Freaky Creatures

Jul 31, 2008 by John    5 Comments    Posted under: photoshop, random, web

A couple of freaky creatures have popped up in the last couple of days.

This creature was apparently found washed ashore at Montauk:


LOLed over at Irish stu

And this thing was caught trying to escape from the big brother house:

Fully story over at Fat Mammy Cat.

Ray Shah blah blah blah

Jul 29, 2008 by John    8 Comments    Posted under: random

There’s a little gem doing the rounds on city channel at the moment. Keep an eye out for the Oxegen coverage that’s currently on a loop. At one point Ray Shah is interviewing Alphabeat. It goes a little something like this:

Ray Shah: So three of the band members are called Anders. How do you differentiate between each one…Anders1, Anders2, and Anders3?

Anders1: We use our Surnames.

The little pink elephant

Jul 28, 2008 by John    3 Comments    Posted under: art

My second attempt at some claymation…

ET + Johnny Five = WALL-E

Jul 25, 2008 by John    11 Comments    Posted under: movies

ET + Johnny Five = WALL-E, originally uploaded by jbraine.

Big Brother

Jul 22, 2008 by John    8 Comments    Posted under: Uncategorized

Big Brother, originally uploaded by gingerpixel.

Thanks again to Claire for her great work. I love this shot. Was nice to get these done at the relaxed environs of a friend’s house. And Anna stopped her crying marathon just in time and completely calmed down. I swear there was no whiskey involved. More over at Gingerpixel:.

Does my bum look big in this video?

Jul 21, 2008 by John    4 Comments    Posted under: funnee, videos

Rocket mask!

Jul 13, 2008 by John    5 Comments    Posted under: Uncategorized

rocket-mask, originally uploaded by jbraine.

Tiger mask? Cool yeah I’ll help you cut it out.

Scary monster mask? Great. Where’s the string?

Rocket mask? You haven’t quite grasped the concept of this mask-making lark have you son?

Confuzzled

Jul 13, 2008 by John    4 Comments    Posted under: random

Scissors, originally uploaded by jbraine.

Just what are you supposed to use to get this packet open!?

Really really bored?

Jul 11, 2008 by John    1 Comment     Posted under: random

I’ve added a random blog post button. Over there ->

Son of a preacher man

Jul 10, 2008 by John    10 Comments    Posted under: atheism, rant

What a plank. I’m going to arm myself with one hundred quid and go looking for him. As soon as he starts I’m going to stand up and say “I’ll give 100 euro to anyone who can prove they are a bad person by chucking this prick through a window.” I really hate these fuckers. Why do they think they have the right to invade our space with their self-righteous and wacky beliefs. They’re so fucking arrogant to assume they’ve found the only true path and have to push it on the rest of us. You can do whatever you want in your own church but keep away from me.

And here’s another thing, I often hear people saying that they don’t like Richard Dawkins because he’s just as preachy as the rest of them. Too fucking right I say. Give these planks a taste of their own medicine.

via ricochet

Mala

Jul 7, 2008 by John    16 Comments    Posted under: art

Arrived home on Friday to find that junior had beent treated to some plasticine. And as ever I had more fun with his toys than he did…

Had a quick go at some clay animation too. Always wanted to have a go at that. Dying to get a bit of time to give it a proper go though…

Darklight / Considine again / Movie waffle

Jul 3, 2008 by John    5 Comments    Posted under: films

At the risk of going on about Meadows and Considine a bit too much… (See my Considine, This is England, and Once Upon a Time in the Midlands posts)… here’s one more!

I went to the darklight screening of Dead Man’s Shoes last weekend. Their was an exciting buzz in the air at the IFI. I don’t go to half as much stuff like this as I’d like to. I really enjoy festivals of any kind – yet I think this is the only festival-like event I’ve managed to get to this year, pathetic. I’ve seen Dead Man’s Shoes a couple of times before but it was great to see it in the IFI with an appreciative audience. There wasn’t a single rustle of sweet packets nor any sounds from mobile phones. Paddy Considine was supposed to introduce the film but instead it was announced that he’d do a Q&A afterwards, which was a bit dissapointing as I just knew there’d be wanky drawma students asking wanky drawma questions.

Shane Meadows is a brilliant director and Considine is a brilliant actor. They wrote Dead Man’s Shoes together. So naturally its a brilliant movie. Its really funny in places and downright evil in others. Toby Kebbell is also brilliant as Considine’s ‘spastic brother’. He played Rob Gretton in Control, the same character who Considine played in 24 Hour Party People. There’s a bit of trivia for you that’s not even on IMDB yet. You read it here first. Breaking news.

I always feel a lot more connected to movies that are a bit closer to home. Grounded in a world that remotely resembles my own. I can’t really connect with lots of the American films that people go on about. On a random brain scan, the first two to pop into my head that I saw recently are Blood Diamond and The assasination of Jesse James. Both highly recommended by lots of people but I thought Blood Diamond was Hollywood by numbers. And The Assassination of Jesse James was well boring and about two hours too long. Most of it was filler considering all that happened is in the title. And its tone and pace seemed to aspire to the far superior Unforgiven – but lacking in good content. Actually they’re both bad examples to illustrate my point as they wouldn’t be relevant to anyone’s life really. But the point is that good UK movies set in modern times really strike a chord with me, whereas those set in a world I’ve no relation to at all, which is nearly every movie in this Must see movies of 2008 list, are usually gone from my memory as soon as the credits roll.

So back to the darklight. I’m not usually much of a fanboy but it was cool seeing Considine in person. Good idea getting him over. There’s something very likeable and down to earth about him – and that comes across in most of his films. Even if he was answering wanky questions. Actually, the questions weren’t so bad it’s just the type of people here who ask questions at something like that. They seem to love the sound of their own voice or something.

The Praying Mantis

Jul 1, 2008 by John    7 Comments    Posted under: art, drawing, flash

Not sure what this is. It started out as a sketch (yes that thing on the right there) and turned into what I guess you could call a multimedia doodle (need sound).