Melbourne

Melbourne is one cold city. You wouldn’t think I’d say this after spending half of the “proper“ winter in Mongolia, with snow and ice and winds and all. Yet it is bloody cold here. In Mongolia you get the coldness, but it’s dry and so long as you got the layers, and windproof, you’re gonna be ok, cos you’d be warm inside. But in Melbourne, everything gets damp, the humidity seeps right through whatever you’re wearing, and it stays there. The houses are built for summer conditions, the windows are just a single sheet of glass. They need to install some of them vacuum windows. Those bad boys would definitely cut the cost of electricity we use for heating. I must be getting old.
In other news, I lost a whole box of books and paintbrushes, pens and pencils, MY ROTRING PENS in a boot of a cab in Sydney. I was ready to punch myself to death. The fresh start will have to be a fresh fucking start now, haha. Otherwise, I’m ok.

the last poem

this used to be my favourite song when i was like 5.

snowing today

as crazy as this sounds, it is snowing outside here in UB. it’s MAY ALREADY!!! COME ON!!! you can’t really see it in the photo, cos i took with my shitty camera phone, but trust me the snowflakes are big and they’re falling!!

976 Magazine

Ok,
i got the macjournal figured out, so i can start posting away.

first off, check out 976 Magazine website, to preview the new issue. we’ve put a lot of effort into it and even though it’s slightly late, i’m still very proud of it.
there’s facebook, and twitter account for it as well (though all the content is in Mongolian).

and we got our visas so we’ll be heading back to land of Oz in near future, in matter of weeks, i suppose. and the feeling is mixed, from personal side. on one hand it is good, i’ll go back and see friends i haven’t seen in a while now, and get to do things i’ve started and left in australia. though on the other hand it’s very sad to leave the friends here and leave something i started, though the internet isn’t going anywhere so i’ll be doing as much as i can here, in spirit form.

the main thing is, i know how to survive here now. i came back with nothing on my mind as to what i should be doing with myself, and going away with a well of knowledge about many things, some professional, some not so. life is crazy. but crazy is good.

MacJournal

I’m trying to set up macjournal to use with my blog, i need to figure out how to upload photos through this. hmm.
the picture below is the cover i created for the new 976 magazine, if this works, i’ll post some other images as well.

Smoke and Snow

Life in UB

Got a job as a Creative Director for a local new magazine called "976". it's a lot of work, but a lot of fun as well. crazy hours. fueled by late hour 2 min noodles and beer. getting to do all sorts of things. like retouching photos:
this is not the final version yet. the skin tone needs adjusting.
it snowed like crazy a while ago. i been meaning to post photos of snow for a while. i missed it a lot. most of the photos are taken from out the window either from home or my office. it's a bit hard to keep carrying a chunky camera around.

Back home

we've just arrived in UB my hometown. it's freezing here, -30 at night. will post some photos soon, as soon as i have my computer up and running.

Koast @ Westsyde Connection

In last 2 days i got busy making a 2x2 metre illustration for Koast, which they're using as a backdrop for a shopfront display at Westsyde Connection store in Dulwich Hill, Sydney. Westsyde Connection is a skate shop which also has gallery space, graffiti walls, artist studio, a skate park etc, it's more like a community than a store. The
We set up the display last night and it looks pretty awesome. I spent 5.5 hours drawing it, and it got filmed with time lapse, as soon as i get hold of the video i'll post it up.

for now, here are some photos i took with my mobile phone camera