The Monkey's Uncle

I like it when different passions of mine cross over into each other.  In 1993 amid a particularly busy time making music videos, we decided to make a video for Annette Funicello's song "The Monkey's Uncle" from the film of the same name.  Since I was the only person familiar with the song I was elected to be Annette.  To maintain the cross dressing theme, friends Tracie and Barbie lip synced the backing vocals by the Beach Boys.  In 2009 I created a graphic which would be like a 45RPM record cover.

The monkey graphic was inspired by the Barrel of Monkeys toy.

A screenshot of me as Annette.

Hukilau CD Cover 2012

It's Hukilau time again and I completed this year's cd this week.  The cover was created from a photo of our little group at the Mai Kai last year.

Check out last year's cover here.

Happy Holidays CD Cover

Another Christmas themed post today,  the cover for my annual Christmas cd.

A Night At DV8 Volumes Forty-five & Forty-six

The photo quality of all the original elements of this cover were not very good which led to an overall fuzziness in the finished product.

I do like how this one turned out with the halo surronding the model as his front side is lit by the silver rays of the disco ball.

A Night At DV8 Volumes Forty-three & Forty-four

Volume forty-four is more exposed than I had ever noticed.  Don't scroll down if you might be offended.

A Night At DV8 Volumes Forty-one & Forty-two

Funny that I never noticed until now how similar these poses are.

A Night At DV8 Volumes Thirty-nine & Forty

A Night At DV8 Volumes Thirty-seven & Thirty-eight

Not the best cut-out job on this one (though it's not as noticable in the printed version).  Always room for improvement.  I believe this is one of my Mannequins photo backgrounds.

A Night At DV8 Volumes Thirty-five & Thirty-six

I'm not sure if the background for volume 35 is a photo of Mannequins but volume 36 certainly is.

Live and learn.  If I was to recreate this cover today I would change the tint of the model to better reflect the lighting in the background.

A Night At DV8 Volumes Twenty-nine & Thirty

I think I originally intended for Volume 30 (whose completion coincided with my 30th birthday) to be the end of this series of cds and so it was a double disc set with some of my favorite songs from the other 29 volumes.  Later I decided to continue the series and used Volume 31 as a starting point for switching from hand drawn covers to photo manipulated covers.  I believe Volume 30 was also the debut of my logo (strategically located on the front cover).

A Night At DV8 Volumes Twenty-seven & Twenty-eight

A Night At DV8 Volumes Twenty-five & Twenty-six

Today's two covers reach the two extremes from tame to the most risque yet.

A Night At DV8 Volumes Twenty-three & Twenty-four

Even sailors like to dance.

A Night At DV8 Volumes Twenty-one & Twenty-two

A Night At DV8 Volumes Nineteen & Twenty

Caution, bare ass alert.

A Night At DV8 Volumes Seventeen & Eighteen

This one is probably one of my favorites.

A Night At DV8 Volumes Fifteen & Sixteen

The hand drawn covers continue with volumes 15 and 16.

A Night At DV8 Volumes Thirteen & Fourteen

A Night At DV8 Volumes Eleven & Twelve

Saluting good music.

Good music is exciting.

A Night At DV8 Volumes Nine & Ten

Just realized that todays two covers have two different interpretations of curly or wavy hair.  The first one a little more stylized perhaps.