lesbians

31st of Aug, 2006ce* in: girls, illustration

OK so I wasn’t going to post this image to my website because quite simply it’s not the sort of stuff I comfortable making. I had the idea sure enough, and the execution isn’t terrible, however schoolgirl porn is something I’m new at making and don’t want to be perceived as a dirty old man! :)

Often, when I make new illustrations I will tout them on art forums to get a bit of instant feedback. Often I will completely ignore the feedback I get choosing my personal opinion over others. Posting on forums really does make ones style more digestible, but what happens to ones style? Unfortunately, it is easily extinguished.

changing faces!

18th of Aug, 2006ce* in: diary

during 1999 and 2001 I was eating hardly anything!

voices in your head!

15th of Aug, 2006ce* in: diary

I watched a documentary a few weeks ago about people who could “hear” voices in their heads. At the end of the documentary they concluded that we all have an inner track, which is basically the part of the brain that talks to it’s self, and to a certain extent tells “you” what to do. The difference with these people is that their brains have somehow made wrong connections, ending up with the inner track talking to them as if it were another person.

I sometimes hear voices in that semi-sleep state before one loses consciousness and falls into deep sleep. And indeed, yesterday, I heard those voices having a conversation in my head. One truly remarkable thing, is that one can’t control these “voices”. They just have some kind of automatic track - talking about things you couldn’t even imagine, or mundane things that are of little interest.

Thankfully in this period before deep sleep, they don’t actually talk directly to me, it’s more like I’m listing to the radio or something. I hope one day I can steal some cool ideas!

power black out

14th of Aug, 2006ce* in: diary

at about 7am this morning, not when I usually wake up but for some reason I was up and watching a crap movie on my computer, the electricity supply in the building was shut off. At first I thought it was my trip switch (sometimes goes if I’m using the air conditioner too much) but under closer inspection none of the switches were down. Secondly I thought it might be because of my bills… that seemed far fetched so I checked all the meters outside, none of the dials were spinning so the only possible logical explanation was that somewhere, someone has fucked up!

I live near two stations and I could hear trains running, little did I know that the whole of this area (some 800,000 homes and offices) was disconnected due to some buffoon piloting his crane barge into Tokyo’s main power cables. They got it all fixed by about 10am. My apartment came back to life, somewhat interrupting a wonderful game of New Super Mario on my DS. :)

Salon Boutique Autumn and Winter 2006

13th of Aug, 2006ce* in: notiondesign, websites

Working for Notion Design I produced these background illustrations for an Autumn and Winter interactive flash piece to be placed on the existing Salon Boutique website. Photography is by the tallented Kyosyu Mizohata. Model: Clients own.

great Uncle King, RIP

10th of Aug, 2006ce* in: diary

In-between masses of emails from clients, I got a rather sombre and sobering email from my mother notifying me of my great Uncles death. He was involved in a car crash some weeks ago in New Zealand, when an oncoming motorist had a heart attack and veered into Bob’s car, hitting him and his wife.

He had been making a recovery after surviving the induced coma that the doctors administered, even sitting up and eating, however a few days ago he suffered a massive multiple organ failure and passed away. It’s very sad and hasn’t really hit home yet, I only met the guy once when I was a kid, while he was on holiday in the UK.

Bob King setup his own company in New Zealand a very long time ago, selling computers. His company is now run by his son. Bob also has a two brothers(?) and a sister (his sister being my grandmother) who survive him.

I’m saddened because not long ago he sent me an email asking how I was getting on in Japan and if I would like to come to New Zealand to meet the estranged tangled limbs of what is the King family. He also talked of my blood-relative now deceased Grandfather, who I only met once. I grew up knowing my step-grandfather. Bob said I shared similar characteristics to him, and as my fathers blood-side isn’t so strong in defining my features (certainly doesn’t explain my beer-belly!) I was deeply intrigued. I wrote a reply to him, however this must have been after he was involved in his fatal accident, as I get family news last, being distant as I am. He took the secrets of my grandmothers first husband with him!

Not being able to contact him before his death is of great pain to me.

RedBull Break Masterz

1st of Aug, 2006ce* in: dadako, illustration

Asked by LessRain to update a flyer for a breakdancing event at Notting Hill Carnival in London (UK). Had to work from an older design Red Bull used last year. Was using a different font and breakdancers but changed at the clients request.