I love it when people take something and turn it into something great, fun to complain about or something that's just a little hilarious. It's like song or movie re-makes, which somehow have to do with this shirt. I'm trying to get rounf to saying that sometimes the second, third, fourth or maybe hundredth copy/remake might be the best? There are so many things I've noticed that are better when they're remade; think Lord of the Rings, the song 'Boys of Summer', the energy drink 'Mother', i-Pods, KFC (apparently at some stage there wasn't always chicken in their chicken burgers...), and the list goes on. Some things are better off left un-touched (I hope they never have a go at re-doing the order of the keys on keyboards). There are also some things that should just stop being made, like Dragon Ball...they made some awesome Saga's, but a few of them was enough, we didn't need Dragon Ball GT. Same goes for Pokemon...stupid desperate company may aswell be calling the new pokemon interesting names like Door, Knee and Labiamon.

Tomer Hanuka

His works are somewhat disturbing in many cases, as the average person will say ‘eww’ when their eyes come to look at the image, Tomer generally uses good old ink…and photoshop to create each piece. He has done work for Time Magazine, The New Yorker, The New York Times, Rolling Stone, MTV, Saatchi & Saatchi, BBDo, Nike, GQ, Esquire, Spin, Maxim, Warner Bros, DC comics, Marvel Comics, Men’s Health, Buck TV, Scholastic, Random House, Penguin, Microsoft, Playboy, Fantagraphics, The Progressive, Mother Jones, Entertainment Weekly, The American Red Cross, Flaunt, Business Week, Newsweek, The Rolling Stones and many more. But you get the idea, he’s pretty popular. Some of his pieces include a certian amount of horror, others not; either way, each piece is full of strange details. Coincedentally, Tomer Haunka does graphic novels aswell, so type in Tomer Hanuka to google and you'll find it (it’s also his blog whisch is awesome to read). In 2008 he won the British Desgin Museum award, he’s currently teaching at The School Of Visual Arts. Its pretty interesting in the spots where he shows his design process, as well as the finished product, well worth checking out.

Sweet website design

One of my favourite bands Drop Dead, Gorgeous recently released a new album. Though they did it in quite a different way to the average musician. Basing their new concept album called Worse Than A Fairy Tale on the fictional murders in a town called Saylor Lake. I’ll tell you a bit about their campaign to add interest to their new release then shall I? Along with their regular band site, they also created another mystery site, filled with creepy graphics, the graphics making up Saylor Lake. After the album was released, fans were intrigued by this mysterious page, it was apparent that they would wait for certains clues to come up on the site. I’m not sure how long it took for all the clues to come up, but eventually it gave the fans enough to figure out the mystery murders of Saylor Lake. I unfortunately didn’t figure it out for myself. Giving their fans something to do, something to figure what the songs in the album are based upon is fantastic. The Saylor Lake site doesn’t tell you very much, therefor creating a further sense of mystery. The site is rather creepy, with a morbid feel to it. Vultures included.

Great Graffiti/Public Art

The streets of melbourne is a place I feel quite at home, even though I’ve only been there three times. Why do I feel at home? Because the streets are infested with fantastic art works. One of the many semi-hidden glories of the busy city streets is a lengthy alley way that smells of urine, alchohol and stale cigarettes. But that luckily isn’t the glory of it. Looking at the walls, you realise you are surrounded with beautiful graffiti. It goes up higher than you can see properly, so that top area will always be a mystery. The graffiti isn’t tasteless tagging and slander, but art works. You want to stay in this disgusting alley way longer but the stench is just a little too overwhelming. Other than the graffiti, there are massive sculptures, the odd building is an eye sore [i saw one that was neon green and black, as well as VERY oddly shaped], artists sitting on the sidewalks selling their works. I also came across a massive sky scraper building with giant silver bumblebees along one of the sides. Well I could go on for ages about how filled with art Melbourne is, but I’ll leave that for another time.