Tamil Pride :)

Apparently this is a really old video but i just saw it today and i simply could NOT stop laughing. If you're tamil and you haven't seen this yet, watch it NOW.

Blackboard

I've finally decided to put up some of my internship work. Last summer i worked with a publishing house called Tulika and helped conceptualise and subsequently illustrate a book for them. It's called blackboard and is now available in book stores in god-only-knows-how-many languages. (Please buy a copy!) These are 6 of 18 pages. To see the rest you can pick up a copy!! (or wait until i post them up out of lack of anything else to post)
You can buy the book here.

Gah.

I don't feel like working. I'm tired of college. All i feel like doing is running back home, which is now, unfortunately, in Baroda. Unfortunately, because it's Chennai i want to run to.(Don't mistake me Baroda's a beautiful place. I just prefer Chennai. You can't help but be partial to the place you've spent 13 yrs of your life.) Right now i wish i were one of these damn birds. Flying around in the sunset instead of staring guiltily at my computer screen updating my blog instead of working. :(



The picture was, ironically, taken in Baroda during a bird-watching jaunt with my mother.

Pavitra pin-up

I seem to have monsters on my mind for some reason. Pavitra here has a pin on the back of her head. Gruesome though that is, it makes her handy to attach onto my bag. :)

Admittedly these aren't the best pictures in the world. It's too late at night to take good ones, so i'll leave them for now and replace them soon hopefully. :l

Yakkity yak

AHA!!! I knew i MUST have something to post!
I made this recently as a header to put on top of the blog. I simply hated it as soon as i put it up :(
Im in the process of thinking of another one but till then i might as well put up my attempt!

lights will guide you home

Feels like i haven't put anything up on my blog for ages!
The impossible has happened. Not only have i started this damn blog, i've also gotten addicted to it. :(
Various possibilities for illustrations have been making jelabi patterns in my head for some time now but i simply haven't had the time to draw anything. However out of desperation to put something or the other up, here are some photos i took recently for a photo essay assignment in college.
I travelled to the city, alone, in the middle of the night to take these. To put it mildly it was a pretty eventful night. Me, my tripod and camera almost got run over, blown away, picked up, molested and arrested.

:) Needless to say, i had loads of fun!

monster murali

Aaju's inner monster manifests itself on her shoulder.

Meet murali. He's the newest monster in the house.
His inability to close his mouth and severe dental problems have left a permanent expression of trauma on his face.

pages from yet another log

zoom into the second page. Batman's hanging in there for his dear life :)

do trees feel cold?

burning

to dessert or not?

Despite his heavy lunch, he was tempted to have a little dessert.

all-in-one

This is the back cover i proposed for the book i made with tulika called Blackboard. It didnt get used in the final version though... :(

things to do with a phone torch...

as part of some work for my current project i did some light painting with a couple of friends. we ended up with an interesting amphibian and a rather lost dinosaur...





Thank you Divya for making Bharat look so beautiful... :)

its a sign!

:D i crack myself up sometimes :D

hawt

summer has decided to make its presence felt in bangalore... it's HOT.
i find myself whiling away time thinking of all things refreshing.. so much so that i dug out this old photo of mine and made it my wallpaper.

i keep telling myself that soft drinks are bad for health. i usually manage to aviod them for large periods of time and then succumb to a coke.
who cares about pesticides anyway? :(

adrift

That's right folks! What better way to get around than with one's handy lil' umbrella? :)

sand and tanned

A little more than a year ago i went to the andamans as part of college. We're still not sure what they wanted us to get out of it. As a matter of fact, i don't thing they do either...
We went to Port Blair, Wandoor and Havelock. It was absolutely-mind-blowlingly beautiful from the mangroves to the forests to the beaches to the underwater corals and sealife to the breathtaking sky at night. We spent ridiculous amounts of time lazing in the sea. A year later and most of us still have a circular tan on our back courtesy the sun and the swimsuits.
*sigh... I still dream about it sometimes.

tweet tweet... squak!!

Twitter and i don't really get along...

cat attack!

Beware of the flower-patterned-eyeless cat of 120!



I just made him a few days ago out of someone's old shirt while i was delirious with fever. Cat-making is otherwise not a normal habit of mine... Still have add eyes and stripes though. soon as i find the materials.
:)

I've been down with fever the last few days :(
I lothe falling ill. I hate being helpless.