skip to main |
skip to sidebar
next time you're on a megabus, notice how many boys shuffle their bags in front of their crotches as they stand up at the end of the journey. I'm sorry yeah but I refuse to believe mine's the only one that does this.
I think it's also quite interesting that I know I did this in march because I have no tash and that's the only month I shaved. my facial hair sucks that much.
My Pet Shark is the story of what would happen if I had a bipedal shark for a pet. I have to share a bed with him and he snores, and he eats all the food, and I can't play out with the skaters cos he bites everyone's skateboard. he just fucks everything up.
so I hide from him, and eventually he gets upset and leaves. I miss the shark, and after a while I learn that as much of a pain as he is, the fact he's always there with what I experience means he's part of me - and he comes back. and everything is brilliant ever after.
in the story, everyone has a huge sea creature representing their sexual identity. the shark is a phallic symbol; powerful, energetic, but lacking direction; my character goes to ex-sea creature communion and meets a lesbian with a similar problem with a... big octopus. the story is a simple allegory for the final part of the coming-out process - living openly as a gay person - and despite its adult themes, I'd like to think it'd be good to show to kids. unless you're all, y'know, GOD HATES SHARKS about everythin.
also, definitely just gonna make quite small posts from now on. trying to get ambitious with blogspot is like trying to get blood out of a tetris block.
MEK 10 is a book I produced for the book-binding project in first year. I got discount on moleskines, so I got really into filling them with little comic drawings as the paper's really nice for line drawings. it was the first time I just got to have fun drawing whatever I wanted, however I wanted, just like when I was a child - and win marks for it. rather than follow any great narrative, I just used the book to showcase the tone, the humour, and the style of my work. here's a bunch from it.
in more recent times, I've learned that paperchase sketchbooks have exactly the same lovely paper are are super cheap and you can get square-format ones. now i'm like, moleskine? feh! chances are you're not the next shakespeare or hemingway, so you don't need to spend £6 more being told so by some arse-kissing little strip of paper.
