Creative inspiration – Stickers!
Japanese artist Yukino Ohmura uses sticker dots to make these mad city scapes! Full story at: spoon-tamago.com. Lock up your stationary cupboards!
Creative inspiration – The kids are alright
I want to be young and amazing again! These photos by Megan Doherty give me hope for the future. Full article over at Jaxtapoz.
Creative inspiration – Charlotte Love
Loving the work of Charlotte Love. Check her out on Instagram or for her styling work visit charlottelove.co.uk
Creative inspiration – Anime AF
Massive Nerd Alert but this is so cool. Can not wait to show this to the kids. They are going to lose their shit!
Creative inspiration – Reading in Colour
Mary Ellen Bartley is my new favourite! Love this series on books. Also really like Seven things again and again. I think the seven things project definitely feels like a lockdown idea. Nothing is boring. Everything is awesome!
The worst swear word in the world
Copied verbatim from The Guardian. I remember reading this in the paper 14 years ago and it still makes me laugh today. I’ts a cracker.
“Sometimes the mystery is better than the knowing, wouldn’t you say? Sometimes the journey is better than the destination”Jon Ronson Sat 28 Jul 2007
My eight-year-old son, Joel, comes into my office to ask if there’s a worse swearword than fuck. “No,” I say.
There’s a silence. “You’re lying,” he says.
“There’s none worse than fuck,” I say.
Joel narrows his eyes. “I know you’re lying,” he says. He leaves the room.
On Saturday I take Joel to Chessington World of Adventures. What a crappy theme park! None the less, we have a wonderful day together.
“You’re a great dad!” Joel says as we drive home.
“And you’re a great son!” I reply with a magical twinkle.Advertisementhttps://afa4abef6d09f2c8d8c8e474d1dbd65b.safeframe.googlesyndication.com/safeframe/1-0-37/html/container.html
We smile lovingly at each other.
“There is a worse swearword than fuck, isn’t there?” says Joel.
“Yes, there is!” I say, still with a magical twinkle.
“What is it?” asks Joel.
“It’s c…” I begin. I stop. “Uh,” I say.
“Tell me,” says Joel. “I swear this is just for me. I’ll never use it. I just need to know. I will never use it on anyone. I swear. Just tell me.”
I feel clammy and hemmed in. “And you won’t tell Mum we had this conversation?” I say.
“I promise,” says Joel. “Mum will never know.”
There’s a silence. “I can’t tell you,” I say.
“Tell me,” says Joel.
“I can’t,” I say.
“Then why did you almost tell me?” Joel yells.
“Because I wasn’t thinking responsibly!” I yell. “I was swept up in the magic of the moment.”
“You have to tell me,” Joel says. “It’s only fair.”
“Uh,” I say. “I, uh… I…”
I look around the car. For some reason we have an old can of Italian lemonade down on the floor.
“It’s limone,” I say.
There’s a silence.
“Limone?” says Joel.
“That’s the worst swearword of all,” I say. “Limone. But I’m holding you to your promise that you will never use it. OK? Never.”
“Limone?” says Joel. He seems disappointed.
“There’s nowhere to go after limone,” I say. “Limone is the Everest peak of swearing.”
Joel looks out of the window.
“You know,” I say, wisely, “sometimes the mystery is better than the knowing, wouldn’t you say? Sometimes the journey is better than the destination. Anyway, don’t tell Mum.”
We reach the house. Joel rushes inside.
“Mum!” he yells. “Dad told me the worst swearword of all! I know what it is! Limone!”
My wife, Elaine, appears at the top of the stairs, an inscrutable expression on her face. I shrug, anxiously.
A month passes. We go for a weekend away. At the hotel, a boy on a tricycle crashes into Joel.
“Limone,” mutters Joel under his breath.
Another month passes. Joel has a friend round for a sleepover. At 11pm I hear them talking. They’re saying, “Limone” in awed whispers.
“I feel terrible about this,” I say to Elaine. “I’ve tricked my own son. I’m going to tell him that limone isn’t a swearword, and is in fact the Italian word for lemon.” I pause. “I’m going to tell him the actual worst swearword in the world.”
“You are not!” says Elaine.
“I’d rather he was foul-mouthed and accurate than see him like this,” I say. “All because of my stupid, stupid slip of the tongue in the car on the way back from Chessington World of Adventures.”
“You are not going to tell Joel the worst swearword in the world!” Elaine yells.
And so I don’t.
Today, Joel comes into my office. “Hi,” he says.
“Hi,” I say.
There’s a silence.
“Anyway, I’ll see you later,” says Joel. He goes to leave. Then he turns around.
“Oh,” he says. “Cunt.”
Creative inspiration – Miami Colour Theory. Yes!
Check it at: https://www.instagram.com/miamicolortheory/
Creative inspiration – Kurt Vonnegut
Found this by accident on auto play. Awesome! Well worth your 17 minutes.
Creative inspiration – Lego
LEGO has released a three-and-a-half-hour playlist that can serve as relaxing background noise while you play with their build sets. What’s even more interesting is that all seven tracks—each 30 minutes long—were composed using LEGO bricks instead of traditional musical instruments. For instance, “Searching for the One (Brick)” features the noise one makes when digging through a pile of LEGO pieces, while the track “The Waterfall” mimics the rumbling sound of water with LEGO bricks being poured from a container.
Creative inspiration – Science accidents. Yes!
Mayonnaise is a miracle.
Employees at Israel’s National Sea Turtle Rescue Center are treating endangered green sea turtles affected by a devastating oil spill that has coated Israel’s coast with thick black tar.
The spill, which Israel’s Nature and Parks Authority has called one of the country’s worst ecological disasters on record, has coated most of Israel’s 120 miles (195 kilometers) of Mediterranean coastline with sticky tar. It has caused extensive damage to wildlife, including sea turtles.
Workers have been removing the toxic substance from the reptiles’ airways and found a creative way to flush it out of their digestive tracks.
“We continue to feed them substances like mayonnaise, which practically clean the system and break down the tar,” Ivgy said. The recovery process is expected to take a week or two, after which the turtles are expected to be released back into the wild.
Guy Ivgy
Fuck Yes!!!
Creative inspiration – Obvious Plant
@obviousplant makes rad things and leaves them in the real world.
On rotation F#cking Menacing
Brisbane rapper Jesswar is my new favourite thing! Soo dark. Rough Nasty! Loving it!
Savage is another mad track (extreme language warning) checkit!
Creative inspiration – Crayola for the Win
Artist Herb Williams makes rad things from crayons. Check it. Via colossal
Creative inspiration – So much Radness
This image was the first random link I clicked on. Go get some Old Concept Cars.
Creative inspiration – Where I’m from
Didn’t give me quite the sense of nostalgia I thought it would but it was great to see some old faces and places!
Vale Double K
This makes me sad. I fucking love these guys! I saw them in a shitty, forgettable venue in Melbourne 20 years ago and was hooked. Their Aussie tunes are The Shit! Go well Double K.
Creative inspiration – This speaks to me
We all love a good Jigsaw. I like this one a lot! Available at: Genuine Fred
About the artist
Wayne White is a multi-media artist born in Chattanooga, Tennessee. He has worked professionally as a cartoonist, illustrator, painter, sculptor, set and puppet designer, and animator in New York and Los Angeles. He won three Emmys for his art direction on Pee-wee’s Playhouse. His thirty years in television production includes designing Shining Time Station, Beakman’s World, Peter Gabriel’s “Big Time” video and “Tonight Tonight” for The Smashing Pumpkins. Since 2000, he has shown his paintings and sculptures in galleries all over the world. In 2012, he was the subject of an award winning documentary “Beauty is Embarrassing.”
Creative inspiration – Board*ering on the sacred.
Werner Herzog discussed the beauty of failure in skateboarding.