Engaging Brain to Maximum

A man who is plagued with doubt

2009-07-04T02:36:00.001+01:00

A man who is plagued with doubt, originally uploaded by Jonathan Ridley.

This is the result of drinking rum late at night andf not being able to sleep. Ithink its difficult sometimes to anylyse a picture like this, my brain feels right but the pictures sometimes err on the melancholic ...a tad, i guess that despite being more or less happy I'm just wired that way...

All hail the hoof

2009-07-03T20:37:00.001+01:00

We went to see Deerhoof last night, it's been a long week what with starting a new job n all but seeing put talent like that pumping out music like that and so clearly having a great time is really inspiring!

Man stood next to a Thomas thee tank engine machine outside tescos on a hot day

2009-07-02T19:10:00.001+01:00

Man stood next to a Thomas thee tank engine machine outside tescos on a hot day, originally uploaded by Jonathan Ridley.

I sat outside Tescos roasting, a young girl was sat close by breastfeeding her kid and an old lady came over and talked to her about the kid, just being nice really. After the old lady had left I heard the young mum muttering 'stupid cow'. Jesus its hard work sometimes not losing your faith in humanity when idiots cant accept kindness and instead let their kids suck up all their anger to pass onwards and onwards.......

Did this today in my lunch break

2009-07-01T20:31:00.000+01:00

The continuing saga

2009-07-01T20:28:00.000+01:00

Sat on the park today marvelling at nature and enjoying the heat,
really, really hot at the moment.
Jacko's death brings strange comments and thoughts to the fore, his
picture as a dying or dead man on the cover of the sun, like that's
supposed to cause what kind if reaction?
I mean, what exactly are they trying to do with this, who the fuck is
this for?
I never had a great deal of time for the man or his music, he slept
with children and I don't care how misguided he was, his music wasn't
anything special since thriller, he was insane and tortured...a poor
misguided idiot who lived in fantasy worlds...

2009-07-01T00:14:00.001+01:00

a bitter man

2009-06-30T23:55:00.001+01:00

photo 5.jpg, originally uploaded by Jonathan Ridley.

This is the first of many pictures that i tend to upload. One of the main reasons i'm doing this blog is as a way of sketching every day and logging what i'm doing, as an ideas repositary if you will.
This pic was created using my iphone and the app called brushes...

Time to get Cracking

2009-06-30T23:27:00.000+01:00

well i've finally started, its been a long time coming but i've been meaning to do this for a long time.
The puropose of this blog is all in the title, to keep my brain engaged, to not act in a vacuum but to share what i'm doing with whoever is interested, this is likely to include a combination of paintings, comica, iphone paintings, random ramblings, music, games, whatever i can think of thats interesting me i'll stick up....and now its late so i'm off to bed!