F*** Prohibition, it's Josh Kane's Birthday
A birthday portrait I drew for Josh. Are portraits going to be the new birthday cakes? (Blog posts here and here) I think so. *hides*Last Saturday evening Joshua Kane had a little birthday soiree at...
View ArticleBeautiful brutality: 'BRUTAL' by Lazarides & The Vinyl Factory Opening Night
Yesterday evening I headed down to 180 The Strand for the opening night of BRUTAL by Lazarides & The Vinyl Factory. "A BRUTAL show in a beautiful building for brutal times" said Steve Lazarides of...
View ArticleIntermission
I've just got back from Paris (on Friday morning) to squashed pastries (courtesy of a freak X-ray machine accident at the Eurostar check in), a messy apartment (two unhung coats and a single mug on a...
View ArticlePercy's Party
Percy Parker by moi, only the second of portraits that I henceforth offer as birthday presents to my friends. This week Percy Parker turned 27 26. Mistress of poor time management that I am, I missed...
View ArticleStarted From The Bottom Now My Whole Team Here: Paris: Day 1
Even the best laid plans---and my plans are nothing but such, you'd never see me charge into battle unprepared or heaven forbid do so and then moan about the less-than-desired outcome---can come...
View ArticleInspiration Du Jour
I have always loved and been inspired by fashion illustrations. Graceful swells of fabric soaring in imaginary wind and waves of hair tumbling in heaps onto delicate collar bones portrayed by...
View ArticleStarted From The Bottom Now My Whole Team Here: Paris: Day 2
Well, Paris was certainly off to a promising start. The evening before was exciting enough (not including details I would rather not mention in writing), it was only raining mildly on the morning of...
View ArticleStarted From The Bottom Now My Whole Team Here: Paris: Day 3 Pt.1
(I shall split the events of Day 3 into two blog posts, lest it become too protracted an affair. I'm all for virtual escapism, but even so, 100+ photos from one day is a little tedious even for me) A...
View ArticleStarted From The Bottom Now My Whole Team Here: Paris: Day 3 Pt.2
Eager to leave Paris in a blaze of glory (and a cloud of pain) India, James (HK/The Freshmaker) hit up a dive bar and four clubs after dinner. This is us at Titty Twister while the night was still...
View ArticleDebunking the 'Never meet your heroes' myth.
You know how it is said that you should never meet your heroes in person because it will only bring disappointment? I've proven that wrong.Yesterday I met Joe Sacco!*implodes with joy*I was at Comica...
View Article☠ HALLOWEEN ☠
Just some Halloween imagery I've stumbled upon my usual perusal of the internet. I do love Halloween---not so much for girls just wearing a cheap, badly-made, off-the-rack 'sexy costume' and calling it...
View ArticlePPQ Private Sales Evening
Yesterday evening I coerced---the soft power of gentle persuasion is the way forward---Diana, Nichole, and Josh to come with to the PPQ Private Sales Evening at The Sanderson. Pre-ordering next season...
View ArticleHalloween; The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
I'm on a roll. I've met two of my art heroes in a week. The first was journalist and comic artist Joe Sacco on Sunday. The second was legendary photographer Ellen Von Unwerth on Halloween at Le Baron,...
View Article☆ Birthday portraits ☆ October 2013 Edition
October's birthday portraits. Clockwise; Joshua Kane, Max Clarke, Percy Parker, Hamish Jenkinson.Despite what some---usually disgruntled drones and champagne socialists---would like to believe I am not...
View Article停止恭维捕鱼。
Photo by Max.This is my first blog post in Chinese. I wrote it as such in the off-chance that the person I'm talking about reads my blog, and although I've been neither unfair nor unkind I'd still...
View ArticleHouse of Hackney
It's that dreadful time of year when the days are short and the sun, if there's any at all, sets at five. How terribly demotivating! Yesterday I missed Zumba because I overslept and woke up at...wait...
View ArticleHow I fell in love with a lady in red.
When it comes to handbag related promiscuity I think I fall squarely in the range between bag whore (in the words of Michiekins "Semua pun mau") and fairly committed. I'm neither the fashion victim who...
View ArticleSeize The DAYRE: Microblogging with Dayre
AdvertorialI'm chuffed to bits to announce that I am one of the 30 bloggers in the UK chosen to be an 'Alpha-seeder' for microblogging app Dayre! The timing couldn't be more perfect or fortuitous, as...
View ArticleSushi Samba One Year Anniversary
Sushi? Samba? Japanese and Brazilian seems like such an odd fusion. Clearly this marriage works for Sushi Samba, because they've done well enough to make it to their one year anniversary....
View ArticleAudaciously Yours Week 3 is UP and available to read ONLINE! ♡
Audaciously Yours Week 3: Don't Hate, Just Appreciate hit Malaysian newsstands last week in the lifestyle section of Heat+.Read the latest instalment of my monthly comic series at theAudaciously Yours...
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