NUMBER ONE HUNDRED & FIFTY ONE.
December08
If you live in Sydney, this Saturday night I have a series of screen prints on show at York Street PRESENTS, a group show being hosted by St Philip’s York Street Anglican. There’s a festive theme to the exhibition, and there’ll be free wine and live music, so if you aren’t already booked to the teeth with Christmas events you should totally swing by, from 5pm. Also, New Exhibition got to do the promo work for the exhibition, which was pretty alright by me! I’ll be posting pics from the show too for anyone who doesn’t make it…
NUMBER ONE HUNDRED & FIFTY.
December08
So, some pretty exciting news: the kids from Warner Music’s Cool Accidents blog selected my screen print as the winning entry in their recent Inspired competition. Thanks a tonne to those guys!
NUMBER ONE HUNDRED & FORTY FIVE.
June25
Daniel Kornrumpf (isn’t that a fantastic surname?) has been getting a tonne of notice online this week - his amazing stitched portraits have appeared on most of the blogs I frequent. So apologies if you’ve already seen these. But seriously. They are so good.
NUMBER ONE HUNDRED & THIRTY FIVE.
March14
Another Australian who’s relocated to New York, Brooklyn based illustrator James Gulliver Hancock has been working on his All The Buildings In New York series for the better part of a year now. Whilst attempting to document every building in New York City through his quirky illustration style might sound as ridiculous as Sufjan Stevens’ abandoned 50 States Project, James sounds like he’s in it for the long haul. And let’s face it, the buildings of New York do seem to be begging to be drawn.
NUMBER ONE HUNDRED & TWENTY.
October19
This ‘Semi-Sort-Of-Comic’ by America’s favourite illustrator Frank Chimero (I have no actual stats to back that up, this statement is based solely on the numerous re-occurrence of his name on the blogs I frequent), is a lovely example of the creative process. Plus it references cats and Chuck Norris, so it’s definitely destined to go viral. Inspired by an equally neat, although not quite as humourous Semi-Sort-Of-Comic by Jessica Hische.
Found via swissmiss
NUMBER ONE HUNDRED & EIGHTEEN.
October12
Welcome to the strange and wonderful mind of French illustrator Julien Pacaud. His photo collages have a retro aesthetic not unlike Mark Weaver’s, yet the quirks of his narratives and the almost surrealist compositions of his images in my mind set Julien apart. For me, the works have an apocalyptic tone, fusing fragments of images of the past with an impending sense of doom.
Turns out I’m not the only one who likes what I see. Pacaud has contributed to campaigns for the likes of Nike, and has been featured in a number of reputable publications, including Time Magazine, The Washington Post, Citizen K and WAD. Not bad huh?
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NUMBER ONE HUNDRED & FOURTEEN.
October04
John Paul Thurlow’s flickr stream is heavily laden with his illustrations of fictionalised magazine covers. Tres amaze.
NUMBER ONE HUNDRED & TEN.
September21
On the back of his sophomore album Wide Eyes Blind Love, 26-year-old Brighton born singer/songwriter Mike Rosenberg, or Passenger, spent 2009 touring by setting up on street corners across the UK and Australia. Through this unique ‘busking’ approach to taking his music to the masses, it seems Rosenberg managed to meet and befriend the ‘it’ list of Australian indie…
Thus, Flight Of The Crow, Passenger’s third effort, which releases this Friday, features a series of collaborations with friends met along the way. Lior, Josh Pyke, Katie Noonan, Boy & Bear, Kate Miller Heidke, Matt Corby, as well as Gabrielle Huber and Cameron Potts of Dead Letter Chorus, all feature, lending their voices to this serendipitous creature of an LP.
The initial single Golden Thread features Sydney kid Matty Corby’s vox, in a video paired with lovely animation by Mark Charlton. If this is anything to go by, Flight will be a fine album by which to be introduced to this British troubadour.
NUMBER ONE HUNDRED & SEVEN.
September19
Helsinki based illustrator and designer Janine Rewell has some particularly nice work in her portfolio. Although, I wasn’t sure whether to laugh or be entirely disturbed by the human installation ‘Tan the Man’, a short-term ‘illustration’ achieved using vinyl stickers and a solarium (see below).
NUMBER ONE HUNDRED & TWO.
September14
Quick illustration I did last night in Photoshop, for a friend’s gig poster. It’s of a Russian made Lubitel 166 Universal, circa 1986. Interestingly enough, the Lubitel’s were based on the early 1930’s Voigtländer Brillant design, and although considered a toy camera like the Holga or Diana, features all-glass lenses as well as a number of shutter speed and aperture settings, making it more like a fifties amateur TLR. Which is probably why lubitel translates literally from Russian as amateur.
And yes, I did change the name plate to read ‘Lurid’.
