Friday, January 17, 2014

Comfortably Mag-numb

Hey hot shot, how've you been?

I know, I know, hot shot isn't a very cool thing to call you, but in my defence it's pretty hard to be cool when it's 46 degrees on the old celsius thermometer.

One good way to be cool though is to have ice-cream, and so to distract us both from endlessly going on about the weather here's a photo of my sculpture of a Peppermint Magnum.
It's acrylic on ceramic and wood, 14 x 5 x 3cm, and I made it a couple of years ago.

Here's another photo of the sculpture, taken in front of the beach.
Ha, no just kidding, that photo was just taken in front of my t-shirt. Good one Kenny.

Here's a photo of the sculpture actually taken in front of the beach.
There was an article in the Epicure section of the Herald Sun about a week ago with the statistic that apparently every year over 100 million Magnum ice-cream's are eaten in Australia.

I was thinking about that this afternoon and I decided that this is a statistic I'm going to be a part of. 

So often in life I get excluded from all the important things that matter, but not this time, no sir-ee, not this statistic.

So I went to the milk bar and I bought a Peppermint Magnum... Actually I went to two milk bars, the first milk bar I went to, my very favourite milk bar, they closed today due to some family reason.
But so I went to a different milk bar and I bought a Peppermint Magnum, I ate it, it was delicious, and I'd now like to put it on record that I'm officially a part of the statistic of 100 million magnums having been eaten in Australia in 2014. 
Here I am in the milk bar trying my hardest to be cool.
So yeah, splash out and have a Magnum yourself sometime this week if you can, it's pretty darn yummy to be a part of the statistic. 

And sure, some cone head might waffle on about how 100 million Magnum's a year doesn't reflect well on the health of our country, and of course that cone head would be absolutely right, but at the same time there's a lot worse things Australians could be buying 100 million of every year.

Actual magnums, for example, imagine if we bought 100 million of them a year, now that would be bad for our health.
21 x 29cm, acrylic and pencil on A4 225gsm paper, 2014.

Ha, but ok, enough about ice-cream and guns, to finish off this blog post here's a drawing of by far the coolest Magnum of all time; Tom Selleck, staring as Thomas Magnum in the great 1980's American T.V series Magnum, P.I.
21 x 29cm, acrylic on A4 225gsm paper, 2014.

Thanks so much for reading, and until next time, eat an ice-cream, buy a hundred million guns, watch Tom Selleck, whatever Magnum it takes to keep cool while you hang ten on this heat wave and remain the hot shot that you are.

Saturday, January 04, 2014

Merry Swiftmas and a Happy Jewel Year

Hey, great to see you, it's January 4th so you're probably sick of hearing people say "Happy New Year!" by now aren't you?

Once more couldn't hurt though right?

Happy new year!

I kind of had to say it as it's pretty much the only reason I'm writing this blog post.

While we're talking though, I tore a ligament in my wrist a few months ago and so I went to the doctor today to make sure everything's healing as it should, anyway in the waiting room they had an old newspaper and from it I made this drawing of Taylor Swift.
I have this theory about Taylor Swift that she's kind of like the new Jewel. You know, they're both all American sweethearts, they've got similar looks and kind of have similar songs, just compare Jewel's You were meant for me with Swift's You belong to me.

Jewel me once, shame on you, Jewel me twice...

Ha, well, I don't know, maybe I've thought about this too much. Or actually maybe I haven't thought this through very much at all, for starters can I really say that Jewel is an all American Sweetheart, she's Canadian. Anyway both musicians are obviously really good at what they do and I always sing very loudly when either of their songs come on the radio.

I should probably also point out that I didn't draw Taylor Swift because I think she might be Jewel 2.0, really I just decided to draw her because I thought it was funny for the newspaper to print a photo of her from that angle.
Acrylic on A4 225gsm paper.

The other thing I really like about Taylor Swift is....wait a second, what the heck? A drawing of Kanye West? What's he doing on here?
Yo that's a nice drawing of Taylor, I'm really happy for you and I'ma let you finish, but this drawing of Beyonce is one of the best drawings from a newspaper of all time, OF ALL TIME!!!
Ha, yikes, sorry about that, I don't know what the Kanye drawing is talking about, clearly the Taylor drawing is much, much better than the Beyonce drawing. 

But so ok, I hope you're having a really great Christmas break and thanks heaps for reading. See you soon, and in the meantime I'm off to go play some guitar myself.