shoot the player : beach house

i love love love love these guys..as brilliant off stage as they are
on..victoria is the coolest lady as well...twas a fun day ..twas a fun
couple of days ..bobbing in and out of their very cool lives

on the stoop poster art

inspired by old french posters and skate designer

Parra this is my effort for the very fun band on the stoop

pop up book renee poster

after the battle to get the last poster right

heres the new renee cassar poster..a concept

ewill tellveryone seemed to like..what its fate is..

only time

sad but happy..the brief death of wild things

so in a sad turn of events, this image for which

i am extremely proud of , will not be used for

field day but may be used for something later on...

on the upside i still have the gig and be working on

an idea which is happy and familiar territory...

also in other news i got offered my first childrens book

the rumpus grows

heres the first 3 rows of monster dancers for the
field day poster all lined up and crumping

let the rumpus begin

some early sketches from what will end up being an epic
wild things inspired image for the field day poster

grrrr arrggg and new art

one of those days were nothing has one right
spent 10 days on one poster ..to have it rejected!
field day doesnt like any of my ideas so far and im
running out of time ..although i might have one or two
ideas up my sleeve and im still getting the run around
from all involved when it comes to the kmh clip

on the plus side i produced this yesterday and
im rather happy with it

woot woot..i just found out im gonna be doing art for field day..this is massive

renee art

completed over many days , locations and

modes of transport this poster is an ode

to the old and the new..

the making of renee's poster and street art nuevoue

so i have decided for renee's poster

and possible album to create street art nuevoue

which is a mash up of aubrey beardsley and

banksy..this so far is stage one of the process

which is just the pure illustration ..spraypainting

and photoshop as well as weathering and

photography are still to come..its fun

to be able to play with all these opposing media

for one image

tanya cries wolf

so the lovely tanya from sherlock daughter

emails me and asks for a poster to be done

pretty quickly she also asks for the poster

to feature a wolf...so my mind springs into

action and suggests that we make him the

big bad wolf and in his eyes ( yet to be drawn)

we see little red in her riding hood...and also

we make it like a propaganda poster much like

the work of the subversive obey group...

so here's the creepy wolf sans type..

this was done in record time..probably an hour

all up....i love it when an idea works and can be

simple too

more suess like images for greenpeace

this is so sneetches inspired more so
that the other pages which are more

Oh the places you'll go...im having too

much fun doing this...suess has already

aletered how i want to colour..i wanna go

through a very non realism in colours for

a while i think

ps-ing those shitty few days

during a very low point in the last few days i dawned upon an idea for a childrens
book that gave me new life ...i feel its important now to be doing work for myself
and not giving every idea i have away to other people and bargain basement costs...

it feels good to be back

late night paranoia

cant sleep and i have this feeling that they have buried
the kate video clip for good..cant be sure..but i havent heard
a peep about the remix version coming out and they have
removed all traces of the original version..4 and a half months
in the making ..two weeks shelf life ..then gone for good...
any way its late and i have had a shit day at the start and the end..

an angry side note

today has been a fucking awful day
everything seems to be fucking up and
its out of my control...never felt so much
like throwing this business in and going
to work in some soulless shit job just so i
can get a regular pay....it seems i respect
deadlines but people dont respect the fact
they need to pay me...fuck fuck fuck....

sorry reader

superhero hair layouts

heres some layouts from the shoot i did last weekend..i gotta admit

it was alot of fun being the photo boy rather than the art boy....

greenpeace work continued

heres a quick suess like image for the kids book i'm doing for green peace to

stop the over fishing in the pacific

sad fish in production

here's an image f my sad fish for greenpeace in production

a suessian book is on the way

new art and a new-ish direction

heres some new monsters for a gig that my buddy taz is

putting on..it feels nice dabbling in not only a broad use of

colour but also minamilism

the superhero hair shoot

more monkey business

over the next few days i will be doing the drunken monkeys
rampage on the alpine village...heads and limbs will be torn
off..blood will flow ..and for some reason i am basing this
on the grinch..mainly because i am consumed with dr suess
at the moment

very rough monkey test

just fucking around with the look before getting serious on it next week

after 3 versions heres the final version of the new art for john columbus.

most of this was drawn in a doctors office with my son , waiting in line to get

vaccinations ..

monkey see monkey draw

heres some badly webcammed stills of the new version of the martin martini monkey.

the band asked for a drunker more homeless looking monkey so i made him a cross between

chaplins little tramp character and charles bukowski , the american poet

new art

for some reason i had this idea of a mongal army on pool ponies for crooked fiddle...

cheeky fuckers

i dont know if i have been ripped off or not...if i have the stupid designer who

did it is letting me get all the credit anyway

first martin martini concept

i love that the monkey drowns the world in tears..if this gets the thumbs up i have about 3 weeks to do the whole clip...yikes

i have way too much fun

i count myself lucky that i get to come up with goofy ideas like these

and then people pay me to bring them to life..

new art for james edgar francis cd

i was thinking of this as one single long art work that covers the front and back and insides of the cd..much like the erasure art work for thom yorke is...

heres some nice things people have said about the clip on youtube

what an incredible clip. so creative, innovative and perfect -
completely adds even more meaning to the song. this is what
music videos should do. well done everyone involved!

Ohhh wow! thats amazing! i hope brisbane city dosnt run away
while im skipping around :) love it! Exellent animation

i love the song and the clip, it distracts u from the song a
bit but that makes me want to watch it again and again
as each time i watch it i see something new

kate is now up on you tube

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DK8_TSneA3c

and its getting an amazing response..yay

click to watch high def for optimum viewing pleasure

new life for an old poster

so heres a poster i did for the crooked fiddle months and months ago but a week or so before the gig it was replaced with a greed hen image...thanks to joe its come back for their upcoming canberra gig