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A Blast From the Past…

You may remember, last year I produced some scientific videos for The Music Room and Tribal Planet testing the Tribal Planet gig bags.  Somehow, however, I uploaded all but the last two to this site and then promptly forgot I’d made them.  Almost a year later, I’m putting together a new portfolio of my digital work and find myself wondering if I can embed YouTube links into Adobe PDFs and I stumble across the two missing videos, so, for your viewing pleasure I present the 45 second web advert for Tribal Planet, and the Tribal Planet Cutting Room special.

News, updates and such…

It’s been a quiet few months lately.  What with the Christmas hangovers and the declining economy I’ve had a little time to do my own work.  The Twisted World of Doctor Wombat is still trundling along, but somewhere between releasing an issue every Tuesday and the current time, it’s mutated into a book which means no more sneaky releases here, or anywhere else for that matter (sorry!).  Volume One is almost halfway done so fingers crossed it might see publication sometime this year.

In the mean time I’ve been painting… paintings that’ve been likened to that of Tim Burton(!!)… if only I had his hair and pay cheque too huh? 

The Boy With A Crab For A Hand

People came from across the land,
To see the boy with a crab for a hand.

The Girl Who Gravity Ignored

The girl, who gravity ignored,
Could seldom be found upon the floor.
The best course of action,
Should you have such a feeling,
Would be to cast your eyes up,
And look on the ceiling.

The Girl Who Gravity Ignored 2
They tied her to a weighty ball,
When she went out to play,
Not through spite or malice,
So she wouldn’t float away.
The Thing in the Cellar
We keep him in the cellar,
Out of the way,
Because we’re afraid,
Of what the neighbours would say.
The Ghost of Crazy Legs McGee
Here comes the ghost of Crazy Legs McGee,
He always knows when it’s time for tea.
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The Twisted World of Doctor Wombat

Those of you who have had the (mis)fortune of coming across me in my other interweb guises will have no doubt, at some point, been forced to sit through me talking weird about a webcomic I’ve been threatening to do for some time.  The strip is, in case you didn’t guess from the title of this post is…

The Twisted World of Doctor Wombat

It’s really just a collection of the weird junk that filters through my head some/most of the time.  I’ve published what few Issues I’ve done on both Facebook and DeviantArt (the link for that is over there –>) but after giving it some thought I’ve decided I’m going to publish them here first.

 

I’d like to say I’ll release one every Tuesday but I fear I’m not quite organised to say that and stick to it… after all I still need to write the code (without the use of MYSQL) to handle the issues in a shiny and high tech fashion.  Eyes peeled over the next week or two folks, The Twisted World of Doctor Wombat is coming home.

Moooooooortaaaaaaaal Kumquaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat!

Episode #4 of the Tribal Planet testing series has been (officially) released today and here it is in all it’s silly, silly glory.  I am especially proud of this one, I think they’ve come a long way in the last few weeks.

Fruit salad anyone?

Mucking About on the River

Here’s the third episode of the Tribal Planet tests. This one is presented by me on account of The Doctor being unavailable. Enjoy.

We’ve Got a Crush on You…

Not quite hot on the heels of the last Tribal Planet video I put together, I’ve been allowed to release this new one that was shot this week (the third episode was shot a week before this one - however that works!).  More fun, more mucking about, still no fakery.

Enjoy.

Testing the Best…

I’ve spent the last week or so working on this video which I’ve produced for, variously, for The Music Room, Tribal Planet, Acoustica and the sheer hell of it.  Enjoy.

Icons… Shiny shiny icons…

Icons for The University of Hertfordshire

Nice and shiny icons created for my friend Anna for a web project. I never thought making icons could be so much fun, but when you’re limited in how much space you have, and how often you have to swear at the pen tool for going what can only be described as ’spazzy’ it all suddenly becomes entertainment… and the perfect opportunity to show off. 32 icons, little over an hour. Damn I’m good.

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Website Launch: Shinjig.com

Good news for Huw and the guys from Shinjig — I’ve just finished uploading their website for them and chased down the last bug in the gallery.

Shinjig are the finest ceilidh band to come out of good old Huddersfield, and if you’re after a band with a little something else you would be hard pressed to find anyone better than Shinjig.

Check them out at www.shinjig.com

Release: Photos

I’ve had these photos on hold while the people who I sent them to did whatever they wanted to do with them.  In five days they’ll be a month old so I think it’s fair to release them now to the rest of the world.

They were taken on May 10th, 2008 at the Holmfirth Folk Festival.  I was initially there to photograph the Sheffield Giants but it was such good fun (and I found the pub) that I ended up staying until well after dark and took hundreds of photos which you can see here.