Take Art: Fernando Chamarelli

I think I found Fernando Chamarelli using stumbleupon to browse Flickr so it was one of those wonderful fortuitous moments that occasionally lead us somewhere that we are going to enjoy visiting many times.
His profile describes the influence of Brazilian and Pre-Columbian art upon his work but as well as seeing that I see many [...]

Loom

Warren Ellis asks questions a lot — he wonders what shape the future might take sometimes: the future of science fiction; the future of the internet and its content. In answer to a piece called The Patchwork Years, which looked at the shift from curation sites to sites which produce original content, five of us [...]

take art: alberto giacometti

alberto giacometti & sculptures
It may strike some people as strange if I admit that I know very little about the artist himself and that I was never overly bothered to find out about him. In the same way that I can watch an actor’s films and never need to know who he is screwing, I [...]

Take Art: Egon Schiele

I actually think I became aware of Egon Schiele at the same time that I became aware of Gustav Klimt and I wouldn’t be surprised if this was a common pairing. Stylistically you can definitely see some grounds for comparison in their work, though Schiele seems a lot less palatable to the majority than Klimt [...]

Comicsphere: Jamie McKelvie

I think as much as anything that Jamie McKelvie writes it is his design work which I find so fascinating and compelling — it is not something that everyone who puts comics together pays much attention to. I think it is something that is in a state of improvement but there are not many who [...]

culture vulture: faesthetic

Talking of the wondrous hyperlink bounce — the internet led me here from, of all place, facebook. Metatextual reading, the idea that you read books in an associative web of links set up by references and influences, obviously takes on a whole different meaning when you tranpose it to the internet; takes on a greater [...]

culture vulture: carmine magazine

Thankfully there are more and more entry points becoming available into different areas of the creative sphere — every single time you make one discovery there are a thousand more in attendance — all hyperlinked and convenient for you. To claim these days that you cannot find inspiration is a pretty lame thing to say. [...]

take art: bryan charnley

I have my wife to thank for finding this artist, and is often the case nowadays it was an accidental stumbling across him while looking for something else online. I looked over and there he was, or rather there his work was on the screen and it was instantly eye-catching and the stories behind each [...]

turn the page: self interview

I can’t remember where I saw this — maybe it was that arch egotist Jim Morrison who gave me the idea — but in an effort to get to know myself and elucidate some upon my new books, I am interviewing myself in lieu of someone else doing the job.

So, Warchalking, what’s that all about [...]

My Poetry Books

these are some of the books i have been working on this week — all covers designed by moi.
let me know what you think.
you can buy them here my store