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if youve got 3d specs that makes it even more wweirdly


check out scribblertoo

dan showed me this earlier and it s fucking incredible i love it.
its like the easiest and most bizarre drawing tool ive ever used.
it makes everything look awesome.
get involved and have a play y'all
it also has full save and over drawing fun to play with
do it now
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save 6 music

so i n my sleep addled state this morning i had an idea. It was an idea to save 6 music. you d have to be blind, deaf and have no internet connection not to have heard about the proposed closure of 6 music.

So whilst trying to drag my corpse from bed i had an idea. If i had the money i'd by six music outright from the BBC. Granted i don't have the money but for those who do, now is the time.
Have you ever seen a radio station with so much publicity? The bbc never gave 6 music this much oush but at the moment the name of 6 music is everywhere. Famous twitter feeds (like phill jupitus), to mainstream news, social media and more. If that hasn't boosted listening figures, I don't know what could.

The second benefit for this would be the PR for which ever rich lucky bugger could afford to buy 6 music. They would be seen as the saviour of independent music, the protector of what the bbc should be saving. Whether this be for one-upmanship, taxable deductions, or simply instead of their advertising budget on other projects, they should do it.

So come on Sir Richard Branson, give it a go.

anyway
just an idea but had to chip in my two pennys worth


get your voice

live stream from multiple source experiment

just to explain I came up with an awesome idea earlier about using multiple mobile streams, this is just a first phase test, and the reason that both boxes are dead is that neither of the phones are live streaming at this second. hopefully you ll see an output here soon
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my week of mouspaths

i'm going to keep recording these everyday and see what i can do with them. click here for the big animated one. generated by mousepath.jar by anatoly zenkov
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Verbatim monster

how cool is this. the most boring subject and one of the most fun sites of the year

check it out

new illustration for beebzteez

new mailer illustration for beebzteez to go out promoting their donkies tshirt
same deal as the last two.

oh and for those like me who didn't get the reference a donkey is a crap poker player that other more experienced players take to the cleaners (can you see the reference coming) or eat for breakfast.

location alarm / iM DRUNK AND WANT TO GET HOME

FLASH DEMO CLICK HERE CLICK HERE CLICK HERE FOR THE LOVE OF SOMEONE ELSE"S GOD CLICK HERE






so i ve debated putting this up for a long time, because before i was worried about someone making my idea and making their fortune, now i m just worried about this never being made.

This idea came to me after talking to my flat mate after he fell asleep on the bus and missed his stop for about the forth time in as many weeks. The concept is that your set this app/web page running on your smartphone (works best on non iphones as they allow background processing) you set a location on a google maps like map and when you get within a pre programmed distance of that place (be it your house, nearest pub, kebab shop, bus stop or whatever) your phone sets of an alarm. simple concept and there are other apps that do similar things, but at last check and on project commencement none designed for your London drunk taking a bus home.

the app is in alpha stage and the design was knocked up to explain the concept. cash made me the lovely flash test and the partner in crime mason thought up the actual technical workings.

if i can mobilize 2 grand it ll get made but chance is a fine thing.
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pixel masters

Following a conversation with rakesh the other day about the concept of a pixel in the real world (hopefully new work on that theme coming soon) i remembered that i d done a couple of investigations into classic masters paintings and trying to reduce them to the fewest number of pixels possible whilst maintaining their iconic look and leaving them recognisable.

one day when i have some money i d like to frame them all at their relevant size and have set them all on one wall with an indesign links pallete with all the links brokens as an inside joke that no sane person would get or care about.

last fm output / spotify mash-up

heres the skin i made to be used by digitas london to put on their website using andy's technology (website concept went off in a different direction) which in is andy's own words;


"Version: 0.2 (alpha)
Author: Andrew Mason
Introduction

This jQuery plug-in uses Last.fm and lastfm-api-ext.appspot.com to retrieve a user’s music history and display it on a webpage or blog.
Features

* Pull real-time data from last.fm
* Fully customisable via CSS
* Open artist, album or track in Spotify via the music note link
* Show Recent tracks, top artists/albums/tracks

Coming soon

* Build and customise your own
* Embed in your own webpage/blog
* iGoogle & netvibes widget"


check it out here

pantytone generator screens

based on a pantone book from HGV that will my flatmate got when the studio relocated to Thailand. I wanted to archive the book on the internet as it was a beautiful piece of design history that computer technology has almost made redundant. However chatting to my partner in crime Andy he showed me how you could automate server processes to recreate the same steps automatically, meaning that people could actually create a page of separations with their own image, making a more desirable tool, that is actually useful and not just an archive.

The idea is that you when you come to the page, you:
pick your colour (which live changes the colour of the entire sites text and buttons)
upload your image
then output a page of the seperations that use the uploaded image: monotone in the colour you picked with the colour in 10% tint increments & duotone with black increasing in 10% tint increments. (see the image 2 for better explanation)
the user can then capture the entire page or choose a new colour.

well thats the idea anyway. I ve now finished the design of the two pages in snatched mornings before work and in the hours on the weekend i have spare. Andy has created a proof of concept located here. hopefully soon we'll get the time to hook the whole thing up. watch this space.

pantytone generator project progress

a first look screenshot of the project i ve been working on for too long to digitize and improve a pantone book from the 80's designs are done and the first page is sliced with pngs in the relevant place so that the chosen colour will change bits of the page automatically. still so much to do and so much help needed from the mason to pull in the server stuff but progress at least my friends
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my desk

this is a diagram of my desk. i did this for my mam
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another blast from the past

found this in a pile of my old books at my parent's house. written by the amazing tony robinson and illustrated by paul cemmick it s a comic version of the tv show maid marian and her merry men that i remember being the only live action kid thing as a kid i really liked that wasn't of film quality. also had danny john jules in it who rocks. also i adore the pooh mick take frame
another gem that probably made me who i am today.
i think this will either have come from my mam or aunty sharon who worked at the beeb at that point so thank you hugely to them
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beta site tester thingee

i ve made quite a lot of progress on this and wanted to get some progress started. i ve only populated it with a couple of projects but here at least is the start. woop woop

here it is the Bad Company comic that started it all for me

I ve been wanting to do this for ages and here it is:
the small version (15mb)
the medium version (39.7mb)
the larger version (125mb) (this is still only 150 dpi)

"All rights are still very much reserved by 2000AD and it s publishers and by the amazing team of Brett Ewins, Jim McCarthy, Pete Milligan and Tom Frame.

I was given this comic about 15 years ago by a cousin of my mam’s. It is point dot I feel in the graphic world I have come to love. I drew pictures and things before this but this was the point that set the fuse burning in my head. I appreciate it’s not in anyone else’s view the best comic of all time but for me it is. I’ve looked at it a thousand times and always found something new I love.

Probably because of this it’s falling apart. It’s yellowed and stained, loved and abused. This is why I felt I had to archive it and put it in this for anyone to see. Not to take money from it’s intellectual owner’s but because it’s means so much to me I want to share it with anyone and everyone.

So that’s it, my little love that is a very battered copy of the best of 2000AD from March 1994.
I hope you enjoy it one thousandth as much as I do"

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coming soon to a blog near you.

this is the first of many things that i ve been meaning to do forever and my life has got in the way. but coming soon the whole bad company ii that inspired me so much and i ve been carrying around loving since i was given it by a cousin of my mam in about 95

evil brain sucking octopus/squid hat concept

i drew this and after dodling squid head boy for years i know find that some people are already making amazing squid hats like this lady
so i ve carried on with mine just because that ladies whilst awesome are not evil brain sucking octopus/squid.
now i just have to work out how to make the fucking thing.
hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
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dhrubo using my drawings to shock children

when others use perfectly innocent drawings for evil. Dhrubo thought it would be a good idea to post this on a page seen by all age ranges.
all the fun
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playing in prezi

just been playing in prezi for work and made a little test. The site is well easy to use so get your heiny down there and check it out. basic use is free

flavors.me

check this sheet out. saw this on hrrthrr's blog and it looks fancy and lovely and a way to build a site that does involve me returning to a prehensile state and sobbing in a corner whilst my computer gloats. sign up and get an invite and get to play with the beta version it looks good check out their user gallery for the best bits. here's mine