The illustrated Sunday Brunch...
Categories: artwork, general-stuff, events
Tags: sketchbook, stylus t. Frog, Chin Chin labs, Nick Thatcher, Hudl, Photoshop Touch, Adobe Photoshop Touch app, Sunday Brunch, Channel 4, Yvette Fielding, Jackal, Slothdude, Drawing Together
Date: 20 April 2014 19:06:03
I've chatted about him before but a good friend of mine is also an amazing inventor/maker. Occasionally he invents things for me (such as this wonderful tablet easel stand called the Eye) and more often than not he comes along and helps when we do amazing events at the college... Nick was invited to have his new one wheeled self balancing unicycle (link goes to last years version) shown off on Channel 4s Sunday Brunch - as part of promoting the Maker Faire happening next week in Newcastle and I was more than happy to help him carry the unicycles when they were powered down....
All in all it's been a heck of a weekend. Let's recap shall we?
On arrival, once we'd safely stowed the one wheeled objects away of course, we headed out for dinner. That was always going to be at Honest Burger in Camden. Because pudding in Camden is always:
Chin Chins, but you knew that, right? This flavour is Mango sorbet with hot sawwce (chilli, garlic and other fiery ingredients) and Pistachio and Cardamon powder. Yum.... However:
Blimey.
Post dinner at Honest (yes, pudding came first) and drinkies at the Grafton we headed back to the hotel to have a very lovely chat with the Tech Camp team about their project that they would be showing off (something very cool called a Time Machine - strobe illuminated water droplets that could slow, stop and move backwards... ) prior to shut eye.
Five hours later and it was back up and running time. But that's unfair on the hotel, which was excellent. Especially good were the complimentary Dairylea dunkers that had to be seen to be believed:
Ahem.
Onto the production studio for the show and a complimentary bacon sandwich, coffee and time for two pictures to be drawn on my trusty Tesco Hudl:
I honestly drew these before 'the incident' and no, I'm no claiming some sort of Odessa Effect style pictoral foreshadowing here.
But I'm getting ahead of myself.
We were whisked past a very cool ceiling window:
before Nick was filmed riding the Jackal:
It was deemed more suitable for Nick to drive the Jackal after Tim the presenter flew off the front of the machine having let go of the dead mans switch (which is perfectly understandable as a thing to do. I've done similar myself on the Noway Nick built). I didn't take a photo but it's there for all to see on 4OD as of tomorrow I think. He ducked and rolled well though and was smiling/still positive about the invention, which was very good of him. Did cause a slight wound to the Jackal:
...but if you're going to get a ding then for it to happen on a pre recorded sequence for a live morning show on a major TV network seems the best way of doing it.
Pre-record completed there was a run through of the sequence, which they were kind enough to let me stand in the background and draw:
and then after a short wait (when a slight debate about whether a potentially strobing light was more dangerous than a Tesla Coil or a laser gun):
we were onto the live sequence itself:
...and, since I didn't get thrown out immediately I drew Yvette Fielding prior to her interview segment which followed the Maker Faire sequence.
... and then I was chucked out :) Partially as a taxi was due to arrive to take Nick and I, and the unicycles, back to rainy Surrey. Which was a real shame... I'd have loved to keep drawing - especially would like to have drawn Lethal Bizzle and Katy B - but time was pressing and the studio staff had a million thinks to think about without also having to worry about an orange hairy potential trip hazard.
Then it was catch up with the family, sharing Easter presents, watching son play Wii Fit and, to chill, I hooked up with @DQSlothdude on iPad/Drawing Together app (all of the pictures above were drawn on my Hudl using either Sketchbook or Photoshop Touch) and drew this:
Basically? An Easter to remember :)