Charley Blimey and the bullet proof segway.
Categories: artwork, and-another-thing
Date: 14 March 2012 09:54:27
Added this image to the prior post (Holy Prior Post, Pratman) and have also added a smidge of description onto the Kermode and Mayo facebook page so, since every word I write has significance and meaning and should be kept for posterity I thought I'd add that fine stuff here:
Long story ahoy, hope it fits*.
I'm doing a collab art exhib with youth group kids**, local artists*** as well as my iPad and iPhone art.
This is one of my pics and the image on the right is called Charlie Blimey (after one of Marks catchphrases). It's drawn entirely on an iPod touch and the story of the pic is the down on his luck reporter Charlie Blimey meeting up with Julian L'Strange (played by Jason Isaacs in the never to be commissioned TV pilot) in an alternate world where Wikileaks happened in print in the 1970s(x*). In a daring move Charley is played by Simon.
So, despite having commuted on SWT trains for years ( :( ) and camped out when possible at the Curzon for a range of animations this is as close as I've got to saying hallo to Messrs K and M.
x*yes I know, but this is more Our Friends in the North than All the President's Men.
All of these explanations aren't on the fb page comment.
* the limit of the facebook comments character/updates.
**the exhib is of a magnificent 7 people, two who I work with, my wife, my daughter (although she doesn't know this yet) - both of whom make brilliant and characterful soft toys, a local - and brilliant - illustrator called Sharon Davey and an ex-youth group kid (my daughter being the other) now turned youth group leader called Nick Thatcher who makes mashup machinery. All excellent stuff and my only fear (and a huge, crushing, damning fear) is that after all of the setup only one person will come. That said Triple FFF brewery have sent 34 pints to be consumed during the night and it'll help if I'm on my todd.
(I will post more work by all of the other artists but for the moment here are two of the images on display from the 20 year old engineering genius, Nick Thatcher. The first is a working, USB powered, Mini Coil Gun ((naturally)) :) The second picture is his fully working high speed bullet proof segway. I kid you not. He's built all of it, including the software/gyroscope programming, when he gets back from work which is, whichever way you look at it, pretty darn astonishing. Also on display tonight will be images of Coil Guns, laser guns and bespoke culinary artillery).