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Super Kimb!

Monday, September 6th, 2010

Recently my blog had been hacked by some pleasant sole:(

Having a look at it I was completely at a loose end on how to fix it but I asked the advice of Wordpess Guru Kimb Jones who runs Base6 Designs if he’s any idea how I go about sorting it out to which he told me he’d “take a look”.

On my return from my jollies I found he’s meticulously picked through my blog removing some particularly nasty code, got it up and running again and even done a little SEO job on it to boot!
WHAT A STAR!

I just wanted to say thanks to Kimb and to let you know what a WordPress genius he is.

I’ve had the pleasure to work with Kimb in the past on a few projects.
One of which was this mascot and at the time I gave it the working title of “Super Kimb”.
Seems pretty appropriate now and on Kimb’s site there is a post on how we came up with the little fella.

Cheers Kimb!:)

Pandemia Wallpaper

Tuesday, October 27th, 2009

To add on to my previous post “Ride A Panda To Work Week” I can bow show the project I was working on, a desktop wallpaper called “Pandemia”.

It’s a wallpaper I made for my desktop from an illustration that ended up becoming a bit of a personal project.

It’s my tongue in cheek slant on the global hype and paranoia surrounding the fear of global pandemics.

At the moment I’ve managed to place a 1920×1200 version to download here but I’m going to try and add a few more sizes when I get the chance.

Below are a few snippets:)

Pandemia(MiniWallpaper)

Pandemia3

Pandemia2

A 2nd on Vectortuts

Wednesday, January 7th, 2009

 

A little while ago I entered a competition for the cutest character design on VectorTuts the vector tutorial web site and I just found out that this won the second prize. Yay!

It’s also been a chance to spread the work for my sponsors over at Pilk to whom I’m eternally grateful for their continued support.

I’m eagerly looking forward to my cash prize as I’ve already warned my local Spar to stock up on crisps and fizzy pop. Oh yes!

 

 

 

 

 

 

Another couple of nice surprises

Wednesday, August 13th, 2008

I’ve recently installed Google Analytics on my site which is a revolution for people with sites made in Flash as for the first time it allows me to get detailed stat’s about visits to my site.

Enjoying the novelty of checking the referrals I spotted a couple that I had to take a look at.

The first one was a list of “101 Inspirational Artist/Designers Links” and on reading down the list There I was at number 77 amongst some very good company. How very nice of them.

The other was from a fantastic urban/designer toy site called Archetoy who gave a link to the interview I did over on DesignFeedr and had some very nice things to say about me here.

This is a real gem of a site if you’re into designer vinyl and on thanking these guys I got to find out that there may be some interviews on the horizon with some of the real big name toy designers.

Whilst you wait for those you could always spend the chunk of a day reading through all the articles like I did.

 

Thanks Chaps:)

 

WordPress Voodoo

Tuesday, June 24th, 2008

My old pal Sugarnuts was good enough to tell me that my blog has been doing some strange things and on checking it out found that there were a few bugs in the version WordPress I was using which conflicted with my server and made for Blog Voodoo.

To fix it I’ve upgraded my blog which seem to have worked but I’ve still a few creases to iron out.

So if you spot anything amiss, please give me a shout.

Go Tako Maki!

Tuesday, April 8th, 2008

mojichamp.jpgYay! Despite excellent competition Tako Maki won the final over on Mojizu and is now the new Moji Champ.

I was really surprised!
I choose not to promote my Mojis as I prefer a more organic approach and I like to see how they do on their own merit.
English reserve? I dunno.
Despite this, the little fella still came in first and did me proud so thanks for anyone that voted for him.
As I’m now out of the Moji closet so to speak, you can check out some of the other characters I’ve done over on my Mojizu Profile.

The windy little girl who for the moment adorns my blog header is the latest addition.

Our Flash

Monday, February 25th, 2008

flashback.jpg

I thought I’d introduce you to Flash our 1968 VW Beetle De-Lux.

He’s the latest in a long line of aircooled Volkswagens that we’ve owned over the years which have included five Beetles and three Kombis.

The first ever car we owned was a Beetle so you could say we were bitten by the bug. He provides our everyday family transport which isn’t bad for a forty year old car. He was named Flash by his previous owners when we bought him so we kept it as we thought it rather apt.

He’s already marked his territory on the driveway with a patch of oil and we have to wrap us warm when we go anywhere as I’ve yet to fix the heating but we all love him none the less.

He’s Flash.