I used to listen to this song "KINGS CROSS" as a kid in my bed at night with my earphones on, later on i actually hanged out in Kings Cross a lot and saw a some of the best live music there at random venues... Right now this song had a complete different meaning in my life but the album cover is still seamless and words are honey to the ears and a gray blanket for the soul.
"King's Cross"

The man at the back of the queue was sent
To feel the smack of firm government
Linger by the flyposter, for a fight
It's the same story every night
I've been hurt and we've been had
You leave home, and you don't go back

Someone told me Monday, someone told me Saturday
Wait until tomorrow and there's still no way
Read it in a book or write it in a letter
Wake up in the morning and there's still no guarantee

Only last night I found myself lost
By the station called King's Cross
Dead and wounded on either side
You know it's only a matter of time
I've been good and I've been bad
I've been guilty of hanging around

Someone told me Monday, someone told me Saturday
Wait until tomorrow and there's still no way
Read it in a book or write it in a letter
Wake up in the morning and there's still no guarantee

So I went looking out today
For the one who got away
Murder walking round the block
Ending up in King's Cross
Good luck, bad luck waiting in a line
It takes more than the matter of time

Someone told me Monday, someone told me Saturday
Wait until tomorrow and there's still no way
Read it in a book or write it in a letter
Wake up in the morning and there's still no guarantee

Someone told me Monday, someone told me Saturday
Wait until tomorrow and there's still no way
Read it in a book or write it in a letter
Wake up in the morning and there's still no guarantee
And there's still no guarantee
There is still no guarantee

These are all ideas im sending out for approval. Its for the up and coming gig at the Bohemian with Battery 9 and Null. i sent some additional A3 black and white posters with that i made with stolen images from Jasons blog. Yes and i will ask Jasons permission before they get printed... but he is just a big girl anyway.


And here are the poster ideas, just print them out on A4 or A3 d then enlarge them on a photo copy machine to a bigger size. But we will see... hopefully all the party's agree on them.

These are some random post it notes that i stuck up on peoples computer screens around the office, the cool thing about these notes is that you can have an exibit right away by sticking them on random places. Atleast i feel like im doing something by updating my blog with old pictures...

I drew this picture for a little girl that came into the office to visit her mom, she neatly colored it in blue and left it on the table when she went home. So i took it back and added a few things that made sense to me... not a lot of things make sense to me right now.

I was at the laundromat today and i took my drawing book with me, these are some of the ugly plants arranged outside.

These are some drawings from my sketch book, i have been really busy with my new Blog "japaneserubberoncountrytar" these drawings were too big for the scanner but im sure you get the general idea...

We were all asked to make posters for the office walls at work, this was my contribution, that pink thing is actually a baby rat and not a seal... but anybody can see that. The theme was "Finding Mojo". I noticed that we can add videos onto this thing now, nice, its time to makes things move now plus i got a new fancy phone so be prepared for cock shots in the mens urinal.

To my surprise i got a actually got a few fine gifts last night. This was one of them from Jason drawn on my birthday. Cheers to every one who was there last night and for all the good times.

So its my birthday today, if you are in the vicinity of the Bohemian pull in and have a toot with me from seven. Cheers

I made this one this morning, Nul is by far one of Loyd and mines favorites at the Bohemian. When i forwarded the mailer to them the lead guy had no clue what it was about and thought i had sent him an invoice of some kind before looking at it... but he was pleased at the end. The coil in the middle is a Tesla Coil and i was gonna use X ray machines as the main graphic but then i found these old X Ray specs that used to be in the back of comics and probably still is... oh and thanks to Mr Neon for pointing out the spelling mistake.

Seeing that I hang out at the Bohemian almost every day i decided to make mailers for all the bands i like that's playing there this month regardless whether the band likes them or not I'm gonna mail them out. Jaxon once pointed out in an earlier post (A few outstanding individuals) that the priests of the Satanic church looked similar to Catholic priests. I found these two nuns and they looked heavy, solid and really on edge. I would not be surprised if nuns can rally shoot Lazar beams from their eyes to kill stray poodles...

If there is one place in the world that i would love to be it would be here at this gig on the 25th of August. DEVO is the original pioneers of basically every form of modern alternative rock as we know it. Go find the truth about the pioneers who got scalped at www.clubdevo.com.

So decided to commit Facebook suicide, the following article made it to page three in the pages of SONDAG the Sunday Afrikaans gossip tabloid, i documented the steps on another blog called my facebook suicide The original idea was to resurrect myself as a online Jesus after three days... but we all know what happened last time all the human Apes had a Jesus.


THE SHEEP

My friend MJ then pointed out the dangers of becoming an Internet Jesus, by coming back i might have the dilemma of a couple of followers walking in the wake of my new up rising by killing themselves off in one mass suicide like the following organisations of Lemmings below. It would definitely spark up a few laughs down at the pub though. Cheers

• The 960 members of the Jewish community at Masada , who collectively committed suicide in the first century A.D., rather than be conquered and enslaved by the Romans . Each man killed his wife and children, then the men drew lots and killed each other until the last man killed himself.
• The Jones town suicides in Guyana, where 913 people died in 1978 under the direction of Jim Jones , an evangelist preacher and head of the Peoples Temple . Of the 914 dead, 276 were children and over 100 of the adults were murdered.
• The Order of the Solar Temple mass suicide killed 102 people in two towns in Switzerland in October 1994. About two thirds of the deaths were murders, including the ritual murder of a newborn.
• The Heaven's Gate mass suicide occurred in a hilltop mansion near San Diego, California , in 1997. They believed an alien spaceship was following in the tail of the Comet Hale-Bopp and that killing themselves was necessary to reach it. The victims were self-drugged and then suffocated by other members in a series of suicides over a period of three days. Thirty-nine died, from a wide range of backgrounds.

Its Jonni Fuckin Neons birthday today, so i drew him a little something to say happy birthday. Johannesburg has done him well and made him a lot more street savvy than living in that fancy pants hippie town where his from. Despite how his friends see him, he is the kind of guy that can walk around the streets easely with a pair of tracksuit pants, leather jacket , slippers and a short of wiskey with no ice. I respect that. He has definately added a bit of flair to JHB and his art is probably better than yours...He also understands the real meaning of DEVO which will always leave him a special place in my heart.Three cheers mate!

Warren took these pictures at fashion week a few weeks ago, they reminded of some of the girls on the Smiths albums so i thought i would make some of my own and pass it on to john from the Black Hotels. I must ad that i do enjoy having my own personal little image bank that i can loot, from time to time. I got a copy of the the Hotels EP last night and its a pleasure to the ears if you have the means go and see them and enlighten your musical taste.

This was the highlight of my day today, a friend of mine gave me this magazine a couple of weeks ago called Meatmagazine. Its a publication from the UK dedicated to showcase new artistic talent from across the UK. He was not aware that my blog was called meatmania so i immediately related to the magazine. My blog was meant to be called steak but some other tosser already scooped up that name so i went for the one I'm with now. I spent my lunch or rather liquid lunch reading an interview with Rick Poynor who was involved in the "FIRST THINGS FIRST 2000" manifesto, a 400 word statement about designers priorities and responsibilities intended to prick conscience and provoke discussion. So I'm leaving you with a link to the site so you can support. Here is a few quotes from the mans wisdom:

"Look around, question what you see. Read as widely as you can... when you know what you stand for, get organised"

"Its still possible to carve out your own space as a designer if you have the talent, self-belief, persistence and vision to do it"

www.meat-mag.com

I would like to dedicate the following Mexican cowboy and prawn to my very own exotic fruit pack man Jason. This was a list of changes that i had to make a while back and its been floating around my desk. My work is so fucking exciting! It really tests me to the cusp of my creativity, three cheers for the glorified DTP operator. Spare me your tears and let me crawl into a aching ball of branding hell. Thank you.

This is me stabbing fish, its a hobby of mine that i treasure and hold close to my heart. I don't think people realise the joy i get out of clip art, its save so much time for a lazy designer as myself. The body's are of me doing the skank in my bedroom and taken by Neil while we were blazed for another project i was busy with that never materialised. Its in my portfolio under random and was meant to be for a flyer for a JHB Live dub party. I used to stab rock pool fish with a homemade harpoon when i was a kid at the beach, luckily I'm not that violent anymore...

So Loyd lets me know this morning that the BLK JKS are playing at the Bohemian tonight, to which i immediately replied because this Thursday deal at the Bo seems to be happening every week now, random shit talking and finger pointing are usually in order with a bit of a tweak on the side plus Loyd is a trained professional in these areas of socialising. I thought i would make a flyer seeing that i have some time and send it out with the mailing list and see who turns up. When i called up the Bo they told me that the bands have cancelled... and are only playing on the 28Th. So here is the flyer but i still did not get the cover.

So then a couple of weeks later i eventaully made the final and moved a couple of elements around, the band "Us kids know" failed to show up including myself... and the BLK JKS opened up for the Bang. I missed out on Loyds little party though, pity.


Then i also found this little number i did for an article for Isolation on the Afrikaans death metal group called INSEK. I don't really use my illustration work that much in my layouts but in both these cases they seem to work nicely.

As usual my attempts to do graphics for my favourite local bands go without success , these are some ideas i sent to the Black Hotels a while back that i dug up out of my archive of unused graphics on my machine.

These ones were done with Jason's drawings (The one eyed man is king). My original thought was to do a whole series that fit into each other length wise to paste over all those other poster under bridges and stuff, the white posters with the black lines and red would stand out by a mile. i tried to persuade the Black Jacks with the same concept. It would have been cheap and you could smoke one up before you go and paste it up along the road side.

Maybe next time...

I'm am very good at starting something up until it is 90% done and then suddenly losing interest... I have been going through my projects on my hard drive and finding some bizarre unfinished ideas and concepts. This was a cover i was working on for the one eyed man Jason's zine called Back Issue. You can go check them out through his link on this page. Even though they were done i never sent it to him because of some unknown internal crisis at the time... NO DOGS BODY was a comic i used to do for Session magazine when it first started, none of the kids liked my cynical outlook on skateboarding and life and complained about it till we left it out of the mag. I was planning the elusive return of NO DOGS through Back issue but allas. Look out for a another Blog feuturing only the man himself and and vintage versions from his printed days to follow soon on this page. Some of the drawings on the cover are from Jason that i mixed into my layout.

The following was one of the comics i was busy with for inside but just like the comic of Satan attacking the earth earlier on this page (A FEW OUTSTANDING INDIVIDUALS), i never finished it. I have always been into the evolution of the species and this is basically my simple explanation of where we come from and my outlook on religion in general. A real modern day Darwin, fancy that...

These are two book cover ideas i sent to Deon Maas for his new book called WITBOY IN AFRIKA. So far he seems to like the second one more with the yellow. For some reason i will be so convinced that a certain person would like a certain layout with an opposite result. The pieces i read from the book were hilarious and i really enjoyed working on these covers.



And then he settled for a bit of a mix between the two, we replaced the legs with his own legs and added a new font. The book will be on shelf in Dec. for the Christmas lists.

I have been messing around with some EPS files that i found at work, breaking them down and rebuilding them. Re looking at shapes and finding new uses for them kind of makes sense inbetween the mindless factory design i do at work... "Every man has the right to his own madness." Dali

I took these shots at a toy whole sale place in Fordsburg a while ago, it was lying on my hard drive and i actually forgot about them. Sometimes we are serounded by the most amazing objects, but they are so common that we dont even notice them.