The Oscars 2012 Red Carpet Illustrated - happy leap day

Hey decided to submit a quick - oscars red carpet - illustration for the Style and then some blog, this is  sacha baron cohen as the dictator, happy leap day.

100 twitter followers portrait

Thought i'd celebrate 100 followers with a portrait, this here fella's Bobby Tannam, now the singular member of the this unique following fellowship. i'll do another portrait for the 200th and continue in this fashion until i run out of internets. @mrstevemccarthy 

LOOKIT PLAYLIST # 8

LINK TO PLAYLIST

I made a conscious effort to avoid anything new in this playlist, instead i tried to keep to a common thread. putting music together like this helps me get my head in the right place for stuff i'm working on. it gives me something to do that lets me get away from what i'm doing, while still helping to inform it. and sometimes a get kinda wrapped up in new stuff, and i forget about trying to get a continuous tone or theme. i think i sort of avoided doing that before, themes that is. but i think i'll try and focus more in future. the way it works out for me is, all this music has a mood and narrative that conjures up the look i'm trying to get in the piece i'm working on right now. proactive procrastination i guess. included are two, "originals" taj mahal was nicked by rod stewart for "da ya think i'm sexy" jorge ben the guy who really wrote it brought a lawsuit against him, and won! he then demanded that ALL proceeds from rods song be given to unicef, which he did, and has continued to this day! now metronomy may or may not have borrowed from pulps "feeling called love" but if they did, i wonder would they own up?

the subject of "borrowing" came up this week, and i wondered IF i really thought i could build on someone elses work, would i own up?*

*no i bloody well wouldn't

LOOKIT #7

LOOKIT is a series of short playlists put together while i work, of whatever music i'm fond of at the time, hope you like it .

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Hey so i'm in australia... but don't worry i'm coming back, and i'm gonna hit the ground running, and you are too, yeah smart ass i'm looking at you, see i've seen how they do things in melbourne and its good, its really good. and i love it as much as i hate it, cause i'm not quite ready to give up on dublin...  see that was the idea, move to melbourne. i left my home, my studio, my friends for a holiday... you generally don't move out of home and business for a holiday, and i'm not saying it was part of a big plan to sneakily emigrate when nobody was looking, but me and my missus decided we needed to feel like we were leaving, and then we could decide if we really WERE leaving, for good. but we're not. emigration turned into a 3 month summer vacation, and now as i see my inevitable return in march i realise why coming home makes more sense than staying home. when i worked from home, 3 feet from my bed, every morning i would get up, leave the house and PAY for breakfast in a cafe like i didn't have a kitchen, then return home and work. i just had to leave so i felt like i was going somewhere, you should too.

check out this great little video

this is a session of live visuals i did with paul mahon of geppetto, great night.

Geppetto // Mr Steve McCarthy - Live Illustration Visuals from mrpaulmahon on Vimeo.