Hell to Pay

new website

2009-04-13T12:34:00.000-07:00

yeah this is the new site

inkchaos.com

thanks

Nick

boom

2009-04-01T00:55:00.001-07:00

ilustrator attack

Ba-Roke @ the Mountain Bar

2009-03-07T15:33:00.000-08:00

Come check out this dope art show,
some good friends of mine will be there...

Tattoo Gone Overboard: Leonor's Butcher Knife

2009-03-04T21:10:00.000-08:00

So this is me going way overboard on a tattoo for Leo, idk how this represents me but it shall. ha
Palmdale Airport is gonna be a solar farm... need to go check it out (everything i do has an ulterior motive) *Cough Cough*

I kinda stole the skull idea from Benjie..
lets hope he doesn't kick my ass

Sketches Of a Dead Hand: pt 2

2009-03-04T21:08:00.000-08:00

Its done!

Check it out doggies... <3
Nick

Sketches Of a Dead Hand: pt 1

2009-03-03T21:20:00.000-08:00

So i've been working on this thing for a little bit, i think im done
here are some of the begining sketches.

Love Nick

Send Lawyers Guns and Money @ Canvas LA

2009-03-01T14:34:00.000-08:00

I wish i had got a picture of the line but i didnt. it was fucking HUGE.
thank god i ran into Augs at the door and he got me BeBe and H2 in.
hahah.. Big thanks to Augor for the line Cut. Get ready for his show @ Galeria Con/Safos in April
its gonna be dope

Print for the show
"We Love LA"
Augor, Revok , Krush, Rime, Ewok, Retna

Gentle Matador @ the Wire

2009-03-01T14:15:00.000-08:00

So its always very fun to see G.M.
and its always fun going to the wire so when i get to have both its double fun... then we all get alcohol poisoning at someones house after. Good times, Bad times its all love. oh and big ups to Viola Evolve. Little, Arian, Art and the rest of the band.
"Gentle Matador"

"Viola Evolve"

Part & Bullshit

Sharpie Show: Recap

2009-02-19T22:41:00.000-08:00

Yeah so i didnt take pictures so heres the only one i found

Ha i suck at life

Late Nights @ Denneys

2009-02-16T00:27:00.000-08:00

I inhale build your own grand slams. and bebe puts chalula in his coffee.
yes thats right

Yummm Sundays

2009-02-15T17:54:00.000-08:00

So i think i love Sundays when i have food,
when there's no food Sundays suck camel dick

Drawing Session 1

2009-02-08T20:01:00.000-08:00

Dino Priest Eating a Heart?
Click To See Them Bigger Loser Face
Yes i Mean You Ney

Before I Leave....

2009-02-07T17:38:00.000-08:00

U need to go or you will be stuck watching 2 & 1/2 men all night.

Associated press sues Shepard Fairey

2009-02-05T12:28:00.001-08:00

Yeah thats right... here's the article

Tone Deaf Chronicles: AP Knocks Shepard Fairey

By: Danielle SacksThu Feb 5, 2009 at 12:52 PM

Add another one to the annals of recent countercultural moments: Yesterday the Associated Press accused Shepard Fairey--the street artist who designed the most iconic user generated art to come out of the 2008 election--of copyright infringement. The creator of the "Hope" poster--that now sits regally in the National Portrait Gallery--has come under fire by the news organization for using its 2006 Obama photo as the canvas for the art-ified image, without buying rights to it.

I'm all for creators getting their cut (I am a journalist after all). And yes, Fairey probably should have been fair, and purchased the rights upfront. However, the fight the AP is now picking with Fairey is PR suicide: It makes the media organization look petty, superficial, and practically un-American (I mean, when was the last time we've had art rise to the top of culture as poetically as this?). Not to mention, the photo itself was nothing more than raw material without Fairey's vision to elevate it to something more. Now that the piece has catapulted Fairey to celeb status, and the image has been reincarnated into hundreds of thousands of posters (some clocking in at over $500) and stickers, AP just looks like it wants to piggyback on cashing in.

Fairey's no dumby. He's hired Anothony Falzone, a lawyer and executive director of the Fair Use Project at Stanford University. Falzone is also the heir apparent to Lawrence Lessig, the famed Stanford copyright law professor and founder of Creative Commons, the movement that encourages creators to modify copyright terms in order to "increase the amount of creativity (cultural, educational, and scientific content) in “the commons”—the body of work that is available to the public for free and legal sharing, use, repurposing, and remixing." It actually encourages building on someone else's creative work.

All of this reminds me of when the record labels went on a suing rampage against Napster users. Yet another example of huge organizations exercising bully power while exhibiting their total tone deafness to culture. We're well aware that news orgs are getting killed financially right now--but is this really the best way the AP can scrounge up a new revenue stream?

This is what im doing now adays

2009-02-05T12:09:00.001-08:00

Yes i know, get a life nick

Day 2: 200 Miles to Chico State

2009-02-03T12:14:00.000-08:00

So after Humboldt we headed down to Chico state, stopped by some rivers so Justin can use his bear fishing skills to get us a fish and to also fall on the ice. we arrived to Chico, thinking that the night might bust and we would end up in the car watching all the movies off my laptop, then they arrived and we were off!

Party & Bullshit (Chico Trip Anthem)
Justin & Danny

Jonny & Mari

Me & Adriana

The Lovely Bere

I love to draw on people

Me & Mari

Night 1: Left My Heart in Humbolt

2009-02-02T23:39:00.000-08:00

So im back but this is how it all went down.
The Eat

The Meet

The Beach

The Walk

The Drink

The Walk
The Sleep
Humbolt <3

Humbolt Saturday Night

2009-02-02T17:37:00.000-08:00

You know how they say whatever happens in humbolt stays in humbolt, thats not the case here, here are some of the pics from the trip. if u want to get ur pictures from the party on saturday
go here:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/helltopay/

Day 1: 802.6 Miles To Humbolt

2009-01-30T10:50:00.000-08:00

So we finally got to Humboldt after driving 240 miles of the 800 mile trip though a zero viability foggy curving mountain *possible carbon canyon* we made it. Just making the sharpie show due date and almost merging while someone else was also merging into the same lane on the 101 near echo park. Spent the morning in the car then getting a hotel. im alive. Glad they have WiFi.

12 bags of Takis

Going 123mph on the 5 hwy

Maza 5 *my new favorite car

Refueling with the essentials

Thirst Oasis

Big ass spider web

Trees

Silky Sheets

Bored with my new Niko D80

That hair was there when we got there

Giants Casting Shadows

Cause im cool i use matches

So a KRINK K-66 broke in my backpack

I wanted to order Hot Pockets through the phone
didnt work out so well

Crewest Sharpie Preview

2009-01-20T18:56:00.000-08:00

So these are a couple sneak peaks to the sharpie show at Crewest they will be framed and matted, for info on the pieces and show hit me up at nick.luev@gmail.com
"Pin or Die"

"Time will cut you down"

New Paintings

2008-12-22T00:47:00.000-08:00

Painting are available for sale
Contact me @ nick.luev@gmail.com
Lion *SOLD

We Go Bump In The Night

Duck Brain

Weekend recap.

2008-12-07T20:27:00.000-08:00

So this weekend i basically hung out with people i didn't want to and had to cut short the time with the people i did want to. it was still a good weekend. I played real life weakest link. Ended the weekend at home painting... like i should

Printed @ Crewest

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Then i was off to "Movers and Shakers" (*note: i was calling this shakers and bakers all week) there wasn't too much there. it was more of a hair expo. but there were a few that caught my eye.

Then to Erics party to get drank.

ACHE peice in pomona

2008-11-25T18:52:00.000-08:00

so yeah i got this spot. went. knocked it out. and now i feel alot more happy. i needed this wall. i lost myself in the colors again

Alright! Photos!

2008-11-22T12:38:00.000-08:00

so i went over the restroom painting and put this weird sad sloth. im gonna take fotos today! lets hope all goes well

Esthetic Birdie!

2008-11-17T21:19:00.000-08:00

yeah so heres a sketch for dannys clothing line.
Esthetic.
once again. i will get all my art photographed. soon
i think

Current pomona painting

2008-11-10T23:51:00.000-08:00

its for the rest room. i think it needs a mayflower building in the back.

so yeah i've been procrastinating with the photos.
but yeah real soon. as a matter of a fact, i will call Enrique right now!

At this moment in time.

2008-11-04T01:14:00.000-08:00

i fell. i fell hard. late nights of painting will soon be in my grasp as soon as i move my drafting table into the loft. you would be surprised how much fits in a yukon. minus the seats :]

Sorry

2008-10-17T20:52:00.000-07:00

No post for now. i need to get all my artwork professional photographed. but here's some camera phone pics for now

I call this one Octo Duel