Facebook Graffiti

I dont use it that often but the basic Graffiti package is pretty cool if quite the test of agility. Can't zoom in. Can't really erase. Its like a very, very basic version of photoshop. You have to play with the layering of colour and opacity. Good for a doodle anyway, and at the end you can click replay and watch how your work came to be.
Some of my fellow facebookers have it down to perfection and are well worth visiting the various groups on facebook to checkout.

But here in no particular order are some of mine

Baby Beethoven

Helped out with a Jay Chou poster. Much better artists involved but one of my contributions turned out well.Young Jay Chou as Beethoven

Keelo Keelo Fayter

Just been doings a series of art pieces for paid advertorials.
Difficult stuff considering the subject matter. Here are some clack and whites tat I thought turned out better than most.
The fat bloke became increasing camper over time...

Great unused sweet names

This is the flipside of a US Snickers bar (forever Marathon to UK kids of a certain age).
Not since that Starburst advert in the 90s missed the oppourtunity of using the name ChimpChompys has a better candy name been lost to time.
Change SNICKERS to PEANUTOPOLIS now.

The gorgeous T3

Changi airport, best airport in the world (just ask John Simpson) has recently opened its 3rd terminal. Aka T3. It is a vast thing of beauty.
I managed to get there pre-official opening to wave my girlfriend off on her trip to US. The floors were so polished, unblemished by trolley wheels, giving an almost mirror-like reflection. The ceiling is so high. Its pretty awe inspiring to walk in.




Then there is the oasis of Coffee club, with their luminous orange chairs that shine, and call to the thristy traveller.

And I can't help thinking of the Hilton lounge chairs in 2001. Nice.

Middle aged & sounding hotter than ever

Just reminded on Danny Baker's wonderful Radio London show that the Beatles Tomorrow Never Knows is now 42 years old.
Somehow it still sounds like it was created a year from now.

The track was a true awakening for me. My first 3 cds bought were KLF: White Room, EMF: Schubert Dip and Beatles Revolver.
Yes the Beatles was nice beatlesy stuff. I think I got it for Eleanor Rigby. Then the last track came on.
To sound like some hippie, it was mind blowing. How had this track kept hidden for so long. Nobody ever talked about it. It was over-shadowed by Strawberry Fields and Revolution 9 for Fab Four experimentation.

Go Listen to it. Tell me it isnt the most advanced track you ever heard in your life. I dare ya.
The Chemical brothers (under the guise of Dust Brothers from back in the day mixed it in to their essential selection turning the intro into such a crsendo of a crowd pleaser you wonder why more Djs dont try to use it.

The Master is back

Excellent news. George ARomero, the godfather of the Zombie genre, the man who essentially created the modern zombie flick and who directed the masterful Dawn Of The Dead is back.

The Dead has gone beyond a quadrilogy (its actually a Tetralogy, the q word was invented for the Alien boxset) and become what will no doubt be classed as a quintrilogy (should be pentalogy)

Diary of the Dead takes the great concept of a video diary watching how the zombie apocalypse takes over. very similar to Cloverfield, I guess its like Platoon/Full Metal Jacket. Two distinct films, produced separately but covering similar concepts.

Anyone slightly disappointed with Land of the Dead will probably be pleased that the proposed sequel of following the Battle-Bus has not happened. Watch the trailer and see just how fresh this film looks.

Trailer is here


Just to namedrop, George A Romero is one of my favourite interviews. One of those perks of meeting your heroes and passing the test. He seems wary at first , but if you show you know about the zombie stuff he warms up and its almost like being invited into an exclusive club.
The illustration above is from the LAnd of the Dead spread from a few years back.

Supergrilla

Tried doing some direct to Mac art. Gorillas an obvious choice.
Got bored. Turned him into Krypton's Last Simian.

Diddy Nic Cage

I can't stand Nic Cage sometimes. Like most bands will have at least one or two songs you like, Cage has one or two films I enjoy -the Rock, Adaptation and Wild At Heart. The latter being great for him as his character was Elvis obsessed. It was his big break. Sadly, he figures why not repeat the Elvis impersonations everywhere.
Anyway, His hair has reached a point of ridiculousness. Check out the current do. Then look again at his face. Cage isnt really part of the Copolla clan.He's a Dodd if ever there was.
Just me or do the words "Nic Cage is Ken Dodd" sound increasingly plausible?
The proof...

Cloverfield detective

Remember that excellent Gif a few posts back that showed a bit of the cloverfield monster passing through the streets of NYC?
Well I studied it a bit and roughed out what the mid-section and thighs look like. First in B/W, then quickly in colour (man, I love photoshop sometimes)
Well I guess it aint Godzilla, unless he's hit the stairmaster, but its big, green stalky and lizard like.
Here it is

And the piece-de-resistance...

Merry

Cloverfield rocks (violently)

Check out the footage and I defy you not to get excited about this film

Top Chef appetizer

Prelim sketch for a personal project.
Planning on doing another set of heroes just for my own entertainment really.
So Mr Ramsay is one of the first...

Yeah, you

Euphoria sounds

The greatest thing about the internet is getting the BBC Listen again function.
Two shows on BBc London that are essential:


Danny Baker, a god among broadcasters. Music taste is a touch dodgy but easily a show of pure entertainment. Barely a dud show, and somehow gettingthe best stories from his listeners.
Compare that to singapore radio where the DJs are so cack handed they can barely prise a basic dedication fromcallers.

The there is Norman Jay's Giant 45. Euphoria music. Heavy on the disco, as exemplified by the theme tune Disco Lucy. Cheese, well matured and to be savoured. Music as a one shot cure-all, without causing drowsiness.


He doesnt visit Singapore often enough, but a still have fond meories of he and his brother dropping Sir Duke to an instant cheer followed by lots of feet churningthe sand on Siloso Beach on night years ago
Get listening here

SPECIAL TREAT OH YES: The mp3 of Disco Lucy, the discofied I Love Lucy theme by The Wilton Place Street Band right here

Go to WFMU's latest 365 days mp3 project for more audio sickness

Cloverfield=Gojira Pt2

The movie that nobody really knows about has had new trailers up. Best one is one Empire.com

Speculation is rife. Its definitely a monster.
Is this fan art or actual concept art

For those that examine these things closely, The best view so far of whatever attacks NYC is this, kindly supplied by Travis W Howard on the MillarWorld boards.

Its the back of something huge and green.

In fact, and I quote from the ancient texts up from the depths, 30 storeys high, breathes fire, his head in the sky. It all fits folks.

I cannot wait to see this film. So very cool. But then this has its moments (until the 15sec mark.

Z-fashion

Zombies just wont die. Ahahahahahahahahah shaddap.
I even recently bought a DVD called Fido, a zombie spoof of 50's Lassie films. Just that the dog is replaced with a zombie.
Anyway, I wrote a sidebar to a spread I devised for Resident Evil about zombie fashion. And that was a very bad sentence.
Anyway. In a different format to how they appeared in the paper is Elvis, the nurse and surf dude.

Blast from my past

You know, I used to look pretty much like this in the mid 90s. No really.Hair colour especially.

Its one of those occasion my current self would go back in time and shake my younger self out of it but yeah.
That could easily be me back then.

Samurainimals (do you see what I did there)

Four stages of a creation.
Okayish idea 'Catoichi' a blind samurai cat

Diverted ink version that looks oddly like a rat

To ditching the original idea for something altogether cuter

And then....Cuter still...argh! I'm gonna be sick

Showing off

Yup. Time to show off. In 2004 I went on the Kill Bill Vol2 junket.
Met and interviewed the stars.
In short Michael Madsen : Great bloke
DarryL Hannah : Surprisngly Hot
David Carradine: huh
Quentin Trantino: As excited as he is on the tv
Using my recording technology I took time during the interviews to do sketches of the folks. Darryl Hannah thought hers was "Rad". One better, and with more proof is Quentin himself who signed the sketch of him.
Currently sits in what is now my lucky junket sketchbook along with signed sketches of Neil Gaiman.Enough namedropping for one post I reckon

Work is..............

....yeah, you know. Trouble is, I'm not explaining myself too well...

Isnt he doing an impression of Robert Mitchum?

Yet another dink and draw tryout

ATTENTION

Best thing about the Rugby World Cup...

Drink and Draw SIngapore

Created this group on Facebook. Our first gig is very soon

Heres some prelims. Not as good as Kel's though....

3 panel story

Art challenge on Millarworld: a story was started, come up with the next three panels. Wherever you want the story to go.

Heres mine....what a surprise. Its a monkey

A gorilla dressed as Paris Hilton

a quick sketch on two sheets of flouro green origami paper.
Lack of underwear taken as a given.

Futurama, Back and longer

Mile wide smile for this confirmation.
And Hermes is rocking a new look.


"If we hit that bullseye, the rest of the dominoes will fall like a house of cards. Checkmate"
General Zap Brannigan

Mind the gap

So its over a monthe since the last post.
Facebook is partly to blame, but a lot is going on.
All that later.

The main thught in my head at the moment is...
Why do I keep calling an ipod a Walkman? Losing the old brain bits.
I'm like an old man.

Sunday morning beautiful

The most amazing cloud formation around 6.30am.
Its like gentle wave swell in the sky.
Or the cover of that Album by Ride.

Beautiful skies only happen occasionally in Singapore, compared to the coast back in UK.
But those that have happened are pretty wonderful.

Still makes me laugh