finders keepers

UPDATE: This was a finalist..
one of six and i am over the moon
at the news..also placed was my friend
jordan clarke

the idea than ran throughout is
i wanted these two in hoddies and
to be like 1980's hip hop sharmans..
but with polaroid and view master
faces..in the final production of
it thats when this polaroids of
leaves being blown of someones head
came about( those moments are always
the most joyous..when your mind hits
4wd and goes right off road..



the early sketches and mock up
were rather different to the end
result as you can see i steered
away and put them on an old
motorcycle until i realised
i should return to something
more like the original image
( bottum photo)

magrittes modern love child

from this sketch drawn on a bumpy bus
ride while taking a break from an idea
that i thought was a better one at the
time this little mash up of magritte and
the 80's ( and a need to give something
many many eyes) this image went through
many agonizing forms till i got it right

the muppet man

i recieved an email from a friend of mine
recently , tim weekes , telling me that his
brother had just won many awards in hollywood
for best unproduced screenplay of the year..
to support his brothers triumphs he decided to
get the script hard bound and asked me to design
something for its cover..a huge huge honour for
me as jim henson is a big hero of mine..with
jims shy personality in mind i designed this
cover to be simple and personal and very emotive
.i discoverd a beatiful photo of jim and reworked
it,stripping it right back to basics..

anyways here is the result

real men cry lightbulbs and pocket watches

the original idea for this was a
lot simpler..just a pair of eyes
weeping watches and lightbulbs..
an idea that came to me when i saw
something what wasnt there...from
this i made tall ships with budgies
in the form of tall ships riding
eyebrow waves(soon deleted)



after discussions about our love
of old typewriters we decided to
have a old underwood with the
image duplicated over and over
again on a jack kerouac style
scroll..



so i set up a little photo studio
in my room and photographed my own
underwood using fax paper as the scroll

you can't handle the tooth

recently i was asked to come up
with an identity for a dental
laboratory ..the joy and agony of
this was i was asked to avoid any
tooth imagery ...the end result
is something very late 50's is
style and kinda my idea of a square
circle..(kinda sums up trying to think
outside the tooth)

theres was many concepts drawn up.
below is just the short list of ideas

early boy and bear costume sketches

even though its still early days
i thought i would post some of my
costume sketches for the boy and bear
video clip

shoot the player :frightened rabbit

this was such a fun shoot we
had on bondi beach with scottish
folksters frightened rabbit..for
me it was a dream because everywhere
i pointed my camera looked amazing
( more shoot the player and design
stuff coming soon..right now theres
about five different jobs im juggling)

shoot the player: exhibition first night

heres just a couple of pics from the
night that featured live performances
by holly throsby and washington.

doing the monster mash

so they animated my monster and played
him on the big screen at shore thing..rad

GILL.I.AM

after many many concepts (posted soon) i am
on the way towards a concept me and the client
both like..its this gilliam styled musical journey..
the action will take place in the skies and seas
made of music..all vehicles and armour is made
of music or instruments..
theres still many concepts on the way and its
certainly fun going wild on some of the
ideas

who are those masked men

picasso had his blue period ..i have my men in
odd masks period...boy and bear is an idea
thats been around for ages.except i made him a
sun god..and the small hours started off as a simple
man has a cassette for eyes idea and then got wildly
out of control

two more boxes ticked

when i started out there was a few things i wanted
to achieve..silly dreams but goals nonetheless...
getting on phone poles in front of my house..check

having posters on the walls under the rail pass was
a big goal as i photoshopped my work on there for
my major display at design school and i wanted that
to happen for real..and yup...check





getting in the MX was another silly dream but
it happenned and thanks to ruth i saw it

got a nod

as part of the collective shoot the
player we were nominated for this
years smac awards ( sydney music ,arts
and culture awards) ..the night was
booze filled and fun even though we
lost out to trendy knitters

shooting made public

heres some of my shoot the
player photography used for
promos for their upcoming
show at carriageworks..
also my pic got into art
monthly mag ( which amuses
me that my photos not artwork
is the thing that make it in)

home boy

i was asked by an old
friend to contribute
work for her upcoming
group show..what i thought
would be something fun on
the side turned into an epic
production of type filled animals
and re-worked urban icons..
the night it self was busy and
hot as hell but fun none the less