Happy Christmas

What you'll need
Some thin card, scissors, paper glue and a printer. And maybe an adult to help.

Step one
Print out the image below, and glue it onto the thin card.

Step two
Once the glue has dried, use your scissors and cut along the dotted lines. Now, being very careful, cut out the two blue circles.

Step three
Take the piece you have cut out, and fold it in two. This is the main part of your card.

Step four
Now add a greeting. Print out the image below and cut along the dotted lines.



Step five
Take the main part of your card, so the inside is facing you, and glue the message onto its right hand side.

Step six
Put your fingers through the holes, and give Father Christmas a pair of dancing legs!

And there you go. Happy Christmas from me to you. Have a great one.

bobble hat

Denmark Hill. 9.30am ish. 6th November

reading the tube map

Circle line. 2nd November. 6pm(ish).

slurp

parka

Geneva airport, 14th September, 2009.

cough

image for a gig poster...

standing about

like a blue-arsed fly (girl)

woman, pear, robot

Another old flyer, from two or three years ago, I think.

lightbulb

A Stars of The Lid poster from November 2007, that I just found lurking on my computer.

beard

Blackfriars. 21st July, around 9am.

east london type

Bus through Hackney, 10th July 2009.

profile

miserable sod

Blackfriars. 19th June. 6pm-ish.

Jean-Jacques Sempé

thcweam

big hair

ruff and ready

During the Renaissance, the fashion for wearing enormous ruffs meant that longer spoons had to be produced (another pic for an upcoming book).

earrings; puffa jacket; hood; nintendo ds

New Cross Gate. 6.50pm, 14th April.


Piccadilly Line (Westbound, near Earls Court). 15th April, 12.25pm.

junior führer

For an upcoming book; and a piece about 'Names you would no longer consider calling your children'...

european tour poster for the declining winter

damo suzuki 2009

Damo Suzuki, with his poster.
March 2009.

pointedly ignoring the drunk bloke next to her

Brockley. About 6pm, 20th March.

coffee from paul

New Cross Gate. 17th March 2009, around 2pm.

are you local?

This fellow was in the Prince Regent, in Gloucester Place, last night; steaming drunk and chatting up every woman at the bar.

waiting

..for the number 63 bus in glorious, picturesque Peckham. About 4pm, 5th March, 2009.

crossing

torpedo

Jordi Bernet's "Torpedo"

*tumbleweed*

Crikey, it's quiet on here.

I've a few bits and bobs on the go at the moment, and will post bits in due course (mainly, I'm working on a new book for Rough Guides).

In the meantime - remember the Damo Suzuki poster in the last post?

Well, it's got the Leeds Music Scene forum a-harumphin' and a-squabblin' over whether you can read the bloody writing on it or not (and let's be honest - you can't. Not really).

damo suzuki

Concert poster for Damo Suzuki.

headscarf and alphabet top

London Bridge to New Cross Gate. About 6-ish, 11th February 2009.

it's Hergé's world, we just live in it

Jean-Pierre Gougeau's blog - with reproductions of bits and bobs from the Tintin stories - is great.

EDIT: Gah! The blog disappeared! Who knows why, but I'll leave the link active in case it resurfaces.

reading glasses

08.22 to London Bridge. 19th Jan 2009.

Tony Hart...

...R.I.P.

(Image courtesy of here).

king of the ghosts

'are you sleeping' from harry nilsson's 'the point'

three old drawings

Jim from The Royle Family (christ, look at those poorly drawn legs) and a couple of others from about -ooh, 10 years ago? Something like that anyway.

(All found between the pages of a long-unopened book).

actual sarandon single

Happy 2009!

Here's the Sarandon single I did the artwork for way back when. It came out just before Christmas, and should you want to get your hot little hands on one, try Rough Trade (and othere reputable record stores).