"CRUSH"ED TO PIECES...

Separation pics of the "NEW" new Crush vinyl - color to come soon. I know, long time coming...but it'll be worth it I promise. ;)

MY INTERVIEW with MTV e2...

Watch MTV e2 Tuesday July 10th at 7:30pm ET only on MTV.

Nevermind - here it is ~CLICK~

NEW INK...

Finally finished the design for the rest of my wrap-around wrist tattoo.

Ganesh, Kali and Hanuman - all Hindu Gods of strength.

A SHOUT OUT...

A little tip-o-the hat to our friends over at CARNIVAL CARTOONS. They got their vinyl on the show MIAMI INK.

Happy Anniversary Pauly

A year ago today we shared a pint on a patio with some new guy.

The story goes that he packed up his gear, his loving girlfriend, and came back to the big smoke to help a couple of shmos try to make some cool cartoons.

Sure glad he did.

Cheers.

TELETOON'S TDI PROMO...

For those of you not lucky enough to be living in Canada - here's a promo ad running on TELETOON promoting our new show TOTAL DRAMA ISLAND.

TDI TITLE SEQ...

Watch the title seq. from our new show!

SEPARATION ANXIETY...

One thing you should expect when you set out to make your own vinyl toy is that there will, with out question, be set backs.

"Separation" turned out to be one of our biggest set backs. In order to paint the vinyl the "spray pads" (CRUSH has over a hundred) must lay flat. The more bumps, the more chance of overspray. Our original had 3 separations - the head, torso and legs - BIG PROBLEM.

This time around CRUSH will be separated into 7 sections - head, brow, arms, torso, waist and legs. This will help tremendously in the final look of the paint.

TDI WILD LIFE...

Come check out some of the WILD animal designs done by Paul Watling over on our Total Darma Island Blog.

WTF...

Q: Hey loser! Where the hell is that CRUSH vinyl you promised me?

A: Our factory in China thought it would be funny not to make them.

sooo, here are the ALL NEW AND EXTRA SUPER wax pics of CRUSH from our NEW factory that totally won't quit on us yo.

TDI SCREEN GRABS...

Check out some screen grabs from our new show TOTAL DRAMA ISLAND.

COMPANY LOGOS...

(not my company)

THAT'S THAT - MON...

An early flight back to Toronto and running late - but before we left we met up with Tracy and Andrew at MEL'S DINER for a super quick goodbye. Andrew had set up one last business meeting for us with David Faustino. A little strange pitching shows to Bud Bundy while wolfing down the #1 special but David was hilarious and we hope to work with him and his production house in the near future.

Cheers LA, I guess we had some good times. NOW BEAT IT!

ROAD TRIP - SUN...

We started our day with a hearty American breakfast. Sure it was $8.55 but well worth it when you take into consideration that they hand place every onion into the side of your chili for you - yummy!


Then we took a jaunt up to Bronson Canyon and stole some authentic BATCAVE rocks.

If you run through the Batcave like Pauly here you find a perfect spot to take a picture of the Hollywood sign.

We drove an hour out of LA to visit Burt Ward at his ranch. He lives in a very surreal neighborhood where people walk their pet lamas down sidewalks made of dirt.

Burt and his daughter Melody took us all out for lunch to the CHINA STAR - "a Chinese buffet with the best french fries you'll ever eat". We all talked business while Melody entertained us with Rodney Dangerfield impressions.

We ended the day at the Universal City walk. It's a cool little tourist trap with all sorts of great things to look at.

Big thanks to Andrew and Tracy for leading the way.

A DAY WITH STEVE LAMBE - SAT...

Started the day just wanting to check out a bunch of stuff and maybe pick up a few goodies for the folks back home.

Didn't want to show off in front of the poor dudes - but they had it coming.

We hung out in front of the IVY hoping to see Lindsay Lohan spill out of a limo - but no luck. The only celeb we saw was George Stroumboulopoulos, a dude from Toronto. Not cool.

We met up with Steve Lambe at Kidrobot and to check out his stomping grounds.

He took us over to the 8-bit show and we got to see his and a tonne of other artists 8-bitty goodness.

Steve drove us over to an AMAZING shop called WACKO. In my opinion this is by far the best shop of its kind. It had everything from stellar original art by well known artists to a huge variety of illustration books, vinyl and t-shirts - highly recommended if you ever get down there.

He took us to SALOMI, a favorite Indian restaurant of his for dinner. I of course impressed everyone by eating the hottest dish on the menu - THE VOLCANO.

Ended the day at this sweet little spot Lambe took us called CASTAWAYS up in the hills with this wicked view of LA. Thanks for showing us around Steve! If you're ever in T.O give us a hollar!

Incidentally, I erupted about 3:30 in the morning.