George in Stormtrooper Disguise

I found a great toy/collectables shop in Ueno, Tokyo recently; actually it was no big feat on my part as it is 6 floors worth of collectable goodness, with a gallery space at the top. In the Star Wars section are some of the more expensive and aloof items on (or indeed off) the market. Here I fount a marvelous Star Wars figure of George Lucas in Star Wars disguise, which as you can see, is not for sale...
Photo taken on my cameraphone.

"ME" Short Movie (via YouTube)

"Me" Movie

Girl takes pic of herself every day for three years. Obviously more patience than myself then...

A Collection of Stereolab Tour Posters: Nice!

Japanese Android Doppelgänger (via Wired)

Hiroshi Ishiguro poses with his android clone, Geminoid HI-1. Constructed of silicone and steel and powered by pressurized air and small actuators, Ishiguro's life-size doppelgänger is uncannily realistic since it was made from casts taken from the roboticist's body. Ishiguro's android mimics the roboticist's actions, with micromovements -- such as shoulders that rise gently to simulate breathing -- making it difficult to believe Geminoid is a machine. A Geminoid operator wears motion-tracking lip markers. When the operator moves his mouth, Geminoid's lips make the same movement. A speaker inside the android lets the robotic double be heard. (Credit: Tim Hornyak)

Australian Exhibition

Here's the promotional image for the China Heights exhibition in Sydney that I participated in. Not sure who to credit the design to, but you know who you are...

...On Fashion

"Fashion is something that goes in one year and out the other."
- Unknown

I'm like, so international, dahling...

International News:

>>I got a mail from a guy in Taiwan enquiring about doing an interview in a new Taiwanese design magazine...

>>I have a group exhibition in Sydney, Australia pending...

>>Thanks Jörg from Germany for the autograph request...

***Watch this space!***

On My Desk Blog

Have made my own small contribution to this blog (started by illustrator Linzie Hunter). Basically fellow creatives (mostly illustrators) post pictures of their working spaces; a kinda professional voyourism. Cool!

http://on-my-desk.blogspot.com/2006/06/sean-macfarlane_03.html

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!