Some photos from Rose's radio show last night

Here's me setting up the Doctor Who visuals to accompany Rose's awesome sounds:

Here's Rose (note the Codex Borgia used as a mouse pad):

Here's Conrad looking splendid in Rose's smoking jacket:

Here's me being a drunken git (as usual):

Here's Laika, the big-nosed dog:

I've stolen these pics from Conrad.

Dodgy

Last week of the day job

I’m in my last week of the day job. Varsity starts next week.

The office where I work has after-work drinks every second Friday. Different floors host it each time, and Friday 13 was our turn. As it was kind of my farewell, I insisted on a Malevich scheme:

The original copies

These are the two Picabias I'm currently ripping off. Woman with idol is the one on the right of the top pic.

What I like is that I'm doing copies of copies. Woman with idol was based on a picture in a 40s porn magazine, with the doctor in the original replaced by the idol. Adoration of the calf is based on a photo in a surrealist magazine.

The Piero I'm ripping off could also be classed as a copy, given that the dotted lines from the pouncing are still visible. Pouncing is the method Renaissance artists used to transfer drawings from a cartoon on to a wall to be frescoed.

I might have to steal this idea...

...for the loo in my studio:

Studio

Pipe Liberation Front

Documentation of black magic curse on makers of bad hotel paintings

Robert Rauschenberg's dead

Woohoo!

Yeah okay, it's not that big a deal.

Some cheerful Francis Picabia paintings

The occupants of flying saucers smoke cigarettes!

Something to wear with pride

Superlative painter of breasts

When I proposed a post entitled this, there was some objection. I believe some such calumny as ‘Is that all you can see?’ was bandied round. However, I make no apology. There is nothing whatsoever wrong with focusing on a particular part of an artist's practice.

Next up at Peter McLeavey’s, once Peter Robinson clears out, is a Liz Maw show. It’ll be nice to go to an opening of good paintings for a change. And there'll be breasts!

Cheers mate

A typical day at the office

Some holiday photos

I'm sitting in a motel room in Rotovegas. We head back to Welly tomorrow (boo), having had a fantastic time.

Despite the damnably slow connection here, I've managed to upload some photos:

Do I have 'idiot' written on my forehead?

Oh yeah, I do:

Plonker

I'm not a fan of graffiti art, but what kind of plonker would you have to be to do this?

I'm tempted to go and stick up a response to the response.

Views from the couch

I'm not sure why I took these pics or posted them.