In Utero

Pencils for the ink drawing that I'm working on. It's a little bit deceptive since the actual image is significantly larger; I just forgot to set the scanner to an A3 paper size.


I planned to finish this piece last weekend but the sudden arrival of a full-time job put a damper on that one. It's currently sitting at home about 1/3 inked.

Can't Argue With A Confident Man

I remember watching the original "Assault on Precinct 13" and making a mental note of how great the soundtrack was. John Carpenter played a mean synthesizer back in the day. And I love the fact that he scored his own films, too -- there's not nearly enough dual-threat director/composers!



I really don't mind painting in either complete silence or whilst talking to the people around me but music's definitely a prerequisite if we're talking about my optimum studio environment. It keeps me loose and relaxed, gets me into a physical rhythm, and stops me from thinking about how long everything's taking (for the most part). I suppose it helps me build a story behind the image, too.

Typically, I'll thrown on an instrumental playlist -- anything from The Dust Brothers to Miles Davis to RJD2 to Explosions in the Sky, depending on what kind of mood I'm in or tone I want to set. Might just have to add John Carpenter to that list as well.

Little Garcon

Street musicians on a sunny day in New Orleans.

Silver Lining

Alex McLeod -- Toronto-based digital artist and all round nice bloke. I met him through a friend of my brother's at The Taxali 300 opening and had a nice chat about making it out the other end of art school and living as a practicing artist.



It was fun to hear that Alex had majored in painting/drawing at school (the same thing as I am studying now) since he basically abandoned all the traditional practices he learned to branch off in his own direction. Not something I see myself doing given my digital ineptitude but it just goes to show you that there's more to life than school -- especially when it comes to art.



It was interesting for me to hear Alex talk about how he was influenced by those old point-and-click adventure games and their pre-rendered backgrounds because I look at these images and see them as photographs of dioramas or set-pieces that have actually been physically constructed. In my mind, at least, it's like we're walking through a Hollywood soundstage or a claymation studio just seconds after everyone left for lunch. I dunno. There's something charming and nostalgic about how self-consciously artificial these setups are and I really like that.

You can check out more of Alex's stuff on Kanye's blog. Or if you just happen to be in Barcelona in February to March, I highly encourage you to go and visit the Rojo Artspace.

Human Detritus

A little slice of creepy from down in New Orleans. I'm sure that kid's shirt just fell off a parent's stroller or something but it still sent my imagination spinning off into some dark corner.

Undiscovered Country

Found this last lomo image hiding on my desktop. If I remember correctly, it was shot in a Jewish restaurant in Brookline, Boston, where I had the potato pancakes.


I'm currently working on an ink drawing -- nothing too fancy, just something to get the wheels turning again (school starts in a fortnight, after all). Pencils are all rendered so we'll see if I can knock it out sometime today.

I Always Thought Violence Didn't Solve Anything Until One Day It Did

I'm not really one for video art or French noir for that matter, but I did think this was a pretty neat flick:

Nuit Blanche from Spy Films on Vimeo.

The slow motion's borderline gratuitous but at least it tells a story that has nothing to do with "The Matrix". Also, it kind of makes me want to go out and buy a Phantom camera even though I'd have no idea what to do with the bloody thing.