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.

RolaCosta Drawing for Jim

Just did a new Rolacosta canvas for Jim Wheatley (who really should have something better I can link to) who reached the grand old age of 30 this weekend.  Here it is.  And, what is more there’s a desktop wallpaper to download too!  You lucky people.

Stand By To Launch Remote Control Attack : Permanent marker on canvas

Pretty Dirty Thing

Inspired by something that was happening at work I made this 3D movie.  3D gets pretty painful on your home computer as you’re hampered by what you can actually be bothered rendering.  So I guess this is a test for the real thing which should be created in full vray glory.  But I quite like this anyway.

D&AD judging #2

Results are in for the D&AD awards.  More here on the Swamp blog:

D&AD Awards Judging

Catherine Stones

Good show to Catherine Stones for getting an exhibition together for the fabled North Bar in Leeds.  Her work’s great, check it out and more at CatherineStones.net

D&AD Judging

Been a daft busy month starting with a week in London filming kids jumping off buildings, a week off so I could actually see the family digging the garden and painting walls @ home, then a week back in London for D&AD awards judging in the website category.  A chance to meet some great people and check out the cream of website work from around the world.  There were 500 website entries, plus more digital in advertising and virals.  Overall there were 20,000 pieces of work that made it to Olympia and 500 international judges visiting over the four days.  Check out theThe D&AD Blog  for more…

D&AD entries at Olympia, London

Got2b Urban Freeflow Parkour Jam

Just putting the finishing touches to a campaign for Got2b where we were working with Urban Freeflow.  Some great footage from the Parkour Jam that I’ll share when it’s live next week.  But meantime I wanted to upload this photo of one a traceur doing his thing on the day.  It was great to watch something like 200 teenagers climbing up buildings.

Parkour

Write a book

After getting some interest in a treatment for a sci-fi / crime novel last year I started writing a novel, the general premise of which is about a virtual afterlife.

I now have a complete first draft and I’m looking to find an agent and publisher.

You can read the first few chapters on authonomy here.

Here’s the blurb:

In a future where God is dead what if there was a company that could guarentee your afterlife with a pill. Would you take it?

The Eternity Pill monitors your environment and a moment before certain death alters your perception to make your last moment feel like a thousand years in a virtual paradise. Be reunited with your loved ones, be any age, never in pain and never growing old. Sound too good to be true? It probably is. When supercop rookie Lamaloula Bains is assigned a new partner, Jason Strange, she gets sucked into a personal war with radical Christian fundamentalist, the dark Pastor Lane, that escalates to a power struggle for the hearts and minds of the whole planet.

Favourite cyberpunk books

http://www.swamp.co.uk/blog/2009/01/cyberpunk-reading-list/

Just posted this over on the Swamp blog.  Some of my favourite books here.