Moving Spaceships

Trying to bring the canvas paintings to life in 3D.  Here’s the first test.

Chip Shop Awards

I’ve been asked to be a judge at this year’s Chip Shop Awards. 

Should be fun.

http://www.chipshopawards.com/

Robots and Spaceships

For some reason Rolacosta’s been painting robots and spaceships recently:

Smartphone Storybooks

Well.  It’s a quick job and does nothing more than a normal storybook (no sound or animation), but here’s a first attempt at a smartphone storybook.  It’s made using Flash Lite and works just dandy on my HTC Touch HD.

It’s called

Like I say, it’s a quick job (written & illustrated in my spare time yesterday), but serves its purpose as an experiement.  Maybe I’ll make some more.

If you want to download it to your smart phone first make sure you’ve got Flash Lite (you can download the .cab here) and then transfer the file to your phone and run it from within Flash Lite.

And you can download the storybook .zip file here.  It’s dead simple to use and a fun wee story to read to your kids.

Meanwhile, if you’re an iPhone user (which has no Flash Lite support) or simply can’t be ars*d with all that, you can view the story online here:

Sharpie Canvas Drawing

I’ve been using permanant marker on canvas for a while, but only in stark black and white.  A friend bought me a pack of colour Sharpies recently and these are the first canvas drawings I’ve really done with them.  One is for my son’s room, the other for my daughters.

The Storyhunters take Malmo

A collaboration between Storyhunters (myself & Joe Collins) with Ola Stahl and the fellows at FASAD in Malmö, Sweden

FASAD have a window space on the high street and use the space to tell stories to the people of the city.  Using paint, vinyl and objects we dressed the window in a way that showed the ten dimensions of reality, then put a show on in the evening that illustrated this concept from physics in an accessible way – as related to stories and the ideas of the Storyhunters.  Stories define and make sense of our lives.  That’s pretty much what the Storyhunters project is about.

 

Small Worlds

This week’s playtime in Swamp has seen us making small worlds:

And this from Paul Mallett on Flickr

Scrolling persistence of vision

We were looking at interesting ways people use scrolling on websites the other day – and it got me thinking about persistence of vision.  Take a look at this experiment I created (works best in Chrome!) – hold down the middle mouse button and scroll horizontally…

http://www.paranoidlimited.com/pov/

The Lady Purple, Angela Carter

We do a version of Angela Carter’s The Lady Purple with the storyhunters.  This is an illustration for that story done with permanent marker on canvas.

 

Angela Carter's, The Lady Purple

For the love of God, Damien Hirst

Damien Hirst’s for the love of God.  Evaporated.

Particles and glows created in 3DSmax.  No soundtrack as yet – I’ll repost when it’s done.