“People called Romanes, they go the house”?

This graffiti has cropped up in the village where I grew up – Southwell in Nottinghamshire. My old school was demolished for a controversial housing project, but an old Roman villa was found underneath so the build has been suspended. A lot of the town is quite impressed to have latin speaking rebels, but I think it’s more likely they’ve seen The Life Of Brian. ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIAdHEwiAy8 )

Lego Jolly Roger

Milan 2009

Back from Milan 2009, where we exhibited the Goldsmiths' design process at the Salone Satellite: building the space from found materials, then organising events and tools to encourage discourse, debate and creative interaction.

Had a fantastic time. We kept a record of our exploits whilst we were out there, as well as a flickr and twitter feed.

Carboard Armour, Picadilly Circus

Building the Risk Facilitator: Flickr Photoset

[edit: April Fool] (Bloody Typical) Another Damning Example of “Broken Britain”

** This was an April-Fool post; I'm not really a miserable, ranting misanthrope **

This is the dumbest thing I’ve seen in a very long time. I hate to use the phrase “political correctness gone mad” but I think this really is a legitimate case.

In line with the redevelopment for the 2012 Olympic Games, TFL have just unveiled plans “to rebrand what is currently the Metropolitan line as the Neopolitan line… a term synonymous with European culture and grandeur"(http://www.tfl.gov.uk/neopolitan_line_announced.htm). WTF?? As if it wasn’t a big enough hassle getting into work with the amount of work going on, and a massive drain on resources getting ready for the olympics, we’re going to have to endure months of delays for pointless “re-generation” – decorating stations in “tasteful chocolate hues”! and why? To give the bureaucrats in Brussels a sense of smug self-satisfaction? Fucking waste of time if you ask me.

Launch Arcology (Sim City 2000)

Are Ricky Gervais, Steve Merchant and Karl Pilkington the 2009 Red Noses? No, no they are not.

I would be very suprised if nobody else has noticed the uncanny resemblence this years Comic Relief noses have with the worlds best selling podcast trio: Gervais et al. And yet, as far as publicity so far has shown, they’re not supposed to be them (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCpZqVHxHx0). Perhaps some kind of deal broke down at the last moment?

Pixel MP5

I would probably agree that Pixel-Art has had it's day, but there is something very theraputic about blocking in all those colours with the pencil tool.

Star Trek: The Wrath of Chaka Khan

I could try and justify this as an experiment in video editing but it's really just a bit of mindless fun. This is a mash-up between Chaka Khan's I Feel For You and Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan.