Urban Insomniac!

Oh my gosh. I’ve been puzzling over how to reply to this for like half an hour. I had to get up and walk around for a bit and think if this required mock reciprocal outrage along the lines of NO MAYBE IT’S ///YOU/// WHO IS AWESOME, AND YOU’RE TRYING TO THROW ME OFF! CHECK AND MATE.

I mean I have difficulty expressing feelings so this sort of response might not be entirely inaccurate.

But maybe this requires genuine surprise and delight though… Like the kind which requires pictures of animals doing strange things. If that’s the case, please accept this dancing sifaka as a token of my appreciation:

Apparently sifakas enjoy dancing. There’s like a bajillion pictures of them doing all sorts of weird crap:

I mean I could go on but it’s probably best not to blow the whole lot of potentially useful reaction images all on one post like this… 

Hello hive mind - I’m currently writing my MA thesis on the gig economy and polymathic freelancers in the creative industries. Basically, I’m looking to interview freelancers (ideally London/UK-based) who are multi-talented, and work in a diverse set of creative disciplines… such as a writer/illustrator/animator etc. Perhaps you have had an interesting portfolio career, or you’ve created a unique job role/business that combines all your skill-set and interests.

If this sounds like you or someone you may know, I’d LOVE a brief chat about your experiences over email/phone/Skype/person, whichever suits best.

Contact me here, or email me: [email protected]

2016’s Top Art

You’ll know it when you see it.

1. photography 2. illustration 

3. doodle 4. comics 5. digital art 6. sketch 7. painting 8. watercolor 9. pixel art 

Michiko London Koshino x NONA9ON (YG Entertainment) Fashion Collection

“Alex is just six years old. He lives in Scarsdale, New York. Last month, like people around the world, he was moved by the heartbreaking images of Omran Daqneesh, a five-year-old boy in Aleppo, Syria, sitting in an ambulance, in shock as he tried to wipe the blood from his hands.

So Alex sat down and wrote me a letter. This week at a United Nations summit on refugees, I shared Alex’s moving words with the world.

Alex told me that he wanted Omran to come live with him and his family. He wanted to share his bike, and teach him how to ride. He said his little sister would collect butterflies for him. ‘We can all play together,’ he wrote. ‘We will give him a family and he will be our brother.’

Those are the words of a six-year-old boy—a young child who has not learned to be cynical or suspicious or fearful of other people because of where they come from, how they look, or how they pray.

We should all be more like Alex. Imagine what the world would look like if we were. Imagine the suffering we could ease and the lives we could save.