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“In Graffiti Taxonomy: Paris (2009), over 2,400 graffiti tags were photographed from April 24 to April 28, 2009 from each of Paris’s 20 districts. All photographs were archived, tagged and sorted by letter.” from Graffiti Taxonomy.

So what did we discover? That J is the second least popular letter in this straw poll of tags….which explains a lot. Click on the image or here for the interactive version.

Not really sure what to make of this but it certainly looks incredible…read about it here and if you’ve got the stomach here’s the trailer.

“Masquerade is a children’s book, written and painted by Kit Williams, which sparked a worldwide treasure hunt by concealing clues to the location of a jewelled golden hare, created and hidden somewhere in Britain by Williams.” From wikipedia.

When I heard about this on the radio last week I thought I remembered having the book as a kid. In actual fact we had this and I was pretty convinced that we (as a family) would find all of the eggs. We did not.

There’s a few more Betty’s at the flickr if you’re into that sort of thing. Maybe I should move on to Bunny Yeager next, for a bit of colour and contrast. Plus I’ve nearly run out of my Betty postcards.

I was recently asked by Ape on the Moon to answer a couple of questions and provide a few pages from the crazybook for a post on his illustration blog. Click on the image above to find out how I come across…predictably, like a bit of tit.

Just trying to catch up on a bit of admin this weekend, which is why things are a wee bit quiet. Try the flickr if you’re looking for a bit more action…of the illustration kind.

Another page from the sketchbook, click on the image to see the full page or here to see the double-page spread…imagine.

Just a detail of a felt tip drawing from the sketchbook, click on the image to see the full page. Thinking of doing something like this (or there abouts) for the first in the new series of linocuts, although probably not so many colours.