Tuesday, 3 January 2012

5 months later. 2012 NY res.1.1.0







Being a young dynamic urbanite with a desire for nice but essentially pointless stuff, I went to a shop called Urban Outfitters. They stock an expansive range of books, compact discs, clothes, shoes and plastic skulls. The staff are lithe & sexy, full of youth and very helpful in the way that a modern retail environment demands. I got some paint and some masking tape and an assistant called Sandy Fanny, we cracked out this muriel in a couple of days. The mini project will include some screen prints based on the mural which will be sold in the Oxford Street shop.

Interestingly all of the shop fitting is done in house. There is a fully functional workshop underneath the shop full of wood and people making things. There was also a room full of young girls giggling and eating tomato soup.


I was employed by employee of the month. Bingo! Good ol' boy.

Thursday, 21 July 2011

Frank Laws Show Coming Up, Keep eyes peeled.


Frank Laws has spent the past 5 months in his studio, he only moves from his chair to refill his Le Crueset mug with milky Earl Grey tea, or to go outside and talk on the phone for ages.
He now sports a fully trendy beard which cutely houses a family of freelance mice who help him with web design and his internet passwords. Occasionally he'll wear headphones. It really is something to behold, a master at work. He used to be a bricklayer, y'know. So he's like, totally authentic, yeah. With an appreciation of things that are built with care & attention he has produced some new paintings which are based on and around housing estates in East London.
They actaully are rather good. If one owned some money one would purchase one for one's hise.

If you are on FaceFook you can check the event HERE.

If you are some sort of social pariah you can go on his web site HERE.


Wednesday, 29 June 2011

From the rock.






Uncommon is a guide book to Malta & Gozo. It has extensive lists of all the best places to get a full english breakfast whilst being comfortingly surrounded by fellow English nationals & ex pats. Useful maps, detailing all the best hotels with swimming pools and tour bus trips for the truely unadventurous, laid on holiday.

Oh no, hang on that's not right.

This book is about all those other places, where stupid foriegners don't go. The secret secuded parts of the island. Let's hope the book doesn't get too popular or the whole island will be spoilt.

I drew a picture of (elephant) Man United. The Maltese love 'em.

Bloody English.

Anyway Emma Mattei & Jon Banthorpe have produced this lovely book.
It has some really great stuff in it.
Buy a copy and then burn it.

Thursday, 9 June 2011

Slow Internet. Resisitance.



I can't watch this because the internet in our studio is soooooooooooooooooo slow, but it's bound to be good, not just cos it's got me in it. Obvs. Chris B Hanky was supposed to be in it too.
You'd have to ask him why he didn't turn up. He doesn't get out of bed for less than 50 quid.
Directed by Michael Oswald produced by John-Paul Pryor.

Here's the rundown,

GENERATION OS13: THE NEW RESISTANCE CULTURE.

The film explores the mood of the zeitgeist, the notion that our economy is based upon a system of kleptocracy and the idea that radical financial reform is key to overturning the current debt-based monetary system, which effectively ties the common people into slavery from the cradle to the grave.

It features interviews with cutting-edge musicians such as Anika, Gaggle and Saul Williams, the leading economist Nicolas Shaxson (author of Treasure Islands), artist, author and legend Billy Childish and the editors of burgeoning alternative media Bare Bones and The Quietus, not to mention some pivotal figures in the student activist movement.

Monday, 6 June 2011

Wednesday, 1 June 2011

Over Due. Blog Up.




Trying to get back into drawing some pictures. Weird.
Can't remember the last time I actually drew something that wasn't a job.
Oh yeah, I remember it was a picture of a bungalow in County Kerry.

Monday, 16 May 2011

The Maltese Connection






In the edit at the moment, Bus Terminus, a film about the passing of time, the vandalism of history, craftsmen and heterotopias. A portrait of a week in Maltese culture. The wonderful idiosyncrasies of the buses, the man who decorates them and the drivers.
The city gate built in the 60's was demolished during his week adding to the sense of change.
Time passes around us.
Aiming for July release and screenings.
Keep eyes peeled.

Tuesday, 19 April 2011

Teskos



Apparently it's sunny outside today. We are in the box. The freeze block drawing box. People phone excitedly, 'what're you doing?' I reply, 'drawing.' Their enthusiasm dies, they stop calling.
Does Freelance Fields exist out there? Does Creative Super Highway Market still pulse and throb with life and design? How much cider would it take for your teeth to completely disintegrate? Fillosofickal questions that can only be answered by removing myself from this f*$%king computer.

Monday, 11 April 2011

The creative super highway.


Spotted here in their natural environment, Neal Fox and David Mullet display the look and sartorial correctness of people who conduct their business from the inside of the Perseverance.
Style cannot be learned, it is inherent. Right lads?

These Bare Bones t shirts will soon be available on our website.
Proudly sponsoring 2013


Friday, 25 February 2011

Birth Death and the bit in the Middle/Muddle.



As St Agustin said, "Inter urinas et faeces nascimur."
In between piss and shit we are born.

The first challenge is geting out and about into the world,
it's not your choice so make the most of it while you can.

The middle bit is up to you if you're lucky.

The end is taken care of.

Wednesday, 16 February 2011

Post Match Analysis.





I did a drawing of a singing family in the first issue of Amelia's magazine. That was about six or seven years ago. I like the way when you do a screengrab it names the image you're capturing. The pony one said Harry Malt horse. Obviously not such a good drawing, one guy walked passed that picture and said, "oh look at the nazi cow," he must have grown up in the city.

Monday, 14 February 2011

Thirstday,




There were so many people in the Print House Gallery on Thursday you couldn't see the work.
Well, I wasn't wondering around looking at it but that was the impression I got from my garden gnome vantage point. Mega thanks to Lottie, Taylor and Django, as Celestine Cooney put it, the hottest bar girls in East London.
Luke Heretic put some more pictures up on Facefuck. Merci Luke.

Wednesday, 9 February 2011

Two Morrow.




Here's a sneak peek of what I've been doing for the last month and a bit. GCSE style colouring pencil drawings. Some form of catharsis, leaving something behind. On now to the next thing, I'm thinking bus drivers in Malta. Good to be busy, also good to spend a bit of time on one image rather than racing to get it done. Hmmm, patience.

Scrumpy from Burrow Hill in Somerset turned up today, five gallons of soon to be heated up top grade cider. It's a leg wobbler.

Until That Day I Love U anyway.
Thursday 10th Print House Gallery,
18 Ashwin Street
Dalston
E8 3DL

Tuesday, 1 February 2011

I'm doing a show. 10 Feb 2011.



Tales from the bus stop. The bus stop centric universe, the focal point for everything that happens. People leaving, people returning, some people never buy tickets, travelling to the next town, or the capital or away to foreign countries. Escapism on physical and metaphorical levels. Self medicating. Confusing lust for love. The importance of transportation, a scooter, scrambler or even a car. A desire to be somewhere else, a constant feeling and fear of missing out. The grass is definitely greener. Curiosity never killed anyone who stayed here.

10th Feb 10 March
Print House Gallery
18 Ashwin Street
Dalston
E8 3DL

Opening Thursday 10th Feb 6pm.


Wednesday, 26 January 2011

Scuderia Bare Bones Presents....


A teaser from BB5 show reel.
Updated last night by the multi-limbed-one-man-bandit Matt Lambert.
There are some brilliant short films and animations up on BBVimeo.

At the inception moving image wasn't an intention of BB.
Over the past few months it has taken a life of it's own from the mega contributions
and hard work of it's contributors.
Hopefully a BBDVD soon.

Here's a shot of some of the content, go have a look.

Wednesday, 19 January 2011

THEE SMAL PRYNTE



From the folks that brung you Offset festival and ......Small Print blog.
This is their summary or the year that was last year. 2010.
Some illustrious contributors interspersed with creative flotsam like myself.
It's a pleasure.

After the thaw....


On returning to the city. On rock n roll, real rock n roll. On moles. On Crobar. On The Beat Juice. On beer shill Lemmy. On removing swearwords from the flyer to appease sponsors.

49% mother fucker
51% son of a bitch.

Is what it did say pre Guinness chop.

Post op guinness chop.

Pork chop post op.

Tuesday, 23 November 2010

Celestine Cooney on Autumn.

AUTUMN

Whilst Listening to Polly Jean Harvey.


Day time dawdling doodles and dreaming.
Luminations on life and as GBS put it, "the alternative".
Why do people say they are scared of flying.
Scared of crashing surely would be more accurate?

Backhand or forehand it comes to us all at some point.
To some before time and to many long overdue.

Spin on the ball.
Slice.
Duck and dazzle.

Whiff Whaff Chiff Chaff.

Friday, 12 November 2010

NEW WORK/NIKE/1948/SATURDAYNIGHT/

The past two weeks I have been cutting, sticking, scanning, inverting, photoshopping type for Nike. Tim Barber creator of the mighty, Tiny Vices, took the shots and I got to muck about with them, I hope he doesn't mind.

In a drawing drought it was good to do some more knifey/gluey stuff.

There will be a wall in the 1948 pop up on Bateman's Row, covered in these posters.

Saturday night....

Gallows are playing a gig, Niall O Brien has filmed some spectacular stuff, Joe Duffy has been hammering beautiful object, should be a good night. Especially if I get some free Air Max 90's. haha.

More images to come.




Thursday, 2 September 2010

Hells Angels. Via Kick To Kill via BBC Blog


The Runaways screening.



Here's a flyer wot I dun for Hanna Hop a long Hanra, (poor girl broke her foot on a curbstone)
The filum is about The Runaways, the band Joan Jett was in before she was Joan Jett. It is being screened ce soir in the swanky new kino, the aubin. So comfortable is this cinema, the ushers have to pry viewers out of their seats at the end of the films. Stuck in there like guardian reading barnacles.
This flyer is for the afterparty, what is the most after after party, I saw pre carnival parties.
I might have a post after pre party. In my pants.

Thought for the day number 1. Love or wuv.


Wuv is in the air. In the same way bears smell fear, blue swans can smell love.
Somewhere above the clouds in Swiss cheese land tomorrow two pen weilding scribbloids are due to tie the proverbial knot. Witnessed by cows, buxom women in those beir kellar dresses, exiled nazis and representatives from the higher escelons of Maltese law community.
Quite an event.
Good luck to them.