My Little Sis

My brother, Christopher, took this. It made me a bit homesick so I've posted it up. Great tones, lens flare and dynamic action shot too. My family's great. I think this was taken in Moore River in Western Australia. Nice place in the middle of nowhere.  

Kings of Leon

If you listen closely to conversations in stylish bars all over the world, skinny jeaned, black shirted people everywhere seem to be saying the same thing, "Kings of Leon? Use to like their old stuff but now they've sold out". In a way it's true. Nowdays you're more likely to see them stuck to the front of a school girls folder than on a festival poster. And they have started making their music as catchy as an early winter cold, but I'm pretty sure we've all seen it coming.  This pic was done in 2007 and even then they weren't a breakthrough act.  
 

I figure most people, if offered the chance at being the worlds biggest band, would probably take it. Even if meant hanging out with their brothers all day. Give them a break indie kids, and let them be the inspiration to trailer trash that they deserve to be. I still think they're alright and maybe you should too.

This pic's been getting a fair few hits on my website too...

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The New Formula for Cool

The Nu-Rave movement seem to be in it's final death throws as everybody seems to wearing the stuff. Once only a scene for trendies, ex-electro's and Klaxons, now everybody seems to be into it. When your 14 year old cousin starts wearing this stuff you know fashion's done it's full circle. Someone go tell Late of the Pier that they've only got 6 months left of their career as I'm sure fashion's new style is just around the corner. Not literally, I live in Walthamstow, but figuratively I think something new is coming. Perhaps loosely based on hotpants. 

It's also on Threadless if you care to vote...

VOTING OVER

Our Future

I know, I know. It's a little bit naff. Like I'm some kid who dreams of a better future for my children, having rights to hug whales and live in cities where people all hold hands together. But, it was for competition with that kind of vibe. Plus it was a couple of years ago when I cared about things like being nice and respecting people's rights. Now days I'm more likely to write, "Your Future Smells Funny" or something like that.

Bright Colours and the Constant Changing Forest of Fashion

I remember when bright colours were the new it thing again. Maybe they still are? I'm not too sure any more. Fashion seems to be a vicious cycle that repeats increasingly quickly. Changing more often than the numerous fashion and design blogs that are out there. I've learnt not to thrown anything out because no sooner than it's not cool, it's cool again. I got a flaired Safari suit sitting in a cupboard somewhere. So go ahead, laugh at these now, but just remember tomorrow they'll be cool...and then the day after they probably won't be again.

Another Self Promo Thing

Like the title gives away, this is another self promo thing. This one, like some others earlier in my blog, is to promote my website. Don't know if it actually worked, but I do like them a lot. I tried to make it so when you clicked on them it would go to my website, but instead it sent you somewhere completely different. Go figure. I'm glad I didn't choose a future in web design or I might have been the first person to break the internet.

Whoops

I did this a couple of years ago. A montage of images and illustrations I'd done. Spent a couple of hours arranging the elements and fine tuning the layers and constructing assymetric paterns and fine tuning the crimson colour scheme. Then, just as I was finished, someone come up and goes, "what's with the Nazi hankerchief ?" Sure enough, I slide my chair back and look at the screen, fold my arms and realise I'm staring at some kind of National Socialist propaganda. As a result, the one on my website looks quite different (link below), but this is the original and one I like the most.

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Real Purty Flowers

Another of those pieces I'm dragging out from the archives as I get some new stuff together. This was me trying to be abstract with a lot seventies music playing in the background. Their meant to be Daisies on a Warm Spring Day. Looks like the sort of thing you buy on printed canvases in IKEA. I did quite a few of these and might return to them if offered to by a card company or something. Peace man.

Australia & New Zealand: No More Fighting!

It's not often you hear an Australian say something nice about a New Zealand. And if they do it's usually sarcastic. But this isn't. This is a proper tribute to New Zealand's Fourth Most Popular Folk Parody Duo to be posted on Threadless T-shirts. With another one in the works.

So, until they beat us again in the Rugby, I'm prepared to look a New Zealander in the eye again and work towards both peace and a brighter future. Peace brothers. Peace.

Gospelboy: 2007

An early moniker I did artwork under. Kinda a flop but mainly because I don't think I pushed it enough. Plus I got tired of throwing every single element, picture and logo into a lot of the artwork. I was convinced messy was the new 'cool thing'. If that were the case than I think my bedroom was way 'cooler' than my artwork. 

Burnt Stuff = Wicked Cool

I love bizarre scenery. It's like eating too much blue cheese and going straight to bed, but with way less crackers. This place, a recently burnt down market in Midland, Western Australia is one of the top ten bizare places I've been and I was lucky enough to have borrowed a camera that day. Smelly, old burnt food, melted toys, thousands of smashed eggs and a security guard chasing me round.

Threadless, Such a Hoot

Based on a mini jewelled statue, this little thing took me an entire night. I entered it into Threadless where public voting decided it would not become a T-shirt or a print. I think I have a love/hate relationship with Threadless. I love the fact lots of people get to see my work and that it could earn me some cash, but I hate the fact that it gives complete idiots the freedom to express their opinions about your artwork underneath. My mum used to say, "If you don't have something nice to say, then don't say nothing at all." That could be why she doesn't talk to me much. 

Nevermind the Old Stuff

I created this blog with the idea of putting new stuff on it. At the moment I'm working on a lot of that new stuff so I figured I could chuck a lot of old stuff on instead. This particular piece of stuff is a portrait I did of Kurt Cobain somewhere around 1999. If you don't know who Kurt Cobain was then you should probably slap yourself across the face with a large fish. Just a suggestion. 

Think Before You Eat

The destruction of wildlife habitats across the world is a serious thing indeed. But, with all the Media attention on the 'big players' in the environmental game, being the whales, elephants and panda's. Sometime the little guy gets left out. 

The common apple worm is one of them. Day by day thousands of worms are left homeless and forced needlessly onto the street. And yet the media stays silent. The issues discreetly swept under the rug by politicians and government authorities. Why I ask? Would I be paranoid in thinking this could be...a conspiracy? I'll leave that for you, the readers, to decide. Hopefully the people at Blogger won't also be pressured by government authorities into withdrawing this thought provoking article.

Thank you, and remember...Think Before You Eat.

*This controversial drawing is also on display at Threadless should you want to vote for it (favourably please) then use this link...

HERE

New Portfolio...or a Rehash of My Older One

Here's some samples from current portfolio, which gets changed more often than it gets looked at. In fact, I'd say I change my portfolio more often than my underwear. Which ether says a lot about my work ethic or a little too much about my personal hygiene.

This is an illustration I always slip into my portfolio. Should I find another four hours to draw a better and more recognisable rock star I would.

Here's a page directly out of one of my many portfolio's. The neat layout which I usually go with didn't do justice to the messy spontaneous content. It was like finding a Radiohead song on a  Summer Hitz '08 complilation.

I did this a while back for Youth Alive WA. It was for some t-shirts and matched a CD I did earlier. They actually ended up being silver foil printed on black. Clichéd a bit now, but bang on the money back then. I accidentally bought the girls one with a plunging neckline.