Well, as we prepare to put the clocks back, I thought I'd show you the clocks going forward. Today's Sunday Matinee is a slice of Gr...

My interest in all things Granada was piqued recently when I came across a copy of "Easy Go" by Nick Glennie-Smith. This was the ...

When I drew my recreation of the IBA electronic test-card ETP-1 in Macromedia Flash, I only captioned it with the large IBA caption.  As I...

My children have been nagging me to add internationalisation (i18n) to testpilotmonkey 's brilliant game ClapTraps . Well, the road to...

Well, I've had Prof. Steve Furber giving lectures in front of my artwork , now I've got the legendary Sophie Wilson playing with r...

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...