Please kids, please, if yo gonna fork out the big bucks for a portable mp3 player, buy it a hard case... learn from my mistakes.

- el (crybaby) Octo

there was a time before RGH... a more innocent time, a time when the city of cairns was still my home, life was easy, and we all lived to get drunk.
back then, the forum you read today online was no more than paper and ink. it had no name but it was sacred.
mostly it was bad art because we were so drunk.
this is some of the best work taken from my old sketckbooks, featuring myself, bitcloud, reck and moogz.

jesus, what a weekend.
all weekend i spent watching this this computer load images, crash, run out of disc space, crash, freeze, crash & do anything in its power to kill me.
in a fit of stupidity i deleted some rather important files (like the driver for my scanner, i did this in the middle of a batch of scanning), i did no work on a piece that must be done in less than 24hours from now, my chair broke, my girlfriend lost her job, the iriver that i bought 4 DAYS AGO shit itself...
but! i finished my submission fo a5 magazine. and its good.
heres the colour original (it will be in black & white in the mag) of one of the pages i submitted.

also, bonus super old school drunken scetchpad bizniz coming soon to scetchdump from RGH, DSA & CPU members LOCO OCTO, BIT CLOUD, MOOGZ & RECK1... possibly others too (yay). real soon.. i promise.

-local OCTOPUS

i finally moved on to ink & nib this week... i cant belive i used pens for so long, i feel like an idiot. im using a hunt 102 nib, vicious indeed, push it the wrong way at all and it stabs the page, rips the page and covers the page in ink.
but the lines, oh those pretty lines... rasor thin to fat as fuck. im still getting the hang of it, but theres no going back.
i also got "heroes" by david bowie this week. its been a week for catching up on things i should have discovered years ago.
oh well, better late than never.. forwards, never backwards, upwards, never forwards, and twirling, allways twirling, into the future.

-prick hellion glide (el octo)

just a quick hit, some polaroid photos for yo. the m stands for monday the cat, who lives in the house. also featuring the lovely miss Buella Blue, the not at all lovely vaginabillies playing a gig in my backyard and the elusive bit cloud, proof that he exsists! now, if only we could get a new comic outa him...

-el Octo

"i am on an open sea, just drifting as the hours go slowly by,
julie with her open blouse, is gazing up into the empty sky..."
*julie with... -brian eno, from "before and after science"

Nothing to do with the sketchdump, i just really like the song.
hmm, perhaps i should draw pictures based on songs i like, then when i quote them it'll make more sense... HEY, howabout i say the pic on the right is a portrait of Eno, then everything would tie in together and make sense.. yeah..

anyway, umm, lobsters, big tounges invaing forests full of deer and piranahs and toucans and.. a blimp.
fairly straightforward stuff.

-Rick Smellington Bride. (el Loco "local octopus" Octo)

2 sketchbook excerpts and a photocopy machine manipulation... from yo friendly neighborhood octopus...

weeeelllll, sory about the lack of content from yo friendly neighbourhood octopus of late folks, but i didn't pay my bills and the internet was cut off.
anyhoo, bills are paid and that calls for a big healthy dump...
of sketches.
this is mostly work for an erotic magazine that the lovely miss Buella Blue and i are working on at the moment (any comments on the work would be much appreciated), but also ideas for my input into the next issue of A5 magazine, publised by the uphostery,
and a bowling pin that i need to turn into art for the Aliby room in newfarm...
so much to do, cant cope, nnnggghhh.... i think ill go make a popcorn omlette...

-Local (loco octo)(el Octo) Octopus
more soon...

hey all, loikall ongtompruss here. nothing from me tonight (boo)
instead, im proud to introduce you to the work of miss Buella Blue (YAY!)
here she is...