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About Me

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My Interests

CURRENT MOON about the moon

I'd like to meet:

The guy who makes the grass green.

Music:

The Clash. Cud. Crosby Stills and Nash. The Monkees. The Chiffons. Bowie. The Bees. Badalamenti. Brian Wilson. George Harrison. The High Numbers. The Fall. Brian Jonestown Massacre. The Bush (Kate). Coxon. Lennon. Cash. Cocker (Joe and Jarvis). Julian Cope. The Smiths. Blur. The Kinks. Sugarcubes. The Stones. Dexys. Roxy. Jon Brion. Motown. The Specials. Early R.E.M. Sparklehorse. Django Reinhardt. Freda Payne. Small Faces. The Pixies. Pulp. The Buzzcocks. Elvis Costello. Squeeze. Prince. Tom Waits. The young Rod Stewart. Stina Nordenstam. Talking Heads. Neil Young. The White Stripes. Iggy Pop. Ivor Cutler. Supergrass. Alberto Iglesias. Ennio Morricone. The Chilli Peppers. The Bee Gees. Disco. B.A.D. Marvin Gaye. Neil Diamond (now that I'm a Dad). And many many many more...

Movies:

Man Who Fell to Earth.
Head
2001.
Simple Men. Trust. Amateur. Surviving Desire.
My Neighbor Totoro.

My Neighbors the Yamadas.

Grey Gardens.
Midnight Cowboy.

Blow Up

The Elephant Man

Dead Man.
Buffalo 66.
Harold and Maude.

Punch Drunk Love.
Dune.

Walkabout
Atanarjuat.
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's nest
Zoolander.
Easy Rider.
Weird Science.
A Matter of Life and Death
Don't Look Now.

Tarkovsky's Solaris. Come and see. Being John Malkovich. Eternal Sunshine of the spotless mind. Straight Story. Anything David Lynch does. Ferris Bueller's Day Off. Napolean Dynamite. Kurosawa films. Shaun of the Dead. Empire Strikes back. Terry Gilliam. Monty Python. Donnie Darko. Oh, the list could just go on & on really... I'd love to see 'Mei and the Kittenbus' but you can only see it at the Ghibli Museum

Television:

...is mostly shit, but there are exceptions... Northern Exposure.
Six Feet Under.

The Prisoner.

Books:

Siddartha (again & again).

The Summer Book by Tove Jansson.

The Little Prince
Loads really,... too many to go through here.
And good comic books.

Heroes:

Siobhan Dillon

My Blog

Stella Light

Hello, Here's some boards I did for Vaughn Arnell, it's a Stella Light commercial. I've since seen the ad & it's pretty close to the boards....
Posted by Dillon on Thu, 12 Jun 2008 10:53:00 PST

Work work work

Inspired by a big Hugo Pratt book that Jamie got for his birthday recently, we all decided to get out our water colours. With the animation for Jamie & Damon's 'Monkey' Opera being done in the studio ...
Posted by Dillon on Sat, 02 Jun 2007 04:52:00 PST

Knackered

Feeling very knackered. At very short notice I got asked to do 12 frames of colour storyboarding for a pitch. I don't normally say yes to doing colour boards because they're too much hassle & personal...
Posted by Dillon on Wed, 16 May 2007 09:44:00 PST

Bathory in the bath

Here's that illustration for the Fortean Times in full...
Posted by Dillon on Wed, 09 May 2007 09:31:00 PST

I don't like to talk about it...

It's not often I get asked to do something for charity, occasionally I've been asked to do a few days upaid storyboarding for a good cause, which if I'm honest, I've had to say no to once or twice. An...
Posted by Dillon on Tue, 08 May 2007 03:48:00 PST

Evil Tescos

I thought it might be an idea to start posting jobs that I've been doing recently, clients are always asking me if I've got a website with samples on it. This job was for Tescos, the director was Stac...
Posted by Dillon on Fri, 13 Apr 2007 03:58:00 PST

Bloodbath

Here's a detail of an illustration that I've just finished for the nice people at 'Fortean Times'. It's for an article about a rather nasty woman called Elizabeth Bathory... ...
Posted by Dillon on Wed, 11 Apr 2007 03:19:00 PST

Swallowing

It's really not often that I get interviewed, so when it happened recently - for Ashley Wood's 'Swallow Book Three', I couldn't help but bang on & on, wanting to get it all out in case I never get ask...
Posted by Dillon on Wed, 04 Apr 2007 03:40:00 PST