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Oh wow. The illustration work of Brooklyn based James Blagden is amazing. The colours leap out like flouro socks in a mid-80s Wham clip.

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hotcoffy007 said | 25 January, 2008

i see James isn’t afraid to go there(third pic), and i love it.

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