Dear reader.

This is just a quick heads up to announce that there will be a brief radio silence from me.

The reason is dramatic but not particularly remarkable.

Y’see, I was burgled on Monday.

Before anyone asks, yes, I’m fine, yes, I’m insured. The front door is less fine and is currently held together with screws, chipboard plates, chewing gum and ( Read more... )

The illusion of neglect is just that, an illusion ( Read more... )

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Here are a few more odds and ends that I have uploaded to Faff, but never cross-linked to the blog. This is the last of them; there is some more colour work as well as your scheduled orgy of mad cross-hatching.

Enjoy!

Just Dance
I painted this for the Confuzzled auction, and did it pretty quickly by my standards!

The Organ Grinder (Utlah’s ( Read more... )

At Halloween it is traditional to dress up.

We, ‘The Collective’, don’t need much more encouragement than that.

We celebrated Halloween by going to White Mischief: The Ghost in The Machine, a Steampunk Halloween ball ( Read more... )

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I have a curious fascination with minimalism.

When I say this, I mean it in two senses. I love the aesthetic of it, the architecture of John Pawson, the product design of Naoto Fukasawa and the graphic work of Wim Crouwel. I am also intrigued by the underlying philosophy of it, the idea that less really is more and that the simpler something is ( Read more... )

I was just doing some housekeeping on Faff*, and I noticed that there were a load of pieces of work I did for RBW2010 that never got linked through to the ole’ blog ( Read more... )

Way back in the mists of time, I posted a picture of MattWell, he’s getting married later this month and his stag do was this weekend just gone. Now, normally a stag do consists of drinking an inordinate volume of booze and going to a lap-dancing club until you either get thrown out or throw up. Classy behaviour, and despite my somewhat Dionysian ( Read more... )