GENESIS

"If you want to be given everything................
.........Give everything up"

- In the Deep 'CRASH'

Granville Street on a Saturday night,
Lights they shine
and life ignites
Everyones out in different hues
People shine on
And I have the blues

"In the roar of an engine, he lost everything
and became a shell of a man
a burnt out, desolate man
a man haunted by the demons of his past.
a man who wandered out into the wasteland.
and it was here in this blighted place
that he learned to live again....."

Mad Max

I am with the outlaw
at the local bar
the blenders are showcasing their pride
And the local provider just died,

The image below titled 'Julie in bloom' was inspired and created for Julie Titus, a contestant on the Tyra Banks TV show 'America's Next Top Model'
The imagery is inspired from Indian calendar art and retro psychedelia. Julie was gracious enough to correspond and I am glad she liked the output. For more on her;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julie_Titus
www.myspace.com/julietitus

Its great to be back online!! The Indian Government in all its infinite wisdom had decided to ban all access to blogspot.com. So all the ISP's in India went ahead and stopped all access to blogspot. I must mention that since blog.co.uk was not on the governments hitlist, I was able to access the domain. But this does raise a much larger question about censorship and the freedom of expression in a democracy. India is not an authoritarian state like China or Iran where website bans are regular and it does not speak much for the right to information. Luckily due to a massive public outcry and sharp criticism against this myopic step by the government the sites are back online.
The real story is that the government had an objection to certain websites that were spreading anti Indian propaganda. Some of those websites were on blogspot.com. Now the overzealous ISPs in India decided to just take down blogspot altogether, including critical public service sites like mumbaihelp.blogspot.com. This was a ridiculous step taken by the government and was done to satisfy one of the coalition partners- The communist party of India. All that netizens had to do to access the blogspot sites despite the ban was to access www.pkblogs.com and then type in the required url, simple as that. Some of the banned sites include mumbaihelp.blogspot.com(I cant understand why you would ban this site), exposingtheleft.blogspot.com(posted by an American and surely in no means a security threat to India) and hinduunity.org( I will stand by the govt as far as this site is concerned). But really a lot more thought must go into implementing bans and the UPA must think before they act.
The best thing to come out of this entire episode is the way the Indian public stood up to the ban and nowadays Indians have definitely come to the end of their patience with regard to the widespread political corruption and inaction prevalent throughout the nation. People are beginning to stand up for what they believe in, which is translating into action and accountability.
For all the Mumbai bomb blast victims, please take a moment to do this:

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/mumbaipetition.cms

Here are a few of my concept artworks, illustrations and character designs done for various projects.

"I am on nobody's side....
Because nobody is on my side..."

Old Treebeard - LOTR: The Two Towers

"The older you get....
 the harder the tackles get..."
 
John Harkes (English commentator on Luis Figo)
 World Cup 2006 - Portugal vs France : semi final

'You have been hiding in the shadows...
Have you forgotten how we used to be??...

- 'Become' Goo Goo Dolls

So fake messiah sits,
With legs half crossed,
On a throne of swords,
With poison in his mind,

Destination everywhere....

A Rimuthsar Warlord concept.

The image below on the right was my entry for an online Photoshopping contest. The image on the left is the source picture which needed to be manipulated. No other sources or images have been used for the SAWBOT. It has been created completely using just the SAW file.

" History repeats itself.......
Because we pay such little attention to it the first time around.."

Jerry Seinfeld

" When I grow up.........I want to be a little boy"
Joseph Heller

Some of my favourite Album Covers.....

You can access my movie reviews section at:

www.moviereview.blog.co.uk

Inspired by Crazyfrog,...my version of peacefrog.

I got an oppurtunity to execute a project for Earth entity and PLAYBOY COVERGIRL Amber Smith.Voted one of the 50 sexiest women in the world by MAXIM and 8 most erotic women by GQ magazine.Amber's movie credits include :

www.ataraxiaportfolio.blogspot.com

For more works from the Arion galaxy, kindly access my Digifolio :

http://ataraxiaportfolio.blogspot.com

This image was inspired by a short fantasy fiction story ' The Elf Queens Decision'....

"Cause all of us have wings............
But some of us dont know why?......"
INXS

A few more samples of my work that I have done for various entities all across planet Earth.....Anyone out there who needs a visual representation of an idea,thought,vision or dream,..do get in touch with me and we will produce imagery which is copacetic on the real chromatic scale.....