you can keep my soul..my heads not coming back

here are some screen grabs of footage
from the first day of shooting on boy and bears
rabbit song video clip..
could not be happier with day 1.

the high seas

this was a funny little sketch that
had been in my ideas journal for a little
while , one of those things where you say,
what do i do with this, so when serge asked
me to do a poster for his upcoming gig , this
was the first image i thought of..now this orphan
has a home

it kinda comes from this idea i had as a kid when
i thought the sky was the reflection of the ocean..
in adult reality this makes no sense..lucky i dont
live in adult reality

return to lighthouse island

its not often that you get a chance to
re-do commercial art but in the case of
boy and bear i did..an EP design , yet to
be used from months ago , was asked to be
updated into a booklet for their forth coming
EP. giddy with excitement i jumped back into
this world eager to expand on what i had done before



These are early landscape designs for
island its based upon france's mont st
michel



recently i have become interested in death
masks and from seemingly nowhere i felt
compelled to make a forest of walt whitmans
face..



this is an early rendering of our
favourite native american fox/man.
i wish sometimes i could give every
character a lantern to carry .

dib dib dob dob , location scouts honour

this is kinda a spread sheet of some
of the locations i have found for the
upcoming boy and bear video..more pics and
making of's to come , as it starts coming
together ( fingers crossed)

giving a face lift to a classic

playing with a well known image would
usually daunt me but there was something
about vemeers girl with the pearl that almost
begged for it to be played with. So when i was
asked if i could do something based upon it by
the lovely hannah Maguire i was rather eagre to
tinker. the result is one part an andy warholing
of her and another part , well me , my little
stamp of twee and cute..
as a result both hannah and I are extremely
happy with the result..

the rag and bag trade

As a result of being a finalist ,
i received a stall at the upcoming
finders keepers markets..but what to
fill it with..well after mocking some
designs up it seems apparent that i
should be selling shirts and calico bags.
fingers crossed the public likes them
anyways these are some rough mock ups

gill.i.am continued

the images above and below are part of
the ornate bordering that will guild the
compass/frame



creative freedom is rarely a curse but
freedom of time sometimes is..with a loose
time frame this cd and promo image has been
perculating for many months now ..problem
was i was spending too much time on
the minutia and not enough on the big
picture..so thank god for boredom at train
stations where i roughly nutted out what the
image would look like rather than , how crazy
can i make these flying tubas..
in this case i feel a tad like terry





as much as mr gilliam is a resource
in this mammoth artwork another artist
who mastered the epic image and creation
of worlds other than our own is henry darger.
his committment to even the smallest detail
as a mammoth inspiration everytime i fall into
a pattern of laziness

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