Illustration Friday: Atmosphere

I've been listening to a lot of Doves and The Black Keys recently. It's a good thing, honest.

Illustration Friday: Star gazing

Illustration Friday has a different subject each week. Thought I'd have a quick go for the first time.

Refait (Remade)

I love this remake of the penalty shoot out between Germany and France in the '82 World Cup.

It reminds me of growing up, particularly this game. A French team full of flair and quality with Michel Platini and Alain Giresse against the goal-scoring machine that was Germany's Karl-Heine Rummenigge. Jumpers for goalposts, concrete pitches, basically just playing football with mates anywhere I could.

Room with a view

Skateboarding Hip Hop

The idea of a Grizzly Bear listening to Jay Z just got me thinking.

Burqa Banning

I like David Mitchell's column in The Observer. Not only is he funny and intelligent, but he appears to be successfully carrying off the kind of mid 80's haircut that made my first year at sixth form a nightmare. Talking to girls just didn't happen. I played a LOT of football.

Combine it with a pair of large glasses and you really can see how much fun I was having.

I've never been one to wrap myself in the flag, even during the World Cup. It's always been from my left of centre perspective, something I associate with the right wing. Fashion and faith are among a number of things that help identify your personality. Underneath everything we are still French, British, Iraqi, Catholic, Muslim. Anyway, it got me thinking, especially after France partially banned the burqa about how some people's perceptions might change if rather than just coming in plain black, burqa's came in the Union Jack.

Who Cooked The Planet?

A prime example of the previous post. A simple and a very quick drawing from a New York Times article about climate change. Not the best laid out idea but it does what it says on the tin.

Busy Girls Buy..

So. It's been a while. How have you all been?

I've been playing around with a few ideas over the last month. Some have worked and others have been well, terrible if I'm honest. The thing I've realised is that I've got so caught up in making everything perfect I started self policing, second guessing and judging what to upload. In the long run, it's stifling creatively and not what I had in mind as the aim of this blog. So with that out of the way, I'm back on track. This is a Billy Bragg song, an early classic about shopping commercialism, and way before all the glossy magazines.