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glamour…

Posted on January 28, 2006 @ 2:34 pm by massimo | Filed under: blog,fun,philippines,travel,wordpress

postcard vintage pinup philippines aynaku illustration adobe

I got plenty of old postcards. I use to buy them to enhance my imagination. Best postcards are usually thirty years old, at least. The colours slightly faded away, suggest times gone by, and this process really adds to their glamour… Subjects and characters are often a bit unusual and always make me smile or laugh… Local beauty is a postcard edit by National Bookstore Manila in 1960s which I found in a small Chinese shop in Legaspy City. I suddenly felt in love with this old-fashioned, glamorously funny and sexy image. I bought the postcard and put it in my wallet as sailors do with their girlfriend photographs. I fancy this local beauty had to be provoking in hers days! Well, here she is. I have tried my best to adjust the postcards pale colours to a digital palette; the girl’s pose is quite similar to the original. I totally changed hers hair style and inserted brand new hibiscus flowers, to improve the surreal, glamorous mood…
…love!

Illustration Friday‘s topic is: glamour

curiosity killed the cat…

Posted on January 21, 2006 @ 6:05 pm by massimo | Filed under: animals,blog,wordpress

conanvsbear curiosity aynaku illustration adobe

I know, curiosity has driven you here, looking for cats…but “curiosity killed the cat” !
So, I apologize, no cats but just a bear today…Actually, last week I’ve been asked to do a Conan O’Brien vs. Bear illustration and here is one of two I did. No time to sketch brand new cats: I guess a bear is actually the most cat like animal in this blog! Strangely enough I never came across even a single cat worth mentioning for ten years! I got plenty of fish, pigs, karabaos (water buffalos) and furious cock-fighting in the Islands, but no cats; not even in Thailand home of the notorious and beautiful Siamese kitties…my fault, I know… I can’t go on thinking that curiosity killed…

Illustration Friday‘s topic is: cats

ecology

Posted on January 14, 2006 @ 5:05 pm by massimo | Filed under: another green world,blog,diving,travel,wordpress

spea fishing ecology sea philippines aynaku illustration adobe

If you go off beaten roads and stroll along the leeward sea shore, easily you’ll watch natives diving in shallow waters. They do spear-fishing, home-made wooden goggles on, and a rough spike in a hand… A very basic outrigger-canoe anchored close by, marks the diving spot. They spend a couple of hours before quitting: usually they get just a very few coral fish and that’s enough for the day…
Perhaps I learned something about material needs during my living in the Tropics; basically I learned that poor people’s attitude towards life and environment is really eco-logical. I’ve tried to practice this issue while travelling and I enjoyed very much. At home I keep on training –somehow- such pure “ecology of the mind”.
I know that here is comparatively harder. Wealthy people definitely forgot their real needs, in the name of profit and comfort. After all my life-style here, looks unconventional: certainly I belong to a valuable minority…

Illustration Friday‘s topic is: E for…

sea…

Posted on January 7, 2006 @ 11:17 pm by massimo | Filed under: blog,fun,wordpress

The sea surface is continually changeable. It is so a good symbol of impermanence that artists (whose works are necessarily metaphorical) had tried to make use of thousand times, I believe. That makes things harder!
I mean, who am …