March 2009

Ok, we've been wanting a good one. Not sure if this is it, but it's what we've got. The sound of a thousand Oz Experience bus rides...

"Traffic In The Sky" by Jack Johnson from the aptly titled "On and On".

From a Q&A with Jack;

Q: What was the first song you learned on the guitar?
A: I learned two at the same time: "One" by Metallica and "Father and Son" by Cat Stevens.

Bimeos. See what you created?!

And Here I Stand – Reeko

From the mighty wikipedia;

"Hanging people from early gallows sometimes involved fitting the noose (a.k.a the tater) around the person's neck while he or she was on a ladder or in a horse-drawn cart underneath. Removing the ladder or driving the cart away left the person dangling by the neck to slowly strangle."

I would like to make it clear, in light of recent drawing related racial issues in the media, that this drawing is in no way related to the lyrics of the song, just the title. The idea is to explore the feeling of the last stand, on the cart, waiting for the whip to signal the drop.

In fact, I didn't bother reading the lyrics until now as I had such a clear idea of what I wanted to do after reading the title. Wish I had now as I feel a little uneasy about posting.

Oh well. Nuthin' but love. I really like way I've done the horse!

And Here I Stand - Gallusness

Ok my bad. So I-Tunes didn't give up a gem of a title this month. Here's hoping for better luck in March.

So yeah I decided to take the title literally. Very literally! I think it harks back to days of drawing/designing trainers when I was younger. Along with super duper fancy hot rod cars and football strips while we're on that thought pattern…

But anyways, this is where I was standing. I had my tigers on, it was all good.

To preempt some possible feedback, I'm thinking I am kind of finding my style in terms of my IST responses. Hand drawn, dumped into photoshop where it's coloured and delivered with a flat-ish finish. That's kind of what I'm going for. Ta