Thursday, 30 June 2011

Thursday, 23 June 2011

Sketchbook 5: Remote-Controlled Boy

Remote Controlled Boy

A small boy was staring at me intently on the Tube.  I started to draw him, but messed it up a bit and ended up turning him into the puppet of an evil (and tiny) gnome.

Link of the Day: My girlfriend left me...

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Tuesday, 14 June 2011

Dave's Magic Public Sector Pension Shrinking Ray

The Teachers Pension Strikes

Today the ATL and NUT announced teacher strikes over the changes to the Teachers Pension Scheme. Although neither is my union, it's a move I wholeheartedly support.

I'll explain why soon over on my blog, and how the Government have lied and cheated their way through to making unnecessary cuts to a fully-funded pension scheme.

Note I don't just support any old strike that comes along - I was very much not in favour of the last NUT national strike over pay in 2008.

PS. Hello!  I've not been updating over here for a little while.  I intend to correct this.

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Thursday, 26 May 2011

The Boy Gray

It's taken me a while to get around to posting this (sorry, very busy trying to be work-organised), but I recently entered a poetry competition for Jawdance, a spoken word night at Rich Mix in Shoreditch.

Poems had to be inspired by one of these photographs, and uploaded as an audio recording less than a minute long. I managed to win with The Boy Gray, my third poem below, and so got to perform it with the other seven winners at last week's Jawdance event. And forgot the words half way through. But *I* won, so ner.

Here are the poems, anyway:

Follow The White Arrow by evilflea (based on Photo 1)

Don't Step On The Cracks by evilflea (based on Photo 2)

The Boy Gray by evilflea (based on Photo 6)

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Tuesday, 10 May 2011

The Art of Cinema, circa 2011

The Art of Cinema, circa 2011
Hey!  We've made everything look even closer/further away than it's supposed to in real life!

On Friday I went to see Thor.  In 3D.  It wasn't very good.  And I found the 3D distracting.  It just didn't quite ring true.  It wasn't anywhere as near as intrusive as the 3D in the trailer for the new Pirates of the Caribbean movie though, which consisted almost entirely of people pointing various weapons at the audience followed by Captain Jack Sparrow delivering an unfunny one-liner.

Disappointment all round.  Ah well.  Still, both were vastly superior to the 3D in Alice in Wonderland.

Link of the Day: Meet Gordon Chichester

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