Keith Campbell in the Hizz-owze!!

Longtime Xmastime buddy Keith "The Ice Cream Truck" Campbell first became famous for scorching The Happy Scene record with his face-melting lead guitar work. Then he blew the roof off at the first ever Happy Scene show at The Continental with his bubbly fretwork (I will post that show soon as I convert it from smoke signal to mp3.) Then he upped the celebrity ante by remarking "can we pee on the floor?" the first time he walked into my loft to record the seminal late-90's track Joe Strummer, which of course became the Smells Like Teen Spirit of the 90s.

And now it turns out he's blowing up Europe with his amazing graphic design, and THIS SITE HERE is mooey impressed. Way to go, K-Rot!  :)

One of our favorite art directors, Keith Campbell, recently wrote us an update on his activities in Hamburg, Germany, where's he's been living and working since June 2006. Keith has been immersed in the world of German tabloid magazines, designing a series of titles that are jammed with color, photos, and type--think Us, Star, People, All You, etc. on mega-design steroids, with lots of photos of Heidi Klum. The covers are crazy, noisy, and chaotic, but also brilliant in their execution. We love what he's doing, even if it does hurt our eyes!

Here's an example of some of the great work Keef did back when he was in Los States.

Sniff sniff. Memories!!!