My entry for the London Calling challenge. I found this difficult as I’ve never been to London to get a real ‘feel’ for the place, but here’s my two-cents worth: I have given a big nod towards graffiti/street art with the general style of the piece (line work, spray marks and drips) the London skyline gets a look in I couldn’t resist the CCTV camera robot (paranoid android?) with London having over 100 000 cameras throughout the city and finally I’ve included a large rain cloud in reference to the grey, overcast and generally miserable weather. I can’t decide on a colour – according to the challenge we should have one colour option for the shirt – so feel free to let me know what colour you think works best :) Detail: /
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Are multiple overlapping CCTV Cameras getting you down? Does the thought of not just stereo 3-D capture of you walking down a perfectly normal street in daylight, but three if not more multiple freaking angles increasingly annoy you? Are you willing to let even more civil liberties slide by? Damnit, just swallow this capsule and let yourself be microchipped already. It’ll solve a lot of problems, and if nothing else a lot of people who are paid to monitor the things will be able to get some sunlight again. Remember : if you have nothing to hide, what are you afraid of?
white pencils on A4 black paper. / I used this as a reference and chose this title because iron maiden was playing and made me realize the pose was like she’s looking over her shoulder into the darkness.
Paranoia is a disturbed thought process characterized by excessive anxiety or fear, often to the point of irrationality and delusion. Paranoid thinking typically includes persecutory beliefs concerning a perceived threat. In the original Greek, παράνοια (paranoia) simply means madness (para = outside; nous = mind) and, historically, this characterization was used to describe any delusional state.
Two different feelings that come from the same place.
The main purpose of this picture was to show people how I drew. So I recorded the whole process and uploaded it on youtube. :D video found here
So seemingly, I need to keep producing pictures of me with my camera. I’ve recently just won a contest with Digital Camera Magazine for this photo: farm1.static.flickr.com/48/146017063_7f30fa9c0b_o.jpg But this shot is for another apparent inclusion for my Shelf Portrait
[oh how I wish to be fearless…
Could be seen as a companion image to Crossing the Ravine, or something different entirely.
be careful. / remain suspicious. / just when you least expect it. / are you safe? / are your children safe? / watch the news. / lock your doors. / keep your TV on at all times. / only communicate with like minded people. / pray. (edited from a horrendous home furnishings store with ‘Bombay’ in the title.) as seen in my calendar reality edited /
paranoid
OK OK this really sad shirt is a very very quick throw up for the speed tee shirt competition going on in over in the *arse forums….... yes yes I know its sad but thats what we do to amuse ourselves over there on slow nights like tonight…..
You ever get that funny feeling on the back of your neck? Now you know why.
Before I ‘went bush’ I lived in a secure apartment in one of the worst areas of Adelaide. To my dismay I learned that elderley and crippled blind men were easy targets for the gangs that roam the streets after dark; and even more alarmingly during the day. This painting is how I began to see my fellow inhabitants of the City, both real and in my Nightmares. Call me a cowardly custard if you will, and paranoid, but I opted out, and I can now go to bed without barring my doors, or living in fear ( apart from the denizens of my dreams ). I’m afraid the more genteel times I grew up in are no more, and it’s a shame. This painting is 70 cm x 100 cm on primed board, and was painted with Acrylics.
Drew the hand by hand on photoshop! :p .
On the 12th June, Briain’s Shadow Home Secretary blasted the government and its controversial ‘42 Days’ law – the right to detain without charge people suspected of terrorism, a law which was by many accounts “bullied” through parliament by the British Prime Minister Gordon Brown. Now I have no better solution for what to do in these uncertain times, but I utterly applaud Davis’ convictions in resigning from his position, and forcing a by-election in his electorate. The words of his speech are inspirational, and not wholly transferred onto this shirt. Highlights: This Sunday is the anniversary of Magna Carta, a document that guarantees the fundamental element of British freedom, habeas corpus. The right not to be imprisoned by the state without charge or reason. But yesterday this house allowed the state to lock up potentially innocent citizens for up to six weeks without charge. Because the generic security arguments relied on will never go away – technology, developing complexity and so on – we will next see 56 days, now it’s 70 days, 90 days. 42 days is just one, perhaps the most salient example, of the insidious, surreptitious and relentless erosion of fundamental British freedoms. We will have, shortly, the most intrusive identity card system in the world, a CCTV camera for every 14 citizens, a DNA database bigger than any dictator should have with thousands of innocent children and millions of innocent citizens on it. consider one of the most fundamental issues of our day: the ever intrusive power of the state into our lives, the loss of privacy, the loss of freedom and the steady attrition undermining the rule of law.
This was inspired by a friends writings. They, for some reason, made me more aware of how obsessed many people around me are with what people are thinking and saying about them. Everyone is a little bit curious, but here (where I live), position and gossip are the end all for who’s who. So, here is a New Year’s resolution for the world..UBU!
This is an original character. He is to appear eventually in one of my comics, but he’s just too cool not to draw
A painting from when I was 14ish. I made a smaller design out of it a few years later which I uploaded a little while ago here. / I’ve been seeing some rectangular designs on shirts in the buyers booth lately, they don’t look half bad.. so I thought I’d test this out.
Acrylic on canvas. 80cm x 100cm Approx. This work is available for sale – bubblemail me. I have tried to represent that feeling when you go out from the safety of your home and you are not feeling on top of the world. Everybody seems aggressive. They are talking about you, even though they don’t know you. The world seems hateful. I think the childlike style of the painting enhances the feeling of vulnerability even us adults can experience from time to time.
Sacrificed by the animals of the forest and the sea and the sky and the ground. Bohemian paranoia. Watercolour on paper, 20×30 cm http://myfreecopyright.com/images/mfc_protected.png!
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