This last 6 months I’ve been slowly building on my photography. Amongst dashing here and there - getting the lift to the top floor of my apartments, spending a moment with design duo Daniel and Emma, meandering around the rich and varied Surry Hills, I’ve been dying to find the time to organize my snaps…

I just watched this rather insightful documentary by Simon Cottee that questions the artistic value and merits of pixel art. I must say I have my own fond memories of the 8bit era and still today…

Not only have I been clearing out past rough work on my old hard drives but I managed to track down a few hand-drawn musings among the pages of my (numerous) work notebooks…

One of the benefits of cleaning out an old external hard drive is finding old unfinished work that’s easy enough to pick up where you left off. I’ve decided to save a little space and clear out a couple of clunky old IDE drives and in doing so found the beginnings of a poster I was putting together for a dummy ad campaign at college a couple of years back…

I spent some time last week putting together a festival pack for my brother, who has recently produced a short film for university entitled ‘Paper Planes’…

Things at home have gotten so cluttered recently and while I don’t consider myself to be a hoarder, I have quite the knack of accumulating vast amounts of pointless junk. Last weekend I made the sound decision to blitz it…

This is the first bunch of photos I’m uploading that were taken with my new Canon EOS 40D. I’ve still got a fair way to go in terms of hit ratio but…

Despite being a fairly ordinary week I did manage to sneak a few photographs in…

Like the rest of Sydney on 23rd September I woke to find that all I knew and had ever known - everything I held dear - had decided to turn orange…

I recently stumbled across the work of Toronto-based (Torontan/Torontite?) illustrator and cartoonist John Martz, affectionately known as Robot Johnny. I find he has such a distinctive style and really love his work, not least his continual commitment to the art - a man who is surely juggling 5000 things at once and somehow…

This week I finally had a chance to have a play around with jParallax, a javascript code that utilizes the jQuery library. I’ve been meaning to give this a crack for a while but hadn’t had the chance to create a scene for it until now. To be honest I’d love to spend some more time developing it but…

When developing a website for a friend recently, they asked if I might create a mascot-type character to accompany the site in order to give it a more light-hearted, cheery presence. I set to work creating a character and in the early stages of development I realised that for too long I have avoided a dark and perilous area of Illustrator that on several occasions has left me paralysed with rage.

The Gradient Map

Like many other milestones in the…

Scrapyards are spellbinding places.

Some friends moved to Windsor not too long ago where there is a nearby scrapyard which I instantly seized as an opportunity to build up my textures library…

I’m going to continue along a similar vein today with another glimpse in to my collection of fairly odd photographs.

Having acquired my ever-faithful Canon Ixus* last year and hell-bent on taking photographs of quite literally anything that caught my eye or seemed of the vaguest interest, I naturally made quite the discovery…

So today I thought I might share a few of my slection of time-lapse images.

I’m certainly no pro photographer - it may take me a hundred takes to get my photos to look the way I want, but eventually I’ll sneak in a winner.

To be honest I wouldn’t have it any other way. There are a huge number of photographs I have taken with a few flippant flicks of the wrist or a quick bob out of a window in the off-chance of capturing something vaguely interesting. My more disciplined moments behind the camera are few - I enjoy the occasional stir when faced with iconic beauty, in history and irony; a crumbling sun-bleached monastery, a hapless fishing boat on a storm-swelled sea. Perhaps I owe these moments the spontanaety they deserve…

When visiting home in the UK last year I spent an afternoon rifling through storage boxes in my mums workshop in an effort to find some of her old sketch work.

What I actually found (as well as some of her work - which I will undoubtedly post up for you at some point) was a hoard of vintage yarn and knitting pattern manuals and magazines.

Welcome  one and all. This post marks the beginning of a new section and altogether new purpose of my site.
From now on I will be posting regular news, updates, questions and queries…some meaningful…some less so.