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hairy: bangs swap cards

I spent the easter weekend at my parents house. It was boring. So made some trading cards of people with some serious bangs issues. Does anyone wanna swap? For keeps?

Slightly belated tango...

It was a little ironic that my enjoyment of the Tango anthology was belated by my extended stay in the country that invented that very passionate dance- Argentina! But now I am back and finally have my hands on a copy and it looks just great! Congrats to Bernard and co. My entry is on page 51 in which two cupcakes have an existential crisis as they near the end of their shelf life... umm... yeah...

ILCW

We had a super fun time! Thx for organising it Sticky!

Sold out!

I went to my first ever zine fair on Saturday with my pal Raji, in the degraves street underpass in Melbourne... and I sold out! I couldn't believe it, I thought we'd sell absolutely nothing, but apparently the financial crisis has not effected the market for photocopied whimsy one iota. I was also sold out of my custom made 'prickle bush' and 'something fishy' valentines day underpants... geez... didn't get any close ups of them either!!

i wear my heart on my t-shirt

"I wear my heart on my t-shirt 2" is mark II of this awesome exhibition at the Booroondara Town Hall Gallery... I made tees for the last one, and have collated some old designs to bring to the second one (including "bling", "prickly heart" and "cactus sound" as seen above)... which I'll be dropping off right on the deadline, tomorrow morning before work! The exhibition runs 11 Feb- 7 Mar. Read more at: http://townhallgallery.blogspot.com

I made a comic to sell at international literature conspiracy week! Its exciting! And starts on Monday! I scanned this while we were staying at Uncle Ernesto's place in the barrio of San Felipe (which is in Lima, Peru)... it came out kind of funny cause the scanner at the only locutorio within 5 kms was like made in 1983 or something, out of straw... It was a really cool locutorio though, and the counter-girl was laughing so much while she scanned this and showing it to all the other customers... she thought I was crazy, but it just goes to show that comics are the international language of talking!

sail

sail
Originally uploaded by maudita

for this weeks illo friday... ernest in a boat

10 years ago

Sifting through my favourite melb crafty blogs I came across this awesome concept... 10 frames to tell what you were doing 10 years ago in 1998. I was thirteen then... so long ago!

nordic

we had a lovely talk in our writing for children class this week on the amazing Swedish-Finn children's writer and illustrator Tove Jansson. I hadn't heard of Jansson's work before, but this week has involved a veritable binge on her 'Moomins' series written during the 50s. Her paintings are exquisite, classic, block coloured works with a unashamedly nordic feel.

The Girl Who Lived in a Suitcase

This is the image which has inspired my Prof Writing and Editing homework piece... suprisingly called 'The Girl Who Lived In a Suitcase'!

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