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my day with soko

the first three pics are from tthe shoot the

player shoot we did with the infamous

french songbird soko ..she played three

songs , new songs, in waverly cemetry

and we filmed here trapsing through the

beachside resting place..again i think i have

a cameo as a useless egg shaker ..sigh but its

all good..afterwards we headed to bondi

where we hung out and she missed her

sound check..naughty...as a favour i told

her i would make here a pair of alien ears

for her gig..so using a mickey mouse hat and

an old tv antenna i fashioned a alien headress

which she donned for her encore and also

gave us a nice shout out for doing so...

twas a strange and fun day and kinda

demystified that whole celeb thing

jacks room

using jacks fisher price dummy

as our colour swatch , dim and i

spent the last weekend of 2008

creating a new room for our bubba

jack...we hope he love it as much

as we do

emma davis

this was a fun marriage as i had in
mind something to do with a car made

of flowers and then emma asked for some

thing that involved her much loved vw

beetle...its nice when things just click

so this is for peats ridge promos in the

form of a postcard...with more work

this will become the front cover of her

ep...the inspirations on this were very

much jay ryans cover of chabon's final
solution papaerback

the childrens book of revelations

today saw the first full day of

work on the art collection known

as the children's book of revelations.

its an exhibition i aim to hold mid

year with lots of works the denote

just how fucked the world has become

but done in a playful and whimsical fashion..

the first half a dozen images will be

previewed at the post festival festival

and these two rough images are

from two of the art works that

will be on show...

also on show 20 of my fave gig posters

invasion in stereo-o-o-o

i had so so so much fun doing this
and as a side note , please notice

there will be art by me on show..

this art work is a loose sequal to

last years post festival festival

poster which can be seen for

historical value here..

so french , so chic

here's my biz card ode to le chat noir

back to the town of magnificent

this is the early version of the single 

cover to down in your valley...this is

of course subject to change at the whim 

of the band but for me its an image..star

gazing that is..that ive been wanting to do

for a while and was going to have on the 

augie march album cover that fell through

evolution number 9

this idea just occurred to me and it filled

me with such excitement that i had to blog

it so i can remember it later....

so i want to spend a year drawing the evolution

of a city from paddock to cottage to booming

metropolis ..and at its anchor point the original

cottage de-evolving....my hope is to draw

atleast one building a day ..maybe more for one

year...in the last quarter i will keep drawing and

animate and ask the musicians i know around

sydney to contribute a section of score or voice

and have the music build like a phillip glass piece..

im really excited by this and i wanna ear mark its

first showing on my 34th birthday which is insane

seeing i am 32....

if i go ahead with this i will document the stages

of its progress as i go along..

peace out

riders on the crooked storm

this poster was going to be something

completely different , like two business

tie snakes fighting like cobras..but it didnt

look so hot when done..this idea had been

floating in my head for some time and seemed

perect for this type of poster

a magnificent xmas

heres a weird fox version of the von trapps

singing carols and erecting xmas trees in

the woods in the dead of night...this is my

first xmas gig poster for this year.yay i hope

i get more ..i really dig doing em

smells like teen spirit

heres the finished (unless changes are asked for)

version of the high school campaign for atyp

heres another stage in the teen beasts

the class of 09

i've been trying to get the teen

monsters right for about a week

now and i think i finally cracked it..

so heres some early unrendered sketches

..ps is it ego or therapy putting the high

school version of yourself into a poster

very early concept for mr hanlon

heres a really quick sketch i have
been floating in my brain for a while
will send this when coloured ,bg'ed and
bordered to darren and see if he wants
it for either the under the clotheseline
or his december tour

speed drawing-teen monster

boy i wish i could draw this fast..
ok so this is for the teen atyp monster
poster ..having many kids to draw i use
a template of face and body type and then
with each character give them their own
characteristics..this one is the cheerleader

THE RETURN TO PAC MOUNTAIN

I will be working with the boys

from the small hours as part of

their design print bizness..first

up is a fun poster for their up

coming world bar gig..i liked

doing this poster alot as it plays

with both colour and shape and

retro gaming...it also suits the band

and venue which is always a plus

shooting the player : the desks

despite a few delays and the

fact i had to run off to a

wedding this shoot in a burnt

out house in summer hill was a blast..

wow i wish every street had a burnt

house to play in...as long as its not

mine

chatting up a storm

i wanted this to look like if andy warhol had
been a sk8board designer in the 50's and had done
the velvet underground album...
ps i have so much fun working with mr cheshire.

urban monster children

a new version for the atyp monster

poster ad

a big day for took tooks

today is indeed a big day for

took tooks and me as i go off

to meet the author with these
concepts for his book..if given

the go ahead excpect to see

alot more took took related

posts...above is the third

colour concept of the took took

and a very early concept of

the island of cap

the took took ..now in colour

these are 2 out of the 4 variations

of took took birds i have to present

the author at our meeting

the chats in studio

the amazing trio of ben,dan and joe

hit the studio to record some f the

most catchy diddy's you'll hear this

year...i was lucky enough to take some

pics in the last hour or so of recording

crooked tshirt concepts

early drafts of the crooked fiddle

t shirt..

little monsters first draft

heres what i just sent through to ATYP
for their schools campaign

something modern

some "highlight pages" from the

thoroughly modern milly booklet

also im rather happy with my

milly emblem

crooked fiddle street press

a spot colour hand drawn version of

their EP cover for street press

beach house video

http://vimeo.com/2015036


i have a cameo and a credit on this awesome
shoot the player video and it captures
victoria and i making squeeky sounds in
the sand with our feet...good times

just a quick note

was rather pleased to see three colour ads

by me in this weeks brag..one full page

colour too...as an act of sheer vanity

I took some pics

polar opposites

one is a brooding epic scaled street press ad for what

may be the best australian album of this year...

the other is so colourful and simple i am

shocked it came out of me