the other day, i had thousads of suns shining through my window, as you do when you have curtains like mine, so i grabbed a couple of close records and propped them up to obscure the sunshine.

then a couple hours later it dawned on me that on the sleeve i had chosen, elvis keeps staring at me. it’s creeping me out a bit. i think it’s some sort fo repercussion from midget elvis.

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i’ve been starting to research into tshirts. the first two that  look like they’re gonna get made are the cheese and the hotdog.

not sure when tho, cos price and cost and ordering and a hell of a lot of other jazz needs to be figured out first.

While getting a bit carried away following my abstract patterns of thought coupled with google image search over my lunch today, i stumbled upon this site, which got me wondering why people do incredibly dull stuff, like collect scale models of the sort of supermarket trucks that spend their time going up and down the motorways… i mean, the gesture’s nice, to sorta commend these people for delivering my giant bags of pasta to sainsbury’s, but i really don’t believe that’s what they’re in it for.

Anyway, i digress. It got me wondering what other incredibly dull / bizarre stuff there is out there on the internet, the sorta stuff that you’re left staring at for the next 10mins just thinking “why?”, cos i do cross this sorta junk in my current life as an interbum a lot these days… but i thought instead of racking my brains for some more examples, i’d just ask the zoo that is dogsonacid for some of their crossings. and damn did they provide the goods.

DJ Grum came up with the whole cult behind eddie stobart lorries, and inparticularly, he found the world’s only Stobart Reliant in the world.

Eschelon asked “how other amish folks can browse the latest trends, fashions etc” on amish.com

And lastly, Gormo found this gem; pylon of the month home page.

i want to give DJ Lino a mention too for the comment “god that’s so boring” about a scale model of a halford’s lorry too.

my ‘hospital specialist’ tshirt has been finalised, not sure if i’m allowed to show it to the public yet, so i’ll leave anyone who actually reads this page hanging in anticipation for now. not sure if there’s much else to report on, other than work that i shouldn’t tell you about.

i’ll leave you with the thought that john b actually doesn’t do any work, but spends his time browsing ebay for boobs! i think if this scene doesn’t inflate enough for me to be able to start publishing my dnb trashmag entitled slander, i might have to just start up a second slanderblog. keep it thursday.

yesss!

go buy one at the beta store now!

woo it’s finally finished! went live today! my skin of bbc 1xtra’s xtra bass 2005 is online now!

have a nose around here to see it in action and stuff! woo! respect to the other artists too. jon black of magnet has done a superb job of the other spectrum of dnb.

In other recent developments, i submitted some tshirt designs to the magnificent hospital records yesterday at their request, so hopefully i will be able to report news of trickartt hospital tshirts very soon! i’m also trying to make myself a one-off tshirt that reads ‘i am the internet’. and in further tshirt news i did a design for john b which you should hopefully be seeing a lot of in the near future, especially around wmc… tshirt madness in trickartt world!

on a totally off-topic note, condolences to tarzan and congratulations to it’s successor rolldabeats, a new bigger, better and all round more pleasant ultimate drum and bass database.

i’m thinking of overhauling my website in favour of something non-flash based, but i will archive the old site for nostalgic purposes. also my portfolio is kinda disorganised and not entirely how i want it any more, so that’s on my hitlist. in the mean time i might do a real cheesey typical graphic designer’s website with 45° pinstripes and all that sort of jazz (will you play us some yazz flute mister burgundy?) cos for some reason i’m itching for a non-flash based webdesign project. as usual my mind has moved on, but you heard it here first, whatever i was about to type!

oh and if anyone wants to teach me css and / or php, or even better make a php backend for my blog out of the goodness of their heart or for a skills trade, email me at my new address ricky@trickartt.com (i only just found out i can have @trickartt.com email addresses). i should learn to do things properly.

i just stumbled across this while doing some googlewhacks and i’m in hysterics about it. i have no idea why i find it so funny, or why i didn’t expect to find something like this when searching for salami machine!

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oh and i did a new wallpaper this weekend after a month’s hiatus. find it on the wallpapers page as usual.

i know it’s been a long time since an update, but i’ve had a hectic winter with all sorts of stuff going on, so when it comes to writing something here i have to really want to do it, as it’s all html-based. so if there’s any developers out there that might like to build me a nice php backend for my blog out of the goodness of their hearts, mail me, or just save this page and get to work and surprise me when it’s done.. cos this is all there is to my blog. just one html document. ghetto, huh?

so yeah. chrimbo treated me well, but i’ll spare you the details. been getting all sorts of stuff done lately, as you can see in my portfolio.. including proper work and even more stupid illustrations cos i know you love all that wierd stuff. but the biggest thing i’ve done recently is:<

The Grooverider Sound Board!

I don’t think this needs much explanation. i’ve totaly lost my chain of thought too so this is an abrupt ending.

it’s a man. in a pink hippo suit. with meat glued to his feet. clutching a ladel. in a cornfield.

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he longs for pudding. i’ve been drawing nonsense as a means of anti-stress. i like it.

so today i made my first trickartt tee. bad company style!

i’m yet to perfect my techniques but it went really well for the first tshirt i’ve ever printed. means propa ones are another step closer 😀 la-de-da photoshopped pic 😀

just found this in my iphoto, thought it was worth posting…

An experiment i’ve been working on today, with type and an old line drawing / wallpaper of mine… thought it was kinda crazy. inspired by ni9e. certainly an idea to develop on…