Guilherme Marconi has a number of styles and all good.

Rogerio Lionzo from Brazil has some fresh work.

Brightly coloured super cuteness from Sheffield, Mike & Katie are TADO.

Ben the Illustrator has got the happy dial turned up to max.

Well it’s been about a year and a half in the growing, but finally my tache’s big day is almost here! This Saturday (1st Sept) Brighton will be inundated with hirsute gentlemen from around the world to compete in the The World Beard & Moustache
Championships 2007. The competition is going to be hot, I probably don’t stand a chance, but I reckon the outfit I’ve got planned should raise a few laughs! The plan for the day is as follows:

11.00am – 12.00 noon Hairy parade, from Brighton Town Hall to the Brighton Centre. Nominated charity will collect donations via buckets on route. Apparently there’ll be Morris Men dancing too.

The event is being held at the Brighton Centre.

1.00pm – 2.30pm Moustache Competition (this is when you’re going to have to be there to see me in action)

2.25pm – 4.20 pm Partial Beard Competition

4.25pm – 6.25pm Full Beard Competition

6.25pm – 7.00pm Break

7.00pm – 8.30pm Award Ceremony

Should be a great day out with lots of bizarre characters, tickets still available (you can pay on the door too) if you want head down and cheer me on :)

Rubykhan has cross stitched some of Craig Robinson / Flip Flop Flyin Mini Pops characters, love it.

Well found Asi.

Today is Boring (video rental shop in Shoreditch) is organising a ‘Zombie Walk’, a flash mob convergence of hundreds of Zombie-dressed participants trudging through the streets of London, ending up in Hoxton square for zombie movie and DJ action. Sounds great, more info on their MySpace page.

Ken touched this (if it’s for real?) is a hilarious retake on MC Hammer’s ‘Can’t touch this’ as an ad for Berlitz Language guides.

Buzz just pointed out this other great Berlitz ad.

Penguin are having an exhibition of handmade book covers of their My Penguin (blank book cover) range. They’ve asked 130 folk to participate and I was one of them, above is the Cover I’ve just finished for The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. I had to choose the book at random, and I haven’t even read it yet (hope I get the book back so that I can?) so not sure how appropriate it is as a cover… Maybe someone who’s read it could tell me?

There’s bugger all info on the exhibition info page, but I believe it’s in a gallery somewhere on Brick Lane from Thursday 6th September to Sunday 23rd, private view on Wednesday 29th August.

If you’ve visited my blog over the last few days you my of noticed that it wasn’t there! I ran out of my allocated 30GB worth bandwidth this month, I was quite surprised as usually I only use up 2 – 3GB each month. I’m getting more vistors (about 200 odd a day at the moment) but not that many more! Having a look through my stats I reckon it was probably Google images or similar image search sites that were using it all up, I think I had too many images with porn related image descriptions… I’ve deleted a few old posts that I thought were causing the problem, but I’ve also moved my site to Media Temple’s Grid-Service which comes with a whole 1TB of bandwidth (for the same price as my last place) so hopefully it shouldn’t be going down again any time soon.

Sadly Emma is leaving POKE today :( She’s decided we’re all far too immature, so is off to teach a load of school kids instead. The good news though, was that we got to throw her a pirate themed picnic in Regents Park to see her off! We started to work our way through a case of Mount Gay Rum at 5pm, Kester was being sick on his feet by 8.30pm, Dave got us all barred from Primrose Hill Pub by 9pm, me and Alex downed Jagermeister and Red Bull Depth Charges at god knows o’clock and Igor was last man home at 5am. I’m still hungover now, 48 hours later…

Check out Nick’s, Dee’s, Emma’s & Marc’s photos on Flickr.

Last week I caricatured 5 Pokers for their birthday cards, my favourite was Dezza’s so I made it into this week’s desktop for you to download. Bit of background – Dezza always looks a bit grumpy, and the quote is taken from a famous coffee machine rant email he sent round work:

“Dear everyone,

Today (and not for the first time), I found myself sifting through the rubbish sack looking for the filter attachment for the coffee machine.

I thought to myself ‘what sort of cunting-congenitial-fucktard would empty out the coffee,  lose the filter and walk away?’

“Why this will render the coffee machine useless, and prevent anyone else from ever making a coffee again” they must have chuckled to them-self as they sauntered off, their nasty ‘I’m-a-little-cunt look’ smeared across their clown-featured face.

Be aware that this offence carries a penalty of loss of coffee privileges for life. Should I ever be lucky enough to catch someone in the act they will also find themselves being assaulted about the face with the weighty filter handle.

Thanks for your attention”

I can’t believe I haven’t blogged about Trunki before, a bit slack of me… Anyhow Rob Law the guy behind Trunki is an old pal, we were house & course mates at university (I did an industrial design degree) it was back at uni that Rob designed the first Trunki, and I’ve seen him working at making it a reality relentlessly ever since. It’s a great little concept that you instantly ‘get’ as soon as you see it – Kids own suitcase that they can play with and ride about on while waiting around in airports, two jobs done in one, brilliant.

It’s been a tough road for Rob, he’s seen the original manufacturer go belly up, then had to borrow money to buy all the tooling back, then quit his job to concentrate on running the business full time, he’s had a roasting from the dragons den – didn’t get any cash. Probably for the best though, as business is really starting to taking off – He’s sold over 85,000 units, John Lewis says it’s one of their best selling hits of the summer, it’s also now stocked by Next, Mothercare, Fenwicks and even Harrods! Possibly the biggest news though is that Wal-Mart is the US is going to trial it in their stores.

All the best Rob, you deserve this success :-)

You can buy Trunki’s online through his website.