On the Cover

My brother offered to buy me one of those fancy foreign magazines the other day and told me there were three alternatives: Photoshop, Photoshop Advanced and Mojo with Blur on the cover. Tough choice? Not really. I told him to get the Mojo one, obviously.


Also, Blur are on the cover on NME this week :D Yeeeeey :D:D:D If this is a dream, don't you dare pinch my arm!


Edit: I just recieved this weeks issue of NME in the mail today, and I'm going to read the article on Blur RIGHT NOW!

Edit: I know the picture here is wrong, it changed without me knowing. I'll fix it later, now I'm tired.

kthxbai.

Don't Be Rubbish Update

As you can see, I've added the new Blur : Midlife widget to my blog :D It's a bit broader than I'd hoped for, but I wasn't able to interpret the html codes so I could fix it. It's not that big a problem though, is it? Anyhow, as you know, Blur is one of my favourite bands, and I'm chuffed to bits they're back together :D I hope you'll enjoy the widget as much as I have :)

About the playlist, I'm thinking of updating it soon, but I'm pretty busy with loads of different projects at the moment, making blogging a minor priority. I've got a lot of stuff on my hands, including the making of new prints for my t-shirt shop My Crying Balloon. I'll post one here now and we'll come back to it, aight? Alreyt, baibai for now then :)

Sketches!

So I did say I had a little bit of a productive period a little while ago, only I didn't say any of it was any good, so please bear with me.













I will only be able to post a few today and they're all oddly coloured, but I'm on my mac and all the files are on my PC and though my PC is right behind me and all I have to do is turn around, I'll just settle for these oddly coloured ones today.



I'm sure you won't mind, seeing as none of you is actually reading my blog anyway.

It's been such a long time since I've posted any of my work online, I'm almost scared something awful's gonna happen if I do. Oh well.






Mood: I guess "My back is effing hurting like effing hell" isn't a mood or what?
Listening to: The End of You Too, Metronomy
Reading: How to be a better marketer
Watching: T-shirt shops
Eating: Cookies
Drinking: I don't

Talking about Martin Freeman...

I just thought I'd share this little something
with you before I forget:















The first time I saw this I just couldn't stop laughing xD
The resemblance is striking though donchafink?
For more go to paintmyalbum.net.
It's worth a visit.

When the Girlfriend's Away Always Feed the Cat

I love Jamie Hewlett and his art has been a great source of inspiration to me. I was thinking about buying som Tank Girl Books via Amazon, but the delivery is often double the prize of the actual product, which is a bit annoying. Then again, yesterday I found The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy in a bookstore, and it seems to me the prize must have been lost in translation, coz the back of the book said £6 but when I checked the bookstore prize it was double that! But, it's not like £12 is a lot for a great book like The Hitchhiker's Guide (and it's certainly worth it just for the pictures of Martin Freeman o.ô) it's just sort of off-putting when you know the rest of the world only pays half of what you do for the same damned book.

Anyhow, I really wanted to get Get the Freebies, but apparantely the only available edition is in Spanish, which is a bit of a letdown since I know f*ck all when it comes to Spanish. I might try translating it myself using translate.google.com, but I tried that once with a Sky Doll book in french, and it's a real pain in the arse. The artwork is still effing brilliant though.

My computer's up an running again and that means I'll soon be posting some of the sketches I've been talking about. That's the reason this post is about Mr. Hewlett really, coz most of the sketches are heavily influenced by his style. Hopefully he won't sue.


Anyhow, for now, enjoy this link to Cocker's Luck by Hewlett and Hardy:
http://www.acrylicafternoons.com/timeout98jh.html


Mood: Content
Listening to: Moroccan Peoples Revolutionary Bowls Club, Blur
Reading: Lord of the Flies
Watching: This screen
Eating: Cheap chewing gum (I really can't tell the difference)
Drinking: Dehydrated again

Welcome Back from the Land of the Dead

I really don't know what that last post was about (furry fish and universal hate?). No, I just thought I'd let you all know that as soon as I get my computer fixed you can expect a flurry of posts as I've got loads of sketches just waiting to get out there. I'm really rather excited about it :)

So, I've been gone quite a while now, mostly because I haven't been up to much. I've read a few books though, some really good ones. Both my mother and father love books and I practically live in a library. Just in my room there's four bookshelves and a cupboard crammed full of books! The cupboard is all my stuff (expect for some old boardgames) and is dominated by my NME collection and some very big (and heavy!) art books.

My current reading frenzy started abouth a month or two ago and so far I've read Strange Case of Dr Jekkyl and Mr Hyde, Animal Farm, Trainspotting, Brave New World and now also One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest which I finished yesterday. I was thinking of maybe taking a break from reading and letting the last book sink in a little, but I've got so many books waiting I just don't know how to make time for them all! I think perhaps the best would be to wait till the summer holidays when things have settled down a bit though. It's really rather ironic to think that the reading man's biggest enemy is school.

Here's another drawring I made when my computer still worked:






















Mood: Just a little bit of everything, or maybe nothing at all
Listening to: Badhead Demo, Blur
Reading: The Law of the Office: The A-Z of 9-5 Culture
Watching: The sketches I've drawn
Eating: Oh crud, I forgot to eat again
Drinking: Water

That's all for now. Baibai :)

Welcome Back to the Land of the Living

I trust you haven't noticed this blog has been dead for five months, and will proceed to carry on as if nothing has happened.

Though most my days are bad, today has proved to be particularly so. The last couple of weeks I've been up in the sky with a wave of inspiration, but as we all know, waves pass quickly and usually ends up crashing into the mountainside with a violent "ARGH!" followed closely by "AAAIIIIEEEEE" and "the universe hates me". Also, my main computer is down.

And I slept badly.

...there was this furry fish....

Anyhow, I'm not sure you should be expecting much more from me in near future. As my main computer is down, I can't scan any sketches and therefore have nothing to show you. But hey, what would an art blog blog post be without pictures, eh? Here's a monster and a chicken for you.



Mood: Bitter
Listening to: Metronomy
Reading: Not as much reading as looking at drawrings
Watching: Time passing by
Eating: Why would I be eating by my computer?
Drinking: Nothing, I'm dehydrated

See you at Oya :)
(My God - I'm gonna go see Arctic Monkeys!!! :D:D:D)
Update: Mood: When thinking about Oya - Proper chuffed!