March 30th, 2008
Finally, after great deliberation, dead ends, and false starts, I’ve created a place for my illustrations, drawings and other art to live:
aUniqueSpace.co.uk
The site has no preview thumbnails, it’s a ‘journey’ through various artworks - mostly those within my main Moleskine sketchbook. I have also added some text beneath each one. These texts may give you [...]
August 13th, 2007
I am very pleased with these two quick sketches from West Kennet Long Barrow.
I really must do more sketching!
August 5th, 2007
First tryout of the new Sanyo Xacti HD2, and, oddly, the first time I’ve had a chance to mess properly with iMovie HD. A total 20 minutes of footage edited down to this 4+ minute short. Enjoy!
July 2nd, 2007
It’s difficult for me to remember exactly when Doctor Matthew Keynes first entered my life. Must be six or seven years ago now, maybe more - so much has happened since then. After some time away, he’s back, and back in a new and interesting guise.
Keynes is the lead protagonist of a TV series concept [...]
June 30th, 2007
Scott Sigler, the author who roared to success with his podcast novel then printed novels Ancestor and Earthcore, had a little dabble in Twitterfiction yesterday, creating a story around the iPhone release.
Scott’s tweets started with: “ I just cut in line at the Apple Store. Geek fight ensued…” and rapidly developed into a [...]
June 24th, 2007
FishDog, AngelSpoon, and Kirk are three characters which have been with me for a few months now. They grew organically out of some random text insertions after becoming bored with sensible content for my Skype mood message (a status message visible alongside my Skype name in contacts’ Skype windows).
When Twitter came along, it seemed an [...]
June 19th, 2007
Since getting my hands on the Zoom H4 recording device, I’ve been experimenting with recording the various sounds around me day-to-day. Ambient soundscapes, I suppose you might call them.
The initial idea was to use them as additional elements to a podcast. For example: I may discuss last night’s trip to Ikea, and so I would [...]
June 11th, 2007
I was thoroughly satisfied with this drawing. So during a conversation with jEN about it, drawing in general, and writing, I seem to remember uttering words along the lines of: “Hey, we should collaborate. You should write a bunch of poems about foxes, I can illustrate them.”
A couple of hours later - and to [...]