The Book of Face
Sunday, 29 August 2010 10:36
I got sick of people I don't know adding me as friends because they like my art, so I've gone and made a Facebook 'Fan page' thing for you to stalk me on. Now I can quantify exactly how under-appreciated I really am! Nerf.
I'll be putting up fresh pictures, flyers, works-in-progress and sketches pretty regularly, so it's a good way to get a drip-feed of my weirdness in amongst your Scrabble games and stalking. *like like like*
Robot Moses - prints for sale
Saturday, 17 July 2010 09:06
'Robot Moses' print
Digital full colour print on 200gsm matte finish poster paper. The image is mainly black and white but there is some dark blue shading, as well as small amounts of colour / texture on the foreground hill and the boat.
slightly smaller than A2 size (420 x 566mm / 16.5 x 22.2 inches)
Limited edition of 20, individually signed + numbered.
US$35 (Worldwide) / US$30 (NZ$42) within New Zealand
Payment via Paypal (or bank transfer within NZ)
Price includes postage + packaging
fat freddy's drop - the raft 7"
Friday, 07 May 2010 12:29
click image for big view
One of my favourite groups of all time, Fat Freddy's Drop, recently ran a competition on their Facebook page to design a cover for their new 7" single, The Raft. I was alerted to it on the final day of the competition by the homie Lewis Tennant (thanks again!), so i put the tune on repeat and stayed up all night drawing.... and it freakin' won.
The 7" will be available soon- they're getting printed up in Germany at the moment. I just want to officially say thanks to the Freddys boys- I've been a fan since the instrumental version of 'Hope' that came out in 1999 on that Radio Active competition, and it's an honour to get involved with the Freddy's juggernaut.
...and what an amazing tune this is.
Cheh.
live painting gig @ b-street
Tuesday, 27 April 2010 09:33
Just a quick note to let y'all know that I'll be doing some 'live painting' this Saturday night, at the bFM gig "b Street". We've got a 6-metre long plywood wall that I'll be painting up over 4 hours or so. While I'm painting, there'll be some dope music from Knives at Noon, DJ Penfold, P-Money and everyone's favourite new NZ hiphop group, Home Brew.
I'll be starting at 8pm, in the historic Union Fish building in Britomart Square. (Behind Northern Steamship-- venue info and map here.) Entry is free with a b card, or you can buy one for only $9.50 at the door. Cheap booze, nice tunes, art for your eyes.. what more do you want in a Saturday night?
Addendum; updated, with a picture of the finished product <<<<
17 things that inspired my art
Monday, 19 April 2010 21:58
(in approximate chronological order, with links.)
David Attenborough's 'Life' documentaries
The skateboard graphics of Jim Phillips
Reg Mombassa's t-shirt designs for Mambo
DJ Shadow's '...Endtroducing' (album)
Abe's Oddysee / Abe's Exoddus (video game)
Doze Green's artwork on 'Deep Concentration 3' (album cover)
chocolate eggs, zombies, etc
Wednesday, 07 April 2010 00:23
Busy Easter break at home for me. I designed a new template for the site (as the more attentive amongst you have probably noticed by now), added ten new paintings to the paintings page, and finished off a couple of web projects- most notably, a website for the extremely talented artist and illustrator Liam Gerrard (who caused a minor controversy recently with his entry into some boring portrait award).
More things in the pipeline as usual. Most of the time I'm too busy doing things to chronicle them on here; such is the life of the self-supporting artist. I need to keep moving like a shark, or else the Xbox will swallow up all of my hours before I even get a chance to try them out. *shakes fist*
Oh yeah, and if anyone knows of any walls in Auckland that me and my friends can paint without getting arrested or chased... holla.
robot moses
Friday, 26 February 2010 12:23
click for big view
marker pens on sign paper, 180cm tall.. better photograph + prints coming soon.
chubby geezers and whatnot
Wednesday, 24 February 2010 15:52
click for big view
Recently I've been making these little (A4 size) canvases. They're done on this weird cardboard-backed canvas so they're nice and easy to send to people.. yeah, I gotsta get some up for sale.
it's on the way hombre....
my ten favourite movies.
Monday, 22 February 2010 23:28
Yes! I know that making lists of your favourite media / art / food etc is the laziest way to fill a blog. I just need something to try and kick me into writing more, and it seemed like an easy way to start that process. Next I'll try and go over my favourite visual artists; then comic titles; then perhaps I'll finish the list-a-thon with my favourite albums.
OK. Movies... ooh crikey this is a tough one. I studied film at university, and have seen a lot of films over the years. My taste leans towards animation, sci fi and comedy (in that order)- I could easily do a top 10 for each of those three genres, in fact, but I'll try and cull it down.
I'll make each one a link to the movie's trailer, or my favourite scene. (Or, in the case of 'Bomb It', a link to the full movie.) This list is subject to change, and it is NOT in order. It's hard enough coming up with the top 10, let alone ranking the damn things...
videos may contain adult language + themes
- Princess Mononoke
- The Big Lebowski
- Repo Man
- La Haine
- Braindead
- Ghost in the Shell
- Children of Men
- Bomb It
- Delicatessen
- Nausicaa: Valley of the Wind
put stuff i've drawn on your chest area!
Friday, 22 January 2010 12:48
In a stunning display of crass commercialism, I have designed a t-shirt for the awesome radio station 95bFM. They're available now, and are a bargain at only $25 -that's half the price of a fifty bag!
You can purchase these beautiful pieces of decorated cotton apparel via their website, or by visiting the bFM offices and buying one straight from the hard-working music elves themselves.
(Warning- this image may feature a monster eating a baby. There are possibly brains being chewed. bFM and the artist take no responsibility for any offense that may be incurred by the wearing of this shirt.)
funny sites i think are funny
Sunday, 03 January 2010 19:48
I spend a lot of time on the internet. Too long, some people say. This means I have a lot of websites I can turn to when I am in need of comedic stimulii. (In other words, I spend too much time surfing random crap and laughing.)
Anyways, here are a few of my favourite comedic sites, if you need some reading material for the summer break. (Or if you're in the Northern Hemisphere, and you need some reading material for being snowed in.) The overwhelming tone veers between 'nerdy' and 'cynical', but that's just a reflection of my awful sense of humour, I guess.
(The Customer is) Not Always Right - This one's for anyone who has ever worked in customer service, and has had to deal with those doe-eyed idiots that stumble around this world causing car accidents and buying Black Eyed Peas albums.
People of Walmart - Sorry, my American friends, but your ugly and weird people are so much uglier and weirder than the ones you find anywhere else.
E-mails from an Asshole - What it says on the tin. He's an asshole who replies to classified ads in the manner of an asshole.
27b/6 - David is strange, rude, funny, and comes from Australia. I won't hold that against him though, since the funny outweighs the rest.
Freelance Freedom comic - For any designer (web, graphic, print, etc) who has ever worked from home as a freelancer. Tthis comic speaks to us all.
Pictures for Sad Children - The adventures of a ghost, or something. I get easily confused when I don't take those pills.
XKCD - Comic strip. Geek humour. Awesome, awesome geek humour.
Clients from Hell - More designer humour... the scary part is, they're all real.
Superuseless Superpowers - Like "having 'Laser Pointer Vision' - it's not strong enough to do any damage, it just points things out."
Cracked - It used to be the lame cousin of Mad Magazine. Now, it's a humorous website full of bitterly cynical writings and lists, designed for the soundbite generation.
Regretsy - "Looks like you made it with your feet." This is the bastard offspring of Etsy, the site where you can sell your handmade wonders to the world. This site collects the things that, um, maybe you should have just set on fire and forgotten.
Lamebook - In a similar vein, this one collects stupidity from the ubiquitous social networking site we all know and hate.
OK... I'll add more to these over time. Check back.
thanks, Helen
Tuesday, 24 November 2009 11:42
Politics in New Zealand has always felt a bit like watching guinea pigs fight to the death; slow, harmless and... well, pretty depressing.
In regards to these people who make a career out of making decisions for other people (here and, undoubtedly, elsewhere), it is often only in retrospect that we can hold them up against their peers and truly realise just how good / bad / strange / Panda-like they were... which is why I now miss Helen Clark.
Now, to clarify, I'm not a Labour supporter. I don't really support any party across the board, preferring to cherrypick from the range of choices we have to the left of centre instead (thanks to MMP). If I have the time I'll take note of the issues and the office, or else I'll just go with whoever looks best on their billboard. (Hey, everyone should admit to their shallow moments.)
However, Helen crafted a very particular set of policies during her time as Minister for Arts, Culture and Heritage- and the fact that she was the leader of the country at the same time surely helped her win arguments. There's a well-written piece about the Labour legacy in the arts here, but I'm keeping it personal - the reason I mention this is because I have been a direct recipient of these policies. Somehow.
Basically if it wasn't for Helen's policies, I'm fairly certain I'd still be working in retail, or back on the dole (that's the unemployment benefit, for my friends in the US). Instead, I was able to upskill myself, get a job in the creative sector, and now I've started my own business. Shot, Helen.
Oh, and now Helen is Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme - so she's gonna be doing this sort of thing (but on a more basic level) for the rest of the world, which is just freakin' awesome.
Thanks, Helen.
Thelen.*
* = This word will make more sense if you watch this. Thanks, Mark.... Thark.
noise rock for your bunghole.
Wednesday, 18 November 2009 18:36
I made an album cover for a split LP from two young NZ bands, god bows to math and TFF. The album comes out this weekend on Muzai Records.
The bands make fucked up noise rock, so I created something that would suit the recording. If any other bands want graphics done get in touch, I'll do it for beer and/or Xbox games.
wallpaper your computer porthole.
Sunday, 15 November 2009 12:09
this is an image i made for a bFm party called 'Up the Junction'. the party was in Ohakune (next to Mt Ruapehu), hence the mountains.. i made wallpaper size versions. it was fun. i might put together a proper selection of these one day.
to set one of these as your dektop wallpaper thingies; choose your size, then right-click on the image and select "set as desktop background".
the story so far, in pictures
Monday, 09 November 2009 07:55
Yeah, so I made a slideshow of all my old paintings (including all the crap ones) and put it on Youtube. I think I'm missing something like 50-100 images - if you own a painting that isn't on there, please, send me a photo.
If you've got a spare 8 minutes you can see the slideshow here.
inaugural post (number seven).
Saturday, 07 November 2009 08:31
So I've rebuilt my website. Again. I think this is the seventh version of this website I've built since it's launch in 2001 -- but this is the first time I've been able to build a 'proper' site. Mainly because up until now it was hosted on a pocket calculator.
Does this mean I have to keep doing interesting stuff in order to blog about it? ...how about food blogging? ...the last thing I ate was a banana in a Turkish-style roll.
....
...um, no.
Anyway. Better things to come. stick around punks.
-P
(Nb- please let me know if you find anything in the site that doesn't seem to work properly- and tell me what browser and OS you're using too, if that's possible. Unless you're using Internet Explorer 6, in which case you should set your computer on fire, claim the insurance and buy a fishtank.)
