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

That thing that follows me everywhere

Black dog, head monster, storm cloud. Whatever you call it. Just cant escape it today

Wrestlemania

Is it Costanza? Cheney? who knows. All we sure of is the gator.

Mike Reid has died

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/6921549.stm

Sad to hear. I'll never thought much of his stand-up but as an actor, he was one of the best on TV. Frank Butcher was one of the great creations of British TV. He could do the drama, (the epic Roy, Peggy, Pat, Frank quadrangle. as well as coming up with the oddest insults. Quite often, we would bellow "Turn It In" the immortal "doughnut" and the timeless "What am I? Some kind of pilchard?"

Before I left for Singapore he left Eastenders.
But both times I've been back, saw the return of Frank Butcher to the show.
The last time I went back home, he returned to Eastenders just for a couple of shows. Then , earlier this year, I had to review Eastenders which was launching on theBBC cable channel here. It was those self-same the Frank Butcher episodes.
Yeah. Not quite the Twilight Zone.

Greatest hero

..and I've never drawn him the same way twice


Hang on!?! this isn't news
This is just posting for the sake of it

Space is the place/Be With Me notebook

Two pages of doodles (one obviously enhanced) from the bext film giveaway ever– the Be With Me notebook.
Be With Me was of course the little highly regarded S'porean film that could at Cannes a couple of years ago.
Local film has a regular if far-spaced heartbeat. Every other year a film will get noticed.
Which is great, but where is the great Singaporean comic book?
Anyway, often, film distributers will send lots of little promotional items out, often a notebook.
Why was this one so special? Its was blank pages (usually they're lined), very nicely bound (not ringbound) and with a very smooth textured paper.


A great free sketchbook, that like all my sketchbooks, is taking an age to fill.

Coolest thing/ Worst thing

COOL: When The Six Million Dollar man was shown in Mexico, it was called
"EL HOMBRE NUCLEAR"
I am considering changing my name to that

WORST: Toxins have been discovered in White Rabbit sweets.

Life has no meaning any more.
Follow the White Rabbit in Formalderhyde

X-pants

just messing around, again

Apocalypse Now (and forever)

Every so often I get the need to watch Apocalypse Now. hence sketching a Col Kurtz this evening.
One of the greatest films ever blah, blah. You know the drill. But theres is good reason for the accolades.
Hard to explain but its just something to marvel at on every viewing.
Its the one film, except maybe Blade Runner in which I will get hold of every version available.
The making of Hearts Of Darkness should really be rereleased, if not expanded on.
Francis Ford Coppolla's quote on the making of it "Little by little, we slowly went insane"
is an understatement. It sounds and looks like everyone involved went through their personal hell.
Martin Sheen had a breakdown and a heart attack at 36.
But if everything had gone right, it wouldnt have been anything special. The myths surrounding its making entice new viewers, but the film is a stunning creation. Every talks about the Valkyries attack, but its capturing the swirls of smoke in the copters airstream that causes some kind of hypnotism.
Robert Duvall's ability to ignore explosions is something to behold, but the film falls to one man.
Marlon Brando. A man of such ability, he saw the exaltaion of actors somewhat ridiculous and only occasionally chose to give great performances. I think he saw Hollywood as a joke had the ability to destroy a film by simply insisting on doing a bad accent (see Mutiny On The Bounty). He could hve destroyed Coppola's film too. Way over weight and with no knowledge of the base text or script and costing millions. Coupled with the fact that Dennis Hopper was on set, physically anyway.
Yet it came together. Brando's words have been frequently quoted and referenced throughout the years.
Its an inspired performance if roughly salvaged from disaster.
For me there can't be enough extra footage and extended version of Apocalypse Now. Hopefully we will get the 6hr cut come the 30th anniversary.
For such a long ramble I should have put up a better picture

Criminal statue

Using time well while waiting for a download to finish doing its thing in the office this evening.
Thinking about it, it could be a less scary variation on those statues from 'Blink'

Found: the giant lion-eating chimps of the magic forest

http://environment.guardian.co.uk/conservation/story/0,,2126328,00.html?gusrc=rss&feed=networkfront
The only bit missing from that headline is that its in the Congo. Otherwise, exactly what the headline says.
Chances are, they look nothing like this

or this


Did you spot the difference?

Space is the place pts3&3.5

Space is the place pt2