The brilliant movie graphics site Film The Blanks has been going from strength to strength the last few months. Competition is raging as to who’s the top movie poster buff. But you’ll have to be extremely quick off the mark. I’ve never managed to get any points! The best thing is that John’s set up a tshirt shop, so now not only can we enjoy them as screen prints but wear them too. Awesome! Visit the tshirt shop here or find out more info on the design and printing here. I love the Life of Brian one below.

From classic family portrait shots to action re-enactments, Mike Stimpson has created some bold and stylish shots of these iconic Star Wars figures. Visit his flickr to view the full set. Several of these shots are available to buy at RedBubble. My favourite is the Chewey Big Foot shot. Those trees take me back!

Caveman Rides Trunki-Mamouth!

Cookie and I have been busy working on a little project for the Bristol Design Festival, Pimp My Trunki! If you’ve not heard of Trunki, it’s a much loved kids-ride-on-suitcase designed by Cookie’s college buddy Rob Law. ( Documentary about Rob here ) Kids go mental for them.

A set of Trunki’s were mailed out to prospective, product designers, artists, and wild cards for pimping. Fascinated to see what’s been done to the others ( i’ll post pics if i can wangle any ).

We’ve been sewing, stuffing, and weaving wig like no-bodies business! I was in charge of Caveman Construction, and Cookie of Mammoth Management. ( Although i helped with the stuffing and eyes ;) ). Mammoth is made from a bath matt bought from Ridley Road Market in Dalston - plus a couple of buttons. And Caveman Rider is comprised of a pair of American Apparel socks, some goofy tooth shaped felt, a bit of fake zebra skin i had laying about ( as you do ) … and finally, the pièce de résistance - the hair piece. Took me flippin’ hours to cover over his bald patch!

Cave-fella and his hairy elephant-like mate fold down and pack inside for handy carrying….. Does anyone else think he looks a bit like Tina Turner ?

German digital artist and tinkerer Quasimondo has been noodling with the idea of encoding images within a single tweet. The results above show how the image is geometrically reconstructed. It looks abstracted but you can see that the idea could be pretty interesting!

“Preliminary result of a little competition with the goal to write an image encoder/decoder that allows to send an image in a tweet. The image on the left is what I currently manage to send in 140 characters via twitter.”

I’ve not tested it but, apparently this is the tweet for the image:
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( Update: Didn’t work for me but let me know if it does for you. I may be missing something )

You can read a full rundown of his ideas and coding methodology on his flickr. You can see more of his Algorithmically Generated imagery here.

Eye think it’s quarter past three! ;)

Love this abstracted way of telling the time. Now this would make a great stop frame animation if you placed it by the window and shot the shadows passing ( and the eyes boggling ). This fantastic Eyeball Clock is by Mike Mak. Via Design You Trust

I think he might be reading my mind….. It’s those terrifying eyes. And the sinister way he’s reaching out to shake your hand, while thinking about how good you’re going to taste with a bit of piri-piri marinade, and pineapple. Creepy… Find out more about Marcel Dzama’s work .

Meanwhile, on Heidi Slimane’s fashion diary…

Does what is says on the tin.

Commando Group’s brilliant cut-out rock monsters. Really nice technique of using part of the photo texture as a fill. Their surfaces strange and reflective - Predator-like. Although the top one, he looks a little sad shedding his waterfall tears.

Original photography by Damian Heinisch.

The colours in this are absolutely amazing.  I love it. It’s hard to tell from a low res version like this how much of it is photography or even if it might be completely painted. ( Maybe it’s a photo of a painting? ) Either way this and the rest of the series of Mark’s work are gorgeous. Definitely one for the wall. Would look good above a roaring fire wouldn’t it? Appreciate it at a larger size and see the rest of the set here.

This is pretty impressive!

“No effects or sampling was used. What you see is what you hear (does that even make sense?) Atari 800XL was used for the lead piano/organ sound, Texas Instruments TI-99/4a as lead guitar, 8 Inch Floppy Disk as Bass, 3.5 inch Harddrive as the gong, HP ScanJet 3C was used for all vocals. Please note I had to record the HP scanner 4 separate times for each voice.” Piece by bd594. Source code, demo, and info on how to create something similar here :)

3D Crochet tree and clouds. Love this. Looks a pretty technical form to make though. A giant one of these to pin things on would look good in my lounge ;) The plant that never needs watering. Klas also has some great illustrations that are worth a look. Similar curved stylised feel.

I had to look at a couple of these before i realised what was going on. And then when i did, i realised there was a genius at work.

When Cookie clapped eyes on them he said … “ If spammers hired people to make their spam look like that. Then i’d quite happily subscribe to it! ”. Do you hear that spammers? It’s not the content we object to, it’s the graphic design :) I’m pretty sure that this is the only spam on planet earth that you wouldn’t mind having framed on your wall. ( And if you’ve got any other kind of spam framed up - then you’re probably not right. Get your dirty mits off my pages! )  The artworks are hand painted by Linze - see even more here, and her behance portfolio here, and her website filled with even more here! And if you still want more you can Buy the Prints Here ( and them hang them on your wall ) ;)

John’s been into movies for as long as i can remember. He has an amazing memory for the details - an almost Stephen-Fry-like encyclopedic brain but for movies especially ( as long as they’re decent ones! ). I’ve seen these beautiful images floating about the web for a while now and i had no idea that he was behind them until he dropped me a mail - doh! His adapted and abstracted classic movie posters will be available soon to buy as hand screen prints, with a very special limited edition range up-for-grabs only to the most cunning of movie buffs. You can win one by guessing correctly the movies being depicted and getting up there with the high scorers. Think you know your stuff ? Have a go over at his site Film The Blanks. The cryptic and graphic clues aren’t easy! But lots of fun google detecting. Nice work Mr.T!

Each crayon is hand cast and slotted into place. Part painting, part sculpture these pieces by Christian Faur can be admired for their indivual parts close up or for the emerging image as you stand back. I really like the side angle view. I think if i owned one i wouldn’t be able to resist the temptation of rubbing a huge sheet of paper over it though! The close-up detail of this reminds me of the Boex twin’s Pencil Bench. Very tactile. Be great to see games characters done like this. Via Gizmodo.

The colours on this are gorgeous. Very subtle. I’ve been meaning to post it for a while, and now i can’t remember where i found it! If you spot it somewhere let me know so i can credit the artist - ta : ) I wonder what he’s doing out of the water, that deflated octopus…