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Neil "women158" Parkinson

i wasn't born a failure

About Me

Neil "women158" Parkinson-Painter of walls, pusher and poker of pixels, capoeira practisioner, teller of stories, travelling artist freakshow extraordinaire, dreamer of hopes, enemy of sleep, eater of spices. born in Leeds UK, Women potters arround the city like any other anonamous face, taking in the little details and romanticising the trivial. Women158 has worked internationaly with skate companies, charities, musicians, architects as well as a whole bunch of other clients. He is a friendly type and loves to hear from people so drop him an email saying hi and i'm sure a conversation about lifes bizarities will ensue.. !

My Interests

illustration, graffiti, capoeira, sushi, nature, art, music, instroments, and general intersting objects. generaly being creative

I'd like to meet:

you, your friends, your hopes your dreams and your fears. Women158 can be commisioned for any form of projects, no matter how big or small. check the site out , and contact women158 through myspace or through [email protected]

Music:

the cat empire, that handsome devil, bad religion, cake,miranda arieh,skank agenda,johny macdonough,symposium,anti-flag,lagwagon, primitive reason, the beekeepers, james brown, bob marley,eels, gogel bordello, fun loving criminals,7 seconds of love, counting crows, freyed knot,blue october, modest mouse, catherine, pearl jam, dickdale, dinosaur jr,dishwalla, dj format,smashing pumpkins,fat freddys drop,the knife, porno for pyros, presidents of the usa,ramones , richard cheese, riverboat gamblers,sprung monkey, strung out,toadies, toad the wet sprocket, everclear, the breeders, the fratellis,death cab for cutie,the police, the work of the marley family,pendulum, dj honda, unkle, dj format, jurrasic 5, jack johnson, flogging molly, the misfits, sublime, long beach dub allstars, jurrasic 5, matisyahu, pink floyd, rodrigo y gabriella , zeke. the Fat wreck chords bands, early epitaph bands before it became "unsound" and started messing arround with emo. nonsence. and so on and so on. the smiths,

Movies:

style wars, surf fliks, skate fliks, snowboard fliks,trey park and matt stone films (orgazmo, baseketball, cannibal the musical etc) studio ghibli (spirited away , princess mononoke, pom poko, totoro etc) , high fidelity, belle ville rendezvous, kevin smith ( mallrats, dogma, clerks etc) tank girl, delicatessen, biodome, ross noble, bill bailey, bill hicks, idle hands, napolean dynamite, spiders, big fish, nightmare before christmas, the pest, labyrinth, dark chrystal, star wars,tank girl, the wickerman, the works of tarantino, the crow, drop dead fred, monty python, bruce lee and general ace kung fu fliks, ghost busters, akira, as good as it gets, aliens, edward scissor hands, the faculty, flash gordon, good will hunting, from hell. etc

Television:

family guy, american dad, the mighty boosh, black books, my name is earl, spaced, peepshow, blue planet, planet earth (other such nature docs) anything on ancient civilisations preferably inca or aztec, skate/surf /snowboard shows etc

Books:

the little capoeira book, capoeira conditioning, capoeira 100, up untill now, pure trance, the squirrel mother, goodbye chunky rice, calvin and hobbes,illustration now, graffiti world, graffiti women, street logos, gods own junkyard, sandman, night of the tiki, 100 posters 134 squirrals, vinyl will kill, bear, lenore, squee, psychology books,cute puppies etc.

Heroes:

don't really believe in heroes nowadays but i respect my familly,bill hicks, robin hood, neil gaiman, miyazaki, anyone creatring art and not geting tied up in all the politics and bullshit surrounding it. anyone who looks after the people that matter to them, and those who go the extra mile to look after others.

My Blog

roma trip

Hey guys me and curse273 where jetted off to rome to paint at a villa at an event. Was an amazing time and i think i left a piece of my heart in rome, all i can say is if you ever get chance go to rom...
Posted by Neil "women158" Parkinson on Thu, 06 Mar 2008 01:27:00 PST

this life interview/feature


Posted by Neil "women158" Parkinson on Thu, 06 Mar 2008 12:50:00 PST

womenonefiveeight for studio aiko (interview)

He guys n gals did an interview for studio aiko, go checks it out! interview now with added kittens
Posted by Neil "women158" Parkinson on Fri, 12 Oct 2007 02:42:00 PST

womenonefiveeight for yorkshire junkies (interview)

interviewed for yorkshire junkies, your one stop site for all things yorkshire and graffiti related.women158 interview
Posted by Neil "women158" Parkinson on Fri, 05 Oct 2007 05:12:00 PST

womenonefiveeight short stories

due to the feedback of the squirrels sailing ships illustration, which was never intended to be a real book (just done in that style). I have started work on putting together short stories to be relea...
Posted by Neil "women158" Parkinson on Tue, 11 Sep 2007 04:02:00 PST

womenonefiveeight the first novel

well it's true i have started script work on my first fully illustrated novel. provisional title is helenas salon- the comflict between the id and the superego. not wanting to give too much away its g...
Posted by Neil "women158" Parkinson on Tue, 31 Jul 2007 03:21:00 PST

womenonefiveeight heroes and role models

i cant see how civilisation has come to this. that it needs spelling out. this is a man to be respected people who stood up for something that mattered, who risked all to say what eeded to be said to...
Posted by Neil "women158" Parkinson on Thu, 08 Feb 2007 04:12:00 PST