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This actually started life as a perspective drawing of Windy Cross. It was going nowhere fast. Then today I looked at it with fresh eyes and realised that it looks rather like a lady and that solved the whole problem for me.
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I'm EXACTLY like Steve McQueen: He rode a motorbike and I would like to try riding a motorbike. He didn't shave enough and I don't shave enough. He had a dog called Splink! and I have a dog called Splink! Oh yeah, and we both married a woman called Barbara (Patters is changing her name. FACT!).
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I was thinking about that poem 'Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening' by Robert Frost:
The woods are lovely, dark, and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.
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Nestling within the foothills of Ilfracombe lies Mount Dudmore. While I can marvel at the slendour of the scenery, I do question if they made the right choice with the subject matter. They all seem to be people whos only claim to fame is that they made fools of themselves on reality tv (apparently they were picked by viewers of the Richard and Judy show via phone-in vote, so maybe that explains it)! From left to right it appears to be: Paris Hilton, Nicole Ritchie, George Galloway and Jade Goody. I believe they are opening an Indian resturant in the mouth of Jade Goody. Which is nice.
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What will Tony do when he leaves office?
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This is a picture of the best bar in Giza!
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I found this book in a charity shop in Torrington, they were practically giving it away. It's a fabulous tale of spin, lies and well...mass murder. Strangely it seems to have been published in July 2007 - that's the future!
By the way, if you think you've looked closely enough at this picture, I think that you haven't! I suggest you open the PDF and zoom well in.
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What would happen if the Angel of Death stole your identity. Shenanigans times 100!
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This is all lies! No elephants roam Torrington Common. We hung them all.
In truth this was basically an attempt to draw an elephant as simply as possible. For those of you who care, it can be done using three oblongs and two circles.
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Yes it is true! For a full explanation of this picture keep your eyes open for "Men In Robes" by Trufin Hatch, due to be published later this year. Meanstwhile, why not read "A Doublet: Willie & Tingle Maze" also by Trufin Hatch. I live next door to Trufin Hatch. How cool is that?
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This looks to me like the five fellas are either in a line-up looking directly at us, or are stood at a urinal facing away from us...not sure which. Can I point out in case you are confused, this is not meant to be about ids, egos or superegos (all of which live harmonious fullfilling lives inside of me even as we speak!), it's about identity theft.
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This is a domestic rabbitbot from the 1970's.
This is camouka animal #2. The artwork is based on the shapes used to make the camouka rabbit. The legs are sprung steel plates that allow it to jump.
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This is the first card in the Disco Tarot set. This is the "Superstar Dancer" card from the Major Arcana. It's the equivalent to The Magician.
This is a rework of the Joynt Fella from JoyntSounds.
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The title of this is meaningless (it's originally the name of a Jacknife Lee song), it's just that this is a predominantly brown picture.
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I've been collecting the "Great Speeches from the 20th Century" books in The Guardian. I have two favourite speeches neither of which were included in the list. This is my number two, Spiro Agnew rambling on about the "effete corps of impudent snobs". I love the timbre of his voice, it makes it a great speech to cut and paste into mixes. I don't of course love the sentiment behind it! Both him and Nixon eventually got their just desserts, Nixon over Watergate, whilst Spiro was forced out of office on bribery and tax evasion charges. Read all about it here:
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This is stolen art! Basically I 're-purposed' (i.e. STOLE) the artwork from a book I have about photography dating from 1976. I mixed up the resulting cartoons, re-assembled them into an order I liked the look of then added the storyline, toaster, toast and coloured it in.
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This is an ACTUAL photo of YOUR brain that is clearly showing your current thought processes. As you can see, one of your memories, lurking in the darkest recesses of your mind is refusing to give up it's secrets. Why is that?
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Emily Dickinson had an amazing turn of phrase! Here is a bit of a poem called "The Snake" (although I read that she never named her poetry, and elsewhere it's titled "A Narrow Fellow in the Grass"). Either way, I think we know what I'm saying...
Several of nature's people
I know, and they know me;
I feel for them a transport
Of cordiality;
But never met this fellow,
Attended or alone,
Without a tighter breathing,
And zero at the bone.
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You may well be asking why I did this picture. It's because I've been thinking about Lord Lucan AND Usama Bin Laden. They have several things in common: they both come from extremely privileged backgrounds, they both have a total disregard for human life, and they both have seemingly disappeared without trace. I've done Usama as an English gent!
Technically, I composited this picture in Photoshop, first selecting a picture of Usama, then gentrifying him up with the deerstalker, cloak, monocle and pipe. Then I placed him in context - the background is a detail from "The Haywain" by Constable. I pushed each layer through a different cutout filter then the whole result got pushed through the trace function in Illustrator. Bet you're glad you asked.
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Another grey fade...I guess I must be busy this weekend.
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London kills. That's what people keep telling me. Move to Torrington, it's loverly!
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This should be called "inflamed hair folicle" but it's not.
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This is obviously in the style of Gilbert and George. It went a bit pear-shaped as they both actually end up looking like Carmen Miranda!? (Even more so before I replaced the bananas with missiles).
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This is not about Jesus. This is a picture taken during the last days of the Cult of the Blue Monkey. As you can see the glorious Blue Monkey leader has LOST PERSPECTIVE and grabbed all the big bananas for himself! Unlike this picture.
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This is what Mormons believe:
On the planet KOLOB, orbiting the star KAKISTOCRA, in the constellation of CANCER, God and his many wives have children, which are bodiless spiritual beings. When a child is born on Earth one of these spiritual beings inhabits them to become ‘a living soul’.
They actually believe a lot of weird stuff, but this is the most bizarre. I urge you to investigate further...
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This is a domestic bearbot from the 1970's.
This is camouka animal #1. The artwork is based on the shapes used to make the camouka rabbit (except for the ariel and the claws).
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Be very careful around whipped cream or this can happen!
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It's another horror movie!!! These werewolves are particularly bad because they only transform under a blood moon.
By the way, if you're thinking it doesn't look much like a werewolf that's because this is actually based on a photo that Kev took of a stuffed foxhead (dating from April 1913) that we found in the barn at the farm!!! TRUE!
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Grey Fades with Dot - the lazy choice! Its a loverly hot day here.
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This is the design for my new office desk as at the minute I'm working on a piece of MDF laid between two filing cabinets. I'm hoping to get it completed in about 2010. I've quoted myself an initial estimate of £200 for materials and labour, but the budget has already sky-rocketed to almost £1 billion! On a brighter note my exceptionally low quote to the London Olympics has been accepted, so I'll probably just bang in a bill for that of about £100 billion - EVERYBODY ELSE IS DOING IT!!!
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Here is a copy of an early Camouka advert for a 'Prestige' Visualator, I found this in a 'Festival of Britain' programme dating from 1951. Note the earlier iteration of the Camouka eye, this replaced the 'Pyro' fella that by the 1950's was deemed 'too American' to represent a British company. This advert is the first mention I've found of "Smoking Monkeys" which are of course now widely available, but at the time were very rare!
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Our countryside needs protecting. This is a four-star general of the Badger Watch, an armed response unit based in North Devon, they are authorised to use maximum force.
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There's a message floatin' in the air
Come from crazy horses ridin' everywhere
It's a warning, it's in every tongue
Gotta stop them crazy horses on the run
What a show, there they go smokin' up the sky, yeah
Crazy horses all got riders, and they're you and I
Crazy horses
(Alan Osmond, Wayne Osmond, Merrill Osmond)
from The Osmonds Crazy Horses (1972)
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...It's Tony's obvious pleasure to serve us!
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These are very popular at the moment, particularly in Newton St Petrock and Frithelstock.
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This movie comprises of 180 one minute sequences randomly selected from a pile of 360 sequences, stiched togther by the projectionist before each performance. One of the sequences is "The End" titling, so basically, when you go see this film you never know what's going to happen, nor if or when the movie will end! It may or may not tell the story of a random serial killer using either/or a combination of flash-backs/flash-forwards/present-time.
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Just suppose Mr Spoon had passed through some sort of time vortex and arrived at a future version of Button Moon, one where Button Moon was now RULED BY FORKS! I've added Freddie Teddie in as the Statue of Liberty as originally I was going with the "Oh my God...you blew it up..." speech.
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Isn't corporal mortification a wonderful thing? Brings you closer to God and all that.
As the Rev. Michael Geisler, spiritual director of Opus Dei in St. Louis says "Self-denial helps a person overcome both psychological and physical weakness, gives him energy, helps him grow in virtue and ultimately leads to salvation. It conquers the insidious demons of softness, pessimism and lukewarm faith that dominate the lives of so many today".
Then again, I found this information about self-harmers on the BBC Health website:
"Self-harm is almost always a symptom of another underlying problem... it may also be necessary to look at and treat other problems. This could involve anything from medication to psychodynamic therapy."
AND:
"There are different theories as to why people self-mutilate. One is that because victims of childhood sexual abuse were forbidden to reveal the truth about their abuse, they use self-mutilation or self-cutting to express the horror of their abuse to the world."
AND ALSO THIS:
"Another theory for self-cutting is that it triggers release of the body's natural opiate-like chemicals to reduce the pain. Perhaps self-cutters have become addicted to their body's heroin-like reaction...which is why they do it again and again. Drugs used to treat heroin addicts may be helpful...for those who describe a 'high' after they've cut themselves."
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This picture is supposed to make the point that we are not one of those crappy tinpot countries where it's citizens can be forcibly removed in the dead of night by THEIR OWN security services, and then held WITHOUT CHARGE and without reference to their HUMAN RIGHTS or THE GENEVA CONVENTION, but now with added TORTURE. No, wait a moment - that does happen here! I guess it's ok though 'cos they only do it to guilty terrorists right? RIGHT?
Anyway, I hear that the Gulfstream V Turbo is a very luxurious and comfortable ride so what's the problem?
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Our dog Splink loves presents. That's why I've designed this Splink Wrapping paper.
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This is branding for a fertility clinic.
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This is based on a Milton Glaser picture of Bob Dylan. Gordon Brown seems to have raided pension funds to the tune of £75 BILLION! Legally. I've knotted the 75 billion into his hair to indicate where it now resides, but there are probably too many noughts. I'm not sure if we are talking about a nice healthy British billion (a million times a million) or a measly US one (a thousand times a million). Just imagine that.
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This is based on an old BOAC advert that I found in a magazine. I'm voting for Blair-On-Sea because I've been there and it's nice.
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Mystic Rabbit does not exist. Please do not send me emails asking his whereabouts.
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Feel Whirly is based on drawings by my father.
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Feel Whirly is based on drawings by my father.
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This movie is awful! Like a cross between 'Zombie Lake' and 'Sugar Hill'.
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