So on Saturday arvie Florida Road (Durban) was closed off for a while so that a pretty sick crowd of skaters could totally bomb it! Flipping rad event, hosted by Zoo York. There was such an awesome vibe, a super cool event. Pity about the accident just after the start, I think there was a bit more needed in the organisation department, but apart from that, too cool.
Ghostpatrol has been my favourite illustrator for years now. He's a self-taught artist from Melbourne, Australia who works across many mediums, including stencil and street art, ink drawing, commissioned murals, soft sculpture, posters, watercolour and printmaking. I also learnt about Gocco for the first time through his art.
His style is really something unique. It's that, plus the hand-drawn unpolished feel of it, together with the whimsical/folky/fantasy feel of his characters and scenes that make me love it.
Here's a cool video interview with him, showing more aspects of his work and process...
Check out more of his awesome stuff on his Flickr and his site.
(FYI - the title of this post is taken from the title of one of Ghostpatrols' Gocco prints.)
Possibly the coolest error page ever, from Lockerz.
On a similar note, I'm having some blog issues...
For some reason it seems that the comment link for my posts on the main page only make an appearance for certain people and only when they feel like it. This is not ideal.
I'm trying to find a solution, but haven't had any luck yet. In the meantime, if you'd like to comment please go to the individual page of the post you'd like to comment on and the comment box at the end of the post should work. If not, you can tweet your comment to me or mail me at happiness.is.info (@) gmail.com
If you know of a solution to this problem, your help would be massively appreciated :)
So the other day our International Intern of Mystery brought in Mr G Bizcuet to meet the office faces. Everyone was pretty excited, as you can see from the pic below. Wrath even got a bit aggro and tried to attack Spongebob Pen, but we broke it up, sent him to anger management, and peace was restored.
Everyone wanted a photo with Mr G. He felt like a full-on celeb and got a bit emotional about it - so much so that he got a bit teary, causing permanent wonkyness to his left eye, poor thing.
But it's all fun and games until someone tries to make off with Wrath's skateboard, as Mr G did. (He sucked at it, too.)
Naturally, Wrath got kinda aggro again and what ensued was not pretty, but it cannot be denied that it was rather delish...
