Hipster dog.

Jazzing birds

Nicolas Provost.

Brad Holland.

Recently I've discovered Varoom magazine, the journal of illustration and made images.
Brad Holland made the cover of the current issue. Not only the illustration of Brad is eyecatching, the text he scribbled on the side is really accurate and stands for a major frustration every illustrator has to deal with. The fact that illustration is no art for some people.

Here's the text:
"That's not Art, that's illustration"
Everybody is an artist these days.
Rock and Roll singers are artists.
So are movie directors, performance artists, make-up artists, tattoo artists, con artists and rap artists.
Madonna is an artist because she explores her own sexuality.
Snoop Doggy Dogg is an artist because he explores other people's sexuality.
Victims who express their pain are artists.
So are guys in prison who express themselves on shirt cardboard.
Even consumers are artists when they express themselves in their selection of commodities.
The only people left who seem not to be artists are illustrators.

Jazz Middelheim

I've sprayed some T's on this year's edition of the Antwerp Jazz festival "Jazz Middelheim" for the belgian radio station Klara.
Here are some pictures.
The first picture was made by Eddy Westveer.

Rock a Fire MGMT

Old versus New world

This magnificent picture (Edward Steichen) shows one of the first skyscrapers in the world, the flat iron building in New York city.
It was build in 1902, what a vision!
It looks like an arrow that shows the way to the sky, an omen for the future.