choose life

"Choose life. Choose a job. Choose a career. Choose a family. Choose a fucking big television, Choose washing machines, cars, compact disc players, and electrical tin openers. Choose good health, low cholesterol and dental insurance. Choose fixed- interest mortgage repayments. Choose a starter home. Choose your friends. Choose leisure wear and matching luggage. Choose a three piece suite on hire purchase in a range of fucking fabrics. Choose DIY and wondering who you are on a Sunday morning. Choose sitting on that couch watching mind-numbing sprit- crushing game shows, stuffing fucking junk food into your mouth. Choose rotting away at the end of it all, pishing you last in a miserable home, nothing more than an embarrassment to the selfish, fucked-up brats you have spawned to replace yourself. Choose your future. Choose life... But why would I want to do a thing like that?"

Off course you should know this starting monologue of one of my favorite movies. This is a reflexion about the modern slave. I'm talking about you and me. a slave of things which we buy. a slave of our work to pay for all we don't really need.

Be happy with a simple life... be free...

tweets revolution

I have a friend who is working on t-shirt design. You can visit his web site at this adress : www.defeua.com. I was thinking about his "toy's revolution" design and this theme and it gave me an idea to make a design on my computer by myself. It's an extension of one of my paintings : This one about the arabic revolution and the implication of social network like twitter. So with the idea of rethinking the past, I have decided to mix an old symbol of the revolution and a new symbol of freedom.

I have decided to complete this work with a t-shirt printing and a airbrush painting.

Graphic design

I have done a short course at London Chelsea College in graphic design. We made different small projects only on paper. Really dynamic, really creative, not necessary my drawings... but an very interesting course to understand the process of a graphic design. Some of my drawing are shown below.

shorn like a sheep

I was talking with one of my colleagues and we were discussing that we were like sheep to do what the boss want without asking any question. And finally, we are also shorn like sheep just for some stockholders so that they can make a lot of money on our backs. So I'm working on a new painting about this idea. Ok right now, I put just some idea on the paper, but I hope it could give you an idea of what the result will be.

illustration

I have done also a short course at London Chelsea College in illustration. I was very interesting how to get an idea from your environment all around you and how to develop this idea to make a final drawings. Start with different sketch, see how to put together, try and try again... and finally make an interesting work. Some of my drawing are shown below.

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