Grammophone

I actually started this about 3 years ago but it was then tossed in the 'out of site, out of mind' folder where it remained for ages. Those of you who studied with me might recognise it from class though it has changed conciderably since then.

Its a very time consuming way of drawing which I have long since evolved out of. Sorry to say you won't see much else like this with out me seeing some cash first.

The Taste of Concrete

When I was about 12 and really starting to get into skating, I read this poem in Australian Skateboarding Magazine. I say a poem but it didn't ryhm and it was pretty long. Anyway, it was written by some pro skater who was talking about how he became good. He said that there was no easy way to getting good. You had to get out there and push yourself to your limits everyday and blah blah blah. Now that I'm thinking of it, it all sounds a little cheesy but the last line is what really got me. "So go taste the concrete". Sort of like 'you have to spend money to make money' he reconed you had to spill some blood and really eat sh!t inorder to get good.

Ok, this is a fairly simple concept, but to a 12 year old this is where it all started for me. This is a poster to honour that.

It started off as a hand drawn illustration using my own board as a reference. I then scanned it and verctorised it and added some smaller details.

Pimp my Tuk Tuk

Like you haven't had the exact same idea from the back seat of a tuk-tuk. I had one which was particularly bad in Cambodia. It was held together with hope, seemed to leak more oil then I thought was possible and it never missed a good opertunity to stall - like bridges, dodgy neighbourhoods and at lights.

About The New Website

For those of you who haven't seen my old website you can still see it by clicking here.

I developed this new site to incorporate a few more features that were a miss in my old site. My old website was fine but it was time consuming to update and maintain. For this reason I developed this new site with a focus on a blog style format. This allows me to upload new work through code rather then re-editing in Dreamweaver or another program.

The new features are;

The Archives and Links page which is host to all the work featured on my site. This includes all the work on other pages within this website as well as that on my previous site. The upside to this is that on this site I have incorporated a lot more information with better quality images so even if you've seen most of it before, you will still be seeing something new.

The Latest is also new. This is the page you are on right now and features the latest work I have uploaded in a blog style scrolling format. This allows me to have a lot more work on display without compromising the quality of the images as well as easily upload new work, a task that previously would of taken hours.

Illustration and Design are new too. These are quick examples of my work in each of the disciplines. You can see these works in the Archives section as well with all the rest of my work but these are the works that I feel best demonstrate my talents. So check them out first for a quick look at what I do.

As a hole, this new website simply has more to see. It contains more works and more about my work and it is also a better demonstration of my talents as a web designer. I created this website from scratch, myself and it features all the elements you would come to expect in a website; the obvious visual elements, I wrote some of the code and the CSS as well as designing the layout and all the rest. so enjoy.

All works featured on this website, including the website itself are copyright James Lake 2009.