I think we made a new personal best for me as both the normal and the hand finished editions were sold out within 10 minutes. I know there are a few people out there who weren’t happy with the performance of the website but it seemed to go pretty smoothly for most people. V4 of eelus.com is being worked on as we speak, in a secret hangar in the desert, under a giant tarpaulin. The new site will be built in HTML and will hopefully be much more stable and user friendly.

The 4th of September sees the opening of my next show ‘Paradise Lost’ at Brooklynite Gallery in NYC with fellow stencil head C215. To give you a taster of some of the work on offer, there is a new super limited, 7 colour screen print edition of my Firestarter image going on sale TODAY over at www.brooklynitegallery.com.

Firestarter. 7 colour screen print. Edition of 50.

Here’s a new piece from the show. Painted onto an old burned out bakers tin.

Paradise Lost. Spray paint on tin

Here’s a close up of one of the 200+ hand made invites I made using my Gocco PG-11 printer.

I’ll be flying out to NYC next week to set up the show and paint some big pieces outside so if you’re in the area on the 4th, come on by and say hello!

My sources have told me there is one man who may have answers to this extraordinary tragedy and he is now being questioned within the safe confines of the mysterious ’secret’ underground base, known by the conspiracy community simply as, ‘The Bunker’. This man is Logan Hicks.

What is there to say about Logan that has not already been covered in the countless interviews that are already online and in print. He has been a consistent force in the stencil art movement for many years, never stopping, never sleeping, like a shark with a scalpel and an unstoppable need to create and express himself. When the rest of the world is asleep, you can almost be guaranteed that Logan is awake, working, thinking, taking photos and exploring the urban world that surrounds him.

His trademark style of incredibly detailed cityscapes, rendered in otherworldly colours have proven to all that this man isn’t just talented, he also isn’t afraid to put the hours in, his stencils taking weeks to prepare and cut, (hence the very fitting moniker Workhorse). He was one of the original artists who inspired me to cut my first stencil and I feel very privileged to now consider him a friend.

In October I’ll be flying to Gambia with Logan and 6 other artists to transform some rural villages into an open air art exhibition titled Wide Open Walls. If you can’t wait that long for new work by Logan, a group show with Lister, Michael Kalish and himself opened last night at the Opera Gallery in NYC. Here’s a video of Logan giving us an insight into the work behind that show and the importance of finding your own space within your environment.

So here it is, Logan Hicks’s administration form for The Bunker. Enjoy.

TB: We can allow you access to 1 music video. What will it be?
LH: Wouldn’t the movie “Heavy Metal” count as one long music video?

TB: There is room on the wall for 1 piece of art. What would you like?
LH: Something by my friend Miya Ando. She makes these real tranquil steel panel pieces.

TB: There is a small bookshelf with room for 1 book. What will it be?
LH: Any porn magazine with lots of pictures. The apocalypse is a lonely place for a young man like myself

TB: You’re allowed 1 film. What will you watch?
LH: Taxi Driver.

TB: There are bunk beds inside the room. Who gets the other bed, and which bunk would you like?
LH: My girl or son gets the other bed. I get the bottom bunk. i need to pee lots. Nothing worse than climbing down the bunk ladder with stiff piss dick.

TB: You’re allowed 1 small treasured item. What is it?
H: A really sexy midget. That’d be a treasured item indeed.

TB: We’ve managed to get you a CD player. What album would you like?
LH: Abstract Rude – Showtyme

TB: We are willing to cook you 1 meal of your choice on your first night in The Bunker. What would you like?
LH: Shepards Pie

TB: All inhabitants of The Bunker MUST have their memories of Old Earth erased. However, we will allow you a single memory of your old life. What will it be?
LH: My kid say ‘daddy’ for the first time.

TB: We can project a view of your choice onto the Window Screen. What would you like to look at?
LH: Looking out over the Chesapeake Bay, where I grew up.

Thank you for your co-operation. We will do our best to satisfy your needs and we wish you a pleasant stay in The Bunker.
The Bunker Administration Team.

I’ll be here running the show every day from 11-6:30 until Sunday so if you’re in the area come over and say hello. Until then, here’s a few photos of the show courtesy of Wallkandy and Butterfly from Juxtapoz.

You can view all the Wallkandy photos HERE .
All the photos from Butterfly HERE .
And you can view and buy the available paintings and prints at my website http://eelus.com .

The Colour Out Of Space. Blackall Studios, 73 Leonard St, London.

After religiously reading the awesome Juxtapoz magazine for years I’ve now been featured on the website, without wanting to sound like an extra from Point Break, I’m STOKED!

You can read part 1 of the interview by Sandra Butterfly from the Juxtapoz team HERE .

Part 2 will follow very closely behind so keep ‘em peeled.

The nice chaps over at Brainer wanted to check in and see what was happening with the new show. You can read the interview HERE.

The boys at Breaks Of 10 have a little interview and some info about my show over at www.breaksof10.com
I also helped them out with a new header for their blog, so go and check it out now!