a very interesting data driven documentary on the human cost of wars, world war 2 particularly, by Neil Hallron. his interactive stuff at http://www.fallen.io/ww2/ is very clever too.
life size R2D2
dropped off at the Scottish Design Exchange
old sketches on new studio walls
the vamp, herself, Viki Sellotape
cartoon plane that actually flies
check this lovely cute plane straight out of a Moebius cartoon – and it flies!
The Stipa-Caproni was an experimental Italian aircraft designed in 1932 by Luigi Stipa (1900–1992) and built by Caproni. It featured a hollow, barrel-shaped fuselage with the engine and propeller completely enclosed by the fuselage—in essence, the whole fuselage was a single ducted fan. Although the Regia Aeronautica (Italian Royal Air Force) was not interested in pursuing development of the Stipa-Caproni, its design was an important step in the development of jet propulsion.
work in progress
with only 2 days to finish the thing, the background stencil is done, and looks OK. in the middle of re-doing one eye so hopefully will hit the deadline – still a little wet.
image is of my mommy when she was younger and lived in Saudi, which was taken from an old skool black and white passport photo (which I can’t seem to find now).
it is crazy the volume, or glut, of photos we all produce now compared to our parents generation. I can hardly find any photos of me growing up but my daughter – I could create a stop motion movie of her entire life so far. The sharing, but not so caring, generation.
the last bookshop
a poignant little movie confirming the importance of “story” in our mad dash to automate and computerize everything we loose something wonderful, bookshops.
yum yum face mites
woke up to these guys this morning – as I do every morning and so do you it seems. got a subject for this afternoon drawing at least.
http://www.wired.com/2015/12/your-face-is-covered-in-mites-with-secrets-to-tell/
topped 1,000 posts
who would have thought I could churn that much crap out – more to come 😉
chatting with Barbie
well that was an enjoyable afternoon learning about all the gaping security flaws we are ignoring in the rush to get everything “connected”. hats off to Bill Buchanan and team for an entertaining display of gadgets, ideas and the very obvious risks associated. @TheCyberAcademy
“Using WiFi and speech recognition technology, Hello Barbie™ doll can interact uniquely with each child by holding conversations, playing games, sharing stories and even telling jokes!”
Looks like, after ditching Ken, Barbie has become a little promiscuous with her friends, and you know what they say “it was her friends leading her astray” http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/nov/26/hackers-can-hijack-wi-fi-hello-barbie-to-spy-on-your-children
christmas lecture
off to get some education during this season of consumption.
Shiel Yule 