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Phoebe and I's completed animation and pitch for a competition of new ways to use the internet - we launch into the wide world our plan for a Climate Change Action Directory. We'll never win, we're up against people building schools in Kenya, but it seemed a good way to put it out there.

From an animation point of view it is a low quality and in 4:3 out of necessity to fit the format of the video pitch. It looks better in big and 16:9.

Follow the link to watch our animation followed by a delightfully stuttering pitch to Microsoft, and give us a thumbs up if you agree.

Scrabble

'She flew' I claim as I sift through the tip. A puny mew pines 'yin!' from the nub of a mauve jug, perched on a sheer face of muck. I say that hokey pokey witch put paid to our town. Her voice that charmed lava from sand on Oslo beach. If my Nordic bones sing true - and they do - that hitter of poison won't live to complete her sixer of evil. Nay, I'll quell my rage, an' go. Butter won't melt in my gab. Cover the zit in gauze and brush off the ants, I'm leaving to put a dent in a demon. Near her door there's a doo of peace, but my id says no: the time of deliverance is nigh.


This is what happens if you play a game of scrabble, write down all the words played in order, then make a story out of them. You have to use them in the order played, and you can use little connectives aswell. It's funny how connections appear. This is a game from last summer between me, my grandma and my mum. I rediscovered the story today.

Sauron's eye

Phoebe working on Sauron's Eye, the lightbox we built this weekend. Well, not really built. it's a wine box from Majestic with a striplight in and an underbed storage box lid balanced on top. Total cost 7.99. We have been working on Sauron's Eye for ten hours today, we have done four seconds worth of drawings. It has been fun acting out the parts. I had a leaping owl and Phoebe had a struggling rabbit.

Final Faces

'character research' for final project, or a happy afternoon drawing faces, whichever.

Me and Phoebe are doing our final project of Year1 together, it is to be an animation, and that is all I will divulge at present, but there is a grand plan, oh yes.

Alice in Wonderland

This is my cover design for the Puffin Children's books competition. This year's brief is Alice in Wonderland and my ideas about Alice came from the logic of the storyline rather than characters. Lewis Carroll was a conservative Victorian mathematician who distrusted contemporary algebra, according to New Scientist. Imaginary numbers were discovered around the time he wrote Alice, and numbers that can be two things at once, which is echoed in the bit where Alice is told 'You mean what you say is not the same is you say what you mean'.

Expression of maths and logic led to drawings of geometry, and thinking about Wonderland, the phsyics and laws of such a place - I see it as an otherworldy place of strange characters and shapes, a bit like Antarctica. Influenced by Herzog.

There are more illustrations I have not scanned which may eventually follow, I prefer them to the cover anyway.

Berlin

The week before last I went to Berlin on a graphics and illustration trip. It was amazing, we visited brilliant illustrators and designers who said mostly good things, we saw bears, we went swing dancing at a gypsy ballroom, pingponging with dr. pong and up the tv tower with an american called erica. I think I want to move to Berlin.

Here is a drawing of the Reichstag. It's on the back of a very nice big old circus poster I found in the street, the poster is bigger than A1, kind of corrugated plasticy material so you can push ink all over it, it was pleasing to work on. I did feel guilt becuase after I picked it up I realised it had probably been a homeless persons bed, but by this time I had lugged it all the way down the very long Avenue to the Reichstag and I thought I may as well make use of it.

It almost folds down into 8 12" squares.