Silly google, bad google

So, google plus has messed with my blog. All my photos are gone, irretrievably from what I can learn.

Im moving on over to www.briano88.wordpress.com

Bad form, Google.

School Play Troll

Jelly Babies

Tai Ye Ye

4-layer stencil, acrylic on canvas. From a photo of my Grandfather-in-law who just passed away.

Hara-Kiri

3-Layer stencil. Movie still of Tatsuya Nakadai in the film Hara-Kiri.
Painted in the elements, namely high winds and rain.Pretty difficult to say the least.

Zombie Beck

A stencil experiment. 4 Layer stencil. Image is from the album cover of Sea Change by Beck.

Willem Dafoe

Ginger Rogers

Video:The Juggler by Darragh O'Neill

3rd music video I've made from the album, 'Fountain' by Darragh O'Neill.
Also, available at www.darraghoneill.com

'Ready To Start' by Sir William Orpen, (1917)

Self-portrait by William Orpen. France, 1917. Booze in the foreground. Strange look in his eye. British helmet on. Ladies? sleeveles wolfskin jacket. View of the courtyard. What to make of all this?

Bootang

Video: Sarabande by Darragh O' Neill

Second video for Darragh O neill. This song was composed by J.S. Bach and is called Sarabande. It is from Darragh's rather excellent album, 'Fountain'. The song was originally banned by the church for its sensuality...just feel the weight of the silence between the notes.

Thanks to BMX Silent Rob for the cool ink experiment footage.

Upstart

Click here to visit www.upstart.ie

Their campaign to gather 500 images from artists and make election posters of them and hang them alongside the normal posters during the 2011 election campaign.

3 of my pieces were chosen. Keep an eye around Dublin City centre for interesting posters on lamp-posts.

Drebin

The late Leslie Nielson as Frank Drebin.

Clouds by Darragh O'Neill

My first music video. For a classical guitarist called Darragh O'Neill.

Krishnamurti

"Being nothing, being a desert in oneself, one hopes through another to find
water. Being empty, poor, wretched, insufficient, devoid of interest or
importance, one hopes through another to be enriched. Through the love of
another one hopes to forget oneself. Through the beauty of another one hopes to acquire beauty. Through the family, through the nation, through the lover, through some fantastic belief, one hopes to cover this desert with flowers. And God is the ultimate lover. So one puts hooks into all these things. In this there is pain and uncertainty, and the desert seems more arid than ever before. Of course it is neither more nor less arid; it is what it was, only one has avoided looking at it while escaping through some form of attachment with its pain, and then escaping from that pain into detachment. But one remains arid and empty as before. So instead of trying to escape, either through attachment or through detachment, can we not become aware of this fact, of this deep inward poverty and inadequacy, this dull, hollow isolation? That is the only thing that matters, not attachment or detachment. Can you look at it without any sense of condemnation or evaluation? When you do, are you looking at it as an observer who looks at the observed, or without the observer?"

Nakadai - Harakiri

Mifune Eating Ramen

"I'm a monster!"

They don't always turn out do they?

This was meant to be a Terminator robot with the body of Isabelle Turell, a female body-builder. I was toying with the idea of putting scattered make-up or fashion magazines or a smashed mirror on the floor.

Time to paint over it and start afresh.

Mifune - Thrust

Toshiro Mifune again.

Mifune - Nakadai - Rebellion

Sketch of a movie still. Think it is Samurai Rebellion. Didn't really get Mifune right at all.

"there, there"

Not really happening, this one.Worth a shot.

Second Best in a Sword-Fight

Tatsuya Nakadai, the second-best Japanese actor of all time in The Sword of Doom I think.
Shouldn't have used a 2H pencil to draw initial sketch as it indents the page and shows up in good light.

Richard P. Feynman

My first pencil drawing in a long while.

Richard Feynamn was a theoretical phycisist and a free thinker. He played the bongos. He helped make the Atom bomb. He was a thoroughly nice human being. For videos of him check out this site

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Pali Gap

A Hawaian beach by moonlight. Kalalau, I think.

Herr Rat

Painting of a photo of Mr. Ratzinger.

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'Moissonneuse' by William Adolphe Bouguereau

Absent Friends

Study of an old photograph. One drunken night at the hospital.

(SOLD for beer)

Supermarine

Hello Satan

Inspired by a Robert Johnson song.

' Snow on Sandymount Strand '

You put one foot in, you take one foot out

Part two in the Hip-Hop series.
God, I miss this painting......

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Dark Passenger

Messerscmitt bf-109-g-125f

Sillhou-rob-ettes

Robot Love

Reflections: China and Japan by Sir William Orpen (1902)

Curiously there are no photos of this painting I could find on the internet. The original is on display in the Hugh Lane Gallery in Dublin.

Edit:I found a photo of the original, finally.

Here Comes Tobor

Tobor is robot backwards. There was a 1950's t.v. show by the name.

Da ding ding

The sub-genre of hip-hop video vixens that cultivate their rears as a career asset. This is hilarious to me. This is the first in a series. Da dingding means big bum in Chinese.

Faulty Towers

Just outside my mate, Daves, house in Sandymount. Spent many nights on the wall outside his house as a youngster gazing at the stars and the towers wondering about the future.

Moon

Night Window

Hey Paul!

American Psycho

On Patrol AD2220

Robot protector patrols the border of the desert and the city after the war.

Mickolas Mickelby

Morning Devil

Duvel is devil in Flemish or somesuch. It has an 8.5 alc. content. Grim reminder of the night before or tempting early start.

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Outside Marys

When I was a kid I could get ten-penny bags from a shop called Mary's which is where I took this photo outside of.

Outside Dave's House

Darragh is fast becoming my patron.
Glad it is going to a loving home.

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2 Towers