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Chule is Ray Young Chu and Quang Le and is fucking break your face awesome.

ARF live online art auction featuring the works of Matthew Doubek, Mikey Welsh and Chule (the talents of Ray Young Chu and Quang Le)

ARF, Athlete Recovery Fund is a non-profit group that has been providing medical fund relief for those injured in extreme sporting competitions.

Over the Winter Dew Tour’s three stops in Breckenridge, CO, Mount Snow, VT and Northstar at Tahoe, CA, Mountain Dew worked with top regional artists to create live works of art inside the Dew Underground. The artists set up in the Dew Underground and unleashed their talents in front of packed crowds.

In Breckenridge, Matthew Doubek worked on his multi-layered, mixed medium paintings. At Mount Snow, artist Mikey Welsh painted with his trademark colorful palette and hands-on style. In Tahoe, art collective CHULE, the talents of Ray Young Chu and Quang Le, worked intricate stencils into their paintings.

In the spirit of Mountain Dew’s ongoing support of action sports athletes, the brand has decided to donate the art pieces created at each Dew Tour Stop to the Athlete Recovery Fund. The ARF will auction off each painting with proceeds going to the athletes; the most important part of action sports.

The Dew Underground Art Auction will be going live on June 12, 2009.

Our dearly missed friend, Ray Young Chu (transplanted to Los Angeles) just completed the below piece for a fundraising art exhibition hosted by Giving Children Hope, called “My Hands Have a Voice”  in response to the ever-growing issue of human slavery.  The event will be held this evening. Ticket proceeds and art sales help to support the efforts of Giving Children Hope.  Featured art will be available in a silent auction, you can view the list of participating artists here.

Exceptional work Ray.  Really man.

Ray Young Chu – Hopeful Dream (2009): 7′ x 7′ pentaptych on found surfaces including canvas, door, and table top

New from Ray Young Chu: Chule

Get well soon Poopie!!!  We Love you!!!

Our girl, Carmel Hagen interviews our boy, Ray Young Chu for joshspear.com.  Ray talks about his influences, his inspiration, his recent move to LA, The Yummies, his latest goals, and cleaning bathroom floors.  Check it out!

Is amazing.  Study his work.  When he’s the next Murakami – you’ll know why.   Hint = it’s not because he’s also Asian.  However, he is pretty much the contemporary artist equivalent to Bruce Lee.  And, that’s not to say that Bruce wasn’t also an artist.

The 3rd shipment, 2nd domestic, of SOFT&FURRY™ toys left the studio today.  We’re stoked to get these suckers off so Travis, RYC, Toothjuice, and Grant can get after it.  An additional 20 toys have been completed and prep’d for drop-off at the Plastic Chapel so all our arty pals in Denver can stop by and pick ‘em up!!!

We’ve really been missing our pal, Ray Young Chu, Ray’s been kickin’ in Orange, CO for a bit – makin’ art and doin’ some tag-team design work with his good friend, Quang Le of Photos a la Quang.  The duo has been puttin’ out some great work.  Here’s a glimpse of a recent piece Ray designed for Triumvir that’s currently running in Antenna mag.  We’ve had a chance to follow Ray’s progress on the illustration side of this project and it’s great to see the final strip fully realized.  Nice one man!!!

A friend has asked me what am I doing in Cali? Well, Georgina and Shanana, here’s some picts of the warehouse space that I kick it at. More picts will be uploaded of some photoshoots, motorcycles and even airplanes and helicopters!

Working on a product photoshoot for L-R-G clothing. Man, they have a lot of clothes! That rack over there is actually only 1/8th of what they had.

Some retardly wicked toys.

Kelsey Brookes print in the background. Me with Playmobil dude.

2 prints by David Choe in the back.

They have another glass case with more toys like Mr. T, Planet of the Apes 12″ action figures. Do you think I should take more picts?

Over the weekend I attended the 5th annual Vail Film Festival. The Cross Brothers (who run the festival) throw a top notch event. I saw some excellent movies and also heard an informative talk about the animation process at Pixar Studios from supervising animator Dylan Brown. Quite a few of the film’s actors, actresses, and directors were in attendance including Adrian Grenier from HBO’s Entourage. I ran into Ray Young Chu from The Yummies working on a live painting during Saturday night’s private party at the top of Vail Mountain.

Oh, and a lady in the audience was doing yoga in her seat while watching films on Sunday…I thought that sort of thing only happened in Boulder, CO?