LEGO Phone Mobile now available to order
You can now order the Phone Mobile from the Design By Me store.
I tried to build the version with claws, but the Digital Designer didn’t have the right components. So I made sure you get this cheeky chap to make up for it.
Be Honourable!
In July I was one of a about six or seven artists approached by Josie Long to create a t-shirt design for her Edinburgh show Be Honourable!. I know she liked it, but like everyone else in the project I haven’t actually heard from her since.
Not to matter. I’m publishing a slightly different version here under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. Go and make a t-shirt for yourself.
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Dedication
Fabulous dedication on page one of Onion Soup by Dan Berry.
Part of my modest haul from Comiket. A pleasure to meet Dan again, at a really great event. He drove his students a heroic distance to be there, but it looks like everyone got quite a kick out of it.
Work
As most of you know, I started working full time for Last.fm about a month ago now, following a little over a month of freelancing. The ad below represents some of the work that straddles that divide, scripted as a freelancer, produced as a staffer.
It’s Last.fm’s first major advertising push, rolled out on the XTP network on the London Underground. I’m really pleased with it. Seeing it in the flesh – and seeing the response to it – was pretty awesome.
Other words by B.S. Johnson
I recently “discovered” Abe Books, which was dangerous. A few clicks later and I managed to fill a few of the holes in my B.S. Johnson collection.
I say a few holes… I’ve now got pretty much everything published by him. And by ordering these I’ve collected some strange version of his final words.
It makes it very difficult to know how or when to start on these three books. By finishing them I somehow close a chapter on Johnson, and for a lot of reasons I don’t want to do that.
Two of these books finish with one particular poem, “Distance Piece”, which as his final printed words are tough to read through.
As Johnson becomes a person I have read I wonder if these words might linger, if that sensation might hang, perhaps in a way I’m sure Johnson would label as “the detritus of the religious feeling”.
Bigger than Jesus
Via Joe List (@mokuroku), whose Annotated Weekender is consistently hilarious.
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Neat little nudge on Russell’s post about Measuring Pebbles and Companion Objects.
Wouldn’t it be good if there was a servo control app for the iPhone and iPad? Where you could tap in some on/offs, forward/backs and control a motor or motors via bluetooth or wifi or the headphone port. Then your iPhone or iPad could drive itself around. And Matt’s Lego iPhone stand could drive up to him and tell him to get typing.
Which of course I read using this
The post-script to making this stand is that I didn’t remember until half an hour later that I’ve actually got a dock for this phone anyway. I got caught up in the creation and customisation of this familiar, and it’s not unrelated to these three pieces of context:
1) The Girl had been away for a few days, and I’d been alone in the flat a lot
2) Before and after a full day at the (new) job I’m still doing freelance projects. The further removed from my laptop these projects are the better for my attention span and my enjoyment
3) I really like playing with Lego
Separating, or at the very least augmenting, a ‘companion’ element from screens feels important, but in quite a natural way.
Basically, why aren’t there things at Maplin’s I can plug this in to yet?
Thought Bubble Minterview
Thought Bubble have returned with their minterviews, leading to some very long sentences on my part. Revelations include my secret comics origin and news about what WAW+P will be bringing to Thought Bubble.
Oh, and sweeping statements like the this;
As creators everyone’s stepping up, supporting others along the way. It’s beautiful. I just want – need – people to do more. Almost any creator moaning about not having a large audience isn’t doing enough to reach one, and I mean that. The UK aren’t ignorant about the medium, they know how to read comics, a lot of them like comics, they just haven’t been given a convincing enough reason to buy them. So go and talk to them.
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