Philosophy of Facial Hair

This looks like an interesting talk at the ICA soon (even going to be a live barber demonstration).

“Moustaches, beards, sideburns, goatees – half the population has facial hair to trim, style or just shave off. The other half is mostly ignorant of all the historical, social and cultural intricacies related to the ownership of facial hair or simply witnesses the trends and variations in the male grooming habits.”

Speakers include Billy Childish, pictured. It’s on Tuesday 29 January 2008, 7:00 pm.

Ninjas & Moustachios

Ninjas & Moustachios are friends, I’d agree with that, and now for only $1 I could promote that belief with this vinyl sticker from Shawnimals.

Vintage Medical Diagrams

Not quite sure what’s going on here, but it doesn’t look good… Planet Tyler has an interesting collection of medical diagrams on flickr.

This chap isn’t looking too well either:

Baby Clothes Monster

moustache punk rocker monster

Client: Oh Baby | Agency: Made in England by Gentlemen

My friend Ant asked if Me & Nicky would customise some Oh Baby baby clothes in any way we saw fit (to use in their shop window), of course we jumped at the chance! We ending up making them into baby clothes monsters, above is my Victorian punk rocker. Click here to see Nicky’s Convict muppet.

Oh Baby have a shop just down the road on Brick Lane and an online store here, you should check them out, they have some really cute stuff.

Good Things Should Never End

Just gone live today is Poke’s latest site for Orange – Good Things Should Never End. It’s part of their unlimited campaign and the idea is that it’s an unlimited webpage that never ends! (Apparently Dezza informs me that you can get to the end, but it’s so bloody long that you’d be mad to try) What do you put in a webpage that never ends? Well a funny little world where things cycle, repeat and loop endlessly like the elephants above. You can also add to a never ending doodle, play with musical chickens, breed a mutant alien race, talk to robots, make ice-cream, watch monkey’s breakdance, go fishing, read a moustachioed man’s mind and things of that nature.

There’s shit loads of people who worked on it in the office, but off the top of my head – Knotty & Dezza coded it, My lovely Nicky drew all the rainbows :) Rex drew and animated all the characters (quite a few of which sport moustaches) and many many more…

Retro Sexy

If moustaches, comb overs and stockings are your thing, then Retro Sexy Flickr set is the place for you.

Via Geisha Asobi.

Mahum Goodboy

This guy is amazing, he’s a good friend of John Williams (who does the music on Star Wars).

“I cry like baby Jesus when I touch round onions”

I like his moustache very much.

Weekly Desktop Part 25

Hot on the heals of last weeks hedgehogs are some more cute critters and shrubbery action. This one is Mr Moustache & the Early Bird – download it for your desktop now. I’m currently designing/illustrating loads of woodland randomness to decorate the office of Roome, Eleanor’s (my old housemate) recruitment consultancy. Should keep me going with new desktops and Threadless t-shirt submissions for a few weeks!

Mustaches of the Nineteenth Century

Nicolas sent has just sent me the link to this moustache blog, thanks very much!

“The Nineteenth Century gave us many things, but above all it was a hotbed of facial hair experimentation”

It’s great visual and witty insight into the hirsute gentleman of latter years, make sure to take in the glossary of technical terms too.

Tacheback 2007

For the month of September (considerably longer for me) the Hirsute poke elite have been growing their moustaches to raise money for everyman’s testicular cancer research. We’re almost at the end of the month so have created a moustache mix & match viewer on our homepage, click here see how they’re coming along.

There’s a link on there to our sponsorship page if you would like to donate to this worthy cause (it might save you scrotum)

One of my favourite combos below:

Cookie and dezza moustache mashup