House of Deadleg

Charlie Does Surf - Illustration by House of Deadleg

Thu, 11 Apr 2013 00:17:00 +0100

Charlie Does Surf - Illustration by House of Deadleg

MIkey’s Eye - Animated GIF. Animated in Flash, GIF’d in Photoshop.

Sat, 16 Mar 2013 00:53:00 +0000

MIkey’s Eye - Animated GIF.

Animated in Flash, GIF’d in Photoshop.

sketchamagowza: fffinger

Sat, 16 Mar 2013 00:46:21 +0000

sketchamagowza:

fffinger

Richard Askew: What I learnt from HDLive and what it means for Digital Scarborough

Fri, 02 Nov 2012 16:38:59 +0000

Richard Askew: What I learnt from HDLive and what it means for Digital Scarborough:

richardaskew:

For those that don’t know me I’m a web developer who lives and works in Scarborough as well as being a Visiting Lecturer on Web Design up at the University and I sit on a local group called Digital Scarborough. Digital Scarborough has been around in some form or another for seven years or so and…

My “Fly Me To The Moon” art print is now available...

Wed, 03 Oct 2012 23:59:00 +0100

My “Fly Me To The Moon” art print is now available to buy from www.houseofdeadleg.co.uk/shop.php

A3 (420x297mm) in size and printed on 250gsm Tinterotto Gesso paper.

In the next week or so I’ll have my “Fly Me To The...

Wed, 29 Aug 2012 21:15:46 +0100

In the next week or so I’ll have my “Fly Me To The Moon” print up for sale via www.houseofdeadleg.co.uk. In the meantime Im giving away 3 copies of the print via my Twitter account at twitter.com/houseofdeadleg. To be in with a chance to win one simply follow me on Twitter and send a tweet along the lines of “I’m giving away 3 of my “Fly Me To The Moon prints” -http://dribbble.com/shots/693477-Fly-Me-To-The-Moon-Poster …. Follow and R/T using#flymetothemoon for a chance to win.”

My “Fly Me To The Moon” illustration will be...

Sat, 18 Aug 2012 23:25:00 +0100

My “Fly Me To The Moon” illustration will be available as an A3 print within the next week, printed on 250gsm Tintoretto Gesso. Available to buy from www.houseofdeadleg.co.uk.

wilbojonson: Here is my little film about goats. Hope you like...

Mon, 02 Jul 2012 20:41:33 +0100

wilbojonson:

Here is my little film about goats. Hope you like it

maxistentialist: I deleted my Facebook account Broadly...

Tue, 26 Jun 2012 00:37:16 +0100

maxistentialist:

I deleted my Facebook account

Broadly speaking, our generation seems confused as to how the world went to shit while we sat around using the computational power of a sun to friend and pirate-poke each other into oblivion.

Facebook is calling our bluff. They are dismantling the services that made their site valuable and selling us out in ways that make our lives worse. And they know that we can’t or won’t leave.

The final straw for me was when Facebook warmed me that if I didn’t link my interests (music, books, etc.) to the official pages for those interests, I could no longer claim to have those interests… in other words, if I wasn’t willing to sell something, I wasn’t allowed to like it.

“Max doesn’t like any books.”

“Max has no interests.”

Here’s what you can look forward to in Facebook’s coming years:

At their f8 developer’s conference in April, Facebook gave location-aware ID badges with RFID chips in them to attendees, which reported their whereabouts to their Facebook profiles. This feature is called “Facebook Presence,” and will likely be a standard social feature baked into upcoming cell phones.

Facebook has previously mentioned interest in creating their own currency - Facebook credits - which would let you buy things on Facebook and connect your profile to your transactions.

Facebook has an enormous amount of data on you. Not only the things you feed it, but the things you do while logged in are recorded. Facebook not only knows who your friends are, it knows whose profiles you spend the most time looking at. This data, which Facebook calls your “Social Graph,” is valuable. It is sold to the highest bidder.

Facebook’s future is as an advertising platform. You will buy things, and your friends’ news feeds will read, “Your friend John just had lunch at Chipotle.” Marketers know that personal endorsements are the most powerful form of persuasion.

All of this data, including your private conversations and messages, has been and will continue to be hacked.

Perhaps it’s worth explaining why privacy matters to me in the first place. It’s not like I’m doing anything wrong or illegal on Facebook. I have nothing to hide. Why should I care? Bruce Schneier:

Watch someone long enough, and you’ll find something to arrest - or just blackmail - with. Privacy is important because without it, surveillance information will be abused: to peep, to sell to marketers and to spy on political enemies - whoever they happen to be at the time.

Privacy protects us from abuses by those in power, even if we’re doing nothing wrong at the time of surveillance.

We do nothing wrong when we make love or go to the bathroom. We are not deliberately hiding anything when we seek out private places for reflection or conversation. We keep private journals, sing in the privacy of the shower, and write letters to secret lovers and then burn them. Privacy is a basic human need.

When asked why Facebook doesn’t simply make sharing data “opt-in” instead of “opt-out,” Elliot Schrage, vice president for public policy at Facebook told the New York Times, “Everything is opt-in on Facebook. Participating in the service is a choice.” Great, but what about those of us who signed up years ago with different expectations of privacy? Facebook has changed their policies in deliberately confusing ways and neglected to mention it, which is especially upsetting because it means that Facebook wants for itself what it will not give to us.

If you don’t pay for a service, chances are you are not the customer - you’re the product being sold. In Facebook’s case, this relationship between user and service has deeply corrupted their culture and user incentives. Facebook profits when its users become willing participants in the instrumentalization of their own friendships; turning them into data points that can be analyzed and sold. When we agree to broadcast all of our relationships publicly, they become something that we perform for the world, all couched in irony and cynical detachment, and that can make us act like assholes. To quote David Foster Wallace, “there’s some great essay somewhere that has a line about irony being the song of the prisoner who’s come to love his cage.”

I’ll end this with the forward to Neil Postman’s Amusing Ourselves to Death:

We were keeping our eye on 1984. When the year came and the prophecy didn’t, thoughtful Americans sang softly in praise of themselves. The roots of liberal democracy had held. Wherever else the terror had happened, we, at least, had not been visited by Orwellian nightmares.

But we had forgotten that alongside Orwell’s dark vision, there was another - slightly older, slightly less well known, equally chilling: Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World. Contrary to common belief even among the educated, Huxley and Orwell did not prophesy the same thing. Orwell warns that we will be overcome by an externally imposed oppression. But in Huxley’s vision, no Big Brother is required to deprive people of their autonomy, maturity and history. As he saw it, people will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.

What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one. Orwell feared those who would deprive us of information. Huxley feared those who would give us so much that we would be reduced to passivity and egoism. Orwell feared that the truth would be concealed from us. Huxley feared the truth would be drowned in a sea of irrelevance. Orwell feared we would become a captive culture. Huxley feared we would become a trivial culture, preoccupied with some equivalent of the feelies, the orgy porgy, and the centrifugal bumblepuppy. As Huxley remarked in Brave New World Revisited, the civil libertarians and rationalists who are ever on the alert to oppose tyranny “failed to take into account man’s almost infinite appetite for distractions”. In 1984, Huxley added, people are controlled by inflicting pain. In Brave New World, they are controlled by inflicting pleasure. In short, Orwell feared that what we hate will ruin us. Huxley feared that what we love will ruin us.

New prints available on Society6

Sun, 17 Jun 2012 23:08:36 +0100

New prints available on Society6

A little bit late, the new “Cookie Law” came into...

Mon, 11 Jun 2012 23:36:00 +0100

A little bit late, the new “Cookie Law” came into effect around a week ago, but I now have a new privacy policy on my site. This little Cookie Copper appears on it.

helloyoucreatives: Moon Glass by TALE

Wed, 30 May 2012 23:15:41 +0100

helloyoucreatives:

Moon Glass by TALE

New House of Deadleg promo postcards.

Thu, 24 May 2012 22:51:00 +0100

New House of Deadleg promo postcards.

neil-gaiman: Have you heard Orson Welles failing to record...

Tue, 15 May 2012 22:01:30 +0100

neil-gaiman:

Have you heard Orson Welles failing to record three Findus frozen foods commercials? It is beautiful and grumpy, and was played to me by an audio engineer after I’d spent three days recording an audio book, to show how much worse it could be.

Sydney Opera House/Cross-process

Thu, 10 May 2012 22:27:16 +0100

Sydney Opera House/Cross-process

drawnblog: Here’s Quentin Blake demonstrating, step by step,...

Mon, 23 Apr 2012 22:36:50 +0100

drawnblog:

Here’s Quentin Blake demonstrating, step by step, how he makes the illustrations for his books.

It’s from this great page on his website, How I Draw, in which he describes the process a little more:

In the attempt to combine planning with an air of spontaneity I’ve employed various techniques of which the one I have found most successful, and have used for the last thirty years, makes use of a light box.

…

What happens next is not tracing; in fact it’s important that I can’t see the rough drawing underneath too clearly, because when I draw I try to draw as if for the first time.

Ssssssnnnnnnnnaaaaaaaaakkkkkkkeeeeeeee! Based on a quick Snake...

Wed, 18 Apr 2012 23:35:00 +0100

Ssssssnnnnnnnnaaaaaaaaakkkkkkkeeeeeeee!

Based on a quick Snake sketch I did ages ago and thought I should maybe use for something.

Illustration Friday - Vocal An old image that I never really did...

Thu, 12 Apr 2012 21:42:03 +0100

Illustration Friday - Vocal

An old image that I never really did anything with, but it fits this weeks Illustration Friday topic so I thought I’d dust it off and do something with it.

Wow, stunning work! creativeboom: theartofanimation: Bill...

Thu, 29 Mar 2012 18:33:27 +0100

Wow, stunning work!

creativeboom:

theartofanimation:

Bill Bate

Beautiful work

it8bit: Real Prince of Persia Created by...

Mon, 12 Mar 2012 20:27:14 +0000

it8bit:

Real Prince of Persia

Created by Karahat

(via: 8bitfuture)