Michael Palin caricature

I love Monty Python. I believe it was on a Wednesday night after cub scouts I'd pick up a bag of chips and watch comedy that was totally different to anything else that was around at the time, or indeed following that. What I'd be really interested to see is a DVD/Blu-ray compilation of all the animations that Terry Gilliam made for the series, that would make me laugh so much that I'd have to watch some contemporary comedy just to calm me down. Easy now...

Anyways, here's a caricature of Michael Palin. I'd love to sit in a room with this guy and have him just talk to me for hours about his multitude of lifetime experiences he has gained pre-Python, during Python, Ripping Yarns and all his travelling around the world. Mr Palin, in the unlikely event that you'd ever read this, here's an invitation for a cuppa.

I've been told my tea making skills is second to none.

I really have to cut down on the caffeine.

Letraset

The marker company, Letraset, kindly contacted me a while back asking if they could featured me on their website. Here it is!!!

http://www.letraset.com/design/default.asp

orrrrr....

http://www.letraset.com/design/shopcontent.asp?type=profileNeal

Woot woot!

FLASH GAMES!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ello!

In true Sylar from Heroes style, I cut off the top of the head of an ActionScripter and learnt his abilites. As a result, I've been dabbling in the world of programming and making games!

True... true...

Well, apart from the head slicing bit.

Here's my firts finished game. It's a simple thing designed at training your ability to keep track of the order of things. OK, actually I completely ripped off the idea for this from a documentary about comparing the human brain to that of the ape. There was this incredible test involving a chimp (or was it a banobo?) and a touch screen computer. A sequence of numbers would appear on the screen one at a time. When the last number appears they all turned into marks, then the chimp would touch each mark in the order the number appeared. What was facinating about this was not only was the ape able to do this task, but it was able to keep in his memory a vast sequence of numbers and touch the screen at a blinding speed!

I've jazzed the whole idea of the program up (their program had white digits on a black screen), done away with a timer that I originally had (it was too pressuring) and limited the maximum amount of numbers to 20. Most people without any system in place will probably manage about 7 as the human short term memory can only handle on average 7 'chunks' of information.

Enjoy. I'm making more!

Dusty HDD folder

I found this in my work folder, not brilliant, but hey, I'm happy to find neglected artwork!

Dave Young Caricature

He has lots of hair!

Water hands

Let the caricatures begin!

Ok, completely bypassing December and straight into January... Here's two caricatures of two highly respectable citizens that just happen to work with me. Ben is wearing a hat from his Christmas cracker. Jon is wearing an eyepatch from his Christmas cracker and he is also not wearing any underwear. I was wearing a pencil.





Merry January everyone.