Mr. Hooper Art Blog

The Appreciation Post's album cover

Hey, this is some of my work on the album cover for the Boston-based band The Appreciation Post. I thought it looked pretty cool and was worth sharing. Their album Work/Sleep officially releases tomorrow. However, the band is allowing folks to download the album free at:

http://theappreciationpost.bandcamp.com/album/work-sleep-free

I am involve with a Tiki themed group show this April at Florida’s Bold Hype Gallery. Here is the piece I am sending. This is my first attempt at a Tiki theme and I feel pretty good about it. I am honored to be showing with a bunch of great talent. Here is a list of artists involved with this show:

Shag,  The Pizz,  Mr. Hooper,  Skot Olsen,  Joe Vaux,  Tiki Tony,

KRK Ryden,  Heather Watts,  Derek Yaniger,  Donella Vitale,  Joe Vitale,  Brad Parker,

Doug Horne,  Ken Ruzic,  Ken Pleasant,  Benzart,  Sam Gambino,

Thorsten Hasenkamm,  Meghan “Candy” McMahon,  Crazy Al, Tom (Big Toe) Laura ,  Johannah O’Donnell,  N. Satterfield,  Wayne

Coombs,   Robert Connett,  Lisa Petrucci,  Scott Scheidly

False Idols opens April 17 at Bold Hype Gallery in Winter Park, Florida.

http://www.boldhype.net/

This is a painting that I currently have in the Estel Gallery “Rock, Paper, Scissors” show. Check out their web site for information on purchasing this piece.

[This one is actually an idea for a painting, but I have yet to figure out how to make it work. Enjoy.]

Hey Benny,

I bought one of those laughing boxes – I should call it bag of laughs—that is what they call them. I got it at Spencers’ in the mall, right? This one was different, sure enough. You pressed the button inside that little fuzzy sack and it didn’t laugh one little bit! No Sir! I should have tried it out before I bought it and the truth is, well, I tried out one of them that was on the shelf and that son-bitch was laughing like Bobby Sparkman the night they hit Todd in the face with 17 snowballs in the parking lot of Whitt’s Bar-be-cue. You remember that, right? You were there!

But this one, well, you push the button and it just mumbles up words and shit. I mean to me it was just sounds like gurgling, but Sissy swears it sounds like satanic messages. Holy Shit! I reckon she is a lot better at those things than I am, by God! But hey… to me it sounds a little like David Lee Roth vomiting the pledge of allegiance. I hate to tell you this, but this is all we have for you, maybe something better later. We miss you terribly and maybe some of your friends in jail will get a kick out of this bag of laughs. Don’t drop the soap, ha, ha, ha!

Trina says hello!

Krista asked that you stop calling her

26 months to go, you can do that standing on your head!

All the best!
Tim