High Times #261, May 1997

Jeff Wood , as you can see for yourself, is a digital virtuoso, a cybernetic alchemist, & like nothing short of a brother to me. Jeff was like a divine light to me in my dark swampy hellhole of Florida, first feeding me freelance art, then offering me my first art directorship in Myrtle Beach, & then introducing me to the Holy Grail of PC platforms, the mighty mighty Macintosh. Jeff was one of the best boss' (...uhm, the plural of boss,... bosseses? BossÓ?) I ever worked for, & continues to be a mentor, a guru, & a vanguard trailblazer in our underground world of electronic art. If you recognize any of his pieces floating around on our various websites, it's because he designs some of the most successful images for the biggest apparel printers on the planet, & odds are that if you have any taste at all, one of his pieces is either hanging in your closet, on your wall, or stuck to your favorite possession right now as we speak. But in addition to putting out some of the most cornea frying shit ever to haunt a head shop, Mr. Wood is also responsible for many of the technical applications of the new software & hardware that the industry used to produce these gems. Currently, Jeff works out of his own digital workshop, Drowning Creek Studios, & is the host for our online nightmare ezine, Black Market Manifesto.

The only complaint I have about Mr. Wood, is that he never listens to me. Ever. No matter how in the right I am, the man just can't seem to perceive the frequency my voice resonates at. Like when I decided to slap this gallery together, quicklike, before everyone blows up so big they won't return my phone calls anymore,... & I ask him for his POSTER work, this being a poster gallery faeturing the poster boyz & all. Like the damn fool hasn't done the best pieces out of all of us put together, for example, beating out the legendary poster maven Stanley Mouse for the privilege of doing the revered 1997 Cannabis Cup poster for High Times magazine, an honor that wins him a spot as a judge of the competition in Amsterdam, highlighting his native American heritage as he replicates his award winning tribal beadwork, a poster prominently featured in the big budget major motion picture 'Half Baked',... see? Aren't you dying to see that poster now? Or the ones he did for such giant corporate rock acts like Seven Mary Three, 311, or,... *gack*! ... Marilyn,... *hack*!! ...Manson,...! Well, email him & ask to see 'em, maybe he'll listen to you! At the left, Jeff's art on the cover of the Cannabis Cup issue, & below, Jeff's non-poster art...!