a good omen made from rainstorm debris & scrappy paint,
i built it with niels oeltjen over an afternoon this week / melbourne, april 2012

another home-made tattoo on sean — – - – xm.

first polaroids from los angeles : april 2012.

i’ve spent the last little while in los angeles, working on a film. it’s a brilliant city, real strange. gross & sleazy & amazing.
i’m still not sure what to make of it. some first polaroids taken in between;

anthony lister / hollywood & vine / silverlake / psychic advisors & smoke shops.

If you’re in Melbourne this week, I’m a part of;

1. The Modern Times Pop-Up Shop 3 - which opens tonight, 311 Smith St, Fitzroy, and looks pretty amazing.

2. The MoNOW / We Australians project – an installation in the National Gallery of Victoria Studio Space.

xx.

* tattooed by william yoneyama

**

i never thought for a minute that i’d enjoy being an illustrator. for years and years, i avoided anything to do with it. maybe terrified that i
couldn’t draw consistently enough, or to someone else’s liking. always corrected interviews that called me one, because i’d never,
once ever, taken a single job drawing for anyone else.

then my brilliant friend matt asked me to illustrate his first cook-book, my mouth turned to jelly, and the next thing, i’m laying out all these vegetables across my desk, cutting up paper and buying new pens. i spend two weeks in my studio, and when i finally put my head up, i realise
that i loved it.

i’m so proud of matt, and so proud of studio racket for putting it all together so well.
it’s beautiful to hold, & so nice to be a part of it.

 the book / matt / studio racket – xxm.

*  toshi in his tattoo studio
**  usugrow, studio
***  jun inoue & ghostpatrol

xxm.

david shrigley lithograph on the house floor, melbourne, 2012.