last hours #2

here's the other one. it's for a group review of the latest releases from Household Name Records. i need to get better at not spending ages and ages doing a drawing that will end up being tiny in the final thing. i like the detail and it's been okay this time because i've had a few days to just focus on doing this so i guess it's chill for now. this: plus this:

plus this;
plus this:
equals this:
should be out around the 14th of April. there's a launch party at the cross kings in kings cross (eh) that Fall of Efrafa and Attack! Vipers! are playing which will literally shred so hard. 

check out: 
Last Hours Website

Last Hours Illustrations

back home but had to knock out a few illustrations this week for a zine a bunch of my friends do called Last Hours for their CD review section. haven't really had the time to sit down and work them out start to finish so i did the different bits and then whacked them together on the computer. don't really dig doing this but it's been good fun actually. so this:
plus this:
 equals this:

videos and current work.

not posted anything up here because we're currently involved in a group project and have therefore been uploading work to a group blog. you can have a nosey at that if you head over to;

http://weareteambest.blogspot.com

to tide you over though here's what i've been watching on youtube this week;

body suit/costume malarky

following in from identifying our primary needs, we had a couple weeks to create a full body suit that enabled us to obtain our needs easier. basically to re-design ourselves. here's me in mine looking amazing. 

thats a massive mouth with teeth for eating loads and talking words. thats books sewn to my hands cos i love language. thats some dirt on my feet with tomatos and herbs and stuff growing in them so i can grow my own food on my feet. the shirt is representative of systems and patterns and all that malarky. there you go. 

zines zines zines

here is a fox i drew for a zine me and my friends jess and phil started making on sunday. that's all. 

also check out my friend sams blog, it's ridiculous;

http://samuelcraven.blogspot.com

Needles and Pens group show

went to the opening of an amazing group show at 96 Gillespie last night. Needles and Pens is an amazing zine shop/art & crafts shop/gallery space in san francisco. they've taken over the gallery to show the work of a bunch of amazing artists coming out of the surrounding area who've had exhibitions at the shop recently. it's really good so i recommend you check it out. Monica Canilao, Mike Brodie (the polaroid kidd), Mat o'Brien, Chris Duncan, Bill Daniel, Paul Urich and quite a few others. Monica Canilao is definitely one of my favourite artists at the moment. she is unreal. 

www.96gillespie.com/next_up/index.htm

pretty sure it runs for awhile so get down. also they've put out a hand done book ltd to 200 so get involved. lovely. couldn't find any images on the internet of mat o'briens work but he's got a book out called hug the grey which is awesome. you can get it from the gallery for about a tenner. 

Pieter Hugo

similar thing, this guy Pieter Hugo has taken a bunch of incredible photos of people with hyenas and leopards and monkeys for pets in South Africa. I saw him awhile back when he was featured in Portfolio so figured i'd whack something up here. check his website out at; www.pieterhugo.com

Amy Stein

started drawings loads of animals for a zine i'm gonna try and get out for the London Zine Symposium (www.londonzinesymposium.lasthours.org.uk). me and a few friends are thinking about putting together a collaborative handmade zine with each of us having a little section. we'll see what happens. 

as a result though i've bought a load of old magazines and books to draw from and have come across two ridiculously good photographers. one is Amy Stein, who got alot of coverage for her Halloween in Harlem project, especially on ffffound.com. the image above is from her new series 'Domesticated' and its pretty insane. check out her website at; www.amysteinphoto.com

photo's

while i'm here, here are a few photo's i've taken really. not really relevant to anything in particular but there you go. 

primary needs

here are some drawings i did for our last project. the plan was to try and isolate our primary needs. the things that are most important to our survival and wellbeing. i found it ridiculously hard but in the end boiled it down to;

FOOD,

LANGUAGE/COMMUNICATION,

SYSTEMS.

images above are some i did of food and for the brief period i thought i couldn't live without the postal service. i wanted to do something about food because since going vegan it takes up an insane amount of my thinking time and seems to have started to effect virtually everything i do or buy, etc. language i guess is a pretty self explanitory one, the need to share and learn and communicate and connect and literally everything are all done through language or some kind. systems is a roundabout term that basically means universality and patterns of some sort. ive been reading this book about chaos and starting to learn about things like bifurcation is blowing my mind abit. the patterns that form. bit of a vague one because i don't even get it at the moment but its one of those things i recognise as important but cant really explain why. good.

also, see how i've used coloured pencils. OOOOOHHHH

reporter project

finally, after almost 3 months. our project over the christmas period was to document a club. i chose RFC Bourne. here is a selection of drawings from my time there. 

some entirely unrelated recipes

being vegan is so easy. i'm going to put up some dead quick and delicious recipes here cos i might get a bunch together and do a zine with accompanying illustrations. focusing on the QUICK side though, because every vegan cookbook i have each dish takes a year to make. 

AMAZING SANDWICH

-mushrooms

-garlic salt

-lettuce

-sweet chili dipping sauce (this is the best thing ever invented)

-bread

-veg oil

this takes about two minutes. put the toast in. fry the mushrooms in the oil. then arrange them in this very specific order in the sandwich. bread. then mushrooms. then garlic salt. then lettuce. then the chili sauce. then the other bit of toast. incredible. also you can exchange the mushrooms for vegan sausages (linda mcartneys are vegan! and really cheap!) or tofu or whatever you want really. go wild. 

SIMPLE TOFU MARINADE.

-tofu (firm, ideally not silken but its cheaper so still works)

-sweet chili sauce (seriously)

-soy sauce

-honey

i basically do this every time i have tofu. cut the tofu into like one inch squares or rectangles or if you like massive squares. get a tupperware container and whack some soy sauce and chili sauce and honey in the bottom. lay the tofu out. put another lot of soy, chili and honey on. you can build up the layers if theres a bunch of tofu going in the pan. also i hardly ever have honey and honey in itself is a vegan issue so if you don't eat honey its perfectly fine without. i mostly only use soy and chili sauce. you can use a white wine vinegar if you are posh. just try stuff and see if its nice. 

so yeah, put a really small amount of veg sauce in the pan and fry each side of the tofu til it goes golden brown and a bit crispy. then flip it over (if its siken tofu be dead careful cos it will just crumble) and do the other side. serve with rice or as part of a stir fry or with peppers in a wrap or just about in any dish ever. a good one is fry up some sprouts with it and have on rice. delicious. 

DEAD SIMPLE PIE

-mushrooms

-onions

-flour

-oil

-gravy granules

-stuffing mix

this is basically well easy and an amazing way to get rid of all your veg if its about to go off. also its amazing if there's a bunch of you to get involved. we make this in halls on sundays to make us feel like adults. and its really easy to make it vegan. basically chop up the mushrooms and onion and carrot and sweetcorn or whatever veg you have and whack it in casserole dish or similar. then make a pastry using the flour and a little bit of veg oil and roll it out til its big enough to cover the top of the dish. do the gravy (standard bisto is vegan, not sure about the chicken ones, somerfield own isnt, jsut check the label) and whack it in the dish. you should try and get it stacked full of veg cos then it won't be too liguidy once its done. put that in for maybe 25 minutes or so til its done. at about 200/220 or something. do the stuffing and whack that in for 20 minutes. smash isn't vegan but if you boil a potato then mash it its nicer and entirely vegan so you're chillin. serve with extra gravy and maybe boil up some brocolli and carrot if they aren't in the pie. you could go totally mental and spread some Pure (soya butter) over some parsnips and roast them AS WELL. they take about 40 mins though so get em in before the pie. eat until you feel like you need to go to sleep.

thats probably enough for now. any suggestions give me a shout. i love food.