Cups of Tea 1936 - 1939

Ok. So remember when I said that I would be starting a new project today and that there would be some work to show you? Well I lied. It was to be expected really, I'm a terrible person... As much as the previous statement could be mined for its hearty nuggets of truth, an explanation is in order! After a trip into Swansea to tidy up some affairs, buy some coke zero and some more teabags, I didn't actually get home until 6 o'clock. By the time I'd poured a brew, had a bath and scribbled down some ideas for the clothing firm, it was bordering 8pm... Which is now known as 'tidy up time'.

Why and what is being tidied up you ask? Why, my beloved games collection of course! For as those who know me well will more testify, I did go through a phase where I did buy a lot of games... purely because I could, but alas, I was seriously to busy to play them. So I now have around 20 titles that I've barely scratched the surface of, and am faced with the prospect of of moving away / being full time employed and may even sell alot of them. So for the time being, despite the games coming out in September and how much it will break my heart, I am officially on Gaming Lock-down. The Hours of 8 - 11 are no the only computer-able hours of the day as I get ready to throw myself back into serious design as of tomorrow. I finished Mirrors Edge tonight (I got to chapter 8 of 9 and quit it...), so Bioshock 2 will be completed tomorrow hopefully... I'll let you know how I progress.

Now, as I am the aforementioned terrible person, I believe I owe you all something to look at. Well, there is a position I applied for as part of a well known toy company... I don't want to show all of what I designed as part of my portfolio I sent out to them, but maybe one or two of the minifigures... I roll some of the others out in due time :) Obviously, I'll keep you guys updated also on whats happening on that front, as I know...



M x

Cups of Tea 1931 - 1935

It's been a bit of a strange day for me to be honest... Ive mostly been watching sky news and just looking over notes from professional studies / a few random ebooks on selling stuff over the internet, exciting times... not. I promised I'd have design to show, but alas, the day didn't call for it... Instead, I have two absolutely AWESOME websites to share.

The first, indulges my wonderful love of expletives... Oh how I enjoy the odd swear word, peppering my constant chattery with some of the wilder words of the english language is my equivalent to smoking a Cuban cigar or a fine glass of port... I thought I had excelled the use of George Carlin's Seven Words to an art form. However, I was wrong. I have been stripped of my crown by the talent typographer, Theo Olesen. Olsen has a website called Beautiful Swear words, which is very quickly becoming my favourite site on the Internet... The concept is simple. Olsen does a beautiful piece of hand drawn type, vectors it up with some awesome colour choices and then posts one a day. Wonderful, wonderful stuff! Not for the easily offended, but for those who still feel the stinging taboo of the 'big c word' or a sneaky fecal cuss, this is living proof that there can be beauty in bad language.



More of this uber work can be found here!

The second site I want to share is Vi.Sulaize! It's a lot like FFFOUND! and many other websites currently floating around the net, but unlike those websites, it's got a built in Firefox widget (I'd imagine there's Safari / Chrome support too!) that allows you to right-click an image and upload it onto your account... meaning you have an online visual diary for any and all cool shit you find on the web! Means I can now keep my desktop tidy + have one place to look at everything, without having to print off and paste up!



Here's me using it to also show off some beautiful swearwords haha! If you sign up, let me know! I'll friend you on there, or whatever you do along those lines lol...

That's all from me tonight anyways folks! I'm starting a new project tomorrow after I pop off to Swansea tomorrow for lulz... So there will DEFIANTLY be something to show you guys, scouts honor! Well, unless riots consume Swansea City Center while I'm there >.< It'd be just my luck!

M x

Cups of Tea 1772 - 1930

Jesus Christ, I'm sorry people of the world, it's been awhile! A lot has been going on with me in the past few weeks, some of it exciting, some of it just the usual day to day... either I've not been able to post about it (like the freelance I got shafted over -.-) and some of it will be revealed in the next few weeks or so :O Exciting Times! However, what I can confirm is that there will be some very exciting entrepreneurial stuff going down :o Namely some clothing, vinyl toys and a website... OOOOO!

The anticipation aye? I was going to talk about design and what i've been up to, but I'll leave that until tomorrow as this is a bit of a mental day to start reblogging... London currently looks like a war zone, and I'm glad I didn't get the job I applied for that that way, as I'd have been right in the middle of it! Scary bloody times. It's not just London however, it's now in Birmingham. There's even rumors being spread online that the rioting, scratch that straight out Anarchy spreading to other areas...

Scary times... Hopefully I'll wake up tomorrow and there'll still be a capital to wake up to :/ My thoughts go out to anyone in those areas effected... I'm just hoping people in Wales have enough common sense to not try and imitate this shit here >.<

Anyways, I'll be showing some design off tomorrow... until then, just take a look at these two videos. One showing the madness, one showing the anger of the community, both of them show incredibly brave people.


Anger and Bravery

M x