Important factual information.

I found a bathroom with it's own fireplace. Which is a bit weird.

Picture inside ginger beer.

Artmill show

It starts August 1st and runs to the 15th @ the artmill gallery, plymouth.

Work in

Delivered my work to the Artmill for the show. That starts in a week or so. Will post the dates at a later... Time? Been concentrating on the dust piggies a lot and finished the 3rd book which is now being printed. Also drew and scanned a bunch more. About 100.

I did not have lunch.





And I ate this yesterday.

Thoughts on people.

It's been interesting (trying to be objective considering that it is incredibly sad for her family, friends and fans) to see how people have reacted to the death of Amy Winehouse.

The three camps appear to be "she was a druggy and deserved it", "terrible lost" and indifferent. Not to draw an unwarranted comparison to the death of Osama bin laden, but it truly has brought out the worst in people, again.

Addiction is not a fun string of hilarious incidents of partying, you do not instantly become 'a lost cause' and more importantly addiction is not limited to needles, pills and lines. in the last few days people have been commenting throughout what should be a period of relatively private grief and mourning (disregarding the notion of celebrity and the need for people to make expressions of support, sadness and personal grief) with a sideline in snide jokes and critical commentary on how junkies in some way deserve their fate and that it is inevitable. Which of course it is not.

It's also interesting how many of these commentators are quasi functioning alcoholics, workaholics, religious obsessives, sex / love addicts, shopaholics. All using the resources (socially acceptable or otherwise) that they have to sooth themselves from the reality of being human. Be it a distraction from looking at that or straight escapism.

Disconnecting yourself further from the media demonised junkies can be a comforting way of not looking at your own problems, or your own inadequacies as a person. We all have coping mechanisms and anyone who thinks otherwise is a fool. Although it's a lot easier to spot such a fool when they are spouting rhetoric about how people who need help in some way are infectious waste and deserve what they get.

Another complaint was that 'real tragedies' have occurred and have been ignored and forgotten in the press blitz over 'some druggy singer'.

No one forgot about the massacre in Norway which while a brutal, tragic atrocity has garnered much more press attention that the incidents with higher death tolls happening on a regular basis in NON WHITE countries. Or the soldiers in Afghanistan.

But we live in a culture obsessed with celebrity, and when a celebrity dies then of course it will be poured over with massive, intrusive and disrespectful attention. These indignant commentators being the same Heat 'magazine' readers who've thumbed through the descent of a young woman as if they're watching a soap opera, thoroughly sated, now scream about how people have 'forgot our heroes fighting for our safety in afghanistan because of the death of one druggy'.

Fucking hypocrites. Well, whatever helps you sleep at night.

Working 9 to 5

Working all day on illustrating muirs book (collaborating) and getting dust piggies 3 finished. Dp3 has to be finished by tonight. So after tea I will continue until it is done.

Yo

Apparently this isn't a real word. I disagree and so does anyone who's ever been to a bon jovi concert.

Fajitas

Delicious!

Working on the book

Working this evening with Chris on his book of poetry that I am illustrating. Made good progress and developing a 'strong' and visibly continuous style.

Wow.

Bumped into this on the way down the road. On the way back someone had torn the packet open.

Non Profit Web Appeal

Back

Started work on the projects with muirs. More on that in the future. Did painting today. Just getting back into the swing of things. Have to go through the motions. Getting ready for a show, picking work etc. Might put in something very different. Leaning towards that possibility.
Going to continue with piggies, drawing and painting.

Read 'pulp'

It was good. Apparently it's regarded as Bukowski's worst book, but personally I thought it was tragic and vulnerable and was a projection of his weakness.

Ugh.

Stayed up drawing until I realised that I am a feckless loser and decided to go to bed. The comforting fact of course being nothing.

Cork

Smiley lunch.

I went and had a great lunch. It was delicious. I wandered around for a bit first in the rain, had a drink outside a bar and then mooched around looking for somewhere to read my book. Then I ended up in the cafe and ate in there, pet and Lauren were both working so it was quite surreal. Because it was like being at home but totally different.

Finished pulp later on when I was snoozing on the bathroom floor for a bit.

Moth

Not particulary happy with this moth.

Apple shop.

Wrote this on an iPad and wandered out. I was bored.

My press shots.

will be signing 10 x 10s any time, day or night. outside your house.

Google+ looks like more of the same

I was more and more thrilled with google + as a possible alternative to crappy facebook. I know technically you should hate everyone and all companies, regardless of how much you actually like or use their products (i.e. guys in anti capitalism t-shirts they've bought ordering rum and coke in their £70 trainers. ca'maan.) but sometimes i like google. and i like the decent, user friendly interfaces that they sometimes construct. so in some way i'm probably an asshole for that, but also i am fine with not liking facebook and the constant infringments on privacy, property rights etc. i can't wait until facebook is the new myspace. again... ugh.

God i am boring. been working today. but i don't really see the point in sharing them here.

A GOOD REASON TO HATE FACEBOOK:

Found these drawings in my little book

But I don't remotely remember at least 4 of them. Which is weird.

Nothing to report

Still got this virus. Still waiting for my materials to arrive. Have done some dust piggies. Need a little more sleep. Being ill is rubbish.

Battered sausage

Terrifying. Waiting for supplies so I can get on with my project.

Hot beauty!

Hey teenage girls!

How do you get this HOT BEAUTY look?


Two things you need....



And don't forget this...




Love from,
The media.

Drawing eh?

I had a sandwich. Cold is lessening. Got some nice ideas for new drawing project. Which I'm looking forward to doing.

Inside my lemsip

The depths of a lemsip hallucination are known only to those undertaking in them and acknowledging the reality itself is the hallucination.

What I have written above just says 'I've had lemsip', the picture below is A weird filtered photo of some lemsip.

I could have been one of the beats. I am boring.