A little known fact about Santa’s sleigh is that it was originally pulled by nine reindeer: Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, Cupid, Comet, Donder, Blitzen and Karl. However around the 1840’s, shortly before Clement Clarke Moore’s famous poem brought fame to Santa’s reindeer, Karl became politicized and took an increasing interest in left wing revolutionary teachings. Opposing the blatant exploitation of the reindeer, elves and the rest of Santa’s little helpers, Karl started to take direct action. He organised strikes and protests through-out Santa’s magical kingdom leading to the now infamous “Night before Christmas Revolution”. Intending to depose Santa in a popular uprising so that the Reindeer and elves could deliver the Christmas presents themselves, Karl made his famous “Pull your own frakking sleigh” speech. Santa responded by pulling a .44 Magnum out of his sack and blowing Karl’s head off.

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Best wishes with menaces. Nothing helps speed up the healing process than a death threat to small, cute furry hamster.

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Sandbanks on the Loire by Swiss painter and graphic artist Felix Vallotton. Developing an interest in woodcuts thanks to a exhibition of Japanese art, Vallotton develop stark techniques with large areas of solid black or white. Later he concentrated on painting that tended towards stark realism but this painting from two years before his death points towards the pittura metafisica (Metaphysical art) movement.

My reworking of Sandbanks on the Loite is an experiment in using flat planes of colour to capture the otherworldliness of Vallotton’s original.

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These flowers are inspired by (OK, ripped off from) Superflat artistTakashi Murakami design, Flowers.
My design has one advantage of Murakami’s, it can tile. So it makes a great background for a website,a pattern in Photoshop or a brush in Illustrator. Download it for free an help yourself. Its released under a creative commons license. See below for more details.

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