As a quick thankyou for the ongoing support of you threadless heads I have put up 17 of my designs as 1600 x 1200 and 1024 x 768 wallpapers!

(if you are still on 800x600 you can use the 1024x768 and scale down)

They are all available at
http://www.letsmakeart.com/freebies.html

Now you can wear Inside you, with an inside you poster on the wall, and inside you desktop wallpaper (and I'd like to see a photo if you do). Crazyness!

Also check out my interview with threadless at http://www.threadless.com/interviews/mattpalm

Ok so a lot of you know that I do love drawing a good ole news anchor, the situation and dead pan delivery of such a visual perfectly accompanies my morbid humour.

But lets face it, I've already done one in today's top story... so once I do the version i've mostly drawn now (with a female anchor) that's about all I can do without just being bloody repetitive.

So I better make this punchline count.

My original:

Story square in the top right that has a picture of a house burning and "5 dead in house fire"

And she is saying something like "In other news, try the hot new taste of Mama Jones barbeque chicken wings"


But really, could I do better? The above will make some people upset but you get that with dark humour.

Other possibilities:

"Due to complaints from several viewers, all instances of the word "murder" on our news service will be replaced with "human assisted passing".

"A large explosion, lots of people died, city in turmoil, yada yada yada... coming up next is a great new reality tv show from the makers of survivor: landmine beach"

One that would never ever be printed:
News square says COCK SLAP with a chicken.

"In other chicken related news... insert some weird thing here"

I could come up with more, but theres a few general streams of humour that could go with this.

Anyone there from the threadless bunch?

Beth and I were representing threadless with our I heart threadless tees torn to bits with blood all over them.

There was also a guy with a camera and threadless on who I groaned "Threaddleessss" at heh.

There are more photos in the flickr set.

So these people moved in upstairs, they are rowdy (and not the acceptable kind) idiots who have recently taken to urinating off their balcony instead of using the toilet approximately 10 meters away (assuming similar floorplans).

Not only that but they also chuck cigarette butts off of their veranda too, and I might add that the clothes line they sometimes use is in the area of attack also.

We have also caught them using our dryer many times (we unfortunately have a communal laundry thing) without asking, infact they have never asked despite me leaving them a note telling them to and leaving my unit number for them to ask at.

Basically they just live like fucking pigs and get away with it because there doesn't seem to be a property manager that handles ALL the units and they won't write to any of the units they don't manage.

So, how should I get my nasty nasty revenge? Bonus points for stuff that won't escalate into a stupid rivalry. Think like a ninja, a ninja with revenge on its mind.

Haven't you kept this one quiet, you sneaky bugger.

Hello all, some of you may know that I have my own little newsletter to let people know what's going on in the world of odd things, ferets and t-shirts. I don't email that list very often, but when I do it's because cool shit has been released.

Upon some cool shit being released, that I can't post about here, I discovered that I no longer have any of my newsletter subscribers (cept those that are on the Torso list, but I won't reappropriate them for my own list because that would be unethical).

If you would like to be kept upto date with my t-shirt releases and other generally interesting things, please send a blank email to newsletter-subscribe@letsmakeart.com

Or you can have me do it for you by filling out my little newsletter subscribe box at www.letsmakeart.com.

Thanks a bunch and sorry to the 300 odd people this cock up has effected.

I see more and more collage/mish mash pieces that seem to be created out of a complete lack of concept or substance. It is very boring.

If you have a mishmash that randomly has the words "fun", "play", "cool" or some other shallow adjective in it, then stop subbing crap please. Or at least sub different crap.

Sneaky finger...

In my dream last night. Because I designed something about a boy trying to be an octopus. The concept I remember was actually pretty good but I lost it in the transition to consciousness.

I also remembered a design about an elephant that uses its trunk as a handpuppet to have a friend. I can't really draw elephants though, so we will see.

Anyway winning that money felt pretty damn good, it was the feeling of never having to worry about money or work ever again.

Sadly though my financial situation in the normal world is a little more scarce.

I would recommend having 17.8 million dollars to everyone.