Here’s the latest project for the Dream Love event coming up on the 11th at the Meeker Street Market. Another nice unfolding process from this one. I got wicked sick in the middle of its creation which it made it an extra bit of a challenge but challenges are always a welcome experience in my book. It was funny how the original style wound up getting resurrected after I thought it was completely shot down during the first round of revisions. It just goes to show that you never really know how things will turn out. Enjoy!

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For those of you who have been checking things out with Golden Drum, you might have noticed some posters that I’ve been creating. Its a nice quick turn around type of thing for an organization that’s obviously near and dear to my heart. It makes it a lot more like fun and a lot less like work. These two are posters for our community events that we host once a month. We invite the most talented chefs, musicians, yogis, speakers, and artists to create some really special events. I’ll be shifting gears to create more posters for dream collective as things get started up again. For now enjoy these! Here’s the invite to the facebook event page.

We’d love to see you! Peace.

“I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality.” – Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. 1929 -1968

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Because it may never see the light of day anywhere else I thought that I would share. This was a great lesson in communication with clients for me and others involved. It was also a test of my own skills as a designer to try to create something that needs to change a lot very quickly. I don’t think that I’ve ever had to shift styles so fast for a project. Although it was frustrating at the time I think the progression is fun to see. Enjoy!

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I wanted to let everyone know that I’m going to be doing some live painting at 11.11.11 One Dream NYC this Friday into Saturday. I’ve never tried to paint in front of a bunch of people but I’m banking on having everyone get occupied doing other things so I’ll be able to have a little bit of peace. Either way it shouldn’t matter too much once I get going. Things kind fade out when I’m connected to what I’m creating. I’m still playing around with some ideas about what I actually want to create. Almost there I think. Hopefully I can come with something already fleshed out so I can just go at it when I get there. I’m hoping to paint the whole 24 hours. I love the excuse to stay up and do awesome stuff and meet great people!

I will also be selling my world famous Astral Snacks Popcorn the whole time. The folks from Golden Drum and my friends KA will also be there representing as they bring in the dawn Saturday morning. Stick around for the whole thing and check it out. Peace!

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This is an album cover that I recently completed. I had great time with this project. My friend AJ is one of the members of Didge Project and asked me if I would design the cover. After several revisions we were getting closer but it wasn’t quite there. Eventually we decided to meet up so we could get it done together. I don’t usually sit down with someone to work on a design project but I really enjoyed the process. AJ was great at communicating what it was that he wanted and I was able to translate that into a design pretty quickly. It was a great example of how two heads really are better than one when the channels of communication are open and people know what they want. Thanks to AJ and Didge Project for the opportunity to work on this project. Below are some other earlier designs that I thought I would throw in there.

For more information about Didge Project, visit their site at Didgeproject.com. Peace!

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The new batch of shirts are ready! Good news is that I’ll have a site up for the shirts up this weekend. Until then you can contact me at
matthew.canale@gmail.com. I am also printing all of the shirts on American Apparel. Made in the USA. So that’s good. All of the proceeds go to Golden Drum a community center that helped create in Brooklyn.

I was at Occupy Wall Street the other day with some friends. They were helping facilitate a Meditation Flash Mob. It is an event where people come together at a specific time and place to sit and meditate in public. It was the first time that I had attended one. It became obvious to me why what we were doing was so important. People need to see peace. It is not so often that people can be seen in a state of peace. Sometimes, just seeing people meditating is enough for others to be more calm. It is from that place of stillness that we can connect to the heart. We will not win over anyone through anger and aggression. If we are to proceed, we must come from a place of love and compassion. This is not a call to passivity. This is an invitation to connect to the space from within. If we are firmly rooted in peace and truth we will create the change that we wish to see in the world by first emodying that change. This shirt is a symbol of that spirit that I invite more people to represent in this great time of change.

Below are some photos of a test print that I made in the print lab the other day and the other is of my screen that I’ve been using. Enjoy!

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I’ve had the pleasure of drawing this on the kitchen table of my lovely girlfriend for the past week or so. I did in a few morning breakfast sessions. Its fun to combine two of my most favorite things: drawing and pancakes. Delicious for the soul and tummy. I think the next progression is to go bigger. Maybe crayons. Maybe colored pencils. Maybe paint. I guess we’ll see. Peace.

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I had the pleasure of having lunch with my grandmother yesterday. We usually go to a restaurant with paper and crayons on the tables. I always doodle something when I go there. The restaurant has picture frames all over the walls with drawings that customers make. When I was little I wanted to get my drawing up on the wall so badly. The manager would always come and tell me he would hang up my drawing but he never did and I never knew where all the drawings went. Now I just rip the drawings off the table and give them to my grandmother. I realize now that I should have been doing that anyway.

My grandmother doesn’t like getting her picture taken. Below is a representation of how much she doesn’t like having her picture taken. Peace.

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