Below is the final art approved by the band:

22″ x 22″ x 2″ Thick Laminated MDF with Dark Wood Finish. Japanese High Torque Quartz Movement:

Even Frank the Cat loves the new clock (kinda).

Before anyone asks, I don’t think I’ll be mass producing these and selling them on this site. However my family members now know what present they’re getting from me next Christmas

Here’s a wee poster I did for ‘em:

Here are a couple more shots of the artwork:

I also reworked the band’s myspace page
where there are links to purchase the album.

Eliminating people from photographs in this crude way certainly adds a soupçon of flavor to the image that was previously missing, I think…

I may post more of these images soon (or not!)… watch this space.

Their site offers great ways to offset your impact on the environment and tips to lessen your footprint on the world.

CD + 16 Page booklet for leading Baltimore band Fools & Horses.

Above: The  ‘I am the Ghost’ album cover created using a photograph of myself as a model along with a rough abstract painting I did. The same texture in the painting is used throughout the album art for continuity.

I took this photo of the band on a remote man made island off the Chesapeake. A rickety canoe ride was needed to reach the location.

The two above images were shot in New York using a blend of multiple long exposure shots.

This image was created using individually sprayed pixels to form a sort of forest type landscape.

Shot of the band in Times Square.

(I also designed a website – iamtheghost.net, to go with the new album. You can view it here)

Sadly he didn’t commission me to do this, because he wouldn’t stoop so low as to hire me for anything, so I did it off my own back:

The image is made up of text from a poem Saul wrote from his book called “The Dead Emcee Scrolls” (A highly recommended purchase).

The poem is called ‘Coded Language’. Here’s a closer look below:

CODED LANGUAGE by SAUL WILLIAMS

(taken from the book ‘The Dead Emcee Scrolls):

Whereas, break beats have been the missing link connecting the diasporic
community to its drum woven past
Whereas the quantized drum has allowed the whirling mathematicians to
calculate the ever changing distance between rock and stardom.
Whereas the velocity of the spinning vinyl, cross-faded, spun backwards, and
re-released at the same given moment of recorded history , yet at a
different moment in time’s continuum has allowed history to catch up with
the present.

We do hereby declare reality unkempt by the changing standards of dialogue.
Statements, such as, “keep it real”, especially when punctuating or
anticipating modes of ultra-violence inflicted psychologically or physically
or depicting an unchanging rule of events will hence forth be seen as
retro-active and not representative of the individually determined is.

Furthermore, as determined by the collective consciousness of this state of
being and the lessened distance between thought patterns and their secular
manifestations, the role of men as listening receptacles is to be increased
by a number no less than 70 percent of the current enlisted as vocal
aggressors.

Motherfuckers better realize, now is the time to self-actualize
We have found evidence that hip hop’s standard 85 rpm when increased by a
number as least half the rate of it’s standard or decreased at ¾ of it’s
speed may be a determining factor in heightening consciousness.

Studies show that when a given norm is changed in the face of the
unchanging, the remaining contradictions will parallel the truth.

Equate rhyme with reason, Sun with season

Our cyclical relationship to phenomenon has encouraged scholars to erase the
centers of periods, thus symbolizing the non-linear character of cause and
effect
REJECT MEDIOCRITY!

Your current frequencies of understanding outweigh that which as been given
for you to understand.
The current standard is the equivalent of an adolescent restricted to the
diet of an infant. The rapidly changing body would acquire dysfunctional and deformative

symptoms and could not properly mature on a diet of apple sauce and crushed
pears
Light years are interchangeable with years of living in darkness.
The role of darkness is not to be seen as, or equated with, Ignorance, but
with the unknown, and the mysteries of the unseen.

Thus, in the name of:
ROBESON, GOD’S SON, HURSTON, AHKENATON, HATHSHEPUT, BLACKFOOT, HELEN,
LENNON, KHALO, KALI, THE THREE MARIAS, TARA, LILITHE, LOURDE, WHITMAN,
BALDWIN, GINSBERG, KAUFMAN, LUMUMBA, GHANDI, GIBRAN, SHABAZZ,
SIDDHARTHA,
MEDUSA, GUEVARA, GUARDSIEFF, RAND, WRIGHT, BANNEKER, TUBMAN, HAMER,
HOLIDAY,
DAVIS, COLTRANE, MORRISON, JOPLIN, DUBOIS, CLARKE, SHAKESPEARE,
RACHMNINOV,
ELLINGTON, CARTER, GAYE, HATHOWAY, HENDRIX,  KUTL, DICKERSON, RIPPERTON,
MARY, ISIS, THERESA, PLATH, RUMI, FELLINI, MICHAUX, NOSTRADAMUS, NEFERTITI,
LA ROCK, SHIVA, GANESHA, YEMAJA, OSHUN, OBATALA, OGUN, KENNEDY, KING,
FOUR
LITTLE GIRLS, HIROSHIMA, NAGASAKI, KELLER, BIKO, PERONE, MARLEY, COSBY,
SHAKUR, THOSE STILL AFLAMED, AND THE COUNTLESS UNNAMED

We claim the present as the pre-sent, as the hereafter.
We are unraveling our navels so that we may ingest the sun.
We are not afraid of the darkness, we trust that the moon shall guide us.
We are determining the future at this very moment.
We now know that the heart is the philosophers’ stone
Our music is our alchemy
We stand as the manifested equivalent of 3 buckets of water and a hand full
of minerals, thus realizing that those very buckets turned upside down
supply the percussion factor of forever.
If you must count to keep the beat then count.
Find you mantra and awaken your subconscious.
Curve you circles counterclockwise
Use your cipher to decipher, Coded Language, man made laws.
Climb waterfalls and trees, commune with nature, snakes and bees.
Let your children name themselves and claim themselves as the new day for
today we are determined to be the channelers of these changing frequencies
into songs, paintings, writings, dance, drama, photography, carpentry,
crafts, love, and love.
We enlist every instrument: Acoustic, electronic.
Every so-called race, gender, and sexual preference.
Every per-son as beings of sound to acknowledge their responsibility to
uplift the consciousness of the entire fucking World.