Author Archives for thedarclaud

Collage-nikov : Sausage Man

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Went to Ikea, bought a bed frame. Went back to Ikea, bought a picture frame and…BANG! (There’s that kalashnikov reference we were looking for) Made a collage.

The detail is pretty rubbishy online as it’s such a big image (about 80 x 60 cm) and I took a terrible photo on my iphone (I promise to get better at it), but its a collection of images from various sources (movie poster, Interview Magazine, Archetype Magazine, a Dictionary written from some guy’s personal experience) and some handy work of my own using loose pigment and water, white acrylic paint and black ink pen. It’s basically all about Peter Thompson (the local butcher from Mona Vale where I grew up – we called him Peter Thompson Sausage Man) moving to Tasmania. The story seemed to speak nicely to the images.

Oh! I almost forgot to tell you! Did you hear about Peter Thompson Sausage Man?

You mean the butcher in Mona vale who looks like this: [drawing of Peter Thompson with sausages and a cleaver]? And who makes those little tiny pork sausages that are so nice with a big family roast?

Yes! Peter Thompson who used to give us a free sausage in a bag when Mum went in to buy dinner!

Oh, I thought that was the butcher by Franklins and Peter Thompson is on Pittwater Road.

Oh. You might be right.

Maybe.

Anyway, I think he’s moving to Tasmania.

Hanging this thing up in my new SF room until I become such a highly sought-after artiste that thieves are literally breaking into my house to steal my stuff and sell it online for exorbitant amounts of ca$h money to art lovers who want to put them in shrines. That’s me – the art lover trying to buy my stuff back. In retrospect, I shouldn’t have made ‘art lovers’ and ‘shrines’ plural.

A feature film? Yeah, I did one.

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A feature film? Yeah, I did one. It’s called ‘Winning Formula’, it’s a comedy, I wrote it, my mother doesn’t like the script but you win some and you lose some, I like the script, and we wrapped production on it last month in Los Angeles under LFL Entertainment. I will probably become very wealthy and well known in exclusive circles as a result of this film. Specifically, wealthy in knowledge and the exclusive circle being the cast and crew – but I’m open to expansion if you’re interested.

Anyway, here’s the synopsis:

While backpacking around America, two Aussie girls find themselves deep in turtle racing debt to a notorious gangster. Constantly validating each other’s bad decisions, they devise crafty plans to keep their heads above water, earning money any way they can while unwittingly become tangled in a dark mystery surrounding their family’s past. Through the hardest of times, they learn to embrace what is right on their caravan doorstep: romance, friends and family – with a side order of juice.

Yep. Sounds like a hoot, hey.

Well you can expect more updates on this little gem as the year (and post-production) progresses. This space shall clog up like the proverbial crapper with trailers, posters and links to high-profile premiers. ‘High-profile’ is of course an exaggeration but there will certainly be opportunities to catch a screening here and there.

Go ahead and give it a little like on facebook

Virgin Snow in SFO

As a San Francisco sapling trying to figure out what to do next, I thought I’d try doing what I like to do best.

Good heavens, I think that almost rhymed. Time to change the post heading from just ‘Virgin Snow’ to ‘Virgin Snow in SFO’. It’s all coming together now.

As for the virgin snow… the only quote I could find online was:

Blondes make the best victims. They’re like virgin snow that shows up the bloody footprints.

– Alfred Hitchcock

…. but I thought that was a bit morose. I really wanted to say something more to the poetic effect of San Francisco being my metaphorical blank canvas (like virgin snow) and I’m going to run around in it. The running is likely to be a lanky affair, but the resulting snow promises far less lank and hopefully more interest. I’m quite sure lank is not a word.

What I’m really trying to say here is since I’ve arrived, I’ve found myself making the heck outta stuff. There’ll be more of that. And all the stuff will be catalogued here. Thanks for getting involved.