01. Music

This year’s Taste of Chaos is gonna be one of the sickest, so you better go you mudda suckas! Let’s see who we have the list: Thursday, Bring Me The Horizon, Four Year Strong, Pierce The Veil, and Cancer Bats. Tour kicks off on Valentine’s Day, February 14th at the Hollywood Palladium in Los Angeles, CA. Get your tickets now!

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Taste of Chaos Official Site
Taste of Chaos Tour Dates

02. Girls/Tattoos

The Lady of Metal Models are full of strong, empowering personalities — all of which become part of a family. We strongly support each other, our events, and every company we come to work with. We’re here to show that loving music, whether it be metal or not, is not about looks. We step out of the ordinary fully black clothed & tatted ‘metal-head’ clique look to show that you can be who you are, wear what you want, and be PROUD of it, while still being about the music.

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Ladies of Metal Official Myspace

My brother from another mother, John, made a fan art of VIMBY:

Click to enlarge.
Thanks John!

Show Schedule

Jan. 2 - 4, 2009 @ Fairplex Pomona (Pomona, CA)
1101 McKinley Ave., Pomona, CA 91768

Mar. 6 - 8, 2009 @ Cow Place (San Francisco, CA)
2600 Geneva Ave., Daly City, CA. 94104

Jun 19 - 21, 2009 @ Navy Pier (Chicago, IL)
600 E. Grand Ave., Chicago, IL 60611

Show Hours

Fridays : 2pm - 11pm
Saturdays : 11am - 11pm
Sundays : 11am - 8pm

Above Models

Lucy from Ladies of Metal
Josh from Gods of Ink

First, if you have a t-shirt template, great. If not, go to GoMedia’s Arsenal and purchase their apparel pack. Well worth it. 4 different views, both front and back, in 5 different colors (and you can even change the color to ‘create’ more t-shirt colors).

So now let’s say this is your final design that you want printed on your shirts:

Open up your t-shirt template in Photoshop.

Now, this design was meant to be on a white shirt. So if you’re shirt template isn’t already white, select your “shirt layer” and then go to to “Image > Hue/Saturation” then push the Lightness to +100.

Your “shadows Layer” will look dark. So drop the opacity down to 50% while. Then drop your artwork on top of top the shirt, but make sure your artwork layer is in between the “shirt” and “mask” layer.

Now we’re going to use the mask layer to make our printable area the only visible spot on the design. Grab the actual mask from the “Mask” layer (not the whole layer), and drag and drop it right onto the “Your Art” layer. You should now have no excess left around your shirt, and all wrinkles, the collar, and overlaps are preserved as if the shirt were truly printed. The best part is that you can still edit and move around your design. Make it bigger - move it off the edge - whatever - it will stay within the bounds of the shirt because of the mask. Check out the following image to get a better idea of what I mean here.

Now your mockup is done. If you feel you need more shadow now that the design has been placed in… then bump up the opacity of the shadow layer and you’re good to go.

Thanks to Dave from GoMedia for this tutorial. Check out their blog for more Photoshop / Illustrator tutorials. And buy their products, they’re awesome!

Carlos Lascano is an amazing artist. Check it out for yourself; here’s a short stop motion movie he made called, “A Short Love Story”. Watch it here. And to check out more of his work, you can go here.

Not here.

But.. here.

My Brothers & Sisters!
Scion and Inked Magazine are teaming up to give one lucky son of a backyard a chance to win a free tattoo appointment with Chris Garver.

Official Rules:
1.) You must be 18 years old to enter.
2.) You must be a resident of the continental US.
3.) Tattoo appointment maximum $2,500. If tattoo is more, remianing cost must be covered by winner.

Two Ways to Enter:
1.) Click here to describe your tattoo concept.
2.) Click here to upload your drawing or design.
How to win: Use the entry links above. Tell your story — why you want Chris to do your tattoo. The best story or picture will be chosen by Inked staff and the artist.

For more info, dont’ click here.
CLICK HERE.

Let’s see if you can figure out what’s wrong with this ad from Middle Town Community College.

Nice.

I purchased my copy via iTunes at 12:27AM this morning and I had that baby on repeat on my iPod as I went to bed. You needs to give back to the community and get yourself a copy of this fine wine cheese and dine compact disc because it’s basically the [insert your favorite word]. Don’t forget that they’re going on tour with The Roots and Estelle. For more tour dates CLICK HERE. For you LA people, they’re playing at the Hollywood Palladium on Friday, October 17th (just two days after the re-opening after 17 months of reconstruction). Tickets for the LA show will go on sale this Saturday, September 13th at 11AM — except I’ll be at the Ambassador LA show at the Avalon so I’ll see what I can do to come up on these fine tickets right here.

How will I be able to get tickets?

Pfft, this is J-Town baby. Anything’s possible.

WATCH IT

That’s right. The Roots and Gym Class Heroes are touring together. For everyone in the Los Angeles area, they’re playing at the Hollywood Palladium on Friday, October 17th. Tickets for that go on sale Saturday, September 13th for $35 at LiveNation.

For more tour dates, CLICK HERE

Sept. 9, 2008

Will be the day that these two [f’ing] amazing CD’s will be released: Gym Class Heroes - The Quilt and The Sound of Animals Fighting - The Ocean and The Sun

Pimpin, are you kiddin me? You bets snatch these CD’s before Sarah Palin blogs about it. And if you haven’t already, buy or burn a copy of underOATH’s new album, Lost In The Sound Of Seperation. It’s only $7.99 at Best Buy. C’mon, that’s like 2 lunch tickets and a Lunchables.. the turkey and cheddar one.

Fall Out Boy is releasing their newest album, Folie A Deux, on November 4th. You can listen to their single, I Don’t Care, right here.

And please, please support American Me and their album they’ve had out since February titled, Heat. It’s f’king cleaaan.