New years resolutions

This year instead of compiling a list of specifics that usually begin with 'I will..'
I thought I would encourage myself in the right direction with a list of 'less' and 'more' new years resolutions.

If you can snowboard to the beach...

...No, I don't think i'll be going in the water.

Near the Dalvik mountains, Iceland.
Photo: Gosta Fries

How to make 15 guitars for your childrens school play

First of all grab some thick card suitable for the job, draw your guitar shaped outline on them, and then with a bloody big knife cut them out thus:

Then you'll be needing lots of paint, so you best be getting under the stairs to find that old tin you once painted the hallway with.
Mix it with some more paint like you know what your doing, and not at all like your making this up as you go along:

Then several (what seems like thousands) of hours later you will have a collection of cardboard guitars:

At this point you may question what on earth your childrens school would want with fifteen guitars for a christmas nativity play.
I'm fairly sure that in the nativity at my school the three wise men weren't a travelling band, and even if they were, who's gonna use the other twelve? Maybe its set in rural Ireland this year, and their holding out for a folk jam session when they eventually get to the stables.

I was further confused when they asked me to produce 16 horses heads.
Not fifteen, but sixteen.

This could only mean that not only must this be some kind of spaghetti western, but one of the cowboys is allergic to playing guitar.
So here's my collection of horses heads:

I can't wait to see this play. It sounds mental.

Cornishman crosses the Tamar!

Newquay bred ripper Adam Moss has relocated to the big smoke for the winter months, sofa surfing at the death house. Good on yer young man.
Here he is shredding the gnar at stockwell.

CJ photo

e-bay tee's

This is your last chance to purchase the bolekta t-shirt design I did for Ekta skateboards, as Big G has put the last remaining stock on e-bay along with the other t-shirts by French and Travis Millard.
link here!

Four circles

That's brilliant! (I wish I thought of it)

unfortunately its not one of mine (its far too good) Damn, I wish I thought of that...

#5

Aha, I see...
Make art not war? art or die? no, that all sounds a bit lame.
'Take aim' I think...

#4

Oh, hang on a minute...

#3

Yep, thats definitively a brush on a stick, with a canvas on an easel.

#2

Brush on a stick and a canvas.

#1

Its a brush on a stick...

What can you see at work...

Because I can see this...

Of course its not all gravy, as its bloody freezing there too. but still, the views nice.

I love stickers

hanging five

Just got my copy of the film 'Hanging five' with features on Andy Davis, Alex knost, Julie Goldstein, wolfgang Bloch and Tyler Warren.
Watch, then draw a line somewhere.
Trailer here...

Samhain

Halloween as we know it today derives from the ancient celtic festival once called Samhain. It would have originally been one of four major celtic festivals, with Samhain being a feast and fire festival marking the season change into winter, and the begining of the celtic year.
It was believed that the at this time of year the division between our world and that of the 'otherworld' was at its most tenuous, which is the suggested link with ghouls and witches that still remains with halloween today.
This is my fire...

And we went for it this year with doorstep pumpkins too...

Happy halloween/samhain!

Skips ditch, Romford drawing

I think my kit needs a sort out.

Surely thats a tad harsh.

Wires drawing

Wes rips

My friend Wes of rock solid distribution, hucking one over a ghetto built bank to bank.

dreaming...

The blue meanie

Some more of my failed attempts at Goldsworthy sculpture

Gwithian

last night. Bit choppy, but still worth it.

If you grip a lot of skateboards...

...This is what your file will look like.

The ten worst album covers of all time.

Kassia Meador

I just can't help but stare at this picture, everything about it is just...perfect.
Perfect poise, perfect wave, and of course, perfect Kassia...

Winter trees

New work.

Plus one magazine

If you haven't had the pleasure of flicking through the very excellent +1 magazine, their latest issue will be your only and last chance. After 14 issues of the skate/art/music mag the plug has been pulled, which comes as a cruel blow to anybody (including myself) who saw it as the golden child from 'Document magazine's closure.
If it was in fact the same people behind the shutting down of both magazines, they should be ashamed of themselves, and go and stand in the corner facing the wall.
+1 was a shining light of new art combined with great Sam Ashley photography, as well as introducing the world to new books and obscure bands.
I am waiting my issue to arrive any day now from those lovely people at fusshop.co.uk
get hold of a copy before they are history.

Bens project

This is young Ben Jackson who, for a school project chose to duplicate a piece of my art. (Bens sketchbook on the right)
Bless.
Not only does Ben (like all teenage boys) have hormones coming out of his ears and feet growing a shoe size every week, he also cleeearly recognises good art when he sees it. (ahem)