I’m away to brave the roads and embark on the long journey home to my parent’s house in Wicklow for the holidays. It will be a brief visit as I will have to get back to work immediately after Christmas. My College portfolio and Mugwump won’t put themselves together (obviously enough). Still, I look forward [...]
I really enjoy looking at other people’s sketchbooks, it can often allow for a really honest insight into someone’s work. I think I just like looking at unfinished pictures sometimes too. I’m working on Mugwump at the moment and am flying through sketchbooks like there’s no tomorrow, so I thought I would post a few [...]
Wild Beasts‘ new album ‘Two Dancers‘ is getting a great deal of airtime around these parts, and deservedly so. It is one of the most exciting albums to be released this year. Hallucinatory and somewhat ethereal, howls and shrieks permeate intriguing lyrics. Their approach and execution is something brave and successful, removed briskly from the [...]
This week in Irish politics has been turbulent to say the least. On Wednesday, Finance Minister Brian Lenihan delivered the most severe Budget in living memory, in a bid to slash €4 Billion from public spending. Specifically targeting low income public sector workers (including nurses and care workers, such as my wife) and people on [...]
Wow. That’s kind of something isn’t it? Tom Waits suits being an angry cloud. I wish that the angry cloud that follows me sounded like Tom Waits. This is taken from the collaborative NASA (North America South America) album ‘Spirit of Apollo‘. What with the recent release of The Black Keys blues / garage rock [...]
Zombiehamster favourite and SLG Pin Up of the year Jamie Smart announced the arrival of Bearfoo.com today, a website that will showcase ALL of the Bear comics to date and will feature exclusive new Bear strips. It’s been a long time coming,and I am certain that I am not alone in my excitement at this [...]
Things have been slightly quieter around these parts as of late and I feel I may owe somewhat of an explanation. It’s a simple one really, I haven’t been here. ‘Here’ being by the pc. At some point towards the end of the summer, I had become increasingly frustrated with the lack of space in [...]