empty bottle then throwing that bottle to the hammerhead sharks that patrol the waters of this place. its like one of those time capsules, once the greys come and vaporize our little planet in a few weeks, they will find my paintings in the bellies of… alright, ive been alone in the hot sun on hidden beaches for far too long, im outta here. werd life.

if you wanna see some of whats been going on, follow this link…

click HERE, HERE and HERE for more.

CLOUT issue 11 is on the news stands everywhere! and if you don’t in an area that is considered “everywhere”, you can go to www.cloutonline.com and order it.

oh right, the reason im posting this is cus i have an interview in this issue that you DO NOT want to miss and i did the cover and a shirt, you know how we do.

TB