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Wednesday, July 30, 2003
 There's something uniquely British about this British roads site. For some reason I found myself getting excited by the Motorway simulator that's under construction. It might be best if I have a lie down now.
Link blatantly lifted from Metafilter, ta.
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 I've just spent my lunchtime browsing the online Dali gallery. I especially like this one. Suits you sir!
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 Hasn't this guy heard of Easyjet?
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Monday, July 28, 2003
 Sadly Bob Hope has died. The BBC pays its respects.
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Friday, July 25, 2003
 Here's my entry for .net's photoshop a team member competition...
Can you tell it's a Friday?
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b3ta made me do it...
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Canadian designer Natalia Grosner's portfolio.
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Thursday, July 24, 2003
Nice try.
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Run, run I say. Run to your local newsagents and beg them to give you a copy of the latest edition of Internet Advisor.
Available in all good (UK) newsagents for a paltry £3.99 (GBP).
/end blatent plug.
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Wednesday, July 23, 2003
Hopefully with this post I will have cleared up some of the little glitches that have crept into this template.
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Blakes' 7 is making a return to the small screen. This time it promises to be much tougher and grittier than the original.
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Wow. Sometimes the things people can achieve really takes your breath away. Thats not meant to be a pun!
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Tuesday, July 22, 2003
Dusso mainly creates matte backgrounds for films (LOTR, Dungeons and Dragons) and also 3D stuff (Gattaca, Titan AE). Brilliant work in his portfolio along with some personal work (scifi fantasy). Also there is a section dedicated to a small short that he has created, Hangar 7, a scifi/WWII film.
Link lifted from k10k.
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Crushed have revamped their site. They include a section called "Featured artists" which at the moment only holds one person. However they have featured many other artists in the past, if only more grpahic design sites would do this.
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The Cube lives, long live the Cube.
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Photographs of Cornwall.
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ZZ Top have been going for 34 years! They are about to release a new album. Needless to say I won't be buying it, but it might be good to see Rather Good do a "video" of one of their tracks.
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For all you thirty-somethings... Sesame Seventies. Forget about Punk, this was the music that mattered.
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Monday, July 21, 2003
 It has been suggested that in the near future we will be living for much longer. Although whether you wish to live another hundred years as a bladderless, deaf and blind bag of wrinkles and liver spots is another thing altogether. Saga holidays might begin to look like Club 18-30 in comparison.
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 Paris has decided to bring the beach to its inhabitants in a month long experiment. Can't see it working in London.
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Local boy Banksy has his exhibits returned to the farm. I imagine they'll need a bit of a scrub before they go back to their respective enclosures. Go and have a look-see at his site - very funny and very good graffiti.
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Jimi Hendrix's album "Are you Experienced" has been proclaimed as the greatest guitar album ever by the experts at Mojo. Quite right to.
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Robots these days come in all shapes and sizes.
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Saturday, July 19, 2003
Wow, there's not many people around who would think of Hugh Hefner as a Superhero. Apart from the armed services, that is. However it looks like we'll soon be seeing the Blonde-and-Busty loving publisher in a new TV adult cartoon. Also another shock is that Stan Lee is involved. I shan't be watching of course.
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Friday, July 18, 2003
Is this really a coincidence? Are we being told the whole story? Sadly it seems that with this sad death the whole BBC/Alastair Campbell saga seems to be rolling on.
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**Big download warning** But its worth it if you're a fan of Star Wars.
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My mate Cavan Scott - writer of several Dr. Who audio cds - has just pointed me in the direction of Modern Pulp. Cue endless comic discussions between the two of us, which will no doubt bore the pants off everyone we know. Incidentally the two of us have had our heads together over a project Cav has been working on. More news once we have our plan in action...
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I've got a feeling someone is pulling our leg with this Polar Bear story. Those drugs must be either very strong and/or the photographers been at them.
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Some people can only be described as absolutely screamingly mad.
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Thursday, July 17, 2003
Movie posters in India are hand painted, but not for much longer. The rise of computer technology in this country means that this is now a dying art.
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Its amazing what the Japanese get up to in their R&D departments. Takara, a Japanese electronics company, have sold 300,000 Bowlingual units. These are devices that "translate" the meaning of your dogs bark. They now plan to do the same for cats. Utterly barking mad.
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Wednesday, July 16, 2003
I don't often link to photography sites, but the good strong photography and nifty flash interface sets this site apart. I give you the work of Allen Venables.
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This is spot on. Taking Table Tennis into another dimension Matrix style.
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Another Bath local art person link:- Fiona Hamilton.
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A design site about being Chris Jones. He likes his Flash™ he does.
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And if you can't find the fish of your dreams why not find the Pasta shape that rocks your boat instead?
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Wellvetted members seems to like frosch-studio a lot, even though the only work I can see in their portfolio is in the illustration section. Nice stuff though with a heavy leaning towards anime fantasy images. Their interface is a bit slow loading but lovely to watch.
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Do you have a favourite fish? Then find its poster here
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Aussie multimedia design at lunapod.
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Tuesday, July 15, 2003
Yes, my attempt at coding in the permalink feature has worked. I wonder if the politicians will get the hang of it. The thought that Tony Blair might start a blog amuses me: "Just found a great picture of Robin Cook on Fark..."
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Trying to add a permalink to my posts. Will it work?
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Take a look at the art of Kevin Hill aka BighatDino. Then wander over to his blog. I get the feeling he likes comics and videogames a lot.
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The saga continues as Comical Ali rides off into the sunset.
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I feel in the mood for big-upping local talent, so say hello to Scorch Design who are based in Bath, UK. Bath is the centre of the Universe - FACT!
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Surely this new proposal to ban SUVs (what we know as 4x4s in the UK) in California is going against the American dream. Are they finally removing their blinkers and seeing the problems of pollution. Now if the UK could slap a ban on all the urban Discovery drivers I'd be happy.
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Monday, July 14, 2003
I'm beginning to wonder when the spin doctors will finally come up with a new strategy for hiding the misinformation that led to the latest Gulf War. Blix thinks that Blair built his case for war on shaky ground. My best bet is that the Masters of Spin™ will come up with an excuse along the lines of..."The reason we could not find WMDs in Iraq is because we now believe the entire country to be a WMD". Why can't the politicians stop pointing the finger at each other and start taking positive steps towards the rebuilding of this devestated country?
/end rant
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Apparently the Tour de France is under way. The Brains Trust has taken its usual side swipe at the proceedings. Ho, ho.
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If pixels are your bag and you love to view endless illustrations and animations built with the tiny little terrors, then head over to pixelation. My head hurts now.
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Beware, Jasmine Tea may make you slightly psychotic.
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Sunday, July 13, 2003
Okay its Sunday and tomorrow I have to return to work after having had an unscheduled 4 day holiday. I would hardly call it a holiday though, as I am currently stripping paint off our front door. Top fun. And later I shall be repainting it. Holidays always seem to equate to DIY around here. Hope you're all having as much fun as me.
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Friday, July 11, 2003
A would be burglar gets a dressing down when the people he's robbing figure out he isn't armed.
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Wednesday, July 09, 2003
Can you imagine waking up from a coma after 19 years?
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"I'm free" is apparently the best known comedy catchphrase. Although personally I think Paul Whitehouse's "It's Brilliant" (from the Fast Show) is probably better liked by people of my age.
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Insane in the Membrane? Maybe. Just don't go eating those chinese frogs.
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Tuesday, July 08, 2003
My team, Liverpool, are to sign Harry Kewell for 7 million GBP. His wage packet will be £60,000 a week. He's a good player but surely he's not worth that much. However I won't grumble if he turns around the fortunes of the club. Its time to end the Man Utd/Arsenal league domination era.
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Monday, July 07, 2003
I know I'm a bit late with this post but I have to pay my respects to the late Barry White. What a legend.
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Friday, July 04, 2003
This explosion shows the July 4th celebrations of the US army in Iraq. They basically fired a bunch of missiles at an abandoned iraqi tank and took photos of the result. However, to my eye, the picture posted on Ananova looks like it has been photo-manipulated. The explosion looks too much like a Hollywood effect than a real explosion - there's too much colour and lens-flare involved. Usually real life explosions are more smoke and very little bang. Maybe its just me and my jaded eyes but something doesn't quite ring true. Remember PR is everywhere.
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Lets give this a go then. Weeeeeeee! Aaaaaaaarrrrrrghh! SPLAT. Travelling along a street the French way. Will it take off: Probably - but so will you if you don't hold on to the handrails.
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Some eager beaver decided to fix the flickering neon sign in a Glasgow Street. Good man, you think, flashing neon can be very annoying. Unfortunately the neon was supposed to flicker, as it was part of an important piece of Modern Art. Oops.
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Thursday, July 03, 2003
Just decided to start blogrolling as you may be able to see from the left column. I've been resisting the temptation of linking to absolutely every bloglink scheme I come across. However I've finally succumbed - but will keep the lists to a minimum. I guess I got fed up of always having to rebuild my template each time I wanted to link to someone. What I've decided to do is keep my art and general info links as styled (with a clicky purple box button to the left of the site name) and just add blogs to the blogroll. Simple really.
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Wednesday, July 02, 2003
Imagine a conversation between a shopkeeper and a customer:
S: Excuse me ma'am, can I ask if you are chatting on that phone or merely ripping me off?
C: I'm choosing a new hairstyle, silly. I want my friends verdict.
S: In that case ma'am, would you care to come with me and talk to these nice police officers...
Japanese women are now finding themselves under scrutiny when browsing book shops. Copyright infringement seems to be rife since the proliferation of digital camera phones. Are they the new Napster?
I must say that I found it rather amusing when I saw the footage of the Royal Beckhams arrived at Tokyo's Narita airport. The mexican-wave-like lifting of phones to take snapshots was a surreal sight.
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Heh! The art site dedicated to paying homage to the top contemporary artists, in the form of mini Lego creations, has been shortlisted for the 'North's Turner Prize'. Here's hoping Cake and Neave win the 10 grand GBP
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KerrPOWWWW!!!! A new made-for-TV Batman movie starring Adam West and Burt Ward, each showing rather more girth than in their heyday. Take the time to read Burts Bio - its hilarious. And rather worryingly the original Catwoman is still pretty hot.
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Wow, spooky showreel link: Future cop in Soweto. The CGI looks really good in this ad and draws more realism from its township setting. Large download warning: This movie ways in at about 16MB but worth the wait. Thanks to Richard May of Pixelsurgeon for the link. BTW Pixelsurgeon has just undergone a revamp and very nice it is too. Also on the Pixelsurgeon tip - I've just commissioned Preshaa to produce an illustration for my mag.
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Here's a recent quick Freehand illo for my mag - more of a large icon really...
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I hate to say it, but you have to laugh. The sorry tale of the righteous getting it all wrong.
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Tuesday, July 01, 2003
This guy came a right cropper trying to break into a pub. Nice try though.
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