Well, it had to happen sooner or later. My first documentary - my entry for the Golden Spigot of Hinton St. George: It's poorly made,...

When I'm using video as a source material for a recreation, I often use Avidemux .  Avidemux will either export .bmp files or .jpg files...

You might remember that in April I blogged about the computer game ClapTraps , which was written by my friend testpilotmonkey . ClapTraps i...

Whilst browsing dafont.com the other day, I noticed that (yet) another version of the classic Letraset Oxford typeface has been created, a...

Recently I've been playing about recreating various SMPTE and custom made film leaders in Flash 8 and Inkscape. One of the most interest...

After seeing this , look what somebody very kind sent to me:  Click to enlarge

I've always had a fascination for the BBC schools diamond. In case you are not familiar with it, the BBC schools diamond was a mechanica...

Regular readers of this blog will no doubt have been bored witless by my endless posts about the creation of a TrueType font based on the ...

These days, if at all possible, I like to use Inkscape for creating vector artwork. At one time I used Macromedia Flash 8 for all my vector...

Twelve years ago, when the internet was all shiny and new and I hadn't even heard of GNU/Linux , one of my favourite websites was the Mi...

Google recently got a lot of criticism for "copying Microsoft's search engine Bing " in changing the background of their hom...

I've finally made my blog feel a little more personal. I call this theme "70s Regional News". It's not the world's mos...

At the end of April, I blogged about Claptraps - my friend testpilotmonkey 's new computer game. Claptraps is a fiendishly addictive...

A few months back Roddy Buxton asked if I could do him a favour. His son had a school project about "the 70s", and one of the thi...

Another day, another video of a rather lame mock uploaded to YouTube. We're back to 4:3 again, and a short video a did to teach myself h...

Normally I use this blog to drone on about my own claptrap. However, today I'd like to use it to have a look at a friend's. Level ...

As I'm English, I thought I'd celebrate today with a video of my choice - my daughter speaking very good English even though she has...

I have a YouTube channel called " stupidrubbish " where I put bits and pieces of video I've created as and when I get the cha...

I must admit glass scares me. Oh I see, you just give the impression of glass don't you?

I had finished creating my BSB Squarial font on December 16th. It was now the December 17th, the event was on January 9th, Rory hadn't ...