Each shell being powered by the waste heat of the next shell down...

I was supposed to be working on updating my Studio Plan document late the other night, drafting my new policies and objectives for 2007. Instead I ended up doodling out this variant of a Matrioshka Brain, rendered in a funky Kirby-esque style. I am unsure where my head was at. It was certainly not on studio objectives anyway. I thought the doodle was neat enough to colourise. Obviously I have been reading waaaaay too many Charlie Stross science fiction novels...

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Glib Analogy

Clients can often mistakenly assume that everyone in the Creative Industries shares a common mindset, but there are many different and individual approaches to creativity.

Busy Benny Blogs, Builds Better Site

Does this man ever sleep at all? In a multi-pronged internet land-grab, my brother Ian is launching a shiny new blog featuring drawings of work-in-progress with notes and commentary. (Check out the sketches that he ‘knocked out while watching the TV’. Presumably he included those to keep the rest of us doodlers in our rightful place.)
He has simultaneously launched a fully-revised edition of his personal site: KKF v2.0. (“Here is a short film that I made.” and “I hope to have this book published soon”, etc.) Although, I do think his site has lost a certain something now that it does not include Elvis shooting into a pile of televisions.
If you still have any browsing time left after crawling that site, then there is always his pseudonymous side-project: ‘Metal Ruins Lives’. And no, before you ask, those are not found album covers. Surprise, surprise, they have all been custom-created for the site. Rock on Benny.
Any rumours that Benny is changing his name to ‘MediaEngineOne Kenny’ are only mildly exaggerated.

So long, gnomic alien geek-boy

This old 30-second doodle (on a Post-It™ note) of some kind of dwarf extraterrestrial munchkin has been a reassuringly familiar totemic presence, adhered (in my direct eye-line) onto the side of my G4 for as many years as that tower has stood beside my monitor. He is going to be retired later on today when I migrate over to my shiny new MacBook Pro laptop. The time has finally come for me to leave the comfortably familiar down-home ambience of Apple System 9 and enter into the gleaming marble-floored atriums of OS-X. So, I have lots of new Mac-skills to learn in the coming weeks, as well as crash-immersion into the latest versions of all the core creative applications. Should keep me out of trouble...

Out with the old then, and in with the new...

Happy New Year to you and yours. Here's to an exciting and invigorating Zero-Six.

Vin De Blog

My bottle of Stormhoek arrived by courier yesterday as part of their
blogger wine freebie promotion. It seems the convention is to post a digital photo of your individual bottle onto your blog as a ‘Thank You’. Being in the office now and not having access to my digital camera (and giving that home-time is now dominated by a certain seven-week-old individual) I have opted for an homage to Hugh MacLeod’s Gapingvoid drawing style instead.

Benjamin and I shall be spending the full day Saturday trying to finish off the work on my back garden. Once that task has been completed we will all then sit out in said garden and enjoy this bottle of vino. Thanks to Hugh and Stormhoek for the wine.
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