Oh, Canada

Apparently I got back to Canada just in time to watch Toronto burn down.

Somehow I ended up watching a lot of this from about 30 feet up on a roof from where the photo was taken. I would give photo credit for the above picture if I could remember where it even came from. I can, however, give credit to the violent G20 protesters. Thank you for protesting the obscene cost of security ($1 billion dollars) by breaking/burning things, which in effect somewhat justifies that cost and will consequently cost the city that much more for repairs and replacing all the cop cars you burned. Sorry to everyone actually standing up for something they believed in and who's voices were lost amongst all the chaos.

Graham, Hayden and Ryan (and Justin Bieber) made a video during the mess.

I try to keep life simple by drawing on things.

(The lettering was an existing piece)

(Anchor was an old piece)

Rough sketch for your next tattoo?

Never take looking out the window of a plane for granted

Travel. When I was 8 I got stung by a jelly fish. Since then I've been busy getting stranded overseas and being homeless in multiple countries. I've skateboarded across a good chunk of Australia and Canada. I've given out bags of clothing and the clothes off my back in slums in South America. I've been chased by some guy with a machete through an abandoned castle on the coast of Margarita Island. I've missed a flight to Florida and road tripped to New York City instead. I have been registered as a missing person, stuck in South America with the Canadian Embassy looking for me thinking I was kidnapped or dead. Instead I was just stuck in some trashy building in Caracas in a room with cockroaches, no windows or hot water, being fed bread and ketchup by some old lady that didn't speak English. I've slept in parks, parking lots and gutters in countless little towns across Australia, and outside of a giant submarine in Holbrook. I've road up mountains in the back of a dodgy pickup truck in Venezuela. I've skated a park built into the shape of a shark on Bondi Beach. I've hopped on random trains and ended up across Canada more than a few times. I've been so lost that I've actually had to ask what province/state I was in. I've slept outside on beaches and concrete on the other side of the planet, looking up at stars and bats and never loved life more.

Travel. It will make you challenge anything and everything you've ever thought or been taught about this world and the people in it. Don't just read about it in a book or on the internet, go for a walk and see it for yourself.

More Australia

I'm back in Toronto for now! Come get tattooed.