Digital Bootcamp

I see all this potential, and I see squandering. God damn it, an entire generation pumping gas, waiting tables; slaves with white collars. Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don't need. We're the middle children of history, man. No purpose or place. We have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our Great War's a spiritual war... our Great Depression is our lives. We've all been raised on television to believe that one day we'd all be millionaires, and movie gods, and rock stars. But we won't. And we're slowly learning that fact. And we're very, very pissed off. - Tyler Durden. I chose this paragraph from one of my favorite movies "Fight Club." I can quote almost every line in this film because it resonated with me so much. The whole movie I found myself saying, "Fuck, that's exactly how I feel?! I like this movie." The movie managed to get it's point across by somehow talking with me... Not at me. This is the mistake that most companies have and will always make. After reading through "The Cluetrain Manifesto '95 Thesis I couldn't help but think of the quote above. Companies and massive organizations have shoved their "manifesto type robot voices" at us through whatever channels they could. They never spoke to us as human beings rather than what they thought to be "their target market".. And slowly we got tired of it. We're upset that we're not millionaires, movie gods, and rock stars and we're very, very pissed off about that... Only now, we have the tools at our disposal to become famous on our own. A tweet could reach millions. One video recorded on your cellphone could land up on the desk of a movie producer...hell, we don't even need movie producers to make us famous anymore. Our network is slowly...no, rapidly becoming more connected than yours. So while we appreciate you telling us to "Think Different, Just do It and Open Happiness"... We Just Did It, yesterday, and we're starting to Think Differently about Opening Happiness...There's too much sugar in that. We found that out ourselves. And we're drinking something new. You'll probably hear about it in a few years. Thanks ;)

Here's a sneak peak at some of the latest Pestroy Merch I've done. Get your hands on some at a gig near you or drop me a line and I'll organise to get you one!

Some new Shirts for some buddies!

Playing in a band you get to make some really cool friends from other bands. I got a call from my friend Staab from The Dead Will Tell asking me to design a new logo/shirt for them. Staab's a gangsta and his band is as gangsta as he is, so I agreed to help out. I think it came out pretty rad...and so did somebody else...I played a show in one that Staab gave me (see pic above). It got sweaty so I changed shirts and somebody went into my bag and stole it after our show. Kinda gross but I'll take it as a compliment. I want another shirt please Staab.



Another amazing friend and brother that I've met through the band is Gordon Laws. I met him many years ago and we've been great friends since.He's recently started a band with other good friends of mine, Byron "Killer B" and James "Flames". They're called Death by Ninja which is easily one of the coolest names I've ever heard. So when they asked me to design a logo for them I jumped at the chance. I think it came out pretty cool and I think they're happy with how it turned out. I got to watch them at their first big gig at Seasons Wither and was stoked to see a few kids in the crowd rocking out in the tee already. Check the band out. They will kill you...because they're ninjas. And that's what ninjas do.


Then there's some of my favorite dudes from Facing The Gallows. They're an interesting bunch to say the least. They've gotta be one of the heaviest acts out there and sometimes their personalities just don't match their brutal tunage. Firstly there's one of my favorite people in the world Ricardo "Cadillac" who has got to be one of the nicest dudes you'll ever meet. Far from the murderous metal persona you hear at one of their live shows. Ask anyone and they'll agree. Then Nem. He's like a giant teddy bear who likes to hit things really hard while wearing the shortest shorts he can find. Ray and Chase are alcoholics but are always the last two on a dance floor, jamming to weird 80's electro or whatever's playing really! And then there's Brian. I'm sure he might be slightly retarded. But he's brutal with the biggest growl you've ever heard for such a small guy. As I said. An interesting bunch. But I love them all. I came up with this tee design for em which summed them up in my mind. It was suppossed to be all glittery with different colours like in the pic above, but they just went with shiny silver because they had no money because Chase and Ray drank all their savings away. It still came out rad though.

I got to work on the campaign for the Loerie Awards last year which is the big South African Advertising awards and got to do the cover for the awards annual! Big up's to Bushy for designing the "Ego character".

Something special I'm working on