get a bit of extra milage from this image

having posted this as my first entry on Illustration Friday Night I thought I would post it here for you tao as well, although I could have just sent you over there I suppose.
I titled it London Tube Map 2050, which is actually what Mike Moony called it when he saw it. It is just a watercolour that I did last year.
I think that the sound of my typing is disturbing my 'better' half, who to be fair is studying not wasting her fucking time on the internet like I am.
so I might stick a fork in it, and call it an entry
chow

hmm, tired very tired

and in a bad mood too.
not sure what the story is today
been in a bad mood all day.
had an argument in the street with the driver of a little water truck.
I hate those fucking bastards.
I'm going to go get my camera, download the few piccies on the card and post one of this fucker.
jeez I'm still seething



What the fuck do they think they are acheiving with this?

all they are doing as far as I can see is throw water away, dirty the street, and cause pushbike accidents

and the arsehole had the nerve to tell me not to take photos of him.
at which point I really lost my cool and told him in no uncertain terms to go fuck himself and that I would take photos of what ever I wanted to and dared him to do anything about it, at which point he calmly drove off down the street at 2 miles an hour spraying water over everything.



I hate that I am losing my cool more and more often lately.
living in this enormous densely packed city is really getting to me I suppose.
and reading the sort of stuff I read is also not good for ones calmo meter
but we are really a fucked up bunch of shit in our own nest supposedly sentient beings



every night, it's the same thing. every night! these photos are from last night but I have thousands of similar ones. and there are these collections of enormous bins every ten meters or so, on every street. full of basically packaging and wasted food and organic material from the war on trees, and used once only cartons and crates and polystyrene flat screen tv packaging material and it's driving me bonkers




así que voy a ir me a la cama
I think that's enough ranting for now.
I'll leave out the story of the bunch of young fucksticks who nearly got to relieve my tension in the metro. I could have battered all four to death, even though one was a girl and was laughing at me, the main fucker seemed to get the idea that that mad anglo saxon looked a little too mad and they took off. I will be looking in the local rag for stories of some incident as they were looking for trouble.
jeez I sound like an old fool but I'm not kidding.
I'm going to take my little friend down to the street and not try at all hard to stay out of trouble.



if this is the last post that appears here you will know that I am an old fool after all.

still around ?

old buddy, old pal.
really shouldn't be here doing this. Be much more useful to be doing some work or even some painting.



oops, looks like I should have cleaned these scans up a bit before posting them.
sorry 'bout the black lines at the edge.
my bad.



this one is really so strange. I still haven't decided if I am wasting my time with it or not. At this point, (above) it has cost me a lot of work but now I have decided to paint a turquoise circle inside each of the blue spaces, as you can see below.



this is obviously going to take me a while more.
(Insert smiley winky face here)
sorry these images come through so small.
it's a very dissapointing aspect of the new blogger. I liked it more when I could put the bigger images on the front page, even though I know that really caused problems for anybody who doesn't have broadband internet access. I suppose that what you lose on the swings you gain on the roundabout.
I have included a detail of a small section of this ongoing work below.



I know you know this, but just in case, by clicking on the image, (or right clicking and choosing open link in new tab, or new window for those stubborn enough to still be using Internet Explorer), you can see a much larger version.

well I really should think about taking my little buddy down to the street and that stuff. although it is raining so he won't be too impressed with that and will not want to actually go out the door. Sometimes I have to carry him to a place that has a few square metres covered and let him have a run around there.
I find it quite incredible that they can build a city in a place where it rains in winter and not include awnings on the buildings so that one can walk around without an umbrella, or should I say with the umbrella folded up. I mean, with the population density that there is here it's not at all easy to walk around under an umbrella. The sidewalks are narrow, in places inexistant, the cars park on them willy nilly, the average Spaniard doesn't give a fuck, or even look before stepping out in front of you and yet there is no protection from the rain. I really can't get my head around most things these days. I guess I am reaching my limits on living in a big city.
I remember that Lucas told me I wouldn't like it, or wouldn't be able to stand it, and I guess he was right really, but I am pretty stubborn as well, and I have now clocked up more than five years.
Well, anyhow, I don't want to get on to bitching about the big city 'cause I might not be able to stop. and speaking of stopping, I really should be thinking about doing something with my day. I am starting to fear that I really might not finish my course in the alloted time and then I will be in a fine pickle.
The book has fallen through, or at least I reached and passed my limits of dealing with the idiots and I really don't have too many options left. Fuck the modern world. I am sure that a few hundred years ago I would have been quite secure at this age and not so disapointed in the human race and therefore a little more amenable to doing what it takes to get along and so forth. But now, in the year of our dog 2007, I am just waiting for the crash. Hope it comes along soon.
-On that uplifting note-
here comes my little buddy to ask me why we are here and not in the street. and I have no good answer, so to the street we must go. so tao, nice to talk to you and see you soon