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News. Welcome. My name's Caleb Neelon. I do artwork and writing. Click around on the links on the left side to see various stuff I've done over the years. All content on this site is copyright Caleb Neelon / SONIK or somebody that I'm cool with, not you. Viva!! Feel free to contact me, as always. May Solo Show in Los Angeles at Carmichael Gallery 
LOS ANGELES: Opening the evening of Saturday, May 10 and running until May 30, 2008: CALEB NEELON IS WORKING ON IT, a solo show at Carmichael Gallery which is at 1257 La Brea in West Hollywood. This show is my largest in more than a year and feels like a new and very personal direction for me. I'll be back hiding in my little creative cave for a while after this, so be sure to catch it while it's around. Gingko Press will be releasing a book of my artwork later this year - called Caleb Neelon's Book of Awesome. I am excited and terrified about both the show and the book. Hope to see you there at Carmichael Gallery on Saturday, May 10. Spring 
Spring makes me happy. Ferdinand too. I've been teaching Ferdinand how to play baseball. That's part of his baseball next to him. Baseball Brickbats and Bouquets 
In addition to what's listed above and below, I've been working on some new book projects. One is a book of my art, called Caleb Neelon's Book of Awesome , on Gingko Press. The other is one on Los Angeles artist David Weidman , whose career began when he returned from WWII and continued until the 1970s. He's made some wonderful work along the way, I am sure you will agree. That's also on Gingko. Up above is a cover story I did on artist Phil Frost for Istanbul-based Bant Magazine. They also feature some of my art in this issue. Phil painted me a bat.... Other new stuff coming up: I'll have a painting in this summer "In the Land of Retinal Delights" show at the Laguna Art Museum in the O.C., and I'm wrapping up a feature article for Print Magazine on someone I have admired forever. COOL "DISCO" DAN 
For the past three years, I've been working quietly away with Roger Gastman, Joseph Pattisal, and Washington, D.C. legend Cool "Disco" Dan. The result is a documentary project telling the story of Cool "Disco" Dan's coming of age in D.C.'s most difficult years. There's a lot more to tell about this when the time comes, but in the meantime, have a look around the the Cool "Disco" Dan website and learn more about the documentary project. Swindle 14 
In this issue of Swindle I got to profile Italian artist BLU and the Vermont-based theater and activism collective Bread and Puppet. Swindle Magazine's second Icons Annual 
The second Icons issue of Swindle is on shelves now. This time around, I got to profile This American Life founder and host Ira Glass, graffiti legend Iz the Wiz, and The Very Hungry Caterpillar author and illustrator Eric Carle. Also featured are people like Buzz Aldrin, Perry Farrell, Naomi Wolf, John Waters, HR, Joan Jett, and a lot more. Visit Swindle Magazine's site for more. Street World 
For the past year and change, Roger Gastman, Tony Smyrski and I have been working on this enormous book, Street World. Clocking in at 384 pages, it's a big visual mix tape of street culture stuff from around the world - everything from graffiti to monster bikes to signage to street art to fashion to skateboarding to pigeon flying to baile funk to gang placas to customized rickshaws to urban exploration and on and on. Big. We've had some very accomplished contributors to this project, among them people like Estevan Oriol, Adam Wallacavage, Revok, We Are Supervision, Kurnal Rawat, Boogie, Angela Boatwright, Allen Benedikt, Invader, Friends With You, Giant, Shepard Fairey, Dalek, Per Englund, Dan Monick, Yuri Shibuya, Tod Seelie, and dozens more. We're honored to include them all. And to those of you who are in this thing, we're working on getting books to you. Bear with us. Street World is out on Thames and Hudson in the UK, on Abrams in the US, Pyramyd in France, Oceano in Spain, and National M-Fing Geographic in Germany, yeah that National Geographic. Ha. Check out the Street World website or go straight to Amazon and grab a copy via the following link: Street World: Urban Culture and Art from Five Continents NEW SPOKESMAN: FERDINAND! 
This is really the most important news of the summer for Ellen and I, and we're pleased to announce our new spokesman, Ferdinand! There are more photos of him here. Saber's Mad Society book Saber's monograph Mad Society is out soon on Ginkgo Press. I was the "as told to," I guess you would say. You can get a copy from Amazon via the following link: SABER - Mad Society |
Click the link below to see some interior images and so forth.