Asymmetry and things that creep around corners, being Alpha, petty vandalism, well placed insults, complicated words, picnics, premium vodka in good company, remaining vegetarian in a country of rampaging flesh-eaters.
To relax, I usually go out to drum and bass, jungle, ragga and dirty grinding booty hip-hop.....
Music
Hip hop, ragga, dancehall, jungle, D&B, dubstep, grime, garage. Generally, if it's smutty or at least fat and macho, I'll be down.. Cheesy is sometimes ok, though I am not sold on ghetto tech....
Movies
The Labrynth, The Dark Crystal, Apocalypse Now, A Clockwork Orange, Dr Strangelove, Full Metal Jacket, The Ice Storm, Eraserhead, Rashomon, Lost Highway, Blue Velvet, The Third Man, Basquiat, Russian Ark, The Deer Hunter, Raging Bull, Rear Window, Morvern Callar, Lilya 4 Eva, Nobody Knows
Lantana, Chopper, In the Winter Dark, Praise, The Boys, Rabbit Proof Fence, Beneath Clouds
Television
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Books
The Outsider ,Trainspotting , The Unbearable Lightness of Being , Crime & Punishment, The Master & Margarita, The Clay Machine Gun, Catch 22, My Name is Asher Lev, 100 Years of Solitude, The Art of Travel, Kokoro, The Fat Man in History (short stories)...... oh, and blackbooks are good too.......
I'm Australian, but I'm based in Moscow, Russia. I still can't pronounce the words сыр (cheese) лось (moose) and несанкционированной (unsanctioned), but I get by on a day-to-day basis.
Work in progress.... Grizzly commission.
Work in progress.... Grizzly commission.
St Petersburg, Dec 2008
Stencil for Blacksquare Magazine, Moscow, November 2008
Mural for ArchDesign, London, UK. January 2008.
I go crazy for graffiti, contemporary art, photography, film, beats & books. My current obsessions include
a) carnivorous plants
b) decayed, rusted, peeling, beat up pre-loved walls
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