After A Relatively Mild Winter

…we get this…

…mmm…springpocalypse….

…(please note person in orange behind lamp post is Dee…she was randomly driving past and stopped to see why I was out standing in a “blizzard” instead of being at work)….

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Paintbook

…get a cuppa this could take awhile….

…still watching the paint dry….

…maybe images next week?….

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Warning To All My Brethren And Sistren In Logistics And Retail

…unlike the first robin of spring but similar to the ground hog on ground hog day….

…the first pallet of Xmas ~~crap~~ stock arrived in the warehouse last night…

…it’s coming boys and girls….

…earlier every year, I swear…

…brace yourselves….

…(…also note inverted “caution” symbols…it’s not even October and your shit is already upside down!….)….

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Mid Week Madness

…yeah…I know…I’ve gone all once a week with the blog posts….

..and today is not the day that I usually put type to ether….

…but….

….friend Matt Blair is making these….

…they are fabulous….

…hand forged out of kauri floor joist bits from the Empire Hotel in Dunedin…(if you are unfamiliar with the significance of that once fine establishment have a wee google)….

…if you need one (or one of his neat little guitar brooches) you can find him here…

https://www.instagram.com/scopic.co.nz/

….give him ALL your money….(and tell him I sent you)…

…now to go find something to pin it to….

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The Beginnings Of The Big Secret Project

…or “How To Stall For Time When You Haven’t Finished (…finished?…ha!!…barely even started!…) The Fucking Frames Like You Said You Were Going To”…..

…(hem hem)….

…let us reach back, way back, thru the mists of time….

…almost exactly four years ago I had been reading a nice new hard bound copy of the complete works of H.P. Lovecraft (no Frag, no relation to the sauce) and came up with idea that the summoning of elder gods like Cthulhu’s Dad, Yog-Sothoth, was the sort of thing that went on at C.W.I meetings….

….(…lord help me if the my Mother or her cronies at the Country Womens Institute read this….I’ll be straight in the cauldron with the eye of newt….)….

…another (almost exactly again) year goes by and this gets added to the sketch book….

…what can I say…September/October are dark times indeed (with lots of eyeballs) in the southern hemisphere….

…for the next two years I became “distracted” by skulls and crossed bones and flys….

…however…

…on the 27/10/2019 this happened….

…was looking for something a little “calmer” than the Extinction Level Advent Calendar with rotating bugs, as committed to paper at the top at the page (still hoping to get back to that at some point), and had had a retrospective dig thru the sketchbook and thought the eyeballs from the first two images would work nicely as a repetitive motif….

…should of seen it coming really….