Toothpaste Kisses- The Maccabees

As usual I was running late. 

Saturday 15 January, the original postmark date for The Sketchbook Project (the date changed, literally days before, to the 18th due to all the floods around the world. And with that topic, keep the people affected by these floods in your thoughts and prayers and other karmic wishes. Lives were destroyed, people changed, children forced to grow up in a couple of hours..., livelihoods washed away, crops underwater. The floods have caused a worldwide tragedy. (And some will never be able to recover it, physically, economically or emotionally.))

As it was to the other South Africans and Australians and Brazillians who couldn't make it to the post office soon enough (because of these disasters) that this extention was intended, and I felt that using that to my benefit was a bit too pretentious.

So the day before I had photocopied the entire iPod so that I have a copy for myself, and more importantly, that I could show the friends whose playlists I have made but never saw the iPod before I posted it. And Alice (Alice in Wonderland, from the song "Heroin" in "The Wonderful Playlist of Fantastic Mr. Fox") didn't come out nicely. She was done in watercolour and she came out black and white. Also, I wanted some copies of the originals for fun.

I left home late, toothpaste still around the corners of my mouth, ran helter-skelter into The Print Shop (at 11:40) out at 11:58, race to the post office....to find out it only closes at one. 

I queued politely, wrote on the envelope, wrote a note to the thief on the other end telling him/her that the earphones that he/she was feeling were attached to a sketchbook which was worth nothing to them, watched the post office lady stick pages among pages of stamps on the A4 envelope, hoping that I wrapped it in enough bubble wrap, making sure that the postmark was clearly visible, double checking she didn't lose the package on the way to the scale, and lastly giving it a Toothpaste Kiss(es) and letting go. 

Above is the post office calendar and the wrapped up package which is my iPod.

Here's to you, my sketchbook, a true Aeroplane Jane! (-Karen Zoid).

Cut and Paste

It was last week Friday when I'd finished my sketchbook. I altered each and every page until everything was glued down and serious about staying as it was, where it was and in the same condition.

I then went and photocopied the entire book, bought another moleskin sketchbook at the book shop, and cut cut cut, stuck stuck stuck, until they matched. 

Here's to you, Kyle Andrews!

And here's another one to you, Kyle Andrews. Please get a decent video for this nice song. This is the only one available on the web and quite frankly, it sucks!

So here they are. The trio.

(Note to everyone. The books's screens are smaller than my iPod's because I decided to use an older, iPod classic design for the books and my iPod nano's colour to make it mine. They also use a different font. (Read about it in my 2010 Archive's, one of my first postings if you're interested.)

Skip to the End

It was Thursday last week, and I was an over-worked, underslept, high-on-peppermints maniac. I had www.8tracks.com singing, strumming and drumming out to me. (Thank goodness for its members and their playlists!) I had finished my last entry into my sketchbook in the early hours of the morning, and was dead tired.

So that's my excuse for my delay in this post.

And the reason that this post is titled "Skip to the End"(-The Futureheads) is because, quite frankly that is what you would have to do to get to this last page. I did the drawing in the same dimensions as I did the album covers of the artists in, because I am the artist of this folder of playlists. (It is the album cover of the song on the screen of the purple iPod that says "This is Not an iPod"-Jessie Scheepers.)

It is a picture of me standing at the house of an artist with whom we are friends.

His house is sublime.

These are just pretty pictures (I thought) of the house.

Do you not think that it is just stunning?