In 1984, 12 year-old Ash was real big on graffiti, tagging up his name
and doing full productions all over the city.  Opportunity knocked 
when one of his original spray-paint T-shirts was noticed by a 
scout for Miller Highlite who commissioned him to do shorts 
and tops for their models on their upcoming calendar, thus providing 
Ash with a taste of the clothing business.  Ash says Conart has given 
him stability.
  
Art was in his genes.  His dad, Tony Hudson is a 
photographer/artist/architect; his mom Ola Hudson, a dancer /artist/designer. 
As for his older brother...well, he's a guitarist in Guns N' Roses.
  
Conart really filled a void and upgraded an art form not really accepted by 
the mass media.  They were the first to mass produce and credit graffiti art 
and artists, associate it with the Conart logo and print it on street, surf, 
skate, and snow-clothing.
  
Now they're expanding into printables such as collector's trading cards, 
calendars, posters, comic books, and...animation.  'We have such a great 
art force, we are like an artwork factory,' Ash explains, 'we've done tour 
merchandising for Guns N' Roses and AC/DC.  We've designed Slash's 
album cover for his solo project called 'Snakepit.' '
  
Ash's most intense project is shaping up.  A meeting with 
Spielberg/Katzenberg/Geffen's Dreamworks SKG 
company went well, although Ash can't discuss the project yet.  What 
he will say is that he would like to own and produce as 
much as possible of the project himself, but needless to say, 
Dreamworks is not a bad place to house a new project.
-- Arlett Vereecke