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Michael Cowell~ Illustration

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About Me

Michael Cowell is an Illustrator/Artist based in Nottingham, England and works in paint, print, photography and digital.Drawing inspiration from the more 'left of centre' genres of music, film, art and literature he hopes to one day impose his own unique interpretations on each one of these mediums.Hopefully, one day this will all make sense...

My Interests

I'd like to meet:


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Music:

A genuinely awful lot, but to name a few- Earth, Sunn O))), Khanate, Melvins, Boris, Electric Wizard, Isis, Om, Nurse With Wound, The Hafler Trio, Stars of The Lid, Keiji Haino, Merzbow, Current 93, Smog, Low, Will Oldham, Coco Rosie, Johanna Newsome, Shellac, Big Black, The Stooges, Can, NIN, Godspeed You Black Emperor, Autechre, Square Pusher Venetian Snares....

Movies:

Andre Tarkovski, David Lynch, Takashi Miike, Jean-Pierre Jenunet, The Wachowski Brothers, The Cohen Brothers, Sergio Leone, Darren Aronofsky, Andy Caufman, Christopher Nolan, Terry Gillingham, early John Carpenter, earlier Tim Burton, Maya Derren, Studio Ghibli. The Prophecy, The Proposition, Kids, Gummo, Ghost in the Shell (one and two), Akira, A Scanner Darkly, Man Bites Dog, American Psycho, Lost in Translation, High Planes Drifter, Jacobs Ladder, Nosferatu, The Star Wars Trilogy, Withnail and I.

Television:

Twin Peaks, Oz, Battlestar Galactica, Lost, Lain, The Kingdom, Batman (The Animated Series), Justice League, Neverwhere, anything dreamed up by Chris Morris, Garth Mehrengi's Dark Place, Spaced.

Books:

Stephen King, Mark Z Danielewski, Chuck Palahniuk, Frank Miller, Warren Ellis, Harvey Pekar, David B, Allan Moore, Samuel Beckett, looking forward to the daunting prospect of starting The Illuminatus Trilogy by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson.

My Blog

European Poster Expo photos

The European Poster Expo went really well this weekend, a big thank you to all who came!  All those who didn't; try harder next time.  Tisk.  you all missed out on the opportunity to get hold of some ...
Posted by Michael Cowell~ Illustration on Mon, 22 Oct 2007 06:32:00 PST

UPDATE: posters/screen printing

hello all,for those of you who missed my bulliten last week, i have finally gotten my screen printing set up up and running.i had a running process thread on the gigposters.com message boards document...
Posted by Michael Cowell~ Illustration on Mon, 10 Sep 2007 04:12:00 PST

On being a hypocrite

the people on here that know me will know full well how much of an aversion i've had to myspace and it's popularity over the last few years. i've been very happy klinging onto the 20th century and ha...
Posted by Michael Cowell~ Illustration on Thu, 14 Jun 2007 09:44:00 PST