My girlie had a birthday this past week, and I wanted to bake her a cake. However, she is not a fan of cake. I know, it’s crazy, isn’t it? Not a fan of cake, however one of her favorite things in the whole world is pizza. So, I decided I would make her a 3-layer pizzacake. Problem: there is no such thing, so I went looking online to find someone as mad as I about absurd food design as I am, and found her I did. Here’s my own experiment with pizzacake… Continue Reading »

The owner of a ’68 Vespa Sprint 150 decided that his scoot would be better served as a couple of pieces of furniture, rather than a motor vehicle. Very cool, though as a man who’s logged thousands of miles on the very same model (over bumpy, twisty Vermont back-roads) I can guarantee you that the chair will be MUCH more comfortable than the computer desk!

There is a new $100.00 Steve Jobs Action Figure coming out on the market. Seriously, the herd of the Apple cult will buy anything Jobsian, won’t they? I just don’t WANT to know what kind of scenes children are enacting in their play these days!

It’s been awhile since I’ve posted anything, and since I have nothing interesting to say I’ll just post one of my latest illustrations.

Want to own a piece of original Kevin Montanaro artwork, for a potentially very good price? Bid on it online, as part of the S.P.A.C.E. Gallery “August Art Auction.” Starting bid is 20 bucks. 20 bucks, people – how many of you have always said “I would love to have a piece of your work one day” – well hell, if you can’t afford 20 bucks for original artwork…

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My first job was spent cleaning a candy wholesaler. Two hours a day for minimum wage, and every Friday I would be paid $31.10, cash in an envelope. By the end of the weekend that money would be spent, and I would have three new record albums in my collection. I loved records. I would go down to the record store during the week, a small locally-owned place that carried punk records in a bin labeled “Imports,” and scout out what albums I wanted to buy, then come Saturday I would go down and grab the carefully-selected volumes.

I had a large record collection to be sure. All of them kept organized alphabetically, stored in Uv-resistant plastic sleeves, and de-linted before every play. I would carefully slice open the shrink wrapping with my ever-so-rock-n’-roll switchblade knife (my ritual device for opening albums, nothing else seemed appropriate), and withdraw the contents – I can still smell that new vinyl smell! Onto the turntable it goes, and as it plays I would look over the album cover… the artwork, the list of tracks, all the small print, I would search for the “Where’s Waldo” type of hidden Easter Eggs (Iron Maiden, for example, would have a tiny “666″ hidden in the elaborate artwork) before pulling out the paper sleeve to continue my reading. Every new album was an event. The highlight of my week for much of my teenage years. Continue Reading »

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Next month I’m curating ink2skin2canvas, an art show devoted to promoting and celebrating the art of tattoo. Opening reception at S.P.A.C.E. Gallery on June 3rd.

There are many ideologies in which a strong, usually irrational “Us vs. Them” mindset will thrive and spread. Religion, politics, philosophy, sports… Next Generation vs. original Trek, and now consumer electronics has added itself to this ridiculous fray.

This isn’t new, it’s been an exercise in futility for years now. Users of the Apple Macintosh have been heralding the wonders of their computer platform of choice for almost as far back as I can remember. As though there were some unspoken ideological “war” behind the effort, a war between Mac users and PC users, a one-sided one at that.

Super, so you love your computer. I’m very happy for you. No, I do not want to join your cult, I’m happy where I am. I have made my choice and you’re not going to talk me out of it. Why would you WANT to? What difference does it make to you? All those “Mac vs. PC” commercials on TV have convinced the general Mac-using public that there is indeed a war going on, and the Mac side is winning! Yayyy!

So tell me, what did you win? What are the stakes in this fight? Continue Reading »

I’ve moved my blog to a new server, let’s cross our fingers that everything transferred over just right!