Vladimir Kato

I live in Toronto and work in the animation industry as a background painter for cartoons. Some of that includes painting bunnies, flowers, meadows and playgrounds.I also lead a second life where I create graphics for Toronto's Top Shelf Motherfucker and Drug Money Underdogs and about three years ago I started collaborating with FUCT. Some of that includes sex, drug dealers, hookers, thugs and junkies.

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first solo.

February 12th 09, 11:24

It has been long busy 9 months for me and I finally wraped up teh first season of the animated series called “the dating guy”. I designed layouts and final color. And now Im just working on concepts and pitches for possible tv shows. But on April 17th i have my first solo art exibit at Show&Tell gallery in Toronto.

I have been preparing sketches and concepts for it which I will show as well and choose few of them to make into paintings. The name of my show is “Don’t fight the feeling”. Which means Im doing whatever i want. different styles, content, etc. Here is a quick preview.

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first painting of 2009

January 6th 09, 23:35

Its about 1 30 am eastern North America time and im kinda drunk of wine and every day im busting my ass at the animation studio drawing and painting backgrounds for a cartoon so i decided to start my first painting for my first solo show coming up in april……I heart street trash and junkies and and stuff of that nature.

I live on Queen street and it is one of the main streets in Toronto and back in the 80’s they released mental patients to roam free on the the same street. The out come today is amazing. I’ve seen dudes wearing ten watches on one hand and home made futuristic glasses and weird cross dressers jaywalking looking for fun. I used to see this one dude in high heels and a jacket with a bandana around his head lookin so fuckin’ high! it was amazing….his sense of fashion was high standard….

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OH WELL!

November 22nd 08, 0:49

I have been doing this thing I call “Trace Magic” strictly for the purpose of entertaining my self. Basically I trace a pornstars body and draw a different messed up head on it….sort of these strange character with bangin’ bodies. I think I have an obsession with african american strippers and pornstars….fuck it i dont give a shit anymore I really do have this obsession….

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Heavy Traffic

November 20th 08, 22:51

I get on these urban trash kicks once in a while so I watched Bakshis Heavy Traffic dvd and took some stills….

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80 blocks from Tiffany’s…

November 19th 08, 1:05

I havent posted here for a while but im back now. Back from rehab!

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your favorite cartoons

September 26th 08, 21:26

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New 90210

September 22nd 08, 22:27

It’s just not what it used to be!!!

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Up in da club!

September 20th 08, 14:52

I recently illustrated an EP cover for two Philadelphia homies Emynd & Bo Bliz. I like the the layout, my illustration is printed on a plastic sleeve and the cardboard sleeve has a nice photo of a Philly skyline.

If you are into BMore club sound you can get this record and listen here http://turntablelab.com/vinyl/217/1698/55220.html
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Name Dropperstein

September 16th 08, 22:42

Recently I went through my boxes of junk (magazines and shit) and found a bunch of old graffiti and hip hop mags such as 12 oz Prophet, Rap Pages, Stress, etc…. And one I rediscovered again was ONTHEGO. This was my fave mag. It had everything from graffiti flix to mixtape reviews. Its how I found out about Company Flow. I think ESPO had something to do with this magazine because last year I had a chat with DJ Cosmo Baker who mentioned it. Nothing is confirmed yet, I was drunk when I had that chat. Also I was looking for one issue of Stress (that had a feature on DEN ONE) but no luck finding it. Anyways all these 90’s mags look destroyed and surprisingly ONTHEGO is in a lil’ more decent condition.

Some proof of 90’s backpackin dayz…

I used to love that FONDLEM logo…..All this dope shit will come back because people love to recycle and not invent!
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Toronto International Film Festival

September 14th 08, 18:56

So this weekend was a wrap up for TIFF (toronto international film festival). There were mad parties on friday and saturday! They were attended by some of the best celebrities. From Danny Glover to Jason Schwartzman, they all sniffed the finest drugs Toronto has to offer. It was all sex and debauchery!

I am well know by these celebrities, ahem, for drawing celebrity portraits. My schedule was packed and had to turn down few actors but one particular celeb wanted something more than just a portrait. I swear to god I would have never done it if she didn’t pay a lot. But with a lil’ help from wine I pulled it off! I threw up few times while drawing her…God Damn Barbara Streisand put your clothes back on!
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Hey it’s LeVar Burton!

September 10th 08, 20:47

whatta hell is he doing here?!!!

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Quick introduction.

September 9th 08, 19:32

I was born and raised in a communist country which was not part of a iron fist/curtain/whatever iron penis regime but rather independent socialist communist country. This socialist system was great! I was exposed to western culture as soon as I opened my baby eyes. I read and watched everything from horrors to pornos. There were no restrictions and streets I grew up on were full of bars and patios packed with dedicated smokers who blew and added thick clouds to already gray polluted sky. Swastikas and anarchy graffiti was common on every eastern bloc style apartment building and every block stoop was occupied by either punks or hooligans.

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Animal

September 5th 08, 23:23

sometimes vector is great! sometimes vector is great!

welcome freshmen!

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