"They do it tastefully. It's all very clean."

I remember Alice telling me about this restaurant waaaay back in the day. This brings back such happy memories. Puts Hot-Pot in a very different light.

Hello Ladies

Meet Gavin. This is my Vector Illustration.
The Idea: Well this is of the cruel kind; basically what would Gavin do for £10? Almost anything.
The extent: He got dressed up in drag for free and now we are taking suggestions for obscene acts.

Vendor Bender !

Thanks for sending this in Showtime. The Human Vending Machine at Victoria station.

Meet Rabid Dog

So this was Saturday/Sunday night. My painting of a Dog.

Stalker's Embrace Technology

So, word on the wires is that RFID's are going to hit the TV Channels and Soaps.

What are RFID? Radio-frequency Identification

Why it matters : tags humans and animals, passports (e-passports), tracks promotional products.

Why it's going to be big: Just imagine you're watching TV and you see an outfit/product that you like, press a button on your remote and you can get information about the outfit you are interested in and place an order in real-time.

Not frothing at the mouth yet? How about this: you are at a fashion show and you like what you see, take a picture et voila, you get the designer, the price and the size and book the dress right then and there.

This raises the game for product placement and also could be a huge dent in the TV ads industry. This also gives stalkers the option to get lazy and sit at home whilst their subjects are out on the loose.

The Paper Cinema

Exploring the East End through a paper-puppet inspired play with live music. Ends Tuesday 10th of March.

I love Science

How brilliant is this?

It's really super to see that technology is catching up with our imagination. Thirty years after loosing his eyesight, he sees flashes of light after being fitted with a bionic eye.

Aspirations?

"My one ambition at the moment is to be able to go out on a nice, clear evening and be able to pick up the moon "

Spring is just around the corner. Clear night skies await thee.

Bad, Bad Dinosaur

Tisk, tisk. Here's a lil gem from the horse's mouth:

Seeking a sexual tyrannosaur for a romp in the park - w4m

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Date: 2008-10-12, 3:14PM PDT

You will growl mechanically into my ear and stare threateningly. I will feign panic and search for the flash light in the back seat of the visitor jeep. You will sniff at the window slowly and then release a robotic roar into the night air. I scream for Alan Grant, but your over sized robot jaws come crashing down through the overhead window, pinning me to the floor.

I cannot stress this enough however, you must play as a ROBOTIC dinosaur. This is very specific, my interest lie entirely in animatronic dinosaurs, not real ones.

Correct me if I am wrong

The 99 is a huge hit back home. Backed by the creative forces of Fabian Nicieza (X-Men) and Stuart Moore (Wolverine) and Dr. Naif Al-Mutawa.

The concept of the comic is based on the 99 attributes of Allah, Many of these names refer to characteristics that can be possessed by human individuals. For example – generosity, strength, faithfulness, wisdom are all virtues encouraged by a number of faiths.

I personally find the concept refreshing and daring, I would have easily perked up my ears if Islamic studies incorporated some form of creativity at school. I'm just wondering.. if all the superheros came together and all their good attributes were infused wouldn't they in theory make God? or all their negative attributes made Super Satan? Surely that would have popped up at some point.

Thoughtss..??

Flight patterns are Pretty

This is for the boys in the Aero Department at Imperial. Data from the U.S. Federal aviation administration processed to create animations of flight traffic patterns and density done by Aaron Koblin.

Geeking out to 100's Minutes

I got invited to attend Secret Wars, a graffiti competition between Monorex and Intercity at Havana Club somewhere around Shoreditch. They had 100 minutes to paint and ink their ideas on a huge wall. My bet was on Intercity to win (they ended up throwing red paintballs that not only sprayed the walls but also the crowd closest to the boards, awesome) but alas 90's graffiti made it's way back to claim the winning vote. Meh.

Crowd Sourcing

M.I.T students came together to form this online project called : IdeasScale

The concept behind this a collective insight on an Idea rather than an individualistic one. How does it work? Well you submit your idea, people from across the globe add to it, criticize it and potentially make it grow into super idea. From there businesses can identify where to improve and ideas that can help them make that change..

Basically you have this living specimen that modifies your idea on a daily basis. This is a blessing for marketers everywhere!!

Khatt : Arabic Typography

Above is the artwork of a budding graphic designer and calligrapher, Farah Behbehani who won a Khatt competition and got her design printed as wall vinyls!

Many have butchered Arabic type {myself included}, Arabic typography is one of the most beautiful and complicated type faces to work with. For some stellar examples click here.

Wottsit called?

Leave it to Urban Decay to call their eye shadow, Asphyxia.

Albino Dolphin!

For any frequenters of Harmony, this was only seen on .. 'toys'. A Pink mother flipping dolphin!
Hopefully when people start spear hunting the poor thing it will swim towards a whirlpool and resurface as pink sushi. YAY!

Rub my Hand

When I was younger I used to believe that God and Satan were like Mr. Willy-Wonka and Mr. Slugworth. That they were really working together to see who was honest and I thought that if I told anyone, and exposed God's plan, that I would be blamed for blasphemy.

When I was younger, I stole my classmate's swissrolls and ate them as I sat on them. True Story.

Nakba: The Return of the Soul

This is Jane Frere's Installation, Nakba.

The project was devised as a means of exploring the historic events of 1948 when 750,000 Palestinians were driven into exile to become the longest suffering refugee population, whose numbers have grown to 4.5 million. The installation, Return of the Soul, was conceived as a means to extend the artist’s work to involve Palestinians themselves in the process of creating the components of a sculpture and multi-media artwork that addresses displacement, and offers an expression of their collective sense of injustice and loss, as well as asserting their right to a national heritage.

Suspended wax figures
Over seven thousand wire, paper, wax figures are suspended in the air on a raked angle across the space. Spectators are able to walk around the installation and at a certain point to pass underneath.

Hanging testimonies
Three-meter long scrolls of paper bearing the imprint of personal testimonies relating to the moment of exile are suspended vertically between handing Perspex strips, creating a “forest” of words. The testimonies are installed in a separate space complementing the figures and bear witness to the identities representing those forced to flee from their homeland in 1948.

Sound Installation
Fragmented layered voices, edited from a series of filmed interviews conducted by the artist, are played in the space surrounding the hanging testimonies.

http://www.artdubai.ae

Design by Humans

How amazing it would be if one of your designs were sported by a Band, selling out across the globe. Here is the opportunity! Deadline: 22 March '09.

Tree Forest are you with meh?! Collaboration time!

Rebranding Abu Ghuraib

This is a designer's nightmarish challenge for a brief. Anyone up for it?

YEP! ITS REAL

I still don't think I'm completely sold. Despite the fact that its on National Geographic and there's a video to go with it. It just looks like a super photo shopped and CGI made fish.

For the Ladies!

Lookey here. If you are a designer/illustrator and a woman and want to be published, log on & send your stuff in. ENDS ON FRIDAY SO HURRY!

Btw, what is up with gmail?

One more

Last post about Threadless. I was reading about the prizes you get when you have your t-shirt printed and came across this fine piece of print:

If your design has been chosen for print; Choose a $3,000 scholarship as a form of payment towards your college fees. Open to everyone regardless of what your studying.

This is what we really need, and what a super way to encourage all the people who are struggling with loans. Brilliant.

Don't forget to vote for my tee - last few days :D - Click on the link below!

When designers come together they...

Make Monsters! Met up with BlackPepper member, Rachel to brainstorm on our bid for the Surrey 2012 Logo. As Shao was brainstorming on her stuff we got carried away started to play.

Suprisingly Yemeni

The most alien looking tropical desert (who knew those things existed) on the planet is in Yemen. P A U S E . Socotra Island is located just off the coast of Yemen and is considered of the most endangered ecological sites in the world.

This looks like something straight out of Miyazaki's animated features.

Classic

Hazy Cyan Pink with a touch of Orange.

A multi-lingual colour naming Experiment, in English, Greek, Spanish and German is being conducted by the Colour Imaging Research Group at the University of Arts. It is part of an MSc research project on colour naming and colour categorisation within different cultures, which aims to develop an online colour-naming model based on "natural" languages.

Click here to be apart of their research. 10 minutes maxxx. :D

In the Running! EEK!

Your submission is in the running!

Hey!

I submitted a tee shirt design called The Pelican to Threadless.com to be voted on and hopefully printed.

If I get enough high scores the shirt will be printed and sold from the site and I will win some prizes. Take a look at it and if you like it, sign up and give it a score.

URL: http://www.threadless.com/submission/198318/The_Pelican

Thanks!

P.S. I'm sure Threadless would be happy if you bought a tee too!

threadless.com
4043 N Ravenswood Ave #106
Chicago, IL 60613
1 (773) 878-3557


Note: This is entirely different to the previous post that had my Tee in it. This actually decides whether it gets printed or not. So go on ahead and vote :D

In This Shirt

I was lucky to come across this last night upon a visit to Shunt. "The Forgotten Circus" is a short film that features Circus Space.

Music by The Irrepressibles.

A GIANT

S A N A Y A L - Snails have officially made it into the Haute Couture World, wondering around in Selfridge's new display window ensemble right beside a Swarovski studded dress.

This is dedicated to Dribbler. x

Don't you feel like that when you do a number 2?

This is a cute vinyl wall sticky thing that Blik have done in a bathroom.

Scoring some ...

DESIGN not dope! Please score and critique my tee shirt on Threadless! All ego-bashing is welcomed, do not hesitate. And yes, it's YELLOW ;)

It's just a

Philip Tseng is an illustrator whose had his illustrations printed on threadless. If your designs are picked and printed, you get around $ 2,500 and an additional $ 500 for every reprint.

NUKE THEM ALL with pills?!

Found this on deera-chat.com :

Kuwait Purchases Nearly 6 Million Doses of Emergency Nuclear Radiation Drugs

Nukepills.com today announced the sale of 180,000 units (5.4 million doses) of ThyroShield(TM) Potassium Iodide to the Kuwait Ministry of Health. Worth approximately $1.4 million, the sale was brokered by Nukepills.com and signifies Kuwait’s proactive course in protecting its citizens during a nuclear radiation emergency.

I've been saying this for years ever since I went camping in Kuwait's Desert nearly 7 years ago now! During the 1990-1991 Gulf War, a lot of people who lived close to the borders, (Jahra and Fahaheel especially) died of radiation poisoning and cancer.

I hate sketchbooks

Alright, I didn't exactly stray away from paper, but I think plates are the way to go. Most of my sketches are now on paper plates.

GET SOME NUTS

I have personally wanted to do this at most footie matches I've been to.

Pretty Special

Park rangers are "very excited"

Completely out of context. Couldn't Help it.

The Opposite of Lamp

Genius marketing ploy. These guys sent Perez Hilton a valentine's day card via youtube with links to their Portfolio. Perez gets a total of 7 million users clicking on his site daily. Great exposure at no cost. As for the video.. well it's a video! I like their Lamps.