my latest creative nonsense, I present the photoshop swatch art gallery

want to bring a bit of class to your photoshop workspace, want coworkers to thing you're a bit of something classier than what you actually are? Then i give to you my friends the photoshop swatches art gallery. Miniature masterpieces reformatted to fit into your swatches palette so you can hang your favourite artwork on your screen to look at all day whilst retouching, scamping, designing or merely pretending to work.

download the .aco file here, load it into your photoshop swatch pallete using replace, and then drag your palette to the correct width, et voila, swatch buckling awesomeness if i do say so myself.

more coming soon and open to comissions
and yes that blue pixel is supposed to be there (for those who know me too well its C100 M0 Y0 K4, that should explain it)

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p.s obviously all rights still belong to photoshop with regards to my use of their name

portrait videos on vimeo

i saw this portrait video on awesome solitaire
embedded from vimeo and portrait to make a really good screen visualization,
intrigued i made a test and by the looks of it you can pretty much create any aspect ratio of video for vimeo, which is nice to know.
heres my test,


testy testicles from joncg on Vimeo.

hackday 3: The hack fights back or the difficult birth of HoleRunner

This weekend held the third hack day and what will most likely be the last one in the house of mister kufluk. Worked out with  Kenneth Kufluk,and Andrew Mason, the concept sounded simple on the surface of it. We wanted to create an online multiplayer game that had a mechanic dependent on the number of players. It would need to be made in SVGs and in HTML so that in firefox it could be played with extra plug-ins.
How hard can that be I hear you cry, actually If you're keeping up with the talk of html 5 and svg s you ll be one of the few.


So anyway in the pub the night before andy and I cracked the idea of a demolition derby style version of a micro machines style game where you have a surface and each team is struggling to push vehicles from the other team off into space for points. This was promptly sold into Kenneth the next morning at his house. Things we d forgotten but added awesomeness were added and HoleRunner was born.


Over the next 8 hours I got to happily play with vector drawing, which I love, so was in a happy world of my own, while Kenneth and Andy battled against box2d and node to make things happen. I'll leave the explanations of exactly what went on there to them but it seemed hard. Radians and advanced trig and moments and torque forces had to all be worked out, leaving me exceedingly happy I was the pixel monkey on this one.


SO after 8 hours of struggle and trial and tribulations it became clear we were fighting a losing battle. And thus like any mighty army in need of a regroup we went to the pub. We decided to call it a night at about 2 am.
The next morning Andy and kenneth went about coding the mechanics from first principle rather than continue to try to bang their heads against the desk (fair call I say).
SO long story short HoleRunner is still coming soon, we have based mechanics and base graphics and base internet fuynctionality but this one is going to take more time.
However this is kind of what it will look like, (click to make it full screen)

hopefully I'll be posting more about this soon
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ftwinnebago

yet another quick brain fart to keep me entertained. came up with the idea of the ftwinnebago in a brainstorm for a different project and liked it so much that i figured i d make it, now I've started a blog based on it. It is here to satisfy my desire to make bad puns. hopefully like a punsink my work should now be a little freer of such nonsense
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a to z of dead celebs, g is for gainsbourg

g is for gainsbourg,
7 down 19 to go
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f is for fawcett, a to z of dead celebs number 6

f is for fawcett
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the A to Z of dead celebs, E is for Wyatt Earp

e is for wyatt earp
5 down 21 to go,
hopefully f will be done tomorrow
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moretrackslikethis.com continues to spread, now found on feber.se

moretrackslikethis.com continues it's roll to world domination as we've now been featured on the cool swedish blog feber.se I'm still trying to get a translation to find out whether they re actually saying nasty swedish things about us, but still woop woop more coverage.





also the coolness goes on  it was written about by this guy willie wilhemsson (what an awesome name)
so thank you willie for writing about us. Grinning like a loon again now.

RUFTPBIG - random universal fluctuations that people believe is god

I hate the fact when i swear i say god a lot, idont believe in a single god, i m not a christian, I'm agnostic, i find the fact that out of habit i use the word god actually quite embarassing and annoying, so i invented this
Ruftpbig a bit of a mouth full but once you ve got it its very satisfying
give it a whirl
also interested to see how far it ll spread as it still stumps google and gets no results
say it loud say it proud RUFTPBIG
isnt that better

image borrowed from here all rights to them

twitter praise for http://moretrackslikethis.com

look at all the praises we're getting. spotify tweeted about us and over 4000 site views later across 70 countries its still going. SO get involved http://moretrackslikethis.com
and check out the twitter search for yourselves
full write up coming soon

spotify have tweeted about http://moretackslikethis.com

check it out spotify tweeted about our hack day project woop woop

a to z of dead celebs progress so far A,B,C,D

4 down, 22 to go

Hack Day 2: return of the hack: More tracks like this .com spotify recommendation engine

So in the last 24 hours and 24 minutes the feverishly deranged imaginations of one Kenneth Kufluk, one Andrew Mason and myself, created a new engine of terrifyingly awesome proportions. A spotify recommendation engine based upon an individual track rather than spotify's dodgy artist based system (which is all that is out there right now for spotify).

HERE IT IS Y"ALLL

a full blog post will follow, bit too tired right now.

Oh yeah it also contains thousands of simple HTML5 tutorials (incredibly innacurate description)

a to z of dead celebs : D is for Dean

d is for dean, 23 to go

a to z of dead celebs ; c is for john candy

24 to go
i love john candy but every time i got busted by a girlfriend's parents i thought of this moment

NEW PROJECT ALERT: a to z of dead of celebs

so with the demise or hiatus of the end of the world blog, I needed a new project to keep me out of trouble and to keep my vector drawing skills in check.
SO i'm drawing an a to z of dead celebs, not sure what the output of this list will be but here is the test  frame and also the first letter completed b for belushi (also as it's my list of dead celebs i get to choose celebrities i give a damn about and not neccessarily the most famous - on that note watch this space possible spin off projects coming soon)

time for some vector drawing

so it's been fucking ages since i did any vector drawing. also i've never felt comfortable recreating faces, i find it hard and i find it unrewarding and most frustratingly i never get them to look like the people i m recreating. so, because i find it al those things i m going to force myself to do it some and see if i can improve myself
. Can you see who it is?

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something of mine goes live

lookee lookee my 360 icon is on the vauxhall site.
small win but still makes me happy

putting things live

experiments

i drew on a polaroid years ago, always like the way it looks surreal drawing over real world shots. my mam took this picture of a blue bell woods and it just felt right. I know lots of other people have done other things and some very similar, so before you decry plagiarism, I'm not claiming this is my invention, that would be ridiculous, i still like doing it tho, after all these years