tentacular spectacular

killer robots getting down

The new flyer for Dr Dystopia this Easter Sunday - it's gonna be fun, and you'll have a whole Monday to recover.

Hair girl

made by staining a dried mash of plant-fibre with solvent-based dye...the old fashioned way

Remember back in the day, when the whole blogosphere went squidmad? No? Just me then. Somebody has put the squid to good use finally and used them to raise funds for the tsunami-victims.

This one's called Benedict.

They seems pretty expensive for a stuffed animal but, hey, good cause n that.

Adopt a squid

new flyer

A new night at Lost Society in Clapham - hopefully should be good. The flyer is a collaboration between K80 from stickerthing and myself.

You're all invited.

thing #2

Five Things: thing#2


I have an online doppelganger. Actually more of a doppelnaamer, really. Somebody who shares exactly the same first and last names as me and who works as a cartoonist and illustrator. He has the .com of our name/surname combination.

I don't have a particularly common surname, certainly the only moderately famous person I've ever found sharing my surname was a member of Spiritualised and even then, not really famous. So it's a bit strange finding myself online already doing my dream job.

A friend has advised me to give his (our) site address out to impressionable young things to increase my chances of impressing said things, after all I can prove it's my name up there in pixels. She was a little deflated when I pointed out the necessity of an internet connection for this plan; not likely in the kind of places one tends to find young people in need of impressing these days. Also: how many people want to shag a website? Apart from the pR0n ones, obviously.

succumb to the meme

I think the eyechild may have been cheating by tagging 5 blogs for the "5 things" meme, but hey I'm flattered, so I'll go with it.

I don't often write things in this blog, it's supposed to be about the drawing. So I'll dealing with my 5 things about me in cartoon form.

Thing #1:

I think I might be addicted to teh interwebs. No really. I get restless if I can't logon at least 3 times a day. Whenever I have nothing else pressing to do I have a very powerful urge to "check my email" or whatever it is I make the excuse of having to do. It's really just a need to escape. I have an ex-girlfriend who once accused me of "having a reading problem like other people have a drinking problem", I've just switched from the soft (cover) gateway drug to the hardwired real thing.

The clinical definition of addiction requires habituation, in which increasing doses are needed to stave off withdrawal, this has been true up to a point for me, although I seem to be plateauing now, hopefully. Also included is the gradual diminution of pleasure derived from the dependency, which explains the hours of dysphoric clicking on delicious, or this post from back in the day

The funny thing is, I've never really watched TV much and despise it for it's ability to suck up entire hours of my life; yet I can happily spend those same hours sitting in front of my lappie laughing at pictures of cats. Perhaps I'll have to start rationing my hours on this thing too.

myspastic

Instead of having, like, a real picture on myspace, I was clever and painted a (fairly realistic) portrait.

My portrait, after the first coffee of the morning.

sketches

pen and ink

festive flat festival

A picture of the business end of the liverpool festive flat festival, taken before Testcard showed up with their kit. As you can tell, we take this whole "making a racket" thing very seriously.
Thanks strcs

Brute

My time has been sucked into the black hole of ableton Live once again.... hence the abysmal posting rate of late. but I'm back... with an old picture. Go figure.

No I'm Banksy - and so's my wife

I wish I'd thought of this, and then given one to everybody in Bristol to wear for a day. Kinda like V and the masks in the plot-twist-with-no-relation-to-the-Alan-Moore-original-and-which-therefore-sucked in V for Vendetta.

the one-eyed man is king

So after some unseemly begging over at mjar's blog hooked I snagged a copy of the HOOKED 'zine, which is all a zine should be: photocopied, strongly designed and free, with many sharp designs in various modes, not all of which suit the unforgiving and blunt instrument reproduction of the Xerox.

My favourite is this one,by Eight-bit but only because it plays into my well documented cyclops obsession (oh well if you're going to insist on links...here and here and this one too.)

The cover, which I think was done by mjar itself is also a thing of beauty.

doppelcybermen

I spotted these lurking in Woolies, and they made me think immediately of doppelganger

good morning

I suppose this one is for my drooling webquaintances Billsworth and Doppelganger. For myself, I take refuge in the centuries-long tradition of the nude in Western Art, so I'm definitely not a perv. THIS IS ART DAMMIT, STOP SNIGGERING AT THE BACK.

rage against these machines

So I managed to ahem...inherit these beauties last week, lugging them back through the tube was a real (literal) pain in the arms but aren't they sweet? That's what you call oldschool hardware.

The top is a hardware signal filter and the bottom just makes sine waves. hell -all that hardware for a signal I can make in 2 seconds in pd! I don't want to bow to doppelganger's new porn obsession , in this case it is all really about the knobs.

A watercoloured dwarf with a gun...what more could you want?

Banksy strikes again

Finally someone's posted the Banksy remix of Paris Hilton's CD. Only the pictures unfortunately.

The artfuel verdict:
artwork - bad "worth 1000" photoshoppery
taglines - Banksoid drollery of the better variety
sheer genius of doing this - priceless

via headphonesex

I knit dead people

oh this has got to be the best craft idea *ever*

better than the knitted squid, better than yawn of the dead...

knitted Zombies