Photos from a week away to Hebron, Pembrokeshire a few weeks ago.
November 29th, 2011
Eeerz Invasion Tour London
Working for a games company usually means, well, I work with video games. But occasionally we get to try our hand at something new. Last week I was promoting some vinyl art toys called ‘DIY Eeerz’. These toys are modeled on the crazy characters, the Rabbids, and are designed to be customised. To promote the launch we paired up with Forbidden Planet in London and a bunch of amazing artists to showcase some truly fantastic customs.
Since painting and drawing is a hobby of mine, I was especially interested to take part in the drawing workshops with the artists and take a look at how they have changed their Eeerz into something of their own. I’ve got my own Eeerz model sat on my desk, but I plan to do a time-lapse video the painting process in the next few weeks.
Photos from the event are below, many I took for work – hence the logos, but there are a few extras thrown in! You can use the image browser to see the full photoset and scroll down to see my favourites and my comments.
*spoilers* my favourite are the Bucky O’Fake-Hare, the MANIAC Eeerz and Felt Mistress’ tribal mask *spoilers*
Me and @monobrowser looking rather proud of our artistic contributions
Yes. That is my Skyrim character. DON’T JUDGE ME!
@Fantaman posing next to a drawing I made of his alter-ego “Mr Cool”.
We found the very talented Gagaman doodling up some Rabbids.
Oh and I totally nabbed some of Gagaman’s doodles for my desk at work.
September 22nd, 2011
Derp-fly
It’s autumn so the the light from my living room is attracting visitors much faster than the last few months, most of which have been craneflies this week. SO many in fact, that I decided to photograph one.
This is a Tipula Paludosa, it’s the most common of the uK crane-flies. Most people refer to them as Daddy-long-legs although @cliffwaz206 and I have named them ‘Derp-flies‘, since their flight is so clumsy and their legs seem to flail about as they navigate my living space and bump into my TV while I’m trying to play games.
Photo taken with my HTC Desire.
August 7th, 2011
Foot tattoos
Alice began the foot tattoos she designed for me today. The tattoo on my left foot is finished, although due to a lot of twitching and tiredness, the right just needs the shading.
Feet really are a sore spot to get tattooed, I can attest to that. The dots made me involuntarily twitch a lot, it was a bit embarrassing. Currently they’re wrapped up in cling film and a tad swollen, so I’ve put my feet up and Chris has given me a lovely cup of tea.
I’m hoping to get the right foot finished in September.
August 6th, 2011
A Ruby Tiger
This beautiful Ruby Tiger moth (Phragmatobia fuliginosa) flew into my living room this evening so I snapped a few photos before releasing it outside. I didn’t manage to get any clear images of the markings that give this moth the “ruby” in it’s common name, but there’s an exceptionally blurred image taken when it was flying.
July 18th, 2011
Body Suspension Experience
Suspension has been on my to-do list for some time now. It’s fascinated me since the first time I saw a photo of it on BMEzine a long time ago. Today was the second time I have joined Constant Elevation for one of their suspension events. Only today I took part!
I would write a detailed experience, but I’m still buzzing and I think pictures speak louder than words for this one. The photos contain mild violence and blood.
If you have any questions about any part of my experience please leave a message in the comment section below!
A video of the whole suspension can be found here!
Getting measured up for the hooks, I had six in total.
The piercing. This was pretty painful, but was over very quickly. Most of the photos make me look like I’m planking which is rather amusing.
More images can be found under the cut…
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June 23rd, 2011
Google reverse image search surprises
Today I was alerted to some new Google image search functionality by Myrmecos. The new feature allows you to drag and drop images or use URLs of existing images to find where the image has been published online, or images that are similar to it.
For some photographers and artists, this feature means they can track where they have been unaccredited for their work or any unauthorized use of their images. For me, I was mostly interested to see where some of my more “interesting” photos have appeared.
Last summer I was awarded a Daily Deviation on deviantArt for one of my scarification photos. Not long after I was bombarded with random people wanting to get to know me, people insulting my decision to get a scarification and of course a couple of crazies who wanted to get attention from me, be my best friend or just have sex with me. Because of the unwanted attention – all I wanted to do was share and look at art, not be stalked by emo teenage boys – I deleted my deviantArt account.
By the time I had deleted my account, the image had pretty much done the rounds on tumblr and various forums. I tried using TinEye to track where it had gone, but let’s face it, TinEye is pretty shitty. So when I found out about google reverse image search today I was straight on it. Most of my images had appeared on forums, tumblr pages and the odd blogspot but here are a few treasures I found along the way…
Click the images to go to the websites
I found this blog post with some photos taken during my scarification that I hadn’t seen! Clearly they had been published on BMEzine, but this is the first time I’d seen them. Please excuse the little panties ;)
This one managed to annoy me. Using a photo from my scarification to promote tattoo removal. WHO THE HELL WOULD HAVE A TATTOO REMOVED LIKE THAT? This is a ridiculous website.
And finally, to distract from the gorey scarification photos, I found my Katamari painting on a rather cute Tumblr page.