I often take a look to DeviantArt, it is a place where we can discover a lot of great artists. Some of them touch us more or less, and WillemXSM is an illustrator from Nederland who held all my attention. His hobby is recent because everything started in 2007, and he learned by himself focusing tattoos. His studied in Communication and Multimedia do not have anything to do with this, but he succeeded in creating his own style, taking Old School trend, traditional, and keeping also the New School wave — colorful with a lot of contrasts. For the moment, there is no link with guitar, but Willem is guitarist himself. That helps him to draw guitars or basses without difficulties for his commissions. You can see that he goes into detail keeping for example the original frets number on the neck, and I do not even speak of the reliefs or the shadows! Like a lot of people, music give him his inspiration: “Music translates very well for tattoos since it’s universal and timeless, just like tattoos”. Here is a nice quotation which shows us that music is important for everybody. I invite you to take a look at his gallery, and eventually to contact him if you have a graphical project to realize.

A new limited edition arrived in the Fender Custom Shop: the Telecaster Limited Snake Head. Only 60 instruments are available, because this vintage guitar is a part of the 5 models which celebrate the 60th birth of the famous Telecaster, that is what we call “Telebration”. It is moreover a replica of the very first prototype of Telecaster, that Leo Fender took to do demonstrations to guitarists. These last expressed their opinion concerning this innovation, to finally obtain the current Telecaster. You can notice that the head and the design sixty years before were not so polished, but now, that is a relic of $6000.

Yuriy Shishkov, known to be the “Senior Master Builder” of the Fender Custom Shop, just put up for auction his two last realisations: the Rei Stratocaster and the Rei Telecaster. Manga lovers will probably recognize the character of Rei in Evangelion, painted on the alder’s bodies in “Salvage Blue” colour. There is no dot on the neck but the hero’s weapon, nicely represented. And because it is not only an art guitar, the Strat has 3 Samarium Cobalt Noiseless pickups, and the Tele 2 Custom Shop pickups, a Twisted Tele (neck) and a Hot NoCaster (bridge). After a launch at 3750€, prices raise a lot and are now 67200€ for the Stratocaster and 57000€ for the Telecaster. Auctions will finish tomorrow at 1 pm (French hour). (via)

Searching a new wallpaper for my iPhone, here is my selection of the most beautiful that I have seen, with guitars but also Guitar Hero designs. This is not really easy to find nice music wallpapers, but searching on different websites and on the excellent Sciphone, you can easily find a background for your iPhone or iPod Touch.

We can easily find nice wallpapers for free on the Internet, but if as me you like the originality of Luna Guitars, here are 8 wallpapers that you will probably enjoy, does not matter if you prefer electrics or acoustics. Available in 3 different resolutions, you can download them here. And you, which one do you prefer?