GIRAFFES IN BURGESS PARK

Comic Strip I have done as part of our 1st year illo show at The Crypt (I'll post more details soon). I did Risograph prints of this which, again, I will post up soon.

Machotaildrop

I went to the movie premiere of Machotaildrop last night, it is the weirdest film about skateboarding you will ever see. Just go with it and let the quirkyness wash over you :) and Ed Templeton was there. Rad!

Ladies Monthly and London Zine Symposium

This weekend is Ladies monthly 4.0 which is in Liverpool. Due to uni commitments and lack of cash I, unfortunately can't make it. However, I will be there is spirit as my zines have been taken up (thanx Helena) so if your there, be on the look out for Helena, Lois or any other of the ladies handing them out!




with a poster when you unfold them (A3 size so couldn't fit is all on scanner)

And the London Zine Symposium is tomorrow at the Rag Factory, (http://www.londonzinesymposium.org.uk/) where this pack of my previous zines will be sold together in a pack for £1. It is a re-issue of the last 3 skate zines. The Camberwell first year illo crew have a table full of all sorts of delightful goodies for you to purchase so head on down and support us (monies go toward are final degree show...yes we are that organised!)

ANIMATION L'art de Petomanie

Le Petomane Biopic from Harriet Shephard on Vimeo.

Here it is guys, my first ever solo animation! I'm pretty stoked.

GET A GRIP

Fresh grip job I did yesterday. Took me 3 hours but it was well worth it as had a rad sesh at Stockwell yesterday :)

Spanky and Leo Romero

Thanks to Sophie Allen for taking these awesome photos, sophieallenphotos.blogspot.com. I don't even care that I look like a fookin'giant next to Kevin "Spanky" Long! I was just stoked to have a photo with him. Look, Leo is reading my zine! :)

2am and a snippet of things to come

THIS VIDEO IS INSANELY AWESOME, WATCH IT!

So i was at Mile End yesterday because the RVCA guys came over from America; Leo Romero, Kevin 'Spanky' Long, Cory Kennedy, Cairo Foster and Nestor Judkins. I saw some incredible skateboarding and they all got a zine each :)

Shoeless skater

L'art de Petomanie

RAD BOOKS

My Grandad gave me these last week and I'm over the moon. I fucking love typography especially old stuff...and two of these were published in the 20's! Grandad used to be a book binder and the books he made are just awesome. He told me he has some gold and silver leaf in the back garden shed as well as a printing press...I guess I will be hangin gout with Grandad a lot this summer.

Cards Ripping

John Cardiel in my latest zine

DECKADES....another great show I can tick off my list

On saturday I went to the Deckades show in Bristol and saw the raddest collection of boards ever. I was so stoked, having recognised a lot of them from books and the net, it was awesome to see them for real. As you can see below, I took an awful lot of photos...and this isnt even half of them!

just an overview






woah!







some of the new, specially commissioned boards raising money for UNICEF








for Craig




I remember seeing this one (middle) in a book and instantly loving it, I really like the deer. So stoked to see it 'in the flesh'






After the show I went to Bedminster skatepark which is a gnarly concrete park just over the Avon. The concrete there was so rough, the first thing i did was bail and slam my hand. Again. I have a permanent bruise/scar tissue lump there. I was told there was some sick bowls and a wicked snake run once, but some kids informed me they took that out years ago 'cos a kid got seriously injured there once. Despite this, it is still a rad place, even though there wasn't many skaters when I went, I was just chillin' with the kids! There were, however, a few graffiti artist doing there thing (shitloads of awesome graf in Bristol) but unfortunately, I took up all my memory space taking photos at Deckades!

Oh look! I just found a photo of part of Bedminster skatepark on the net, take a peek.

FARTING ANIMATION

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This is what I did today. Some drawings put together using Dragon to create a manic farting machine!

NEW ZINE

I have just finished drawing a new skateboarding zine and this is the front cover and a page from it. I am thinking about charging for these ones as there will be a poster (a well thought out drawing) on the other side when you open it out. The price will only be around 20p though so hassle me for one!



Talking of zines, I have literally just been handed this lovely lil creation from SPT. Stoked! If you see Kyle Platts (megaskull.blogspot.com) or Sam Taylor (sptdrawing.blogspot.com) about, buy one of these from them...it will make you laugh out loud! :D

Couldn't be more different

I watched two very good films recently.


City of Men, which I bought ages ago after watching City of God. A beautifully made film with a brilliant cast and musical score. Some of the scenes made me fell really summery with the heat of the hot Brazilian sun radiating from the screen and how lush the sea of la playa looks However, it is full of death, hatred and misery due to the upset of the gang warfare in these favelas.


And then Rosie lent me this the night before. Short and sweet. How the most unlikely couple meet, and their fun times together. A very funny film, the way Harold's mother tries in desperation to stop him from killing himself over and over, I found hilarious :)

Dog-faced Boy and Stretchy Skin Man

Sunny Stoke

My Easter holidays were rad as I skated a fair bit, particularly the friday and saturday just gone at the Ideal ramp in Brum and the skate plaza in toke-on-Trent cheers Zombie, Craig and co!) A lot of time spent waiting for trains as well, but did these quick lil doodles to entertain myself.

I suppose I'd better...

...put up some uni work! Here are some drawings I have done over the Easter holiday for my next brief. Eventually I will be making an animation on 'Le Petomane' a french professional farter who performed at the Moulin Rouge during the late 19th century. He had an extraordinary talent in that he was able to "inhale" air through his rectum and then release it making all sorts of glorious noise, imitating anything from a virgin bride's nervousness before her wedding night to various wind instruments.













I've looked at other things to do with the era of 'Le Petomane' such as Art Nouveau and victorian fashion and photography, but what has interested me most is tattooed ladies. I stumbled upon a great book in Kidderminster library about the history of the tattooed lady and found some extraordinary imagery. Unfortunately, the book was on my mum's library card and Kidderminster now have it back. I fully intend on buying this book.

Ed and Deanna Templeton

I've just had a sick weekend, infact one of the best weekends I can remember.

Friday: After travelling to Milton Keynes to meet up with Georgie for a skate and to support her teaching girls (and me!) to skate, I headed back down to London. A rad lil' evening sesh at favourite spot Stockwell, then bed, a good night's rest for the raddest day to come.

Saturday: I went to the Ed Templeton 'Drinking the Kool-Aid' show, an exhibition with a load of his awesome photographs. After having a look round and getting butterflies in my stomach when seeing the image of Margaret Kilgallen's shadow, I headed upstairs for a book signing.



There were a few of his books for sale, all of which I want, but I brought my Beautiful Losers book for him to sign. I felt bad about this, but Ed didn't mind and made a comment expressing that he hoped people didn't feel they had to buy his books - what a dude! I then proceeded to ask him if he would draw on my arm...







Deanna, Ed's wife, is such a lovely lady. She took photos of me with both my arms, cast on the left, drawing on the right and then she gave me this tote bag from a previous show of Templeton's. You can see me modelling it in these pictures - Stoked!

Afterwards, I hung out with Sophie Allen and her friends Emma and Kate, who I met at the show. I had such a lovely afternoon with these lovely ladies and when it was home time for them I finished off my day at Stockwell before the long coach trip back to Bewdley...a happy bunny :)

*yessss i say 'lovely' a lot

Painting my Sister's bedroom

My sister's bedroom is my temporary new workspace seeing as my room is always veyr cold and the light in there is crap. Vicky's room, on the other hand, is light, bright and empty so I have been drawing and painting in there the last few days. Today, we have started to paint her walls and below shows what I have done so far. Will keep you guys posted.