THE BATTLE OF WALKERLOO

2012-01-19T16:58:00.000+01:00

Although they are very gorgeous, at the moment, I don't sell all that many toy soldiers. Walkerloo has never made a profit. I beg, borrow and manual labour for money to pay the monthly re-payments for the loan I took out to construct my toy soldier army. This makes Walkerloo a bad business and/or me a bad businessman.

But Walkerloo isn't really a business*, I declared it a real pretend war, that's the kind of war toy soldiers are best suited to fight and thats the kind of thing that makes sense to me. The Battle of Walkerloo feeds my existential hunger. As far as I know my enemy is still unaware of this real pretend war. I could conclude from this that my efforts are ineffectual. But I take heart from the fact that after more than two years of intermittent pretend aggressive action against the infinite beast that is my enemy, that is all the TV and Movie related mega corp toys, I am still able to stage operations and even develop new forces in the Good Fight!

'Military Regiments', 'Trade Unions' or 'Business Corporations' are compound things - I imagine them as beasts with motivations, appetites and abilities. I imagine myTHself a beast doing battle with beasts.

'Google-Panto-Horses - Mythic Corporate Beasts no001' and 'Christopher-Walker-alias-myTHself-Christopher-Walkerloo-Pretending-To-Be-A-Soldier-In-The-Production-Of-His-Real-Toy-Soldier-Army no001' are part of the Walkerloo new wave introduced with the Chinese Miners last month. They join the ranks of the Walkerloo MiY Print-fantry available for pdf download at Wargames Vault. Get them now, make them up and join the war!

Mythic Corporate Beasts 001 'GOOGLE-PANTO-HORSES' (link to buy pdf)
I've painted 4 different versions of the Google-Panto-Horse mythic corporate beast. But I imagine there are googols of them grazing 'freely' on internet content. A real panto horse usually has two people inside the costume - Sergey Brin & Larry Page, the Google founders, could be inside a Google-Panto-Horse. I think Larry Page would be at the front - a google-panto-horse would then be a 'portrait' of the two google founders. Under harness googols of Google-Panto-Horses would deliver googols of Google-Panto-HorsePower, but this horse power would be dependent on their ability to graze on vast quantities of 'freely' accessible internet content. I recently came across this short film on Youtube about Google... since Blogger was bought up by google I am of course writing from with in right now...

Mythic man-beast myTHself 001. CHRISTOPHER-WALKER-alias-MYthSELF-CHRISTOPHER-WALKERLOO-PRETENDING-TO-BE-A-SOLDIER-IN-THE-PRODUCTION-OF-HIS-REAL-TOY-SOLDIER-ARMY. (available as .pdf next week)
In the creation of my real toy soldier army I pretended to be a soldier commanding, advancing, charging shooting and being shot. As a boy I would spend hours doing this both with friends or alone in my back garden. In making my toy soldier army I asked Laura Camera Wife to photograph me pretending to be a soldier and each Walkerloo toy soldier comes from one of these photos. I returned to these photos to make these MiY printfantry sheets. I am a realist romantic and in the good fight that is the Battle of Walkerloo I must deploy ridiculous tactics because a frontal assault would be suicidal.

Christopher Walkerloos do battle with Google-Panto-Horses over my keyboard in a grotto. '... England and St.George, a bin for a horse!!'

I had thought there was a quote about being aware not to become a beast when fighting a beast, or that to fight a beast you have to become a beast. That's probably from a movie, but after searching on line I did find 'He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster...' which is translated from Friedrich Nietzsche's 'Beyond Good and Evil'... but I prefer 'beast' to 'monster'.

*due to the nature of the loan covenant and the leverage afforded to Walkerloo as a business the Walkerloo business must be maintained until the loan is repaid. Do not allow this identity to restrict your interpretation of the Battle of Walkerloo. I never have, in fact the moment I signed the forms for the loan and the bank manager handed me the first cheque I told him how when I was a boy as soon as I saved sufficient funds I would go out and spend it on toy soldiers and that that was exactly what I was going to do with the money he had just made available to me, he said nervously 'mais ce n'est pas le meme chois!'... but it was just the same.

WALKERLOO MOVIE UPDATE. Various Walkerloo film projects have entered a suspension this kind of cultural object is particularly prone too. They are stuck in a thick editorial and production mud just behind the front lines but it is hoped that they shall one day soon be made to come to bear!

Miner Diversion!

2011-11-21T16:45:00.004+01:00

100 years ago there were more than 200,000 coal miners working in North East England. On the 24th of November 1910 a miner aged 14 was killed in Usworth Colliery. His name was John Walker, he was my grandfathers brother, my great uncle John.

All the TV and Movie action toys are made in China. The toy factories are powered by electricity made from burning coal. The coal is dug by coal miners who have no trade unions. Many of my family were coal miners in North East England. My dad was a coal miner at Usworth colliery from 1955-1970 (aged 14 to 29). The miners of each pit organised into unions to win better conditions in their hazardous work. Each union had a 'pit banner'. 'From the middle of the nineteenth century the banners were used to unify and rally the communities in the coalfield... Banners are the miners' battle standards, proclaiming graphic messages of hope and calls for social justice which record more vividly than any other art form the history of the struggle for working-class rights.' Quotes taken from the foreword and cover note of the book 'Banners of the Durham Coalfield' by Norman Emery, 1998.

All of the coal mines in North East England are now closed. The banners are kept in museums and social clubs associated with the pit communities.

In a TV news report on a mining disaster in China I saw a miners wife demand improved working conditions for her husband and his comrades. I thought about her plight and the plight of my ancestors. I had just lost my father from an industrial cancer resulting from asbestos exposure in a tyre factory, the job he'd done since leaving the pit. He had two years of retirement before the cancer began to kill him. Some of the money which enabled me to construct my toy soldier army came from him. As it carries my name, 'The Battle Of Walkerloo' also carries his name, and that of my great uncle John.

I've decided 'MiY (Make it Yourself) Walkerloo Chinese Miners Marching With Usworth Colliery Banner' model is an essential new part of the 'The Battle of Walkerloo'. It marks the opening of a new and surprise front in my real pretend war. The model is available as a PDF document for money here (so I can live) and for free here (because it's better than nothing). Download it! Make it up! March it up and down!

Pretend all miners have trade unions. Pretend all toy factory workers have trade unions. Pretend the toys you buy for christmas are made by these pretend workers. Paper soldiers.... engines for social change or silly toys playing a real pretend war. Romantic, Ethical, Escapist toy soldiers at war with the mega corp toys The Battle of Walkerloo. This is a message from WIP. Walkerloo Information and Propaganda. Tally-Ho!

note. In the model the Chinese miners wear work cloths but at events, miners would not normally march with the banners in their work cloths. The front of the Usworth Colliery banner depicts Kier Hardy a key character in UK socialism. The models I've made up show the back of the banner facing forward, it proclaims 'Workers of the world unite you have nothing to loose but your chains, you have a world to win'.

I made Gouache paintings of Usworth Pit banner from images found on the 'Washington Banner Groups' web site and photo's Laura Camera Wife took of me in the back garden.

Historic facts about mining came from the awesome Durham Mining Museum archive/website. Thanks.

Coming Soon: Walkerloo Toy Soldiers Story

2011-06-28T15:48:00.012+02:00

Last summer's blockbuster movie was Toy Story 3. The result was a toy invasion the like of which has never been seen before. According to Panjiva shipments of Toy Story 'stuff' to the US were 4 times greater than their nearest rival. The 'toy story' was similar all over Europe...

This summer WiP (Walkerloo information & Propaganda) present a film by myTHself and Laura Camera Wife telling just a small piece of that toy story... .. Walkerloo Toy Soldier Story. Coming soon.

The Prussians Are Here!

2011-05-09T18:28:00.003+02:00

As of May, a new 1:35 Walkerloo Print-fantry regiment is ready for download and DIY manufacture at WargameVault. Painted after the 1st Silesian Landwehr who were in action against Napoleons Guard Infantry at Plancenoit at Waterloo. Although I'm not yet selling 1:20 scale Prussians I may send out A4 pdf's for DIY construction to personal e-mail requests so you can add them to your battles.

Campaign 2011. Real-Pretend-War & Pretend-Real-War.

2011-05-09T11:09:00.057+02:00

Last weekend Walkerloo went on campaign. We tore through France and across the Alps into Italy to array our forces before the public in a hill town called Cherasco. In 1796 commanding his first army Napoleon fought a series of battles forcing the signing of an armistice on the Sardinian/Piedmontese Army in Cherasco whilst pushing the Austrian army further east.

As well as Walkerloo the town invited over 500 historic reenactors who bivouacked about the town and waged a spectacular pretend battle through the streets for several hours - the last time I came so close to horseman charging across pavements was outside 10 Downing Street on the Criminal Justice Bill march of 1994!

My real pretend war is different from the reenactors pretend real war but we do share an intention of promoting history though the creation of an entertaining spectacle and I think we all hope to achieve some meaning by the spectacles creation.

I deployed several hundred toys soldiers in the Piedmont region and estimate to have enabled a further 50 'you-walkerloo' photo conscripts in photo albums etc.

Campaign Tactics. For over a year we have been hosting 'couch surfers' at our home base in Normandy. Our Italian Campaign was the first time we became 'hosted' couch-surfers the experience was fascinating, warm and rewarding. In each of our host's homes I left behind a small garrison of toy soldiers. I also know there are already several 'Full Walkerloo's' with collectors in Italy - Grazie per tutto - the real pretend war begins in Italy!

Artiste-Ouvrier, 'Nostalgie Du Futur' Book.

2011-04-08T18:19:00.015+02:00

Walkerloo friend and ally Artiste-Ouvrier has recently had a book published on his paintings. For the past two years he has taken the battle of Walkerloo to the streets, to the art galleries and now les libraries du France, Amazon and the world! You can buy the book here, on amazon.fr, it's a little gem. Since my declaration of war we have been working ever closer in the fight with the mega corp toys.

Warden Of The North

2011-04-07T15:35:00.008+02:00

A large toy soldier force is newly deployed in the Halifax Citadel. It gives Walkerloo a vital strong point on the North Eastern Coast of the Americas. The Fort over looks and protects the port town and is known as the 'Warden Of the North'. With Black Watch Infantry, French 5th Lancers and RHA 9lbers it has aggressive capability. Although perspective can distort the scale of things over long distances this picture has some accuracy.

Walkerloo deployment to TreeFrog Treasures in Minnesota is on hold although a forum presence is being quietly maintained, I think of it as a Midwest consulate.

A small Walkerloo force has also been sent to the Musée Militiare du Périgord in the Dordogne.

The war against the Mega Corp toys continues. Intelligence photos below show a battle which was fought between Walkerloo Toy Soldiers and StarWars Lego around a little boys bedroom in the North of England. No further information is so far available.

An historic battle was fought this weekend in Caen, Normandy. A great strategic victory for Walkerloo Toy Soldiers was the result. A total of 10 cornflakes boxes were captured, but not regular cornflakes boxes, they were 'carrefour' cornflake boxes. 'Carrefour' meaning 'crossroads' in French gives the victory even greater strategic importance. The epic event was captured on film, details will follow.

On The Normandy Beaches

2010-11-24T12:17:00.016+01:00

The phoney pretend war is well under way, the real pretend action is not far behind. I present this short film by myTHself: Christopher Director, Christopher Editor, Christopher Actor etc. for WIP (Walkerloo Information and Propaganda). Witness how much action and fun my armies can inspire even in training - and thanks to my wife for putting up with my front of camera direction.

I liked the toy story movies - right through to number three... But a good movie is no excuse for the continents of plastic pap the films characters were attached to - they are licensed to overkill. Ever since StarWars the bond between movies and the manufacture of 'toy' merchandise has been thickening, now it is one leviathanic beast writhing and gorging through popular culture. It has vanished the manufacture of it's suffocating spume to far off slave factories, we profit from it's mass retail and consume it like a poor religion.

My army of ethically constructed paper soldiers are a spear head that I thrust deep into the belly of this beast. History is the copyright-free romantic narrative, and through its exploration and interpretation we gain self knowledge!

I understand with the spread of industry there comes the promise of the spread of wealth. And we must be maintained. My Walkerloo die cut card army is not yet independent. Napoleon showed the best way to maintain a massive army is in the field - but mostly in the fields of your allies and enemies. My army would also benefit from wider deployment in the fields of allies and enemies. Become my ally! or even become my enemy... buy my toy soldiers or make them up your self for free but play battle with them!!

I have begun painting re-enforcements. The battle of Walkerloo is spreading to new genres. Painting takes time, in buying my army you help doubly in the cause - I am freed from painting houses to make more pictures and the army is deployed to new theatres and areas of fun play operation!

The provider for myTHself is currently Christopher Worker. He's a skilled and reliable house and office decorator - He can paint in the regular 'modernist' style and work with you on subtle colour selection. For the inspired client he's also happy to 'mural-ify'... believing abstract expressionism to be wasted in bank foyers and public galleries Christopher Worker enjoys exploring the decorative and complex effects of 'action painting' in homes. Ornament isn't a crime says Christopher Worker, its a more interesting proposition than painting a wall white.

Artiste Ouvrier

2010-10-01T19:59:00.001+02:00

Artiste Ouvrier, originally uploaded by atm gallery.

Artiste Ouvrier puts the battle of walkerloo on the street. and in a gallery. at the same time!

Global Strategic Deployment

2010-08-01T16:53:00.031+02:00

The deployment of forces is critical to any wartime strategy. Walkerloo Print-fantry Elites have been available for free at www.walkerloo.com since December 1st, 2009. Using Google spy technology I estimate they have been downloaded by more than 2000 people around the world. I seek picture evidence confirming this intelligence.... could you provide it? Send pics to wip@walkerloo.com

A Walkerloo Print-fantry base has also been established at War Games Vault. Here 12 different Walkerloo regiments are ready to download, print-out and makeup. I've re-arranged the soldiers over 26 new A4 sheets at 1:35 scale. Full make up instructions are included in the download. Become a walkerloo micro-manufacture facility and don't stop making soldiers until your fingers become sore, you can be your own gang-master-slave-driver! hmmm... If only poor working conditions were such a novelty in toy manufacture...

My original die cut card toy soldiers are also continuing their deployment... new distribution hubs include the Regimental Museum Shop at the Halifax Citadel, in Canada, Sierra Toy Soldier Co. in California and Busybee Toys in Australia - The Battle of Walkerloo is Global!

Walkerloo Reported

2010-07-22T14:17:00.012+02:00

I've not yet sought reportage for Walkerloo but It has been reported upon. The first media blip was an article reporting my successful loan application for the toy soldier armies creation in Ouest France. After showing Walkerloo at a few Toy Soldier shows modest reports appeared in the metal and plastic dominated 'Toy Soldier' press. Then after the editor of 'Military Illustrated' chanced upon my display at Leadenhall Market he penned an article supporting my soldiers in his magazine.

Last summer I entered a local entrepreneur competition... a short film was made about walkerloo by 5050TV.

Upon seeing this film we had more interest from Ouest France and a front page picture and story in La Presse De La Manche, which in turn prompted a Normandie TV report on Walkerloo and an article in the Norman Advertiser - an English language News paper.

Walkerloo is now at war with all plastic toys derived from movies and television. To wage this war effectively I must begin to engage the enemy in the media - it is from here they launch their constant barrage against us. To co-ordinate my media assault I have created Walkerloo Information & Propaganda - WIP.

Keep your eyes peeled for future WIP productions - if you would like to help in the war propaganda contact wip@walkerloo.com

CHARRRGE!

diy_print-fantry_attacked_by_vintage_movie_toy_plastic_clones

2010-02-25T19:01:00.001+01:00

diy_print-fantry_attacked_by_vintage_movie_toy_plastic_clones, originally uploaded by myTHself.

Print-fantry in action.

Vintage plastic movie toy clones advanced zombie like toward a newly created line of DIY Print-fantry Elite. Some of their number claimed to be 'rebels' but their true nature was inescapable - they were plastic clones made by the million by a Mega Corp Toy Empire. The Print-fantry Guard Officer remained cool and defiantly haughty as the non-biodegradable monsters rocked forward. 'Hold it... Hold it...' he whispered, confident in his diciplined ethical manufacture and expressive historic detailing. As the clones got within arms reach he gave the order 'FIRE!' and his men let loose their volley at point blank range...

My Dream Job Dream...

2009-09-11T18:00:00.007+02:00

Whenever I'm doing physical work I find my self overlaying a fictional narrative. Of course my narratives are usually militaristic. When I'm a painter and decorater the most tedious work is stripping wallpaper. However as the steamer plate becomes my sheild and the blade scraper my sword time passes more funly, perhaps quickley. I'm a Hoplite Housecarl battling against infinite ranks of Persian immortal Norman knights..

When I began to dig over the weed thick ground for my vegatable garden the task seemed immense. However as the rectangle patches of the dug earth grew I imagined them army columns advancing across the plain. I made a quick picture trying to embody this fantastic narative and e-mailed it to friends.

8 years ago after the 9-11 attack I drew this picture after working in the garden. It desribes the horror and incapacity I felt whilst I moved rocks about the garden.

It's a Liberation not an Invasion...

2009-07-31T11:44:00.011+02:00

We've been living in France for 8 years now. When we left London we had a party and I made invites. 'It's not an invasion, it's a liberation' they declared. The drawing was loose, quick, unplanned. The photo faces were made in the 'photo booth' of my local Tube station. But I'd been drawing infantile war for a while... this was a picture I made in 1999 of imagined Normandy beach action - its post 'Private Ryan'.

Sand castles and invasion beaches, seaside photo booths and toys soldiers, childrens book style pictures and the memories of veterans.

When I draw war its without direct experience but I've been occupied by its mythology from my earliest childhood. It's the scenario for my daydreams.

In 1998 I entered a picture in an 'Open' exhibition of pictures in Hammersmith, London. It was called 'Happy Soldiers and Sad Soldiers... I've never been to War'. Beautifully attired French Hussars clashed with British Infantry, the Napoleonic detail accurate except the French wear Nike Cyrus running shoes and the British wear Adidas shell toes - classic costume (The pic above was cobbled together, the large originals are with friends). I made two copies of my ink and marker drawing, one was a mirror image, and I joined them to make a long panarama style picture. None of the soldiers in the original picture had mouths. On one of the copies I gave all the soldiers smiles and on the other anti-smiles(?)... I'm not sure what else to call a down turned mouth.

The other day I came across the work of Todd Tremeer. He's a painter who makes lucid 'televisual' watercolours. He's painted the military models in museums, I don't think he's yet drawn any of the models on sale in their shops... and check out his 'Artist's Statement'.

a Walkerloo near you...

2009-06-30T18:06:00.020+02:00

Over the summer I'm taking my pictures on campaign. The first engagement was at the 2009 re-enactment of Waterloo. The Toy soldiers equitted themselves admirably and the YouWalkerloo booths proved very popular. I shot a little video in the quieter moments... But I was otherwise fully involved explaining the stories behind the paintings and demonstrating how I intended hands and heads to be placed within them. One very little boy engaged with the painting using his toy sword... an understandible response although I did quickly and carefully intervene.

During the summer I'll be doing several events including:

18/19 July. Festival multi-époques. Boulogne-sur-mer.
25/26 July. Napoleonic Association Re-enactment. The Royal Gunpowder Mills, Waltham Abbey.
29/30/31 August. The Military Odyssey. Kent Show Ground, Detling, Kent.
3/4 October. International Napoleonic Weekend. Dorset.

Last weekend I presented the Battle of Walkerloo in a small town called Miélan where a Napoleonic bivouac had been organised, alas it was a little quiet. I deployed YouWalkerloo in a new way. As well as the toy soldier battle, using my camera and a portable photo printer I offered to take people's photo inside my paintings, I mounted the printed photo in a 'frame card' which included a brief explanation of the paintings and the Battle Of Walkerloo. The framed picture cost €5.

This was the first time I'd presented 'Walkerloo' to a French audience in France. Most people read 'Waterloo' on seeing it... sometimes they were a little hostile to an object which seemed to celebrate a national defeat. I explained my creation was the battle of Walkerloo which is not a French defeat but a series of pictures which as a game could in fact be 'played' as a French victory... hmmmm. I'm British and conversely the word Waterloo has some immediate self congratulatory nationalistic emotions attached... as for 'Walkerloo' it's a work in progress and can make me feel very proud, defensive, worried and excited. What does it do for you?

YouWalkerloo2 involes two people partaking in three characters. One is an Ensign holding the Colours, another a stout infantryman and another a recently decapitated bugler. I created the composition after reading about an incident said to have happened at the battle of Waterloo. I've since found a memoire in which it was described -

“...we halted and formed square in the middle of the plain. As we were performing this movement, a bugler of the 51st, who had been out with skirmishers, and had mistaken our square for his own, exclaimed, ‘Here I am again, safe enough...’ The words were scarcely out of his mouth, when a round shot took off his head and spattered the whole battalion with his brains, the colours and the. ensigns in charge of them coming in for an extra share. One of them, Charles Fraser, a fine gentleman in speech and manner, raised a laugh by drawling out, “How extremely disgusting!...”

An extract from 'Fifty Years Of My Life' George Thomas Keppel, Earl of Ablemarle 1799-1891 Ch.7 p.128 'A Narrow Escape'

I tell the story of the painting before I take the photos and try to express something of the excitement, glee, tragedy, horror, disgust, comedy and history that went into the creation of the paintings. We tend to smile when posing for photographs... 'say cheese...' and I also hope people will be happy with the purchase of their picture because I charge them €5. Thanks to anyone who takes part!

Walkerloo Street.

2009-06-27T12:35:00.003+02:00

The stencil artist Artiste-ouvrier has made pictures involving walkerloo soldiers. His stencils are particularly colourful and intricate. He's titled this work 'walkerloo street'. I found these photos of pictures he's made on google. He's been working with another stencil artist called 'War', Wars' stencil is the child spray painting. My favourite so far is the cuirassier on concrete. Urban Empire style-ee?... 'concrete soldiers'... I like the material contrast with paper soldiers. The Battle of Walkerloo opens a new front.

It's already begun...

2009-04-28T00:21:00.002+02:00

The battle of Walkerloo has begun. I don't know when it started exactly.

I have created 180,000 soldiers. I pretended to be them, painted them, presented them to bankers and financiers, had them manufactured and now I sell them. I modeled for them all. I did it at home with a garden fork for a musket and a dustbin for a horse. CHARRRRGE!

Only a fraction of the soldiers are thus far committed to the action. But these have already spread throughout the world: Britain, the United States, Australia, France, Holland, Belgium, Germany, Morocco and a surprising quantity in Northern Italy... this is confirmed through receipts of sale. I don't know how many free soldiers have been downloaded and made up by hand from http://www.walkerloo.com/ but by analysing my google data I'm fairly certain they've got to Russia, South America and China... If you have any intelligence regarding their adventures, especially pictures, send it forth! It'll be a battle report, you'd be a Walkerloo war correspondent... hmmm.... I think there is precedent for this in the blog-oz-phere...?

Yesterday I pieced together the first of a new type of soldier that I've been working on over the last few weeks. Painting big felt nice. Painting felt nice. I've done hardly any lately. In the next two months I'm going to paint more. More soldiers!

It was going to be called 'You Walkerloo' but now I'm not sure. Apparently it's a 'photo-booth', I've found out that's what this type of object was called back in the day. I've always wanted to make one... and now I can think of painting nothing other...

note. the other week whilst in London i checked out the Van Dyck exhibition at the Tate ... i was gagging to take close up photos of his pictures, he had so perfected the technology for painting fancy cloth... his marks and layers were so economic in constructing the illusion of light flashing over satin, velvet, highlights on fur, shadows in folds and creases... i reckon he could knock out the cloths impressively and quickly freeing him to concentrate the majority of his man hours on the faces and hands perhaps making up less than 5% of the total canvas area... smart! ... alas i asked the guard if i could take photos of his marks, obviously no flash, but it is forbidden, he was sorry and suggested i buy postcards or a catalogue blah blah... but the postcards are all of the picture as a whole, the paintings illusion intact... myth protected. its impossible to examine his efficient strokes and marks from this they only become apparent on close inspection,,,, GRRRRR seeing his paintings made me want to paint... not being able to come away with clues as to how he painted got me narked... hmmmm these thoughts snk in and inspirations fastened together lovely when i got home... hmmmm painting for photographs, hmmmm paintings without the time consuming fleshy bits... hmmmm

This first Walkerloo 'booth' is after, long after, a 'romantic' painting by Gerricault - you can see a photo of it here Its a portrait of a 'Lietenant Dieudonne' evidently an officer in the 'Chasseurs a Cheval de la Garde Imperiale'. The soldier certainly does look 'romantic'. I think my facination with soldiers is 'romantic'... or childish. The original painting hangs in the Louvre, I've not seen it, only pictures of it in books etc.

I painted this painting to be photofied... computerized... family albumicated... Oh... and you are meant to be a part of it as well.... how nice !?!