The Gocco saga continues...
Saturday, June 30, 2007, 07:48 AM - Music/Books/Film, Art/Design, Illustration,


This is the next image that has gone on the Howiezine page, but, as a Gocco screen is a Gocco screen and I like to abuse it, I printed a few more of my own. I think, in fact, this screen will be abused a tiny bit longer today. We now have Gocco printed envelopes and everything floating around the house.

We watched Fur (An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus) last night, I really liked it, it was visually beautiful and intriguing in how it unfolded.
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the post has finally arrived!
Wednesday, June 27, 2007, 06:36 PM - Music/Books/Film, Food, Art/Design, Illustration




Yeah!
It took the French three months to deliver these two parcels I got today.
I had actually given up hope. But no, I shouldn't have.
Top are obviously a stash of Jonathan Keeley's The Hanged Man , that I did the illustration and layout for. And the other is two bags of very palatable ume candies from Japan... the outer part tastes a little like cinnamon, and it balances the salty plum on the inside. Who would have thought!

...back to the Gocco.
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howiezine robots in progress
Tuesday, June 26, 2007, 09:38 PM - Art/Design, Illustration,




The flat surrenders to the Gocco monster!
This is the start of my Howiezine "Robots" submission, (plus extras for me to play with at a later date). It will have a Gocco base but some hand painting as well. I am happy with it so far, I think it might have been the reason I didn't sleep too well last night. Too excited or something.

Apart from that I am creating, and have almost finished my Ern Malley illustrations for my screen printed book. I was a busy bee in those terms on the weekend.
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bit of subversion
Friday, June 22, 2007, 07:23 PM - Animals, Work (The Man), Food, Vegan/Vegetarian, Damn Carnies, Language




So, today I am waiting for the colour printer to print my enormous file, and there is a Japanese Design magazine sitting there, from 2005. I see these strange looking Japanese men in their meat propaganda T-shirts and a girl with a cap on that say "killer"... I fucking hope they are joking.
As I can't read Japanese, I can't tell... but something tells me they are... I hope. So I whipped over to the other side of the room, scanned the relevant pages, just so I could share.
Yep, I am going to REALLY swear in this post instead of pretending as I normally do (because, if the truth be known, I swear like a sailor if you let me)... so I have made my own subversive versions of the above comics:



I couldn't help it I'm sorry.
Someone want to tell me if they are joking?
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métro... boulot.. ECO
Thursday, June 21, 2007, 08:53 AM - Work (The Man), Illustration


So this is an illustration I did for a campaign we are running here at Décathon. It was a bit quick and dirty (it took me about 20 minutes to whip it up), but everyone seems to be happy with it. Note, i got on this bus this morning, and it seems it is a "bon idée"... but I was in the bus with one of my collegues and that was it. I asked the driver how many people in general get on the bus at a time... two. Pitiful. The French like their cars too much.
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