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This is our friend Bruce. He has a nice art beard.

Unexpected Trailer

This is a film by my friend Scott Purdie, an animation student in Scotland.

Part 1

Part 2

Here is what Scott has to say about them.

“For college we had to develop a animation with a narrative structure. For mine I decided on a trailer for a sci fi game. It had to involve a series of murders and an investigator being sent out, who was based in some way on Dan Dare. Also the environments had to have a art deco style to them. I decided to make mine a 3D animation using really only black and white shading and certain colours when needed. Also alot of production work had to be done, this ended up being just under 300 pages of work showing the progress of my production.
Finally the voices were provided by my friends and myself. Not really happy with them as we didnt have access to a recording studio.”

Actually I quite like the voices, a nice change from the usual American bleh.
Send me an email if you want to employ him when he graduates.

Starving Artist’s corner

Another of our London friend’s work. Gurdish has done album covers, club event posters and been featured in Wet magazine.

Artwork for Urban Voodoo Machine by Gurdish

See other work from the lovely Gurdish here

Mean Uncle Bruce makes another mean picture.

That badboy Bruce painted this recently along with a bunch of new stuff over at www.artpusher.co.uk

Badbunny

I like it, however, one of my inner children is half-rabbit/half-human and she is very, very upset by this picture and she is hiding in the sewing box and refuses to come out because she says “Mean Uncle Bruce is horrid” I’m going to try to tempt her with some carrot ice cream, but I don’t think it will help.

Do you want to hire this actor?

Very Nice!

Look at him, he is so nice! He is my friend Peter! His stage name is Lincoln James and he is a really nice person. He sang at our London wedding, a Sinatra song sung by holographic crooner Vic Fontaine in Deep Space 9, “The Best is yet to come”

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John Vivian Crowhurst

The DevilHermit IX SeekerPage of Pentacles King of CupsOne of Cups

My very good friend John Vivian lives with his lovely wife Maria in Mexico. He paints this lovely strange stuff. I’m a particular fan of the Alice in Wonderland tarot deck. His work is for sale here. He is available for commissions.

The Great Chichimeca 1 Chichimeca Iconic 1

John’s Biography

Born on the eve of D-Day and the Normandy landings. Studied at Coventry College of Art Warwickshire England under Derek Turner (to whom I owe so much.)

I first worked as a graphic designer for the infamous pension-fund-robber, Robert Maxwell designing bookcovers alongside fellow artist Ken Messer who is now famous for his exquisite water colors of Oxfordshire. Then as a copy-writer and cartoonist for Oxford Mail, Times, Star and Journal. I specialized in paintings of English landscape and raptors and exhibited in Royal Academy Summer exhibition.

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Push it real good

Please take a moment to look at Bruce Lovelock’s work at ARTPUSHER

Talented, Swaggerish Princelton of Londontown PopArt seeks hookup (maybe Kate Moss?) to make him rich and famous please.

Ellie 1 -2006 - Oil on Paper

Boredom Makes Me Bad - 2006

Nice poem by our Friend

Bobby Hat

Policeman, Stoke Newington

Standing close up to a policeman ,
I can get a free look at his
uniform, its unrevealing midnight matt cloth
and silvery buttons, its clever gussets,
and places for his walkie-talkie,
yes, his walkie-talkie tucked under his tunic.
Serious tailoring.

He glances at me sideways,
the expressionless professional
caught in this personal necessity
here at the cash dispenser in the street,
as if performing a secret habit: Don’t be ashamed,
I could tell him, It’s a normal function, we all do it.

Satisfied, taking a single circumspect motion
to finish his transaction and reinsert
his wallet in its place, he walks on,
a bobby in a helmet, upright in a naughty world:
he’s a policeman with money, stowed
in the safest pocket in the street.
 

Peter Daniels Luczinski