My name is in lights, well Transworld Business news. I was apart of the team who designed the iPad Sullen Marketing app. Sullen Clothing was the first clothing company to utilize the iPad for marketing and presenting their lines at the tradeshows. This is a native app, not a web app, that is why it is so amazing. Sullen's presence at the Magic trade show in Las Vegas was huge and the iPad surely helped show that they meant business. Now on to improvements and further development.

In Vegas with SullenTV @ Magic

Magic in Las Vegas was an amazing time. I went up with the Sullen crew in the Sullen Van and spent 4 days with the top clothing retailers and buyers in the world. The parties were amazing! Ended up on the 25th floor of the Palms hotel Wed. night, in the bowling alley suite drinking PBR and whisky while bowling overlooking the entire strip. Thursday night we rocked at Vanity at the Hard Rock Hotel with BigB and Holly Madison. Hart&Huntington was amazing, VIP treatment and tons of Grey Goose. That night ended at 6am as we closed out Vanity and walking out to the cleaners in the Hard Rock Hotel. There is something kind of cool when you are walking out of a club in your nice clothes from party and everyone is just waking up.

This peice was from The Norm AWR/MSK, 2 Tone and Retna live art show presented by 7th Letter clothing. I just caught a glimpse of Retna, he has always been kind of a mystery, but we couldn't get him on Sullen TV, just his pieces he contributed to the art show. Enjoy. Can't wait for Magic Winter.

"Her Head in the Melting Sky"

By: Tom Martinez Jr.

Mixed Media

I was a bit intoxicated when I did this one. I felt this one out as I went along. I had the idea for the title first and drew her head, but I didn't know how I was going to depict the sky. My recent work has had grey skies in them, probably because of the turning of the season or my mindset right now. Grey skies for me have always symbolized morning, transition, cold and a stale state. Growing up in northern California, there were a good amount of days in the year where the sky was grey. What really stood out was the first day of school, walks on the beach in late afternoon in Monterey,CA and Santa Cruz,CA, and the potential of rain. I used alcohol to get the gradient in that segmented state. I used Prizma markers, Acrylic, Alcohol, Acrylic marker, and Sharpie.

In need of inspiration.

I'm working on planning my next series of paintings. I wanted them all to be a certain theme. The hardest part is thinking of something I can expand on. I've got a few ideas brewing, now it comes down to which one. I want this series to be in a gallery.