I got featured on the Artful's site
The Artfuls is a very cool little site – well not so little anymore- featuring various illustrators and illustrations.
They interview artists and illustrators and feature free downloadable wallpapers of all these cool illustrators.
You can read my interview and see some of my work here
Thank you again to Tony from the Artful’s for having me!
Bull fights are still taking place in a few countries in the world including Spain where I live at the moment.
In spain the majority of the population is not interested in the Bullfights but they are being kept alive by a small but influential following and is being subsidised by Spain and the EU too.
Alyx Dow, the Programmes Officer (Anti-Bullfighting) for the WSPA says that:
“Unfortunately a huge amount of support also comes from tourism; because tourists are led to believe that bullfighting is part of a particular country. They are unwittingly supporting a dying industry that thrives on the torture of an animal: many leave the fights shaken and disturbed by what they have witnessed, which is, simply, animal cruelty for the sake of entertainment.”(from thedarkphantom.wordpress.com )
So if you are visiting Spain don’t go to a bullfight! Especially because there are so many other beautiful and interesting cultural things in Spain that don’t involve animal cruelty.
If you want to read more about bullfighting and how to stop it here are a few good links:
www.stopbullfighting.org.uk: Read up on the gory facts behind the myth of Bullfighting.
www.cas-international.org: The biggest organization in the world which works exclusively on the abolition of bullfighting and cruel fiestas (festivals) during which bulls and other animals are tortured.
action.peta.org.uk: Take action.
As it is december, here is a little Christmas decoration to put on your desktop, iPhone or iPad.
Click the links below to download:
Earlier this week Andrew Lockwood from Amelias Magazine (A daily online magazine focusing on art, music, fashion and earth ) went and met with Jamie McDermot, frontman from the band The Irrepressibles to ask him about his life, his music and the extravagant performance art-style the band is known for.
A long time admirer of this band I was quite exited to do the illustrations to accompany Andrew’s interview with Jamie.
Read the interview and see all of my The Irrepressibles Illustrations here
This is a homage to my friend J.B. Shoemaker who, even though he was just about to set sail to Bahamas, had to check out early.
Our expat paths crossed in prague, I met him in the infamous Prague expat haunt Marquis de Sade that he ran at the time.
From the time we first met he was always a source of inspiration, from our plans of writing graphic novels together-
there was one about a hunchback in the Tyn and a mysterious large amount of Dwarfs in Prague, entitled Dypsomania:
or a more obscure and ramble-full tale of three pals on an adventure, including 49 year old quarterbacks, and finger-eating spitting lizards:
to his inability of showing up on time or when promised, followed by his talent for excuses that made it all worth wile:
Im sorry you had to leave so soon JB, I was hoping for more stories to come.
