Here’s the last live action movie I made. This was a blast to make and everybody was fun to work with, yes even you Erin McKenzie!!! 
You can check out the rest of my stuff on youtube here.
Jan
27
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Jan
16
Yeah, Twitter, I’ve heard about it but never knew exactly what it was. Well, now I know and I think I’m addicted! Today I created my own little background for it as a laugh. Anyways, it’s quite interesting that I can throw this stuff out there on to the interwebs for people to read, possibly, although I must say I don’t think I’ll be typing into every last detail!
LOOK OUT!!!
Oh yeah, my Twitter account. http://twitter.com/yetixx
Jan
13
Not a design post as such, which I’ve been incredibly crap at recently and promise to up my game, but I thought I’d throw a little shout out to a rather nice little music blog out there called adrift on deep water. It’s ran by a good friend of mine called Gearóid who is a massive music fan. What’s really good about his blog is the fact he finds all these strange and wonderful bands I would never normally hear, some I like, some I don’t, like all muisc really, and it allows me to “discover” them. There’s plenty of samples on there for you to have a listen to and find what you like and what you don’t, it’s all very eclectic. Oh yeah, he also types stuff on it too (who would’ve thought!!) which is usually very cool stuff about music and sometimes other stuff.
Anyway, check it out, it’s a jolly good blog!
May
14
In specialised communication I am currently designer about 10 A3 concept boards for our Oamaru Penguin Colony project. Today I got a little bored so I decided to create a new one. I’m a firm believer in children learning of the harsh realities of life and one of the things missin from the Oamaru Penguin project is DEATH. Enter Little Blue to teach young uns about the end of life. Of course I’m noit a completely uncaring kind of guy and realise that shown too harshly it could damage yound children.
I’m think I’ve managed to get the balance between reality, education and fun just right 
May
11
So, the Diesel wall competition is well and truly under way now with one of the four walls closed for entrieswith another (New York) to end tomorrow. My design is for Manchester which closes on the 18th I believe. My design went through quite a bit of an evolution, not in its theme, but in style. I initally wanted to do a high contrast black and white piece about urban renewal. Originally haling from the north of England this is something I have seen happen around me over the last several years of my life there (I left Blighty for NZ 2.5 years ago). I’m old enough to rememeber the IRA bomb that destroyed a substantial part of Manchesters city centre, so with this in mind along with the amazing leaps forward in urban renewal/regeneration this was something I felt is close to my heart.
The idea was of a character fighting his way out of relics from the past whilst also trying to avoid been swept away by a wave which is trying to envelope him. Above is a mock up of the initial sketch in situ whilst below is a larger version.
Although I stayed with the concept the design changed to more of a metaphor whilst using a more simplified and clearer image to understand. The little guy now has fought his way out from the demons (relics of the past) and emerged from the tidal wave, almost in a born again style statement, in the distance can be seen green hills and blue sky, symbolising a brighter future. The guy, however has a worried look on his face which is to show he is afraid of the mistakes of the past and doesn’t want to repeat them. Here is the finished piece which I have submitted to Diesel.
I am happy with the image and really enjoyed researching and creating this image. Hopefully something good will come out of it, if not never mind
Apr
24
Haha!!! I’m trying to improve my web presence so I’ve brought my old Bebo page out of retirement. There’s not much there at the moment but if you add me I promise I’ll sort it out!! LOL
Apr
24
It’s happening everywhere, the old demons are been overthrown as we speak. Layers of history are been peeled back and discarded, their crimes rubbed out and the scars covered up. Monoliths of chrome, metal and concrete replacing the decaying monsters of an era best forgotten.
Oh how we embrace our new overlords of modernity and minimalism, their lines leading our eyes and feet from basement to spire. The creators of the old demons themselves replaced older demons. It stops here, we are gods, not demons and shall not embrace their crimes again?
Apr
23
Recently I had to create a single image that represented myself. I searched through all my old works but nothing I had, I felt, actually represented myself in my current creative state. I left that job for another day and went about my daily business of design. Fast forward a few days and I’m doing research on designers/groups that influence me. One of those groups is RINZEN who are an amazing design group based out of Australia. Their work is phenomenal and strikes a chord with my own work. Whilst researching them I came across a cover for XLR8R magazine with an amazing cover on it. 
As you can see it’s a pretty amazing cover and felt this would be an excellent choice for my image to represent me. I was going to use the original image for several days when I thought, what if I actually do an interpretation of it myself. After all, my style is not too different and I really wanted to add a personal touch. So I did my own version of it, using my face as a the base.
At the time I was happy with the piece, but now after the presentation and a week later I’m not so keen on it. Did I copy? Did I steal? All I know is that I did reference, but does that make it OK? I’m honestly not sure. I think I’m just going to throw this into the experience file and not bring it back out.
I suppose the biggest question I have is, how can anyone be happy with their work if the steal or copy? I know I’m not happy with this piece and I don’t consider it copied or stolen, it merely references. Heavily.
Apr
22
Today’s video games are great. There’s no two ways about it, old games were good (a few were the best ever apparently;P), but lets be honest, half the time they were utter garbage that had no redeeming features what so ever. Today it’s different. A garbage game is hard to spot under all its fancy graphics and slick presentation (DOAX 2, I’m looking at you!).
Covers are often boring, pre-rendered and devoid of any personality (this of course is a huge generalisation, but it’s my blog so I can do that). Ahh, how I long for the days of the Atari 2600 where the covers were often the best thing. How the tears stung my cheeks when games never lived upto the promise these mini Da Vinci’s promised. Mighty God King have a great parody (that is barely a parody at all) of these awesome covers of ye olde times! Here’s my fave…
