| How to Play Sport |
[30 Jun 2009|02:07pm] |
Baseball
Don`t try to hit the ball, let the ball be hit.
Pool
If in doubt, give it a clout.
Cricket
Practice.
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| New Activity |
[29 Jun 2009|09:15am] |
Watch a TV show you watched when you are half as old as you are now.
I`m watching Heimat 2 from 1993. I was 16.
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[06 Jun 2009|02:57pm] |
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Where were you when the internet stopped working?
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| New Idea |
[06 Jun 2009|02:50pm] |
A TV set that only has volume, colour, and contrast control.
You have no choice over the TV station. The only programme transmitted is of someone watching a TV. They have a remote control. The station is transmitted live. You watch what they want to watch.
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| New Idea |
[22 May 2009|12:38pm] |
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The near-future of social networking sites will be spectacles that have cameras in them. A second person at another site with another pair of these specs will be able to switch their glasses to a screen view. The input into each eye will be what the person with the first pair of specs is doing. Perhaps mics and earpieces will be involved. It would be possible when facing another person wearing these glasses to see yourself talking to them whilst they can see themselves talking to you.
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| Floating Fantasy 08 |
[13 Mar 2009|12:05am] |
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1. No characters should be pre-rendered in design before the actual comic is drawn.
2. No panel borders, though objects may be used to delineate areas of the page.
3. No sound effects.
4. No thought balloons, though floating words may be associated with the on-screen character talking at another time or in his/her mind.
5. No motion lines, though the effects of movement or action may be depicted physically, ie the splashing of water or the fragmentation of rock etc.
6. No title pages or author creditation in the main body of the work and no narrative information regarding place, time, or any other voice that comes from an invisible narrator. Therefore, transitions of time and space in the narrative may not be made apparent to the reader through words on the page.
7. No penciling, or no inking if pencils are used. Any medium of linemaking is acceptable however: paint; marker pens, etc. and any page size may be used. Colouring may be added.
8. No pointless cartoon violence, though violence may be used if necessary to propel the plot.
9. No overt autobiograhy.
10. Humanity or human issues should be at the core of the story.
This post is in reference to the Danish Dogme 95 film movement. It`s about the way I make comics these days.
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| Two by Two |
[03 Mar 2009|03:42pm] |
Sometimes two things you get at the same time form a kind of binary star system of experience even if they are quite different.
Leon Sadler`s Life in Magik and Surrender by Force (above left and second from left) are very different but I like to read them at the same time because they arrived in my life simultaneoulsy. It was very powerful and they mean a lot to me in terms of encouragement and feeling less lonely and the awe with which they fill me.
I also relate Moroder`s Cat People soundtrack
with Eno`s album Another Green World
with a time spent in convalescence in my beloved coastal Suffolk. I didn`t have much money so I didn`t buy many new things and I wasn`t downloading either. So each reminds of summer walks on the beach, completely unsure of the future but always happy next to the sea, and are often played together.
Tell me your two things please.
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| New Idea |
[02 Mar 2009|02:18pm] |
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Someone takes some photos of an empty exhibition space and has an exhibition in that space displaying those photos.
Another person attends the opening and takes photos of everyone hanging around in front of the photos.
That person has an exhibition exhibiting the photos they took.
A third person takes photos at the opening and uses them as the basis of their own exhibition.
A fourth person takes photos at the opening.
It continues. Old Idea.
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| Friday the 13th |
[13 Feb 2009|12:15pm] |
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A black cat walked across my path but it only had three legs.
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[05 Feb 2009|10:29am] |
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I don`t know what to do about the internet.
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| Books of the year |
[03 Feb 2009|11:23pm] |
I lost interest in this post, if you come round my house I`ll show you in person.
I might make another journal soon which just has info on books and videos of things I Iike.
Might.
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| You`re Dead |
[28 Jan 2009|10:37am] |
I did just remove a lot of people from my Facebook friends. I wasn`t sure it was a good idea.
Social networking sites bring a new type of global existence into play, where people no longer fade away from your life but remain exposed but rarely communicated with, and showing home, family, and friends, beyond the point at which your circumstantial and sometimes temporary friendships have naturally ended. It is also for romantic reasons of memory that I have removed some folks, to keep their existence tied to that one time or place where we crossed paths, and to stop photos and information from decades ahead clouding that memory.
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| Resolutions |
[02 Jan 2009|05:10pm] |
I`ll try to avoid the usual vague `be a better person` somehow kind of promise which I usually lose sight of pretty quick and keep it more practical. An ex gave me this advice and it was good advice.
apart from `make more art` which never changes from one year to the next:
1.stop using exclamation marks.
2.stop sending the kind of emails where I get anxious waiting for the reply.
Adendum
3.get into bed by midnight except if making art.
4.only masturbate every three days.
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[15 Dec 2008|09:55am] |
I assume the future is at least different from the present, right?
Tom Spurgeon from The Comics Reporter
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| Have At Him |
[15 Nov 2008|09:49pm] |
I changed my flickr icon from a portrait an ex-lover drew of me back to what it was originally. I had changed the name to `Jon in Nakano`
which I thought was more modest than the original `Mr Boobytrap`
which I used because I was previously part of a group who all used funny names. One of the others had mentioned me as Mr Boobytrap in a comment on a post somewhere on the internet that`s now gone away. Boobytrap is a comic I did a lot of years ago and which is what I was best known for for a while and sometimes it still gets mentioned. So I used the name Mr Boobytrap when I had to come up with usernames for a while. The picture is now of me in a hat with the face blacked out and red Ring-Wraith style eyes drawn in on Photoshop. It`s kind of immodest. I don`t know why I felt to go back to it again today. It annoys me when people change their avatar or username. Maybe that`s something to do with it? I might change it again tonight.
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| New Idea |
[23 Oct 2008|12:02am] |
Remake sci-fi made in the past that was set in the modern day.
This year: Isaac Asimov`s １９５５ short story Franchise takes place in 2008, the premise being that the U.S. president will be selected by a computer program looking for the "most representative citizen".
Also, Silent Running （１９７１）。.
Next year: Freejack （１９９２）。
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| How to watch books |
[23 Aug 2008|01:05am] |
Sartorius - Christopher Lee
Gibarian - Peter Cushing
Kelvin - Ralph Bates (Dear John)
Reya - Britt Ekland
Snow -- Wilfrid Brambell (Steptoe Senior)
Moddard - Michael Ripper
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