This
versus this
Clearly the second one is the winner. Infact i think in this case the internet is the winner. It just became a much richer place thanks to that second video.
Tuesday, 23 June 2009
Sunday, 14 June 2009
3D graffitti and home surgery
Home surgery
It takes days of scrubbing with scented soaps and lotions to get that dead skin smell off your body. As soon as I'd cut the plaster off I realised that my arm was still NQR. After a couple of visits to a doctor to be called an idiot, then an xray clinic, also to be called an idiot, they determined that my arm was fine. So who is really the idiot now? The guy who removed his plaster with a hand saw or two qualified doctors? No so smart now are they? In your face doctors.
It's not often that I eat KFC but when i do its good to go there with a pro. Al Wilson knows all that is worth knowing about The Colonel's menu. I just told him to order two of everything that he got so I too could eat like an expert. He even took me to a park to enjoy the sunshine. What a banquet.
Al and Kirby also hooked me up with a job to paint a mural in the foyer at the Melbourne Vans office. Al suggested a pirate theme. I asked Mavie to give me his best pirate pose for me to draw from and this is what he came up with.
I made what I could out of it
I've been working on it for 2 or three weeks now. Here's some progress shots.
I should mention that Mavie, Nate Dog and Terry my step dad have been a massive help while i've been working on this thing.
Stepped in the paint of course
One day I had a pretty bad head ache and asked Al if he could get me a panadol and he came back with a band aid and a glass of water. Thanks Al, real helpful.
Me and Mavie had to give Al a hand loading a bike into his car, which meant removing the head rests form the seats. Before we knew what was happening Al was asleep on the job.
Then I decided that I didn't like bits of it so it currently looks like this
More graffitti
Speaking of vandalism, Mavie (amongst other people) built a new unauthorised skate spot. Here is his work truck
And here is our Mum proudly standing in front of the finished product. She took me out there at about 9am on a freezing cold morning and forced me to skate. It was pretty funny.
I was riding past a place where Mavie and Thomsy (and me kind of) built a couple of wall rides under punt road a few years ago. They got jack hammered out by the council but some one else built this there afterwards. I'm guessing not too many dudes ride this one.
Last week I went to the Zoo York video premier. There's an hour of my life that I wont get back. Luckily there was free booze and pizza and these dudes.
Here's two young dudes with lots of beer and hair
This erection is nearly complete
It takes days of scrubbing with scented soaps and lotions to get that dead skin smell off your body. As soon as I'd cut the plaster off I realised that my arm was still NQR. After a couple of visits to a doctor to be called an idiot, then an xray clinic, also to be called an idiot, they determined that my arm was fine. So who is really the idiot now? The guy who removed his plaster with a hand saw or two qualified doctors? No so smart now are they? In your face doctors.
It's not often that I eat KFC but when i do its good to go there with a pro. Al Wilson knows all that is worth knowing about The Colonel's menu. I just told him to order two of everything that he got so I too could eat like an expert. He even took me to a park to enjoy the sunshine. What a banquet.
Al and Kirby also hooked me up with a job to paint a mural in the foyer at the Melbourne Vans office. Al suggested a pirate theme. I asked Mavie to give me his best pirate pose for me to draw from and this is what he came up with.
I made what I could out of it
I've been working on it for 2 or three weeks now. Here's some progress shots.
I should mention that Mavie, Nate Dog and Terry my step dad have been a massive help while i've been working on this thing.
Stepped in the paint of course
One day I had a pretty bad head ache and asked Al if he could get me a panadol and he came back with a band aid and a glass of water. Thanks Al, real helpful.
Me and Mavie had to give Al a hand loading a bike into his car, which meant removing the head rests form the seats. Before we knew what was happening Al was asleep on the job.
Then I decided that I didn't like bits of it so it currently looks like this
More graffitti
Speaking of vandalism, Mavie (amongst other people) built a new unauthorised skate spot. Here is his work truck
And here is our Mum proudly standing in front of the finished product. She took me out there at about 9am on a freezing cold morning and forced me to skate. It was pretty funny.
I was riding past a place where Mavie and Thomsy (and me kind of) built a couple of wall rides under punt road a few years ago. They got jack hammered out by the council but some one else built this there afterwards. I'm guessing not too many dudes ride this one.
Last week I went to the Zoo York video premier. There's an hour of my life that I wont get back. Luckily there was free booze and pizza and these dudes.
Here's two young dudes with lots of beer and hair
This erection is nearly complete
Saturday, 23 May 2009
Kicks and old flicks
I spent all of the non hung over parts of last week end painting these shoes
Me and Nate were holding hands at the midweek private art fag convention in his lounge room so I got him to paint a pair too and they turned out awesome.
These are some old Vans that I painted a few years ago
Speaking of shoes, here's those ones that I painted for honorable Glen Scott while he was working at Dunlop, when they appeared on the illustrious pages of Dolly Magazine.
And here's some other old photos that I came across
Sydney coffee
Sydney bottle shop
Sydney surf board
Ruth's cousin, Louey's old gallery in Sydney.
Louey chatting to awesome art guy, French, while he muralises the Monster Children Gallery
Tom Jeppe woke up with this tattooed on him after a hard night on the booze. Yep he did it himself.
A few years ago I spent a couple of days teaching a bunch of naughty kids in the country how to do grip tape art. This little girl was the youngest and one of the smartest too. I think she was 11 and was having a real hard life due to having shit parents but she was so happy and enthusiastic. She ended up helping out some of the other, much older and dumber delinquents. This was the board she made which she'd tried to copy off this surf board that I painted a while ago. I think the one next to her's was her 13 year old brother's which is also pretty awesome.
In the spirit of even older photos than these (such as ramp in the Mindsnare loungeroom circa 1994 I think) check out Mike Kearney's awesome blog www.incaseyoudontremember.blogspot.com
And here are some pics that i forgot to put on the last post about the cricket (I stole them from skateboard.com.au - I hope I don't get sent to internet jail)
The Melbourne 11
The Canberra 11
The real winner on the day was cricket. Actually no wait, it was skateboarding. Any day where a bunch arse clowns like this stay off their boards is a victory for skating.
Sometimes I see things that are so awesome that I get angry with myself for not having come up with it first. Actually its happening a lot more as I get older. When i saw this picture it was one of those times.
Me and Nate were holding hands at the midweek private art fag convention in his lounge room so I got him to paint a pair too and they turned out awesome.
These are some old Vans that I painted a few years ago
Speaking of shoes, here's those ones that I painted for honorable Glen Scott while he was working at Dunlop, when they appeared on the illustrious pages of Dolly Magazine.
And here's some other old photos that I came across
Sydney coffee
Sydney bottle shop
Sydney surf board
Ruth's cousin, Louey's old gallery in Sydney.
Louey chatting to awesome art guy, French, while he muralises the Monster Children Gallery
Tom Jeppe woke up with this tattooed on him after a hard night on the booze. Yep he did it himself.
A few years ago I spent a couple of days teaching a bunch of naughty kids in the country how to do grip tape art. This little girl was the youngest and one of the smartest too. I think she was 11 and was having a real hard life due to having shit parents but she was so happy and enthusiastic. She ended up helping out some of the other, much older and dumber delinquents. This was the board she made which she'd tried to copy off this surf board that I painted a while ago. I think the one next to her's was her 13 year old brother's which is also pretty awesome.
In the spirit of even older photos than these (such as ramp in the Mindsnare loungeroom circa 1994 I think) check out Mike Kearney's awesome blog www.incaseyoudontremember.blogspot.com
And here are some pics that i forgot to put on the last post about the cricket (I stole them from skateboard.com.au - I hope I don't get sent to internet jail)
The Melbourne 11
The Canberra 11
The real winner on the day was cricket. Actually no wait, it was skateboarding. Any day where a bunch arse clowns like this stay off their boards is a victory for skating.
Sometimes I see things that are so awesome that I get angry with myself for not having come up with it first. Actually its happening a lot more as I get older. When i saw this picture it was one of those times.
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