One Track Mind

So, now that I actually have more than one hobby, I've learned something I didn't know about myself: I have a one track mind.

I can only deal with one thing at a time, so when my attention moves from one hobby to the other, the former gets completely forgotten. That is, until I come back to it and, in turn, neglect the latter. Hence why I'll have major dry spells on here, as this blog (unfortunately?) seems to mostly focus on my internet/gif art interests.

I'm going to post about what I've been doing lately, though, because a nice offshoot of my bike polo life is that it's been giving me a lot of illustration projects to work on.

Most of it is, admittedly, polo related ...




... But some work was paid, or intended for side projects.



I'll try to keep updating the illustration bits I do. Realistically, I'd like to build a portfolio and get a few more paid jobs to help subsidise my income (and creativity). So ... watch this space?

Belk Bags business cards

Cosmic Puke

Was going to dump this yesterday but got bored doing it. Finished it today. It was maybe worth the effort.

Dog tunnel gif dumped by AGT528, Sonja gif from the internet.

Broccoli Revisited

Enlarged, simplified and slightly cropped broccoli gif.

Turf War

Little Prick

Line version of this awesome gif.

Flickr

Started a Flickr account to house my illustrations and the odd gif that I'll be creating. Don't know why it took me so long, I've always had complaints about blogger and photobucket being shit and resizing or compressing my images, but whatevs.

File under: tablet has changed my life.

Illustrating

So I haven't been paying much attention to the blog or the tumblr lately, since my attention has been directed mostly to bike polo and the bits of illustration jobs that it's surprisingly given me.

Illustration was something that I originally wanted to do before dropping out of OCAD and going to fine art and art history. Lately, with reality staring me in the face (in the form of an unfulfilling job in customer service), I've begun lamenting that old ambition which has grown recently with some minor jobs I got from friends.

I got to do the illustration and typesetting for a couple Bicycle Film Festival side projects - an alleycat race and the annual bike polo tournament (the ones posted here are becoming spoke cards).



Another fun project is making team logos for bike polo. I'm taking part in this winter's London Bike Polo League, as is my partner, Mark, so I got to design both our team logos. Right now, you can find a post featuring all the different team logos - there are many creatives in the community, so many of them are quite good and entertaining.


Polo Fiasco (my team)


Three Beards, One Cup

Up with creative jobs! Lets hope this is the beginning of a more interesting future (of making money).

The Goddess in Me

Spirit Surfers - Tornado

http://www.spiritsurfers.net/monastery/?p=1031

How to do this, right.

The Hermeneutics of Beekeeping

Divine Inspiration

The Hermeneutic Circle


Bridging the Gap (of Understanding)

[550] [Apollo to Hermes] “But I will tell you another thing,
Son of all-glorious Maia and Zeus who holds the aegis,
Luck-bringing genius of the gods.
There are certain holy ones,
sisters born — three virgins gifted with wings:
their heads are besprinkled with white meal,
and they dwell under a ridge of Parnassus.
These are teachers of divination apart from me,
the art which I practised while yet a boy following herds,
though my father paid no heed to it.
From their home they fly now here, now there,
feeding on honey-comb and bringing all things to pass.
And when they are inspired through eating yellow honey,
they are willing to speak truth;
but if they be deprived of the gods’ sweet food,
then they speak falsely,
as they swarm in and out together.
These, then, I give you;
enquire of them strictly and delight your heart:
and if you should teach any mortal so to do,
often will he hear your response — if he have good fortune.
Take these, Son of Maia, and tend the wild roving,
horned oxen and horses and patient mules.”

(Homeric Hymn IV to Hermes, trans. H. G. Evelyn-White. http://www.theoi.com/Text/HomericHymns2.html)

(For the lab.)

Recreation of my favorite scene from Twister

Recreation of my favorite scene from Twister

Ha ha! I suck at Net Art!

Ps. The Tumblr got a mention on Rhizome! Wha?!

Colony Collapse (What's Wrong with the Bees?)

Colony Collapse (What's Wrong with the Bees?)

An attempt at a Net Art approach to an assignment.

How to make the cutest kitten the creepiest kitten

Fraud!

I received a counterfeit pound coin the other day. They've become a lot more common lately and, prompted by the failing economy, brought about a small media frenzy last September, making us not only aware of their existence but also able to recognize the difference.

The thing with fake coins isn't so much about them being fake, but a problem of recognition. If nobody noticed, it wouldn't be a problem, it's when you browse through your pocket change and notice that the two faces of the coin don't line up right or that the cross on the side of the coin isn't fully detailed that the problems begin. You're either down a pound or, if you try to use it and can't feign ignorance, you're a fraud!

Happy 2009!

Allegory for Existence

Event Horizon

GIF mashup using this GIF from this great GIF page.