Pay homage to the Dark Crooners

Sir Bob Dylan




Sir Nick Cave



Sir Johnny Cash




Sir Leonard Cohen



Sir Bill Callahan

These men have helped me navigate many dark waters..

I salute you all Sirs

AGENT B

Space between a blink and a tear, death blooms..

With the circle of life crushing and re-building all things, we find ourselves often at the point of loss and gain. The birth of so many and the soul tide of those that pass to the last great adventure. The great unknown.

On the the 5th of August 2009

Sir Grand Pappy Teddy Croom passed unto the ether, may he travel well and may the adventures be many.

With Love and Empathy, from my soul to yours..

I wish you Adieu

AGENT B

Through the Shayde an Egoes of Martyars we find InkFetish..

I have the privilege of knowing one of the (in my humble opinion) recent true bright stars of street art and illustration medium. Tom Blackford a.k.a INKFETISH was born in London 1981, where he currently lives and works as a freelance illustrator/concept artist as well as exhibiting his paintings and mural work in gallery shows and related events throughout the London area and beyond.




In 2005, fed up with trying to convince UK comic publishers to publish his stories and jaded by the lack of creative freedom he was given through commercial illustration jobs at that time, he self published his first comic entitled 'No Strings'- a dark and surreal take on the much celebrated story of Pinocchio.



Over the next few years his minor cult status increased after unleashing his twisted characters onto the walls of the city and beyond via the medium of spray paint, enabling him to realise his work on a much larger scale and giving the general public a portal into his world.




Through learning how to paint with aerosol, he naturally progressed into canvas using techniques he'd learnt through graffiti and adopting them into the practice of rendering his paintings with acrylics. In doing so, his work has found It's way into galleries across London exhibiting along side others within the 'low brow' fraternity.



In September 2008 he was selected as part of a group of 200 artists from across the world to exhibit at the Pixar Animation studios in San Francisco as part of a show based on the iconic movie 'My Neighbour Totoro' by acclaimed Animator/Director Hayao Miyazaki.




Today Tom finds himself sitting comfortably as an accomplished illustrator and artist, his distinct colour palette, often twisted subject matter, technique and bold themes continuing to resonate with a growing audience.




Clients include: Marvel, MTV (Europe), Nike, Carhaart, Vanity Fair (Italy), Manga Entertainment and EA Games amongst others.




Big tings a gwan

www.inkfetish.co.uk

AGENT B

The joke's over..

Ralph Steadman was born in 1936. He started as a cartoonist and through the years diversified into many fields of creativity. He has illustrated such classics as "Alice in Wonderland", "Treasure Island" and "Animal Farm".

His own books include the lives of Sigmund Freud and Leonardo da Vinci and "The Big I Am", the story of God. With American writer Hunter S. Thompson he collaborated in the birth of GONZO journalism, the definitive book in the genre being "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas", which was made into a feature film. He is also a printmaker. His prints include a series of etchings on writers from William Shakespeare to William Burroughs.




"One of the reasons he's fun to work with - he has a really fine, raw sense of horror. By way of exaggeration and selective grotesquery. His view of reality is not entirely normal. Ralph sees through the glass very darkly."

Dr. Hunter S. Thompson, June 1974



One of the many facets that sets Hunter S. Thompson's 70s works apart from other forms of classic American literature are the growling, snarling, punch-between-the-eyeballs illustrations of Ralph Steadman. Roaring from the pages, his pictures visualise the horrors of corporate America, ripping the surface to reveal the political greed and other grotesqueries that contort and degrade the human forms within his pictures. With his method of isolating and focusing on a physical idiosyncrasy, he explodes his subjects, capturing a hidden truth that was hitherto unseen; it's as if Steadman sees with the naked eye of a schizophrenic.



Bloodsucking business men, venal politicians, dollar drugged gamblers, archetypal beholders of negation and power transmogrified into grinning reptilia, squarking sharp-beaked birds, gorgons of sheer inhuman greed. In the ferocious stroke of a few simple lines he trans-atlantically expresses all the negative facets of the human condition to a terrifyingly hilarious degree. If we think of the old metaphor of the artist's pen being a sword, then Steadman's scribe is nuclear.



AGENT B

鉄コン筋 クリート..

The slave of my own character as well as of my circumstances, offended not only be other people's indifference but also by their affection for whom they think i am - such are the humans insults heaped on me by destiny for if all we've done is love, we shall die.

AGENT B

The Book of Disquiet..

Life is one long process of getting tired.

AGENT B

The 1 millionth word in the English Language..

Web 2.0

I hate people.

AGENT B

Szamár Madár..

Such beauty in discord

AGENT B

Free Ralph Mirabal..

The justice system is completely backwards, imbred and typically American, this child will have the most important years of his life taken away. He will become a criminal, a real criminal, prison will completely ruin his life for what "tagging". The judge can literally, step her fat ass back and fuck her own face.

AGENT B