decided to post a close up of this earlier piece i did bc i still like it, it’s the first james bond one i’ve done and it was while i was making it that i realised that daniel craig’s bulldog face is going to be impossible to draw
here he is! tattooed Q in all of his glory, including (but not limited to):
- leonardo da vinci’s skull sketch (he believed that the human soul resides in the place where the three lines meet),
- the psi symbol (thank you for that amazing idea @amrtiamat!),
- the Fibonacci spiral (that’s @prismatic-bell’s great input!)
- the number VII for obvious reasons,
- the letter Q in both braille and morse code which he got after he was promoted,
- the first thirty-two numbers of pi, each year he adds another one on his birthday (he might have gotten each number he remembers if he could fit about 20 000 numbers on his body),
- a laurel wreath he got after his top surgery,
- “hello world” (the most basic computer program, most people’s beginning with coding) in Yiddish,
- d&d dice because that boy is a nerd and loves shapes,
- the testosterone molecular structure he got after starting T,
- a circuit board that interconnects all of his other tattoos,
and some more! there’s still space left on the canvas so i might just come back to this someday
both q and bond get cold during the night so the temperature in their flat is turned up impossibly high and they kept fighting over who gets to sleep with the cat so when the opportunity came to rescue another one they didn’t hesitate (both of the cats choose james anyway, the traitors)
“With Peter I’m finding it hard to explain. When the play starts you just get swept up in it. I always think it’s best when things just happen, things that take you by surprise. I like those moments best.”
Ben Whishaw and Judi Dench answer fans’ questions on the Michael Grandage Company Facebook page. Hit the link for the rest. I saw when they were advertising, now I wish I’d submitted a question! (And seriously people, this has been all over lately with no link to the original–CITE YOUR FRICKING SOURCES.)
(For those of you without a subscription to the Times)
The Times, 16 March 2013.
At 32, he has done Shakespeare, Keats, BBC drama and Bond - but Ben Whishaw is still poster boy for the shy. He tells Andrew Billen about fans, hair cuts and taking the West End stage with Dame Judi.
Pedants quibbled over the authenticity of Abi Morgan’s The Hour, BBC Two’s drama about the birth of current affairs television in the Fifties, but one thing the production got so right was Ben Whishaw’s hair. Whishaw played Freddie Lyon, a trouble-making journalist who was a spit for the young Charles Wheeler, the corporation’s great, feisty former Washington correspondent whose hair piled in layers on top of his forehead, adding intimidating inches to a slight man’s height. Freddie Lyon’s hair was a similarly magnificent confection: an epic in Bakelite black, a Brylcreemed token of the ego that powered the integrity.
Undoubtedly to talk about Peter and Alice (which starts previews today!), Ben will appear on BBC One’s Andrew Marr Show tomorrow (Sunday). So those of you who can, tune in tomorrow at 9:00am. Record/report for the non-Brits please!
Peter Llewellyn Davies haircut looking good! I saw a fan photo the other day and he looked rather moustachioed, so we shall see about his on-stage look.
