Rod Stewart - Maggie May

The Vineyard

Robert Louis Stevenson - My Bed Is A Boat

Why We Make Art

To Create Beauty

To Explore the Mind

It's Fun and Free

To Let It Out

For Fame and Glory

To Focus

It's The Epitome of Cool

To Make People Stop and Think

Bath Salt

New collaboration by A$AP Rocky, A$AP Mob, and Flatbush Zombies.

Calvin & Hobbes - Ignorance

Lilli Carré

Brilliant illustrations and animations from Chicago-based artist Lilli Carré.

Junichiro Sekino

Beautiful woodblock portraits by Japanese printmaker Junichiro Sekino (1914-1988).

Waterfire

Skateboarding Dennis

New Dennis the Menace tattoo design for my boy Abe. Killin' It!

The Stubborn Child

A one-paragraph fairy tale by the Grimm brothers, translated by Jack Zipes:

Once upon a time there was a stubborn child who never did what his mother told him to do. The dear Lord, therefore, did not look kindly upon him, and let him become sick. No doctor could cure him and in a short time he lay on his deathbed. After he was lowered into his grave and covered over with earth, one of his little arms suddenly emerged and reached up into the air. They pushed it back down and covered the earth with fresh earth, but that did not help. The little arm kept popping out. So the child’s mother had to go to the grave herself and smack the little arm with a switch. After she had done that, the arm withdrew, and then, for the first time, the child had peace beneath the earth.

I Heart Cafe

Some framed work on display at I Heart Cafe on Leith Walk in Edinburgh.

The Corruption Fighter

10 Things Most Americans Don't Know About America

American Boy, Wake Up! Darrel Perkins. 2011

"The United States is my alcoholic brother. And although I will always love him, I don’t want to be near him at the moment."

A thoughtful excerpt from Mark Manson's enlightening article attempting to educate America about itself. It's biased by personal experience but absolutely worth reading in it's entirety. Here are the points: 

1. Few People Are Impressed By Us
2. Few People Hate Us
3. We Know Nothing About The Rest of The World
4. We Are Poor at Expressing Gratitude And Affection
5. The Quality of Life For The Average American is Not That Great
6. The Rest of The World is Not A Slum-Ridden Shithole Compared to Us
7. We're Paranoid
8. We're Status-Obsessed And Seek Attention
9. We Are Very Unhealthy
10. We Mistake Comfort For Happiness

Why See The World When You Have A View Like This

Fuck the Eighties!

Beaver Hall Sign

Final design for the front wall of 2 Beaver Hall, an art studio in Edinburgh.