Here is some recent work I did for Coney, who are a company that make adventure and play and happenings happen – mixing storytelling, digital and the lovely old real world. This work was for a project project called Mr Eks’ Camden Players for Camden City Council, it’s an online fortune teller / events listing site that asks you a series of questions then determines where and what you should be doing in Camden for the month of July. Magic.
HELL YEAH! Woop Woop! Etcetera.
Details:
I have been awarded a project grant by the good people at Grafill to make an interactive music video and am looking for a programmer/coder/scripter to work with. We will make a dedicated site as the video itself, although what we develop depends on two things:
1 – The Idea.
2 – The programmers forte (Action Script, JavaScript, HTML 5, Processing, Canvas… other things the world has never heard of).
This is a bit of a chicken and egg situation as the idea cannot be conceived without knowing what it’s going to be built in and I can’t know what it’s going to be built in until I find my code partner. Anyhow, no-one ever said this was going to be easy and if I don’t find my wizard I can always make it in Dreamweaver myself 
It is probably important that you share a similarish taste in music as myself as the work will be for some of the Norwegian “Fjord Disco” musicians I already do cover art for. So if you think that Disco Demolition Night was a high point in American culture then this is probably not the gig for you.
My role will be to do the design and the idea alongside whoever I work with. Hopefully I’ve got the chops for this, with Webby, FWA, BIMA, D&AD, One Show award winning interactive work in my portfolio. Got the same high hopes for this, but none of that will happen without a great person to collaborate with.
All answers on a postcard to me
Please title messages “Yes, I CAN go for that!”
Most of my work is a mash of all different types of techniques including traditional and digital but this time I wanted to just paint the whole thing. The canvas I used is exactly 12 inches and the inner label canvasses are 6 inches. I feel it is not correct to use metric when describing record covers.
It’s for Mungolian Jetset, it’s called Moon Jocks and Prog Rocks, it’s disco, and it’s coming out on Smalltown Supersound soon.
Inevitable work from someone with chronic long term exposure to lolcats, B3TA, Strongbad, MySpace, Rather Good et al. Here are the printed cards of my new ‘Graphic Interchange Format’ paintings. That’s the .gif file extension for all your geekeroonies… and here’s an emoticon for good measure 
Acrylic on canvas – now digital print on card.
Translated as ‘For the children’s best, do you dare to think the worst’, is a campaign created by McCann Norway for the children’s welfare charity Stine Sofies stiftelse.
Aimed at raising public awareness of our responsibility to all children and questioning how we often feel we shouldn’t get involved when we see something amiss with a child’s welfare. The site prompts you to take action in a surprising way.
I worked alongside the team at McCann Norway, Paradox films and Christopher Einarsrud and was responsible for the design and interactive direction of the website.
Norwegian language only – www.forbarnasbeste.no/
Here are a few screenshots:
In May I took part in the first Mill Co. group exhibition held at The Russian Club in East London. The theme of the exhibition was community (as befitting a co-operative) so I made a series of paintings to celebrate the crap, cute and wrong images people share on interwebz communities like MySpace – titled the Graphic Interchange Format Paintings after the humble .gif image format.
Lots of great people took part in the show including Patternity, Si Scott, Richard Kelly, Kevin Cummins, Karina Lax, Lisa Stannard, Inventory and loads of other people too. It was a reet boozy doo, collecting the most women from Rochdale in one East London venue ever.
Creative Review were there, and The Ballad Of too, plus Dazed and Confused and various other other happening people popped in to drink the free booze look at the work.
You can buy the work from the show in the shop and all proceeds go to the Mill Co. Foundation – which is set up to help children with health and learning disabilities get involved in making stuff and being creative.
Here’s my work – The Graphic Interchange Format Paintings – acrylic on canvas, none of your digital shit.
In what teeters between being one of the most self indulgent loads of old crap that has ever gushed from my idiot brain to a masterstoke of highly commercial genre changing childrens writing, I have put pen to paper and started a childrens book.
It’s about my two cats; Chairman Miaow, who is called “The Grand Wizard” in the book and Sooty, who is called “His Very Charming Shadow”. It’s about co-dependence, how one part of someone else makes up the bits you don’t have and vice versa. It’s also about the hidden charms of cats (read people) and how sometimes the people who take the longest to get to know are the people who are really worth getting to know.
It’s also about Britain and the shocking state of the country.
Here is a quick snap of the cover, I will of course be illustrating it myself.
Being from Rochdale co-operation is in my blood, so I joined Mill Community. Set up by Liz Birkbeck and Claire Martin, fellow Rochdalians who have been at large in the world (London & Manchester) being generally entrepreneurial and smart for some time now.
The model is simple – Mill works with the best freelance talent around and brings them together for projects thus keeping everything fresh and particular for whatever is in hand. Doing it this way avoids all the rubbish aspects of a full time employed team sitting around complaining about what they have to work on and getting squeezed into doing stuff not right for them and not right for the client. From my point of view having the high velocity networked powers of Liz and Claire doing the things I suck at means that potentially we are all gonna be happy campers.
Looking forward to future collabs Mill style.
www.millco.co.uk
http://pixeldisco.millco.co.uk/
http://www.creativetimes.co.uk/features/bubble-s-former-md-launches-new-venture
We built Frankenstory earlier this year, it’s an online writing game – you write the first part of a story in 40 words or less and send it on to your friend… the twist is they can only see the last few words you wrote! They write the next part and volley it back to you. End result is a weird and wonderful collaborative story.
So a few months after launch we realized Frankenstory was a hit and we wanted to find a way to showcase some of the stories people were writing. We tried a “Best Stories” list but decided the idea of a “best” or a “worst” story was nonsense, how can one surreal story be better than another? This game is about having fun regardless of how good a writer you are. We ditched the “Best Stories” list and invented the Frankenlab. The Frankenlab is written by the eminent Dr. Emelius Frankenstory, here he dissects the stories which catch his eye and showcases them in the Lab. He gives you advice and inspiration on writing your own story too.
Frankenstory and Frankenlab are bought to you by Mike Stenhouse, Antonio Gould, Nick Lockey and Suzie Webb (that’s me) and are open now for your writing and reading enjoyment.
Here’s the cover art I have done for my new record “Get Mine”. Yes, I have decided to enter the world of Gansta Rap just as the whole sorry affair implodes. I think I will style myself very much on Lil Kim… I have watched Notorious five times now and it looks fairly easy.
Actually this is a much more middle class and mild mannered thing. It’s some identity and styling design I did for a 4iP project that crashed and burned in the financial meltdown, ironically it was about young folks making their own cash on their own terms.
