Class of 1984

GIANTSUMO is the brainchild of James Rheem Davis. JRD was born in San Francisco, CA and raised in the Bay Area, but now resides in Phoenix, AZ. He uses his full birth name, but is not a serial killer. He is not a GIANT nor a SUMO. He is just a very boring individual who enjoys movies, music and especially cookies. JRD has created designs and posters for a wide variety of bands in 2 distinct styles. His art has an inspiring twisted beauty that draws from a variety of influences, including MTV (When they played videos), Horror Films, and Pop Culture. Major influences include Andy Warhol, Salvador Dali, Frank Kozik, H.R. Giger, Dave Mckean, David Carson, Phil Hale and Kent Williams. GIANTSUMO was founded in 2000 while working at Winterland, a music merchandise company in the East Bay. After 2 years of service as an In-House Designer, the company was sold and freelancing began. By continuing to produce strong designs, more and more work developed. His artwork has been included in The Art of Modern Rock, Panda Meat: Source Book 1, Gig Posters Volume 1: Rock Show Art of the 21st Century, A Fistful of Rock & Roll:Danny Miller was born in raised in North Carolina, in a non-haunted house without a shortcut to hell in the basement. His neighbors (probably) weren’t devil worshippers. His hometown wasn’t plagued by zombie hordes or mutant-making radioactive waste. He never saw big-toothed monsters squash hapless pedestrians on the city streets. And most disappointingly, nearby bodies of water could not be accurately described as “shark infested.” And yet, despite having never been possessed by a demon or kidnapped by vampires, Danny made it through childhood with a hunger for the strange and gruesome, for b-movie monsters and massive, man-eating Great White Sharks. He references horror movie and comic book imagery in his art, celebrates his birthday with an annual “JawsFest” and has a better plan than most for fending off zombies. Danny’s worked as a screen printer of posters and t-shirts for the last few years. His prints have been seen everywhere from bulletin boards (advertising movie nights and rock shows) to art galleries. He is very excited about being part of 20 Eyes Collective.Screen printing is a printing technique that uses a woven mesh to support an ink-blocking stencil. The attached stencil forms open areas of mesh that transfer ink or other printable materials which can be pressed through the mesh as a sharp-edged image onto a substrate. A roller or squeegee is moved across the screen stencil, forcing or pumping ink past the threads of the woven mesh in the open areas. Screen printing is also a stencil method of print making in which a design is imposed on a screen of silk or other fine mesh, with blank areas coated with an impermeable substance, and ink is forced through the mesh onto the printing surface. It is also known as silkscreen, seriography, and serigraph.