Thursday, October 30, 2008

Suitcase Stickers




some suitcase stickers that my great-grandfather collected during his travels inbetween the two wars.
nice colours and design. ive got more and i will write about them some more when i have more time.

Thursday, October 23, 2008

Monday, October 20, 2008

the world of light



another drawing, a newer one

pravda!




i know nothing about cyrillic/slavic languages. at best i know bits and pieces of the cyrillic alphabet and their roman cousins, but thats about as far as it goes. i do however think it is beautiful and that they are interesting to draw and compare. i was doodling today and saw these letters on a poster in a magazine. so i copied them down, feeling my way around the foreign shapes and imagining what they mean. maybe someone could tell me? its probably something really mundane, so for now ill pretend that its not.

On the topic of languages, how funny is the the word yacht. Reads like a good candidate for a swear word or some sort of nice onomatpoeia or something you would yell out of your window when you are happy.

listen to turbonegro! deathpunk!

Sunday, October 19, 2008

pull a diamond from your sleep


a photo from germany, of my gran's house.
it's on a small hill above a town called Handzell,
about 30 km out of Augsburg.
She lives alone in this house, she's 92, which her parents built
just before the war as a weekend getaway place, which
became a forest cafe (Wald Kafe) and later when the bombing
in Augsburg got intense they moved out here. It's beautiful here,
one of, if not my favourite place in the whole wide world that
I have seen so far. I want to live here one day

Monday, October 13, 2008

friendly fire - jawbreaker


a quick drawing of the street as seen from a fourth floor window in cape town

from my drawings book and i forgot what for

from a series of drawings, some more will come later

Beneath these skys



check this out, its well worth it, if you feeling down, uninspired or just in need of something really, really, beautiful

Wednesday, October 8, 2008

nice poster


i like the national. i like this poster
check out screwballpress.com for more from the guys who made it
im going to start putting up more of my work
as soon as i find it!
mike