the WHITE RABBIT

The White Rabbit is a delightful art/crafts store in Iowa City run by our good friends Cortnie Widen and Luke Tweedy. Theyre fluint in good music and art, refraining from hipster notions but satisfying the needs of those that feel they need to represent them qualities. Simply fueled by good people making good art. This month they gave me the oppurtunity to let me display a bunch of my original art and prints, ranging from original pieces of the many, many Nitetrotter designs ive done, to album cover orginals, to large canvas pieces, and finally a few new collaboration pieces i've done with Jon Olson of Wolf Eyes and Cedric Bixler of the Mars Volta. I'm very proud of this work, and if you're around that area and wanna see or buy some cool stuff you should check it out!!

Location:

109 South Linn Street

Iowa City, IA, 52240

Phone:

319-358-9557

Mon - Fri:

11:00 am - 6:00 pm

Sat:

12:00 am - 5:00 pm

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FAKE SNAKE

fake snake is the alias for Arizona's noise monger, Melted Cassettes...he will be releasing a digital E.P. on Nitetrotter/Nitco and a limited Cass. version will be available thru Nitco. another release you better jump on before theyre gone. He asked me to put together the art for the project, he assumed i'd be drawing it...but i felt a slick Graphic design for a noise project was definitely in need for this...here's your preview. and GOODNIGHT!

Gary Lucas insert for Limited release on 5nakefork

Phil Ross worked his ass off to get this guitar virtuosoe release out by Gary Lucas(played with Zappa,Beefheart, plenty of others) i designed a little flyer for him upon his request to go in this 7"...if you are a fan, i'd track it down before its out of print!

Stella Marie

Stella is our 2lb Porkie...she's ridiculously spoiled, and we love her. here's stell in her new rain coat. yep, were them people, the ones that dress their dogs up!

PEDALS I NEED

Mu-Tron Phasor

Delay Dm-3 boss

MXR amp pedal

Chorus-boss

I will trade art or tattoos for these pedals if you have them! Ikey hooked me up with these for the recording, im on the hunt now!

Just the tip of our Cali Excursion in the Tenderloin. yikes.

art show, i ruined $120 worth of designer tee's at.

Tom and Joe on the salt flats in utah.

Tom,Joe and Ikes walkin in Berkely.

Geneva bakery, we miss you and the employees more than i can say!

yes, we were handcuffed and thrown on a curb.thanks Nikki!

it was really that cute...really.christ!

Mija and Nikki. my cousin. we love her...more to come on that!

The Crew outside the studio in the T.L.(pic by a jerk junkie)

warmin up...

Ikes(right before he slammed his arm into the wall)

Joseph working on his co-engineer title.

Phil Becker, sexiest engineer alive!

MIJA, coffeeshop..good stuff.

Me making noise with a contact mic(youll be able to here this on the track'your mouth is paved with Gems')

apparently this was some good bud, i did not partake though...

Ill post a TON more of these pictures, with some more Tails soon.

MOMS and POPS...

this is not representing of my mother in any way, she barely drinks, and this was on her birthday!! too funny, she's so pretty, which has been a curse due to my friend making unbelievable comments over the years. SHES STILL GOT IT!! go mom!

...and Me and POPS, this was after a MIJA show of which he ran sound, and did ALOT of the footwork for...we were tanked, i cannot deny that. i ended making quite an ass of myself this night. sorry am!

what can i say, i love my parents!

So, i never give  my parents enough credit, they do TOO MUCH for me, not that im spoiled, per se, but they help me out alot, my father has always pushed me to be a better musician, of which ive followed in his footsteps, and for a few years me, my brother and my father had played in a band together called HUMANS. that was a very proud moment in all our lives. My mother on the other hand also sings in a church band, but, ive never had the oppurtunity to record music with her, that is definitely a future plan for me. My rent's are also my landlords for Mixtapes! and Menos Ink(the tattshop/record store i own) yes, they collect rent, i dont have it that easy. As of late me, my brother and cousin's band MIJA went to California to record with 2 amazing musicans, Ikey Owens(free moral agents/the Mars Volta) and Phillip Becker(triclops)...we drove from Illinois, a nice couple day ride. My mother took it upon herself to buy us a TON of groceries, which was completley made of every stoner food you could think of, helping us ALL put on a few pounds.  heres a few pix of the people that im a seed of....

MIJA Nitetrotter session

Jorge about 7hours in..

Joe gettin his percussion credits!

Thomas tellin Nathan what to do...what a mans man!

The beginning of November MIJA recorded in Chicago at Schwag City, with Nathan Gregory! we did  a new track called 'infinite Hex' and a My life with the Thrill Kill Kult cover call 'A daisy chain 4 satan', after that we recorded 7 new EYES tracks for a split 7" with Cold Mold, and a few other releases...heres a few pix from that ungodly day.

Tattoos i've done as of late....

these are all on TINY of MIXTECAS biker club

 

 these 2 pieces are on my bro Andy Earl

they come from the Fulci film THE BEYOND

with my twist to them!!

my cousin Jo Jo, not a very good pic, but a descent piece!

2 friends gettin Ed Hardy pieces

I own a tattoo shop in East Moline,iLlinois...if youre ever in the area and want some custom art similar to my art, or simply have something in mind write me at JorgeAnthonyTapia@gmail.com and ill get you in!!

NT art....

Sorry ive been behind on postinng NT pix, again i urge everyone to go to NITETROTTER.COM and listen to these bands, NITCO plans on releasing a HASTAS full length in 2011...great great great music being popped out!

All of these pix are handdrawn with Sharpie pens, then i usually run through a gray scale with paint brush and watered down india ink. also making numerous designs to fill in the background after compiling them in photo shop and making a multimedia mesh, of mostly pix i take while im on tour, others off of porno sites(i.e. the hodgepodge of eiffel tour in the background of the HASTAS pic), or random pix i enjoy(like the cathedral in the ONO pic), however im particularly fon of the World History piece, due to the only thing being added in, in adobe was the font...the rest was simply laying down the picture on my floor and making a frame out of my shirt, headphones,cassettes that were also just laying on my floor. i dont know, just thought that was cute. so it breaks down quite simple, that is what the pictures look like, just drawn, organic...i tattoo, so thats the best way i can explain the fine line work and stipling, crosshatching styles ive accumulated over the years.

NITCO releases for free on NITETROTTER

I'm just posting the art, because i prefer you to go to NITETROTTER.COM to get all the free goodies! its worth your time, all we do is make art and music, and give it away! cause thats what we love to do!!

so heres a grip of art ive done for these releases, if you have questions about them, ask me, i may have some physical copies stashed away somewhere if you wanna buy a copy, but, most of these are being re-released on NITETROTTER, because theyre out of print. dig it!