Okay We Run | Graeme Partridge-David Loves to Draw http://okaywerun.com Okay We Run | Graeme Partridge-David Loves to Draw Mon, 14 May 2012 16:18:51 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Losing two heroes http://okaywerun.com/2012/05/14/losing-two-heroes/ http://okaywerun.com/2012/05/14/losing-two-heroes/#comments Mon, 14 May 2012 16:18:51 +0000 Graeme http://okaywerun.com/?p=40 Recently, Adam Yauch (MCA) of the Beastie Boys and Maurice Sendak, author of “Where the Wild Things Are” both passed away in quick succession. Both of these men had a huge influence on me. MCA and the Beastie Boys were the soundtrack of my early 20s. His chief contribution to the group, in my opinion, came from his conversion to Buddhism which gave his rhymes a level of spirituality and universal positive regard that helped me see through some of my “young man angst”, and allowed me to access what was great about being alive. Maurice Sendak’s art and perception of childhood as a place of scary things that can be tamed was a great boon to an anxious child like I was.  I’ll miss them both, and in their honour I created this illustration, which shows MCA, in his role as Nathan Wind from the “Sabotage” video on a wild rumpus with Carol, one of Sendak’s wild things.

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]]> http://okaywerun.com/2011/07/25/a-new-addition-the-thing/feed/ 1 Welcome to the new Okaywerun.com http://okaywerun.com/2011/03/08/welcome-to-the-new-okaywerun-com/ http://okaywerun.com/2011/03/08/welcome-to-the-new-okaywerun-com/#comments Tue, 08 Mar 2011 18:45:06 +0000 Graeme http://okaywerun.theexperiment.ca/?p=23 Thanks for checking out my new site. My plan is to update it regularly, so please check in and let me know what you think of what’s going on.

Special thanks to Devo Crosby for the design and coding of this site. Please take a minute to check out his site theexperiment.ca.

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