My dynamic theme for the Playstation 3 ‘Wind Me Up, Let Me Down‘ is now available to download via the playstation store. Big thanks to everyone at Studio Output and Sony.
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Posted in Animation, Sci-Fi, Technology
Tagged eelus, PS3, Studio Output, Wind Me Up Let Me Down, Wound Up & Let Down
PS3 Theme
I’ve been working with Studio Output and Sony Playstation to develop an animated theme that you can download to your PS3 to spice up your background and icons.
My dynamic theme will be available to buy from the PS3 store on the 14th December. You’ll be able to see the final animation nearer the time but for now here is a cool background I created for the theme, (click for larger image). Suitably trippy with a touch of sci-fi goodness. I’d like to do more of this please.
Posted in Animation, Illustration, In the Studio, Sci-Fi, Technology
Tagged eelus, PS3, Studio Output
Polish Film Posters
2001: A Space Odyssey.
Alien.
Critters.
Eyes Wide Shut
Gremlins
Raiders of the Lost Ark.
Rosemary’s Baby.
Feel the Farce.
Shitty little idea I’ve had kicking around for ages. Always fancied working up an image to go with it, Luke running around the Dagobah with Yoda on his back and a Nike swoosh on his vest.
Posted in Advertising, In the Studio, Sci-Fi
Tagged Do or do not, Just do it, Luke, Nike, Star Wars
Under the Covers
Hello everyone, my name is Lee and…I’m a bookophile…there…I said it. I love books, I love bookshops, I love the smell of books, old dusty pages, brand new printings, worn tatty covers inside protective bags, strangers names and dates long gone scribbled on the insides of covers.
The Kindle or iPad will never be able to replace the feeling you get from holding and flicking through a real book, not for me. Another thing that is difficult to appreciate on a digital reader is a good cover. An art form that has seen a strong renaissance over the last few years, especially for the world of illustration.
After discovering the amazing Edward Gorey illustrated War of the Worlds recently, and the fact that I’m stuck at home feeling rotten with some kind of bug, I thought I’d share a random handful of my favourite covers from my collection. Enjoy!
I love how Gorey’s tripods look swift and nimble, not just stiff machines like we’re used to seeing. Like giant swaying spiders capable of running across the land as they hunt humankind to extinction. OOOOO-AAAAAAA! The choice of pink for the sky is brilliant too, really makes the cover pop.
A lovely cover from ’56, actually got this for Christmas from the folks, much better than socks.
Haven’t gotten round to reading this one yet, it’s one of the very few Lovecraft stories I haven’t read. Looks pretty bonkers, just how I like it.
I used to have wall to wall Frazetta when I was growing up and I love this cover, such a blast from the past for me. I lost my copy growing up and decided to track it down again after Frank died last year. RIP you absolute legend.
It’s not old, or weird, but I love all the covers from these editions of the 2001 books, this is my favourite of the 4. They were done by the brilliant Michael Whelan.
A book that has to remain in it’s plastic bag home due to the state of the inside, the pages are about to crumble to dust. Great cover though and a lovely addition to the collection.
The Iron Man illustrated by one of my all time favourite illustrators Tom Gauld. A master of beautiful simplicity.
Come on. Don’t even pretend that you don’t think this cover is awesome. I used to draw this weird Lion, scorpion dude when I was a kid and loved all of these Fighting Fantasy books. This is another I had to acquire recently from ebay after my childhood copy was sadly lost over the years. This is by John Blanche.
My favourite Gorey cover, The Gashlycrumb Tinies. An a-z of unfortunate childhood fatalities, each one drawn to perfection, gorgeous stuff.
Here’s a perfect example of why you should never write off charity shops for good book finds. I bought both The Inferno and Purgatory for £2 each, both printed in 1904, absolutely beautiful little books.
Posted in Books, Sci-Fi, Uncategorized
Tagged Arthur c. Clarke, Books, Dante's Inferno, Edward Gorey, Frank Frazetta, H.P.Lovecraft, James Silke, John Blanche, John Wyndham, Journey to the centre of the earth, Jules Verne, michael whelan, Steve Jackson, The Day of The Triffids, The Gashleycrumb Tinies, The Iron Man, Tom Gauld, War of the Worlds
Never Judge…?
There’s only 1 thing I love more than books, and that’s book covers, so I was pretty excited when the nice people at Stolen Space Gallery asked me to be part of their next group show ‘Never Judge…?’ In conjunction with Penguin books, the gallery will be filled with book covers created exclusively by a great list of artists and looks to be a great show.
Here’s my contribution, taken from one of my all time favourite books, War of the Worlds by H.G.Wells.
I wanted a simple but classic feel and decided to try my hand at a bit of paper cutting. Loved the process and the concentration needed and it’s something I’ll now be doing a lot more of in the future.
So if you’re in London and free on Thursday night, I’ll see you at Stolen Space. Click the image below for full details.
Posted in Art, Books, Events, Paper Cut, Sci-Fi
Tagged Book cover, H.G.Wells, Paper Cutting, Penguin Books, Stolen Space, War of the Worlds
Robot goodness.
Robots, like monsters, zombies, gods, aliens, spaceships and owls, are cool. Not just cool, really fucking cool. This set of wooden robots by Tyler Jackson are no exception. Set in a post-apocalyptic world, the BLANKS series are created from found wood and other objects, reflecting Tyler’s need to spread awareness about how our lives effect the environment as well as reducing his own robot shaped carbon footprint.
And the winner is…
So here we have it, the results of the Vader Project competition. The question was What’s one of my earliest memories as a snot nosed kid…’ 60 of you guessed the right answer, which was………C. Me being lifted out of my pushchair by Darth Vader when I was about 3 or 4. Although someone quite rightly commented on what I was still doing in a pushchair at the age of 4, which is a good point. I’m afraid I have no answer to that. Moving on…
Using an online random number generator to select 4 numbers between 1 and 60, the following numbers were chosen.
And those numbers match up to the 4 people below, so well done to you!
1. benoups.
2. spud.
3. fullproof.
4. Kes.
I’ll be dropping you 4 an email shortly and your signed copies of the awesome Vader Project book will be sent out asap. A big thanks to everyone who registered with the blog and took part. Will probably do more of this kind of thing from now on so if you didn’t get lucky this time, don’t get tear stains all down that nice new blouse you’ve got on, you’ll get another chance to put free stuff on ebay soon enough.
Vader Project Competition.
A long time ago, in a galaxy…well, this galaxy, 100 artists were asked to customize 100 Darth Vader helmets. You can see the results via the links at the bottom of the previous post. If you’d like to get your sticky little fingers on a copy of the project catalogue, I’ve got 4 that I’ll sign and give away if you can answer the following question.
Q: What’s one of my earliest memories as a snot nosed kid…
A: Discovering I had the Force when I paralysed next door’s cat with mind bullets.
B: Coming home to find my house on fire and my aunt and uncle burned to a crisp.
C: Being lifted out of my pushchair by Darth Vader when I was about 3 or 4.
Just leave your answer, A,B or C as a comment to this post and in exactly 1 weeks time I’ll randomly select 4 winners who will get a signed copy of the catalogue.
Good luck!
Posted in Art, Books, Events, Sci-Fi
Tagged Competition, Darth Vader, Star Wars, Vader Project
Full Metal Vader.
Around 3 or 4 years ago I was lucky enough to be sent an exact replica Darth Vader helmet to customize along with around 100 other artists for what would become known as The Vader Project. After wearing it around the house for about a month I finally got to work on it and turned the grey unpainted helmet into this…
The helmets have been doing the rounds for a good while now but will finally go to auction in Philadelphia in the U.S. on July 10th. My piece was also featured on the Telegraph website a few days back…which was nice.
You can read the full article here.
The auction is being ran by Freemans Auction House and you can see full details of that here. Check out the Vader Project’s Flickr page here. View the full catalogue here, and order a copy of the catalogue to grace your bookshelf here.
If you’re too busy spunking money up the wall on other useless shit and you can’t bring yourself to part with your hard earned cash for a copy of the catalogue, I suggest you keep checking this blog over the next week if you’d like the chance to WIN a copy.
Tagged Darth Vader, Star Wars, Vader Helmet, Vader Project