Logo For Food Writer

Well Ok it's for my mum. but whatever, i think it'll look good on her aprons in the cookschool she's running:

BRIZZLE TINGS

HAYO!
THIS IS PART OF A SET OF PICS I DREW IN BRISTOL ON LOCATION WAY BACK WHEN.












the full set is here:http://www.flickr.com/photos/use_vision/sets/72157622790256335/

Divvie B

I was lying in the arms of beauty when Mr David Bowie filtered out from the radio and into our minds: "I'm so much in love. Like a little solider catching butterflies," snigger. The relaxed happy laughter and bonding contentment over the naive, clichéd, bullshit lyrics made a mental image between us, which i now lazily lay before you in glorious RGB...

Photoshop Birthday Collage

Easy now, It's been while since I last posted, i've been being fairly lazy recently, but it's my dad's birthday soon so I thought I'd finally get round to tarting up his old pics. He used to be an architect for the ILEA in London circa 1975, and he designed some pretty rad schools. I took his old portfolio, composited it a bit and printed and framed the two final images. Here they are:

Monkey art

was at a loose end on sunday and a friend wanted a version of the William Blake watercolour etching "Ancient of Days" but with a monkey as the ancient. He paid me in beer, it all got out of hand, but before it did, i changed this:



into this:

Elemental Heating Logo

Have been asked to turn a well- designed piece of word art into a vector object for a friend of mine who is a Heating Engineer.

here it is:

Nu Sketchbook gubbins

howdy hey, here's today's offering, a bit sketchy on the colouring in front, but I'm feeling a bit sketchy, so there you go..

This weekend, i did a collage

My friend Jacky was having a tough day with coursework, and i cheered her up and got into the study groove by sticking all her fancy paper to some other paper and drawing on it...cheered me up, anyway...

Raves and Sketches

Well first off, i have to extend massive congratulations and respect to the omniscience crew, who pulled off the best Rave in Surrey that's been seen since the Po-po got their own "rave response unit" back in 2003.



off the back of that i thought I'd share a few recent bit of tat I've knocked up... i was gonna wait till I'd actually finished the project I'm working on, but fuck it, here's the works in progress:

Happy Easter!

I went the traditional route this Easter and spent it with family- went to visit my ickle bro in Norf Landan - he is a jammy bastard and moved In with a bunch of really safe people- not only that but they're all talented, creative, pro-active...erm wreckheads hah! so my kinda people.

Anyway, it was my second trip up town this week, the first one being to see "Manchester Orchestra" in Camden on Wednesday. [brag] my mate works at abbey road so it was free [/brag]. both visits have strengthened my resolve to actually get something done and get where i want to be. which is London. i need to get a half decent career in graphics started, i need to get the VJ thing back on the rails, i need to take advantage of still being young and and resilient and full of hope and desire still.

I need to be where i can make connections and be inspired and be near people who actually have dreams and aspirations and are willing to fight/suffer/kill for it. and i love my homecrew, but one thing my hometown does not foster is wild creative flight. it is a place of mediocrity, familiarity, comfort, conservatism and bullshit. It has been infecting me. this must stop.

So! i need to make a plan. i need to re-double the efforts in getting me a London graphics job. i must stop using excuses and realise that the only person who is gonna get me to where I'm going is me.


this well cheered me up, even tho it's hardly ground-breaking, it was still a very welcome sight. me and Finbar went to teh Science Museum and the V&A. and then got wrecked. heh.


Someone in finsbury park dunt like British Gas.


This was Manchester orchestra at Camden barfly last Wednesday. for the record, they are neither and orchestra or from Manchester. A bunch of yanks, in fact. and they might have been fantastic, or it might just be that i haven't been to see any live music for ages an was all excited. Bless.


One of Fin's Housemates. Zero fucks given

'allo! i used to run freeparties (or raves, depending how old you are) with the Native Beats crew

which for anyone outside europe, are illegal parties in the woods, usually on common ground, and which legally are characterised by the emission of a succession of repetitive beats.

anyway, i was at my mate's house, who still has the old soundsystem in his garage, and as is usual for a Thursday, we gathered the old crew in the area and had an ickle rave in his garage, while broadcasting on tinterweb.

last Thursday i was inspired by memories, and made a drawing of a rave in the morning after, which is my favourite bit. it's when the police have stopped hassling, the squares and chavs have gone home, and you are left with teh hardcore enjoying the early morning sun and and basking in the afterglow of what just happened. basking in freedom accomplished. that's what it looks like in my head ^^

Planned Exhibition in Bogart's Bar, Worthing

right, i have a bunch of amazing companions whom i used to put on raves with, they live in a bungalow in Sunny Worthing by the coast. They are not only true dear friends, they are also all creatively gifted and live an admirably free and independent way, with social convention more or less having been reconstructed for the better and the good. anyway, i digress.

the point is that they and i consider ourselves artists, but what with one thing and another haven't pulled our finger's out and put on a show for some time. So we decided it was high time this was remedied.

i knocked up a poster, have an initial agreement with the venue and keep trying to write a press release... I think I'll take some press shots next weekend and get a contact at the Worthing Herald... it should be good: 4 artists, a collection of paintings and prints, a bit of sculpture, a few djs in the bar next door, some video projections, maybe some poetry if my friend has her way...nice start to the summer if you ask me.

It nice to have goals, that's what I reckon anyway.

alright you bunch of imaginary audience members, I hope you enjoy reading this with your non-existent faces...

I'm trying to work out what this blog is about, apart from to salve my feelings of inadequacy and a life wasted by the age of 27. I thought initially I could do it about VJing - being on the road, dealing with promoters and the dreaded lighting jockeys and bad food and drugs and mud and alleyways...

But I’ve kind of chilled out on that, as I wasn't getting enough money to realistically sustain both it and a half decent quality of life. And i like making and eating home-cooked healthy tasty food. So yeah, that. I missed that.

So I bailed out of the rock 'n' roll lifestyle in '07 and got a 'nice stable job' in a big bad corporation who tried to destroy my very soul and enslave me into their ranks among the other crushed beings, devoid of hope or aspiration, merely glad to not be killed off by the powers that be in yet another horrible yet routine blood-bath.

I must be the only person who actually quit a good solid job with a future right in the middle of the recession. But... I’m vain, I like looking at my reflection, and I was getting bored of bursting into tears and angrily ranting at myself for being a total fucking sell-out every time I did.

So here I am. Making a blog, the most futile of modern futilities, and trying to work out what it will contain. I have a lot to say, I just don’t want this to carry on being a meandering waffle, I want it to have focus and drive, so when people come and check it out, they know vaguely what they'll get, rather than just any random thoughts I decide to shit on you.

But knowing what to write kind of needs an audience, and I don’t have one. So. waffle it is, until I get an email saying "that thing you wrote about tying string to a bumblebee out of the fridge and taking it for a walk was fantastic" at which point it will become a pet insect blog or something.

Really though it'll be about: art, gigging, promotion, art, drugs, society and other such musings. You lucky people x

erm...and erm... a witty signing off thing! Blame Niti, she distracted me.

Was deep inside some music when the beat

and frequency appropriated my arm to convert themselves from audio to visual. When i awoke from my possessed, hypnotic state i had made some marks... a little later i reiterated them on overlayed paper, added detail, brought it into the real...a little later i scanned them and technology was allowed to pervert their purity and realign the two visions i had produced.

This was the result.

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So...obligatory slightly apprehensive first post... it's been a fucked up year and a half.

After some random personal shit left me bemused and confused, i ended up working for a multinational corporation making websites for the bank of England. FAIL! as soon as i realise where I'd ended up in the name of stability, i ran like the wind...unfortunately by the time the 3 month notice was up, the economy was double fucked.

so here i am -  doing the odd bit of freelance graphics, trying to get some VJ gigs lined up, and generally enjoying the sunshine and getting up at 11am instead of 7. for a limited time only. i dint have enough self-discipline to be proper freelance, i think. i need someone next to me to encourage and help and tell me I'm not just faffing about in some room with a laptop. one day. right now, i just want a job that uses photoshop. if i could buy a round for the programmers who made that shit, I'd do it in a second.

i went for a wander by my lonesome yesterday... it's a beautiful world out there