Car Seat

Surfer's Journal posted this great photo of a surfer duuude chillin out under the bonnet (hood) of a VW Bug at Manly from 1989....good times!

Blue Rinse

I'm afraid this is a bit of a Badly Drawn Boy :-(

Anyone for croquet?

Huzzah! My Dad on the lawn on croquet day...(happens all the time in Newton, I believe). Rah! Rah! Rah!

When I was sketching this, I said to Emma - "Can you see who it is?" and she said - "Is it a cowboy?"

.....kids,eh?!

Rhyming Mariner

Rimey mariner rhyming...

Eskimo Guy

Is it just me - or is Eskimo cool the coolest cool? Innuit? ...Cool.

(Think I must have a thing about Eskimo just now...I did this Eskimo Baby on my surfboard the other month to jazz it up a bit :-)

Give us a kiss!

This is one of our favourite things in the newly re-opened National Museum in Edinburgh. You can go up to the 1st floor and look down at the giraffe stretching up to you...did you know that giraffe's tongues are blue? (the dead one's at least - don't really know about the others!)

Snapshot

THAT moment. That terrible, wonderful moment. The moment shortly after Gary had jumped on the rope swing that Ross had jumped on...that Scott Gibson was already sitting on - and the moment shortly before we started to wonder whether Scott might be dead.

Stitch Head

In the maze-like dungeons of Castle Grotteskew, the frightfully insane Professor Erasmus conducts his bizarre experiments on living things. His very first creation has been long forgotten - a small, almost-human creature, known only as Stitch Head....

From the illustrations of Pete Williamson in the book by Guy Bass.

Frustration

Ever felt like this?...

...Nah. Me neither ;)

Dyathinkeesaurus?

Watched Banksy's film "Exit through the gift shop" last night - thought it was fantastic, truly riveting. What a weird and wonderful character Thierry Guetta is and the street art of Banksy, Shepard Fairey and those guys is genuinely awesome...inspiring and intimidating in equal measure (though my mind did flicker back, for the briefest of seconds, to "Rubbish Bin With Crisp Packet and Coke Can" which featured, fleetingly, amongst the installations in a Princes Street Gardens exhibition one year ;-)

There is a little chatter saying that the whole Mr Brainwash, Thierry Guetta thing is in fact another elaborate Banksy creation - which I am more than happy to believe (in fact I'd be disappointed now to find out that it isn't) it seems right up his street art! There is something very Andy Kaufman-esk about Banksy's humour - although he makes 1000-words-per-painting worth of social comment...you still get the impression that he'd be happy if the only people who get his jokes are him and his mates.

Here's a dinosaur:

Squishy

Love this little guy ;-)

Comic Book Style

Just Doodles

Duuude!

I shamelessly copied this from t'internet - off of a guy called FilipZ (his is far better though, so I'm not going to put up the link on here 'cos I'm jealous)....Just thought he was a cool wee guy ;)

Herges Adventures of...

Hey! It's only TINTIN! Genius Boy Reporter, Moon Adventurer and Deepsea Diver! Finder of Red Rackham's lost pirate treasure and the Seven Crystal Balls, Scourge of the Chicago ganglords and naughty people everywhere! ...and yet, even all that still doesn't make it cool or acceptable to wear Plus-Fours!

(like his hair though...)

Street Hockey - Newton Styley

Nicked this from a fantastic old Polaroid off Mum's Facebook page...Kenny with bob-skates on the pavement! Actually, he may've been born with them on...I can't remember

Manga Eye

Did this one for my Flickr Buddy Icon:

"Artist" Martin Creed

One of Edinburgh's top 678 most famous stairways 'The Scotsman Steps', has reopened after a £250,000 refurbishment and the addition of a major piece of unique "art".
The stairway/toilet has not only undergone a much needed facelift - a bargain at only £100,000 over-budget - but it now also includes an "art" project by Turner Prize-winning "artist", Martin Creed. In a monumental tea-break, involving a napkin and several packets of crayons, the idea was plucked from the Muse's bottom - that each of the 104 steps be clad in a different colour of marble...Martin's "major piece of unique art" (Edinburgh Council 'Outlook')
Creed was so totally, like, exhausted by the prodigious effort of birthing the "art" installation, he was, unfortunately, mistaken for one of the artists who previously decorated the stairway on a nightly basis and was thrown off the site.

Breezy

In the lingering whiff of hurricane Katia...