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2013-03-01 07:09:02 (95 comments, 9 reshares, 81 +1s)

ZONE 5300 Strips, Culture & Curiosa
~posting series Part 3of6~

This is the photo they used in the Zone 5300 100th issue interview.
Customized RISK board games.

I repaint these boards, for clients, at the end nothing on the board is original anymore, these are boards no 5 and 6.
This all is a long story with a little semi cool past, why and how.
Skull, cannons, explosions, all sort of small illustration work,
the water is over the top in a organic flow, hand-lettered country names, even the border is painted over.
If i do a board for someone they can have their own choice of country names, it becomes more personal for the player.
I even adjust the theme on the board itself, like if someone loves WW2 or the Napoleon era, or even Lord Of The Rings, whatever, nothing is too crazy.
When finished it's a real painting, super 3D and... more »

2013-02-27 23:59:40 (15 comments, 0 reshares, 31 +1s)

ZONE 5300 Strips, Culture & Curiosa
~posting series Part 2of6~
Cover 1994
The very first cover of that magazine, I did, yours truly..
I know I shared this before, but to make an awesome story fuller.

This cover was made in clay placed in a cardboard box turned up-side down, hanged with wallpaper from an puppet-house shop, the floor is done out of ice lolly sticks and the carpet is a piece from a old trouser. All by hand!

Cheers my fellow GOOGELONIERS!

2013-02-27 23:59:58 (71 comments, 3 reshares, 69 +1s)

ZONE 5300 Strips, Culture & Curiosa
~posting series Part 1of6~
Anniversary issue # 100
Rotterdam Holland Comic magazine
Just to show you got a SEMI rock-star in your midst;

I did the cover for their very first issue many, many years ago,
and in this issue I have been interviewed, with questions like;
*Why did I exchange beautiful cozy Holland for Hellish America?
*Are Americans evil?
*Did those weird Americans screw me over?
*And some questions about my work here.

Not only I'm proud that they featured me in that issue but the interview came out pretty good, pictures of my work and a nice photo of me.
Their anniversary issue just appeared in the book-shops & magazine stands, I know I shared a couple postings involving this subject,
but it's only just now I myself received the mag through the mail... more »

2013-02-11 20:59:18 (42 comments, 1 reshares, 22 +1s)

For a $1,000,000 dollars would you do it? :-)

2013-02-12 03:16:28 (14 comments, 6 reshares, 88 +1s)

The G+JUNKY series
Chris Berg
Pencil on Paper
2012 Chicago

I finally accepted the Computer world, the Internet, you tube and FaceBook etc etc, like an year ago, I did not want to, but people around kept pushing me....
Last summer my little brother in Holland requested via my Gmail an G+ friendship which I accepted, comunicating via the digital platform could save me minutes on the phone I thought, funny enough he never posted or commented anywhere.
Gee plus?, never heard off, he told me during an very long telephone-call we had just after Christmas, I called him to thank him for that awesome package full of cool dutch yummy treats he posted over the real mail to me:-)

Most of you out there will remember this G+junky series,  good times.

2013-03-03 09:01:49 (35 comments, 1 reshares, 27 +1s)

HEFTIG part2
Chris Berg
Oil on Canvas (small detail)
2007 Chicago

~hereby an passage from ross Dmochowski's autobiography ~
That cute sexy purple panda bear with an cowboy hat and dressed in a blue bikini

I said NO to a joint once.
Must have been at my monthly 'three and a half week long drink party' I had 2 days ago, but I remember it like it was yesterday.
I was flipping on some LSD, at least, I hoped it was just LSD, which I just bought from my sister an hour ago, and could barely distinguish reality from fantasy.
I kinda expected it had to be my fantasy because an purple panda bear in bikini and cowboy hat in front of me offered me a joint and last night I dreamed of that very same cute sexy purple panda bear giving me a great blow-job.
With a hashish joint stuck on my... more »

2013-02-27 08:45:46 (99 comments, 4 reshares, 76 +1s)

~Hereby an small passage from~
The Queen of England and mine 'typical little round black leather hat', like that one Brat Pitt wore in that movie 'SNATCH'

'It was so bloody HELL hot at he Gallery, besides my own work there was not that much to write home about, the Strange and Bizarre art-show was more like annoying and irritating shit pile to me....
I needed an smoke....

The smell of the hashish always attracted the wrong kind of people, and standing out there next to the gallery entrance, this tall blue eyed blond young man complimented me on my typical little round black leather hat', 'where did you bought it'? he asked me, while giving my spliffie back.
Super tipsy on vodka-cranberry and stoned on some good Moroccan shit, I answered him in a semi slurry way; got it in... more »

2013-02-08 23:04:14 (39 comments, 1 reshares, 28 +1s)

ZONE 5300 dutch comics and other awkward stuff magazine part 3
Mio in the newspaper, you remember that paper thingy?

Article in de Volkskrant one of the biggest newspapers (if not, maybe the biggest) of the Netherlands about the100th issue of that magazine I've been posting about last week, ZONE 5300, they name me by name and an picture of an cover I did for them, little part left bottom.
God, I'm an attentionwhore, Rockstar wannabee, love it.
Finally they write about me and I'm in an continent on the other side of the ocean, damnitt, what?
Did I signed a contract with the DEVIL? My soul for fame?
My wish will be granted but I'm not gonna get it like how I want it?
Goddamn you Devil!
Can't remember I was on the crossroads, or was that back in Holland when I woke up in the ditch... more »

2013-02-07 05:47:36 (180 comments, 2 reshares, 94 +1s)

Chris Berg
FACEBOOK
Avatar for my FaceBook page 'full version'
Acrylic on Paper 2012 Chicago

Just for the fun, sometimes here in the states I will add my native Dutch words into my work, often it gives that loving feeling of obscurity and semi weirdness.
Besides it's fun to see Americans struggle with the pronunciation of that weird language.

This Illustration I made especially for my FaceBook page when I entered that joyful magical world of digital sharemania, springtime last year.
When the summer rolled by I 'accidentally' entered G+.
As digital platform it couldn't be worse I thought, yes, FB connected me with my Dutch family and friends who are on that platform.
But I got very quickly motherfucking bored with that platform itself, godgeezus.

6 months later I'm sooo behind of work and if... more »

2013-02-10 06:04:43 (56 comments, 0 reshares, 42 +1s)

 *Chris Berg*
"GRUMBLES the GRUMPY DOGGY"
Acrylic on Paper in sketchbook
2009 CHICAGO

Just an very uplifting, super happy from the heart, lovely jubbly, Le magnifique, tres jolly, yay yay yay, hieperdepiep from me, last couple days I posted like there was no yesterday and G+ will never be the same again for me, only better.

Were you again bloody hell notified by that bastard Chris Berg?
The one who promised it would be once in a blue moon? Lies!
Can't trust me, hahaha, 
This is just an extra for my nr. UNO-UNO circle, thanks for the reaction on the last couple posts, I felt like an rockstar.
Have to force myself to the chackles of being an slave to the arts.
Will be back non-stop everyday every moment on G+,  but just not heavy duty posting style the way I did, 3 postings in a couple weeks, oye, what was I thinking?... more »

2013-02-05 08:14:19 (22 comments, 0 reshares, 43 +1s)

G+openingspageillustration part 2b FULL page
"Little orange royal EDDIE kitten"
Chris Berg 2009 Chicago
Acrylic in watercolor sketchbook 

I thought it was time for an different G+page-opener, the illustration I used so far was a little too 'aggressive', besides it was an commissioned piece so it was not really me-me.

This came out of my 'water color sketchbook' originally an photo-book which was given by an friend who thought that that little pile of photo's of mine should be pasted down.
I just started painting in it, paper is horrible, thin, full of little holes etc. totally not made to smear paint in it, but I kept going.
something like 10 years later this book is a testimony, a piece of GOLD!

The cat you see here was just an 'finger' practice.
Based on a little photo I was inspired by,... more »

2013-02-08 21:29:07 (91 comments, 5 reshares, 72 +1s)

ZONE 5300 dutch comics and other awkward stuff magazine part 2
Publication of their 100th anniversary issue.
Front and back cover.

Including in the 100th issue an Interview publication with yours truly, MIO!
Some of you remember the 2 original 'ZONE 5300 MAG' postings I did last year where I showed the very first cover of this magazine from the 90s which was illustrated by, yes your answer is right, yours truly MIO
I was at the birth of this cool comic magazine.
To show how big of a rockstar I am;
right there all the way on the BOTTOM of the BACK cover, MIO!!!!
Maybe you even have to click on the picture to see it, yes, hidden away, outofsight.............I'm the center of the UNIVERSE!  :-)

PLEASE,,,,"Not that this posting is that super important, it's nice, but, come 'on chris!'... more »

2013-02-03 09:53:14 (94 comments, 9 reshares, 103 +1s)

moebius
by CHRIS BERG
Pencil in sketchbook 2012 Chicago

homage to contemporary comic artist nr.1
Next to Brueghel, Bosch and Crumb the biggest influence on my life.
He died last year, normally I'm not that shocked when old people go, we all die one day, sure I'm devastated but life goes on, but......

The man was producing high quality masterpieces 'till the very end, which reminds us of other masters in the past, painters like Goya or Rembrandt, there was nothing else for them then their expression of creativity, sure there are other things to consider like family but at same time they were married to their work.
God, I can talk about him for hours, I know his story better than mine, we all know him as one of the original artists who started 'HEAVY METAL' magazine, 'Metal hurlant', if not then you have read his... more »

2013-02-01 23:27:26 (81 comments, 1 reshares, 67 +1s)

Chris Berg
HEFTIG
Oil on small Canvas
2007 Chicago

There is no such thing as GOD given talent, I even get a little insulted when people tell me I'm blessed by God with these skills. Every person is born with that classic package of personal genes, sure, but what do with it is the question.
God given? It's bloody HELL hard work!I

Must have been like 5 years old at my grandma's flat on the Melis Stokelelaan in Alkmaar, North Holland when I saw my 2 year older brother copying a comic book cover (Billie Turf) and I was smitten, blown away,
I saw a line coming out the pencil that he was steering and it was forming this drawing, mesmerized bye the graphite contact with surface of the paper, he was an creator in my eyes, he was like,,,,GOD, very exaggerated of-course but still it was magical, I was inspired but vowed that I wanted to take that one... more »

2013-02-12 03:16:28 (69 comments, 9 reshares, 72 +1s)

Chris Berg
'MAX told me to get back to work' or  'Homage times a MILLION'
From the G+junky series
Acrylic and Pencil on paper, Chicago 2013

 That's it, I had enough, Politics, Religious discussions where no one wins, Cliques, little seclusive groups, even found annoying sick child-predators on the platform, fellow googelurs who don't respond, some are only interested in their own shares, uncirclement actions because of a small misunderstanding, spammers, trolls, people prefer porn above art, overdose resharerers with nothing to say etc. etc. for an self proclaimed G+junky I had it!!
Bye Bye!!!!!! GODDAMNIT! GEEZ!

Will be back later on, most probaly this eve and then for the rest of my life, HAHAHAHA!!!!! Got you there for a moment, you will never get rid of me,
HUMOR! Sooooo important!!!!

Like some of my friends say;more »

2013-01-31 07:39:29 (111 comments, 8 reshares, 46 +1s)

My Nummero UNO Circle yin-yang & yes......
My first circle share, inspired by my friend +Gerard van Schip
69, my zodiac sign, the year I was born, the summer of love, the moment they arrived at the moon (the exact moment I was born), Woodstock, the release of the Beatles Yellow submarine album, yin-yang and yes; a great sex position, but forget about all that my friends, 69 amigos, If you are notified you are in it.

2013-01-31 07:40:43 (68 comments, 0 reshares, 63 +1s)

I know it's not Caturday, but I wanna share one of mine cat-stories
 
Cafe au lait, a ragdoll breed, I loved that cat, a real buddy, he was my roommate's cat but he loved me more, maybe because i worked from home all the time so we bounded like maniacs, I could do anything with him.

My roommate ordered him from a professional breeder and payed a lot of money for it, when he in the middle of winter arrived at O'hare airport here in Chicago, he was sick as a dog, first i thought he just had a cold but was in fact heavy sick and nearly died, after a stay at a vet-hospital i nursed him back to life, took months and it was pretty scary.
He eventually grew big and strong, thanks to him i experienced a feeling of that real comrade feeling many pet-owners talk about. Cafe au lait died last year on feline leukemia, I so miss that little guy.

photo by Ivan Carcia

2013-01-22 23:33:32 (13 comments, 1 reshares, 13 +1s)

Shameless Selfpromotion for +GOOGELONIA part 4
Chris berg - peter de wit 1994 Rotterdam

Wie in Nederland kent niet de striptekenaar Peter de wit? Hij deed veel samen met Hanco de Kolk (gilles de geus), Hier beb ik een karakter van mij (harry the intergalactic Milkman) in een stripje van hem binnengesmokkeld, dit gebeurde tijdens de publikatie van zone 5300
Dank je wel +Robin Schouten
zo zie? ik teken wel eens tieten:-)

2013-01-31 07:41:58 (10 comments, 0 reshares, 7 +1s)

Mijn ODE aan de grootste hededaagse poet +Tom Voute
Een extract uit zijn bestselling novel; .....WAKKER......
 
chapter 2 page 500

 I was awake when Tom did it, it was like a nightmare, like a tape that got stuck, relentless, i was worried and just could not shake him out of it, I tried...........
and reached out with little comments,,,,,,
Every-time I think about it, chills run down my back, cold sweat I tell you.....
I close my eyes and see that word over and over again,,,,
   ,,,,wakker, wakker, wakker, wakker, wakker, wakker, wakker,,,,,,,,,,
Notification after notification, and the same comments would pop up,
I could not sleep last night, being worried about him,,,,,felt like I was trapped in a remake of  'the shining' and Tom was transferred into jack Nicholson, sitting there behind his old rusty typewriter, drinking Australian beer,typi... more »

2013-03-01 04:44:21 (61 comments, 3 reshares, 75 +1s)

In my very first week in America, more than 13 years ago, did not know Chicago, did not knew anybody here, had no idea, no real plans.
Arrived two weeks before Christmas, 500 bucks on the pocket, weather was freezing bitter, felt like a Charles Dickens chapter, good times.

I did not knew I got photographed, totally not posed.

At a little diner next to the artist building 'Flat Iron Building' in Wicker Park, Chicago, the little diner was pushed out of buisniss by the hardcore gentrification, the poor starving artist have to live in cheap neighborhoods, flairs up corners with murals, art-shows and festivals, sketching in the coffee-shops and turns the hood in a arty ambiance.. and then the yuppies come,,,,sundayartists,,,,,the local artist can't afford the suddenly exploded rent,,,Starbucks replaces the local coffee-joint where the walls were yours,,,,,,,, and it all... more »

2013-01-13 01:55:47 (20 comments, 0 reshares, 16 +1s)

Bij de G+ pagina's van het jaar is de tussenstand:

+Birds4All 5
+Macro4All 6
+Van Gogh Museum 9
+Cosy Kapsalon & Home 6
+GOOGELONIA 12
+Chickly 8
+First Song Today 8

Wederom spanning en sensatie. Op 1. GOOGELONIA 2. Van Gogh Museum en op een gedeelde derde plaats Chickly en First Song Today

Delen is geven mensen, delen is geven.

2013-01-12 05:10:03 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 12 +1s)

Warm With Winter 2013
We know where you live, vote for MARCO WINTER, El Presidente

Paid for by the people who keep an eye on you, subdivision of BVD
NOT approved by +Marco Winter's election campaign group and the Dutch Navy
Brought to you by +GOOGELONIA 

2013-02-10 06:03:21 (64 comments, 10 reshares, 51 +1s)

Chris Berg
pencil on paper 2012
illustration for the award winning pulp novel; viki's broken siggies by the famous Italian writer Aajdaa Bockzickh fieliepoofikaso

Extract from the book;

........standing in the backyard, she looked up to the roof of the building, where the full moon was giving the silhouette away, the perpetrator looked round and jolly, and in the darkness the colors of red blood and white outlines were shimmering through,,., over the loud sound of the rain coming down on her fresh Italian imported leather jacket she could just make out a faint sound of ho ho hos in the wind, ,,,,,her broken wet cigarette was not burning anymore and as she was standing there, with her double barreled shotgun staring up at the movements of the bearded weirdo on her this last summer completely expensive renovated tiled roof,,,,,, contemplating if she would just... more »

2012-12-17 20:42:49 (117 comments, 3 reshares, 49 +1s)

ChrisMAStian Berg
'*Mutant* chrissantareindeerrudolfscrooge' extravaganza explosion circus.
By our friendly Roman Mademoiselle +Ajda Boksic Filipovic 2012

I have seen them around on the platform, you have seen them around, some of you actually took the time yourself, jolly good ol' folk dressing up their avatar in the seasonal festivities ambiance, I don't know if I would ever do something like that, as a matter of fact; I love it when my fellow Googelonier takes the time to do this kind of fun thing, I myself, never! Lazy I am.
But I loooooooove these, love it!

If I notified you, sorry to have bothered you, my (mutual with ajda) friend, but I wanna make sure some of you out there saw this, Ajda really really worked hard on this!
She did these while she was cooking (ovenstuff), hanging on the phone with an good friend from Belgium and watching... more »

2012-12-16 10:21:53 (13 comments, 2 reshares, 34 +1s)

STRAWBERRYQUEENWARRIOR
Three Floyds Beer Brewery - Munster Indiana
chris berg 2006 acrylic on paper

If you visited my homepage you have seen my cover-photo.
This was one of the first jobs I did for 3 Floyds, they like to experiment and they told me; 'in belgium there are different berry beers, but no strawberrybeers has been done, we are gonna try to make one for the fun'
They wanted it in an 'Frank Frazetta' style, fantasy themed.
That painter has been and still is in my top 10, so no problemo!

I don't think they ever used it, I guess the beer came out pretty bad, most probably there is an reason why the belgiums never made one.
They did paid me of-course and framed it, it's in their brewery pub which is covered with my work.
I love going there, getting drunk and 'lekker geilen' on my own work

2012-12-16 10:18:18 (21 comments, 2 reshares, 27 +1s)

GOOGLE+junky pageopener nr.4 final
Chris Berg watercolour on paper 2012

BANG!
I think it's a cutie, a little jewel, I'm proud of it if I may say so.
The pageopener especially for my 'xtra' page here on G+ painted with a lot of love while my stream floated by.

2012-12-16 10:18:42 (7 comments, 3 reshares, 26 +1s)

SATAN'SLITTLETOOLSHED
Chris Berg
Acrylic on paper 2012

I was hired by my radioDJ friend, BOBlaBLA, to illustrate an sticker to advertise his late night radio spot 'PALACE OF YETIS' an 'international psychedelic rock show'. I finished three stickers wich he liked and as an bonus I painted this little piece extra for him.

2012-12-16 10:18:55 (14 comments, 1 reshares, 21 +1s)

Hashishpiece
Chris Berg 2012
Acrylic and ink on paper + little photo collage, my own lettering

'Wenn Man Von Einem Unertraglichen Druck Loskommen Will,
So Hat Man Haschisch Notig'

It's an actuall quote by NIETZSCHE, a man who brought us incredible wisdom but also 100s of quotes like; 'If you stare into the abyss long enough the abyss stares back at you', etc.
I made this piece for an friends birthday last year.

Freely translated; 'When life becomes unbearable, Hash is necessary'.

2012-12-16 10:19:07 (15 comments, 1 reshares, 26 +1s)

'Tail should not be there'
Chris Berg 2012
Watercolour in colorsketch book

Sometimes I come across on google+ posted stuff that inspires me to make an colorstudy of it, something unexpectedly which is one of the reasons why I joined this platform, you don't have to look it up, it just comes at ya, and would I look this up?
Could be just a photo of some silly little furry creature.
origionally posted by +Joe Smith if you don't know him, look up his profile, king of superfunny comments nummero uno.

2012-12-16 10:19:19 (33 comments, 4 reshares, 34 +1s)

LORD NELSON bitter ale
This is an illustration I can show and share with my G+ buddies.
Beerlable illustration for THREE FLOYDS brewery and pub in Munster Ind. Acrylic on paper. 2009

I take pride in that I do also all lettering by hand, no computer, all painted!
They give me as illustrator full freedom, even their logo I transformed into my own choice, where I show one of my own characters; 'Harry the orange mutated octopus'. Even the trademark-logos I did myself, hah!
No use of black anywhere in this piece, all dark colors created.
Done some more for them like their anniversary beer.
B.t.w. the boat in the background is based on a painting by Van de Velde the Younger, 'cannon shot' 1670.

My real passion is oilpainting. cheers, talk to you later!     Groetjes!

2012-12-11 07:51:36 (41 comments, 0 reshares, 44 +1s)

GOOGELONIA anounchementione momento 2
acrylic on paper
Chris Berg 2012

WAUW, Holy shit! Kankerjantje! Jezusmekriebel! Goddamnit, Geezus!

I did it, posted 10 pages in a row, and two 2 color logo's.
8 totally new pages, and I discovered the G+ edit your own photo possebility. colored all pages, even went into the old stuff.
I was Illustrating and was edeting like a maniac, skipped a couple nights, was crumpy because of that, fucking up real jobs, fights with my girlfriend, etc. but I gave my GOOGELONIA profile a real soul.
I even hoped that some of you see the consistancy in the illustrations.

So here I will continue my G+junky series, an awesome dark humorfull comic about accepting something I was pretty judgemental about untill I tried it for the fun and fell in love with, the 'being cozy on the internationale digitale chat platform'!... more »