So there you go! Yep 2 cards sold today. 2! count ‘em 1 2. / 2 of my awesome / iNinja? cards: ”!http://www.redbubble.com/rbimages/card_pro…
So there you go! Yep 2 cards sold today. 2! count ‘em 1 2. / 2 of my awesome / iNinja? cards: . So what do you say now Miss Melinda Kerr / IF that is your real name? Not so crazy an idea now is it? huh? Yeah! Take that! and that! I will add that Melinda Kerr really is a beautiful person and a knockout chick ;). She just doesn’t yet believe in my ability to rock this planet. / I’m not just any forklift driver from Kuraby, I’m an awesome forklift driver from Kuraby. I suspect it was one of my minions who bought the cards. / I just want to say to that minion that you do not have to buy my love minion. / You can do me favours for it. I also accept barter card.
My chum, and fantastic artist, tambatoys chastised me recently for my blogging tardiness. I blame work, and it’s ability to suck the minu…
My chum, and fantastic artist, tambatoys chastised me recently for my blogging tardiness. I blame work, and it’s ability to suck the minutes from my day! Anyhoo, here’s an entry … The lovely folk at Red Bubble have been gracious enough to feature my “Robot – noir style” in their clothing newsletter thingy… http://www.redbubble.com/people/onetonshadow/journal/178217-stitched-issue-two I love the Bub!
Hiya all. Well I just got married last weekend! Gotta say, the day was wonderful and went off perfectly. Our little girl looked so …
Hiya all. Well I just got married last weekend! Gotta say, the day was wonderful and went off perfectly. Our little girl looked so cute and behaved herself very well for a 2 and a half year old! So I’ve settled back into normal life now and added a couple of new images and tee shirts on the gallery here. I’m starting to get into the whole tee-shirt design thing. They’re fun to do and so far are the only things that sell, lol. I’ve got some great ideas to do several of the same themes, one based on robots and one based on aliens. I’m having fun doing them, so please leave comments and tell me what you all think about them too, Cheers for now Colin
Hi Kids, I like to think I’m a pretty Cluey Chick. Geeky? Yes. Techy? You Bet! / But I need to confess that sometimes I’m a Massive …
Hi Kids, I like to think I’m a pretty Cluey Chick. Geeky? Yes. Techy? You Bet! / But I need to confess that sometimes I’m a Massive Spaz! lol The other day, the great Dendoo posted this gem which i adore so much… but only TODAY did I notice that the title was indeed NOT Sophisticated Girls have Rad Robots! But then I thought, damn it, Sophisticated Girls DO have Rad Robots!!!! So I thought I would take the plunge and finally pull my finger out and draw my fear….... THE thickblackoutline nemesis ...... the Robot!! The features of RadRobot are as long as my arm… there’s the lavalamp style heart, so you know he’s groovy, and the pocket at the front – you always have to put stuff somewhere, right girls? ;) He also cooks, flies, and gets past the hard parts on Halo 2!! I need to thank, as always, the muse-talents of Resisto Mr Robo himself :) encourangingly listening to me over the last year saying how I just didn’t get it. Also the much inspiration of the awesome robot splendor that is Simon Sherry and of course Dendoo for her awesome tshirt. Look out for RadRobot, teaming together with TBO and doing chicks stuff…... or something like that. Much Love and 01001101, /
My Robot Blue got featured as a tshirt. / first ever piece of artwork feature by me (shame it was that, but other wise yay!)...
My Robot Blue got featured as a tshirt. / first ever piece of artwork feature by me (shame it was that, but other wise yay!)...
It’s the age old question… quantity or quality? / In the case of Ross Robinson / !http://imag…
It’s the age old question… quantity or quality? / In the case of Ross Robinson / / what happens if you have both? I had a virtual smorgasbord of designs / to pick from, but this one / / screamed to me with a very simple gag, so let’s get to it! If a robot and a monkey had a child in this day and age, map out that unfortunate love child’s life for us… I actually think a robot/monkey hybrid would be a very lucky child in this day and age. People love robots; people love monkeys, so a combination of the two would be insanely popular. He would be the cool kid in class, the one who always got picked first when choosing teams and the first one to get laid. Later on, he would be the singer/songwriter/lead guitarist in a kickass insanely popular indie band that never loses its credibility despite outselling Mariah Carey and the Beatles combined. After a brief stint as a leading man in many blockbusters and acclaimed arthouse films about gay robot cowboy monkeys, he would turn his talents to politics becoming first the governor of Wyoming and later the first non-American, non-human President of the United States of America (let’s face it, he’s got a better chance of winning than a woman or a black man). In his two, four-year terms he would end war, eradicate poverty, solve the global warming crisis and invent not one, but two new flavours of twinkie. After retiring he would write a series of books so bloody good that James Patterson and Dan Brown would hang themselves to the overwhelming relief of the literary world. What is the best toy ever invented? Mego dolls. (Check out www.megomuseum.com) I had a Batman and Robin from the age of 4 and along with my Six Million Dollar Man were my favourite toys in the world. Unfortunately my mother gave them away when I moved out of home and I have spent quite a bit of money and time replacing them on eBay. Mego were great. They did Superheroes, TV Shows, Movies, you name it. They were wonderfully crap with their odd ‘real hair’ and ‘real clothes’ but the amount of love kids had for them was undeniable. The company went bust in 1983 after turning down the offer of making the Star Wars figures. Stupid stupid stupid. Your work has a strong satirical edge to it. Why all the satire? Art Buchwald said ‘You can’t make up anything anymore. The world itself is a satire. All you’re doing is recording it.’ Which unfortunately is true. Satire used to be about holding up a distorted mirror to society to exaggerate things to make a point. These days however you don’t need the mirror to be distorted, you just need to get people to thinking past their attenuated attention spans. That is the difficult part. This is not something new however; the extremely talented satirist and musician Tom Lehrer said in 1973 when Henry Kissinger won the Nobel Peace Prize, “It was at that moment that satire died,” says Lehrer, “There was nothing more to say after that.” I was one year old at the time. I think satire has survived – I was raised on Pickering, Paul Rigby and Patrick Cook cartoons, not to mention Kenny Everett, D-Generation and Fast Forward which has influenced the way I look at the world. When you look at the public figures today – politicians and celebrities alike, they are humourless, gormless hollow men (and women). That’s why we need humour. And gorm. Lots and lots of gorm. If you could be responsible for one big thing, but no-one knew it was you, what would it be? The assassination of Céline Dion. I don’t think I need to explain this one. I know though, if I pulled it off I wouldn’t be able to help myself at parties. / “You know that shooting of Céline Dion?” / “Yeah! Wasn’t it brilliant?” / “That was me.” What are you stark-raving passionate about? I am not a naturally passionate person. I get quite angry at stupidity and hypocrisy and am well on my way to becoming the ranting old curmudgeon I wish to be when I’m 80ish. A friend of mine has called me ‘the angriest man in Stanmore’ (a la Nick Hornby’s ‘How To Be Good’). What are you guilty of? Technically, nothing. I was acquitted on all charges. I didn’t do it, nobody saw me do it, you can’t prove anything. More generally though, I would say the big 7 – pride, envy, greed, wrath with an emphasis on lust, gluttony and sloth. Those last three are definitely the best. Especially if you can combine them. Rather like the Romans did. The vomitorium didn’t just invent itself you know. How did you find the bubble? What made you stick around? What made you take to tshirting? I was introduced to RedBubble by my good friend David Gilliver who has his photographs on here. (Please go and check out his work now. Well, not right now obviously – finish reading about me, and then go and check out him.) I took to making shirts like a duck to knitting. Seriously – I have been a graphic designer for years but a very lazy one. It was only last year when I came across a one colour t-shirt design contest that I did my first shirt (the decidedly unpopular ‘Robot Monkey Love’). It didn’t win and it wasn’t until RB that I did my second shirt ‘Evil Naked Dolls’. I sold one within a week (much to the chagrin of Mr Gilliver) and have been hooked ever since. What’s your favouritest tshirt you’ve ever worn? It was a shirt I got for my birthday back in 1998 – there was a drawing of a cow floating in a tank with bubbles emerging from its rear end with the words “Arty Farty” underneath. I assume it was taking the piss out of Damian Hirst which was great because I think he is one of the biggest frauds ever to inflict themselves on the art world. Unfortunately it is now quite worn and full of holes. I have never been able to find a replacement. If anyone sees one and wants to send it to me, I take an XL. My other all-time favourite shirt I had when I was five. It was free dress day at school and my mother made for me a Batfink shirt which was basically just a big red “B” on a yellow shirt. I was in heaven. Say it with me now, “My wings are like a shield of steel!” Where and when do you get your ideas? A combination of 30+ years of absorbing popular culture like a large ADHD sponge and an intrinsic need to create new stuff all the time. The ideas usually come to me when I should be doing something else – e.g. paid work, sleeping, driving which is bloody inconvenient. I think I need to trade in my muse for one with a better sense of timing. If you could resurrect one person from history to have a day time talk show, who would it be? I’m going to have to say Caligula. Not only was he mad as a hat full of badgers stirred with a crazy stick, but his carrying ons would be a perfect match for the sort of guests you get on Jerry Springer. “So you slept with your brother’s wife and are now going to have a sex change to be her lesbian lover? Big deal! I’m a god who had sex with three of his sisters and made my horse a consul and a priest! You’re going to have to lift your game mate.” The Tom Cruise interview would be television gold. Thanks Ross :o) Ok. Now you can go check out David Gilliver folks Leave a message here first though, if you like, and do come back next week. Caanan. :oD Memory lane… The Original Strip BigFatRobot Chris Richards Paul McClintock David J Cunning Johdie Tambatoys Simon Sherry Ross Robinson Natalie Tyler thickblackoutline rubyred Liesl Yvette Wilson Chris Wahl Jaywalker sparklehen jemimalovesbigted purelydecorative nofrillsart Superteam: Non-Stop animo Tabita LilyM bahgoesthesheep LuckyVegetable o0OdemocrazyO0o MuscularTeeth
Hey all.. A little while ago a bang called 54 contacted me asking if they could use my Love and Destruction...
Hey all.. A little while ago a bang called 54 contacted me asking if they could use my Love and Destruction piece for their new cd cover. Being the control-freakish designer that I am, I mocked up the whole cd cover for them. Anyway, they’ve been manufactured and they sent me a copy. I’m not sure where you can buy the cds apart from getting to their live gigs, but you can listen to the music over at their myspace page
Apparantly i won the comp for the mecha mecca group – for a new avatar. I won in the only way i…
Apparantly i won the comp for the mecha mecca group – for a new avatar. I won in the only way i possibly could – by eliminating the opposition. / Like Robert Mugabe in zimbabwe i was the only constestant running – no one else submitted anything. So i humbly accept the award – my very first $20 voucher from RB (apparantly ill get contacted for this – im not sure how it all works) and an in the moment book too !. im rather pleased despite winning Mugabe style and now i feel a little closer to that dictator. this was what won.
Hiya peeps, / my friend MALKMAN and I have just finished a new robot. As is was originally Malk…
Hiya peeps, / my friend MALKMAN and I have just finished a new robot. As is was originally Malkman’s drawing it is on his profile. / When i upload something i get a fair number of people looking (for which i thank YOU!) but Malkman being new has only started gathering a following.. / so without wasting your time further; take a look-see
-BEGIN TRANSMISSION- Well, it’s been a long time coming, but we here in the lab believe that the general populace is ready for wall-...
-BEGIN TRANSMISSION- Well, it’s been a long time coming, but we here in the lab believe that the general populace is ready for wall-mounted killbots. So, without any further ado, we are pleased to announce the following models available for your home… Killbot 01 – SnickerSnak / Killbot 02 – Porcelain King / Killbot 03 – Bitter Pill / As always, each bot comes with it’s own unique set of kill functions and our iron-clad guarantee that if you want it dead, our bots will get it done. (no liability is taken for any injury or death incurred by the owner or their loved ones should their killbot malfunction.) For details on our full range of killbots, please visit our showroom here Have a happy day. -TRANSMISSION ENDS-
-BEGIN TRANSMISSION- Well, it’s been a long time coming, but we here in the lab believe that the general populace is ready for wall-...
-BEGIN TRANSMISSION- Well, it’s been a long time coming, but we here in the lab believe that the general populace is ready for wall-mounted killbots. In order to ensure that we meet your particular killratio requirements, our factories have just released the latest models into the market. Whether you need a straight-forward one-target-elimination, or total-global-slaughter, we have the right bot for your needs. This latest release includes: Killbot 04 – Psiclops and CRABS / Killbot 05 – SliceNdice / Killbot 06 – The Bot WIth No Name / Killbot 07 – Ramshackle / As always, each bot comes with it’s own unique set of kill functions and our iron-clad guarantee that if you want it dead, our bots will get it done. (no liability is taken for any injury or death incurred by the owner or their loved ones should their killbot malfunction.) For details on our full range of killbots, please visit our showroom here Have a happy day. -TRANSMISSION ENDS-
Hehehehe so i had some time to spare to make the coolest cardboard bot I have ever seen – Created by Scott Robinson...
Hehehehe so i had some time to spare to make the coolest cardboard bot I have ever seen – Created by Scott Robinson and i even took photos of the process…p.s. The movie is going to be awesome!
Yesterday the infamous artist formerly known as Resisto unleashed his RES-101 on an unsuspectin…
Yesterday the infamous artist formerly known as Resisto unleashed his RES-101 on an unsuspecting community, not only giving us a look at this new and bold creation, but in the true spirit of copyleft, handing over the instructions for all and sundry to assist in the creation of a wind-up army. Having no intention of ever really growing up, I couldn’t think of a better way to pass an hour than to build a big cardboard robot, actually I made it slightly bigger than it was, but only because as you can see my desk hasn’t improved much since the Melbourne days, and RES-101 would have a lot to contend with. In fact, I popped out later on for a copy of ‘Fly Fishing’ by J R Hartley and when I came back RES has escaped the clutter and was trying to shin over the back wall. So I put him in the oven. Now go and make your own and tell Scott he’s a champion. I think we need to mark the spread of the army on a world map.
This week is all about robot themed tees. So why not take a look at these awesome tees! !http://images-3.redbubble.net/img/clothing/bo…
This week is all about robot themed tees. So why not take a look at these awesome tees! I’d also like to wish all those who have entered the London Calling challenge good luck!
Hello, A while ago a little birdy requested I put together a tutorial about how ‘robot rights’ was put together. So here goes. This…
Hello, A while ago a little birdy requested I put together a tutorial about how ‘robot rights’ was put together. So here goes. This is the t-shirt : Step 1 – The Idea and the Process Every t-shirt design starts with an idea and every t-shirt design ends up differently than originally planned. This is because the process almost always throws up a new opportunity, something unexpected will happen or another idea will strike mid-way and change the way things are going. This is why, for me, the idea and the process are the most important things when designing a t-shirt. Most of my designs will take a few hours a day over several days to put together. I love wallowing in the process; it’s a pleasure. It’s great to put something away and come back to it with a fresh pair of eyes and then agonise over the composition or become anal about trivial details and colours. When I started working on robot rights the idea was simply this : to use an existing photo but explore compositional techniques which ‘break the frame’. Step 2 – The photo I started with the cropped photo and an uncropped black and white version of the photo as two layers in photoshop. I worked at full resolution (10 megapixels). This is the cropped photo : / This is the black and white photo, uncropped : / This is the two photos sitting together : / Step 3 – Selecting ‘break out’ elements After much umming and arring, two pieces were chosen and cut out as the break out bits. They were chosen because of their diagonally opposite relationship to each other so that the composition retained balance and the placement further enhanced the left to right diagonal perspective in the image. The cut outs are shown here, each had it’s own layer. / / Step 4 – Removing background stuff This process was the same for the tree and the graffiti, so I’m just going to show the graffiti. Because the image is black and white, things were a little simpler, but this technique should work for colour images too. First off I needed to increase the contrast so that the graffiti would emerge from the surrounding stuff. For improving contrast I use curves. I love curves. In the image below you can see a distinctive ‘S shape that I have manipulated in the curve (it starts off as a straight 45 degree line), this increases contrast but also allows you to control how much and where. Click here for a comprehensive tutorial on curves and levels To adjust curves, go to : Image>Adjustments>Curves / / I then switched to levels to increase the contrast further, note that I have slid one of the tabs at the bottom of the histogram inwards to get maximum effect; Image>Adjustments>Levels I then used curves one more time. Image>Adjustments>Curves So that’s starting look pretty good and ready for the next step using the selection tool. Step 5 – The Selection Tool The final thing to do is remove the background stuff. To do this I used the selection tool. / / Select>Colour Range I used the eyedropper and clicked on the darkest area of the graffitti, the preview window shows what will be selected from the image, by adjusting the fuzziness slider you can see how much of the image will be selected. I maxed out the fuzziness slider and got a very clean selection. I hit ‘ok’ then inversed the selection (Select>Inverse) and hit ‘delete’. Perfect. I did the exact same process for the tree and had to go in with the eraser tool to remove the powerlines which had also been selected. The final layout is below. I then saved out a copy as a png file, opened up the trusty RB T-Shirt template and resized my png to 2400 pixels wide (Image>Image Size). I then dragged the resized png onto the template, placed the image where I wanted it, deleted the template layer and saved the file for upload to RedBubble. Fini.
Thank you so much to my mystery buyer who purchased “On our way” ....It was a wonderful surprise and honour …....I truly appreciate you…
Thank you so much to my mystery buyer who purchased “On our way” ....It was a wonderful surprise and honour …....I truly appreciate your support :) / You have made my day :) :)
I received this information on a panoramic shot of the inauguration from the local camera club’s president and thought that I would pass …
I received this information on a panoramic shot of the inauguration from the local camera club’s president and thought that I would pass it along. The most amazing thing is that it was shot with a “point and shoot” camera mounted on a robotic arm attached to an image processor. Narrative from email: Regardless of your political affiliation, this is an amazing photo of the inauguration. It’s so sharp that you can zoom in to see the expression on peoples’ faces—-keep clicking on it to zoom closer and move around (but wait a few seconds each time to let the resolution clear). / click here 1474-megapixel_inauguration_photo / / Click on the photo; while the panorama is cool on its own, the 1,474 Megapixel (1.5 gigapixel) quality allows you to zoom in endlessly — right down to Bush’s expression, Cheney in his wheelchair, the front-row Supreme Court justices, Aretha’s hat, Michelle’s expression, and any other detail you want to see. Photographer David Bergman’s “how I did it” tale is : click here /
Had a few moments to spare, so I put my lab coat on and the glasses with extra thick lenses, then smashed some atoms, sheared a few genes…
Had a few moments to spare, so I put my lab coat on and the glasses with extra thick lenses, then smashed some atoms, sheared a few genes, and got jiggy with some diodes to create a 3d version of my little mate #00FF00 … / Entertaining the masses / Keeping the bar safe Bubble mail me for your very own copy – fun for the whole family. Just don’t be running with those scissors!
Its been a while since i’ve posted anything on the bubble, i miss the bubble. Kids have kept me busy. I have not been online much, maso…
Its been a while since i’ve posted anything on the bubble, i miss the bubble. Kids have kept me busy. I have not been online much, mason has not been well and my nerves are rattled by his health. What a a wonderful surprise to read my mail and find that some one had purchased a card “Will she make it oh my..” and another mystery buyer had bought “Lilliputs return” t-shirt. Thank you so much for your support….we did our famous bubble dance…Mason was so pleased that someone bought the t-shirt…he has one and wears it a lot….and Ireland is tickled pink that someone has purchased her image ….she worked hard on her dorothy image along side mom :) She asks me several times ” Mommy, did someone really buy it?” it has not sunk in yet but she is on cloud nine :)
Some more detail for my entry for the Music Machines !http:...
Some more detail for my entry for the Music Machines scratch and sniff on t-shirt?
Hi everyone! / The latest RedBubble challenge, Music Machines?...
Hi everyone! / The latest RedBubble challenge, Music Machines, is currently accepting votes! And of course I would love it and really appreciate it if my Robot DJ got a few votes! So if you are wanting to help out, and you think my entry is good enough for this challenge, you can vote for me right here! I’d also like to note that you can vote for more than one entry. My friend Mimmam also sent in an entry, as did two friends from a forum. Goaferboy’s Soundroid and Tom Clancy’s Record’Cycle. So if you like them, don’t forget you can vote for them too!
I wanted to say thank you to my mystery buyer who purchased a Lilliput tshirt..i truly appreciate your support …..and cannot wait to ma…
I wanted to say thank you to my mystery buyer who purchased a Lilliput tshirt..i truly appreciate your support …..and cannot wait to make an annoucement regarding Lilliput near the end of October… also.. / My image “Granpa’s violin” placed in the 10 ten at the “shapes in muscial instruments” challenge….thank you to all who voted for me and for your wonderful comments :) /
Check out these amazing robot models from Japanese 3D artist Kazushi Kobayashi. They’...
Check out these amazing robot models from Japanese 3D artist Kazushi Kobayashi. They’re described as something from “a parallel 50s where the robots are the most popular transport system”. Apparently you can buy the kits to build your own, but only if you live in Japan. They have so much personality … If I was in the market for a robot I’d definitely invite Chubu 01 to come and live at my house. More info here.
Another day, another little snippet of inspiration in the form of a talented guy who makes robots and other characters out of found objec…
Another day, another little snippet of inspiration in the form of a talented guy who makes robots and other characters out of found objects and retro parts. Nemo Gould collects junk and sees faces in found objects. Enjoy …
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