Tag: taj mihelich
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Ban the Fan is Worldwide!
My new book, Ban the Fan, is now available worldwide! Any local bookshop can easily order my books for you with the title and my name (author). Bookshop.org is a pretty cool option to find my books. Or, find my books on all the big online booksellers in your country (like Amazon, Barnes and Noble,…
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New Book Pre-Order: Ban the Fan
I’m happy to launch pre-orders for my new book, “Ban the Fan.” These will be signed and shipped by me. The book will also launch worldwide November 15 and should be available anywhere you like to buy books (local book stores can easily bring it in or all the usual online booksellers should list it). This…
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A Couple New Animations
I’ve recently worked on a couple of animation projects. The first one is for Odyssey. They’re celebrating 40 years of BMX with a Vans shoe collaboration. For the promo they wanted to revisit some of their classic animations done by Jim Bauer. I was asked to replicate Jim’s style and that proved to be a…
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Monty Lives!
I drew ol’ Monty on a shirt and water bottle (along with some others). I know it is kind of silly, but when I cartoon Monty memories of him swim through me head. It really does feel like I get to spend some time with him. You can check them out over on Fairdale Bikes.
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Another Dropper Post Cartoon
Mountain biking is so full of absurd tech. Wireless shifting, laser guided suspension, and soft tires you have to pump up harder so they feel normal. Dropper posts seem like they would be at the top end of absurdity but the simple addition of an easily-put-out-of-the-way saddle adjuster makes mountain biking a lot more fun.…
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A Bit of Non-Cartoon Work
Over the last 10 years or so I’ve been watching the Odyssey team work on the OPTIS. This is not meant to be a promotion for the OPTIS (though it is cool), more a little reflection on watching the product come to fruition. I’ve tested assorted iterations of the design and tracked its progress from…
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A Tuesday at Ray’s
I convinced the Austin Fairdale/ Odyssey crew to head up to Ray’s for some riding. I am happy to bend my influence to get you to go to Ray’s as well. I know it is a strange thing to hop on a plane and go to Cleveland in the winter. Of all the places! But…
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A Christmas Card from Me
This is my card from this year. I sent out a bunch of them and if you didn’t get one I’m sure I meant to send one to you. *If I didn’t subconsciously rip this off from the Farside it sure feels like I could have.
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A Holiday Card for Full Factory
Drew up this holiday card for Full Factory Distribution. Hope y’all have a great holidays!
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New Shirts for Fairdale Bikes
I drew a couple new T-shirts for Fairdale Bikes. I think this guy is pretty cool. A rabbit in Samurai armor calling down the power of thunder via his carrot sword. Kind of fun to empower the meek little bunny with such a weapon! Check it on Fairdale here. I really like this giraffe in…
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A Trick For Nico Vuignier
While working on the WOW video with Anthill I had the bad/good idea to animate amazing pro skiier Nico Vuignier doing an absurd trick (Nico has the raddest Instagram feed). And so here we are:
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A Few Drawings for PinkBike
I got to do a few doodles for PinkBike on Jessie-May Morgan’s Anti-Rise article. She explained it well enough that I think I understand what it is now! And, that I will stick to hardtails for now.
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Dig Fragments with Taj
My good pal Sandy Carson came up to visit and interviewed me for this Dig Fragments video. Talked about the old BMX days and drew him a giraffe doing a no-hander. Sandy’s band Skloss has a new single/ video too. I have a little cameo in it but more importantly the song and video are…
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In the Pines
Mountain biking is so much more than vertigo inducing GoPro footage, life threatening speed and laser guided seat posts. I love that my bike carries me away from the noise of the world and out into the peace of the woods. I always feel a bit uncomfortable when I realize I work in marketing (I…
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World of Wonders for Lenzerheide
I got to work with Anthill Films on a video for Lenzerheide. I drew some “wonder” on this poster and did some animation in the film. Nico Vuignier did some rad skiing. At one point there was a lot of animated chickens in the video but then we realized that had nothing to do with…
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A Trick for Brandon Semenuck
This was a joke idea for a trick that I presented to Brandon during a ride in Bellingham. It stuck in my head and so I decided to animate at as a short. It makes me laugh and it jumped up over a 200k views on instagram in a few hours so hopefully that means…
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A New Shirt for Fairdale
“Fine minds find good lines.” I came up with this slogan while working on a Vans project but have kept it for myself and Fairdale. I love finding lines while riding my bike and I think it’s the best feeling there is stringing together a bunch of things in sequence. I thought it fit well…
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New Postcard for Fairdale Bikes
I drew a new postcard for Fairdale Bikes and the Elevator model. This is the MTB I rode this last season and will be riding whenever it gets a little warmer. Super fun, short-back-end, hardtail.
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I Drew Tattoos for PinkBike
PinkBike gave away tattoos at Crankworx of my cartoons. Like real tattoos that people actually had tattooed on them, forever. I had a real laugh drawing these. There was 7 pages of flashart but above are a few of them.
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Thanks OurBMX
I’ve been on the road for almost a year. I was given this award back in September while I was pedaling around Europe. I didn’t have my glasses with me at the NORA Cup awards show and couldn’t read the text. I also couldn’t very easily carry a stone tablet with me while living on…
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