Great Expectations

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
- Albert Einstein

One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.
- AA Milne

On Inspiration

We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action.
- Frank Tibolt

New Picture & Illustration Mundo

Hey people...
Spent some of the weekend playing around on Photoshop (as you do) and the above image is the one of the fruits of my labour. The model is a friend who sent me some pictures and told me to go play. The picture (and my portfolio) have earnt me 'Editor's Choice' over at Illustration Mundo ...which is nice.

http://www.illustrationmundo.com/

Quote of the Day: Design

You know youve achieved perfection in design, not when you have nothing more to add, but when you have nothing more to take away.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Toys in Tokyo

Found a new collectors' figures/models shop called BLISTER (good name). Anyway... here's the flier I found in my bag of purchases... None other than our hero Jack Bauer in action figure form! I like the mobile phone accessory myself...

In the shop were two Andy Warhol action figures from the same company, one 60s style and one 80s style. Imagine Action Man with a bad grey wig!

I bought some Kubrick 'Bearbricks' and a Star Wars Kubrick 'Snaggletooth' figure, which turned out to be a tres rare blue-suited 'cahse' (or secret) version... so I the little guy might well end up on eBay for a silly amount!

Quote of the Day: Art

Art is science made clear.
- Jean Cocteau

Polish Film Posters

Here are some pictures from an exhibition I went to in Ginza, Tokyo just before Christmas. The exhibition was of polish film posters, mostly of Japanese films. I love Polish posters, and these were great to see in the flesh!

illustration friday: SEA

Here is my first entry to www.illustration friday.com

Woody Allen

You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred.

-Woody Allen

Quote of the Day: The Future

The future is here. It's just not widely distributed yet.

- William Gibson

LOMO-a-Gogo

Check out new pictures uploaded from my Lomo L-CA camera to the Lomographic Society site:

www.lomohomes.com/illustr8a

2006: Year of the Dog

New Year's Day- there couldn't be a better time to start this new illustration Blog!