30th
Nov
2007
Alexisms 105
30th
Nov
2007
Name that Shoe
I came across this photo of these leather shoes today. I quite like them and was wondering if anyone knew what they were or where I could get them?
I really like this, a light shade made from a load of old fluorescent tubes, beautiful. Made by Castor Canadensis a Canadian interdisciplinary design outfit.
30th
Nov
2007
Beautiful Colour
Across my desk at work is Greg, we pump out hot air from the backs of our G5 towers towards each other all day. Only recently I’ve discovered how good and daring a photographer he is (he’s a web developer during the day). Check out his Flickr account for lots of saturated colour, graphical compositions and fun fair fun.
Next week (2-9th December) he’s having an exhibition at Gallery 5 in west London, I can’t wait, see the NottingStill website for more info.
I’m all for handmade presents, all mine generally are made by me. There’s definitely been a bit of an explosion in people selling handmade stuff recently, probably spearheaded by the community at Etsy. I think it’s great and should be encouraged, so now you can pledge to buy handmade this Christmas.
Go on, you know it’ll make the world a slightly better and more interesting place. Better still just make your own, they don’t have to be perfect, it’s often the imperfections that make them so great.
29th
Nov
2007
Reas International
Loving the work of Reas International, led by Todd James.
Blighmy after watching this psychedelic animation by Peter Max, I need a refreshment…
29th
Nov
2007
Animation Backgrounds
I’m in awe of the craftsmanship of animation background artists. Animation Backgrounds is a blog devoted to that art and I can’t get enough of it.
28th
Nov
2007
A Big Thank You!
I started this blog a little over a year ago, here’s my first post. At the time I didn’t really know what to expect, but the newly launched Technorati had this little graph (which seems to of disappeared now), it was blank for me - said it “only tracked the top 100,000 blogs”. So at the time I thought, that’s what I want to achieve, get into the top 100,000 blogs so that I get a little graph!
Well the graph feature might of gone, but today I noticed that I’ve finally made it into the top 100,000. I’m chuffed to bits and just want to thank everyone for popping in over the past year and I suppose more importantly for those folk who’ve linked me up (I think that’s how Technorati do their rankings?).
I find looking at my blog statistics endlessly fascinating, I’ve had a big increase in visitors over the past month or two (I’m on about 750 uniques a day at the moment) although most of them seem to after either my inflatable bikini or anal sex t-shirt post…
28th
Nov
2007
Ninjas & Moustachios
Ninjas & Moustachios are friends, I’d agree with that, and now for only $1 I could promote that belief with this vinyl sticker from Shawnimals.
Probably the wrong time of the year to post this, but I’m quite excited about finding a shop that specialises in stripey deckchair fabric.
The Continental Divide - Our Progress!
Cookie & Paul are currently walking the 3000 mile long Continental Divide Trail from Mexico to Canada.
Everything about the walk is on the following pages:
1. You can check on our progress here (or below)
2. You can find out more info about the trip here
3. You can sponsor us here
Where are Cookie & Paul?
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Thanks, to Nokia for our N82 phone!
Tracking our progress right across America is no mean feet. Luckily we've had a good deal of help from the kind folks at Nokia, who supplied us with their latest N82 phone with Sports Tracker. It's what we're using to track our route with GPS, take our pictures and write our posts. Finally it's the tool we use to update the blog, whenever we get reception or a wifi area.
Who, What, Where, When?
Made in England by Gentlemen is a blog written by Cookie, who generally designs websites, draws cartoons, drinks too much, grows a moustache and browses the web for interesting & amusing stuff. But currently the only thing he's doing is walking northwards towards Canada with his mate Paul, if you're not interested in my holiday pics ;) and were hoping for some visual eye candy, may I suggest you check out my girlfriend's blog: Monster-Munch.
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- Eleanor, finds the best jobs - Roome
- Tim, is generally surfing - Way Out West
Blogs I regularly read
- Always excellent linkage at - Computer Love
- Double you double you double you dot - NOTCOT
- Tina Roth, lots of spending inspiration at - swissmiss
- Surfing the net?, I'm not so sure - Wrong Distance
- Vive la resistance, - Vive le Freak
- Epic adventures everyday at - The Adventure Blog
- Always fresh signals from - Coudal Partners
- Keeping it simple at - 37 Signals
- Observations & ideas at - Ironic Sans
- Vintage graphics & illustration at - grain edit
- I like toys but - Toysrevil
- Collating visual culture at - pica + pixel
- Always finding the type at - Ace Jet 170
- Michael Eades, always finds good links - yewknee
- Always good for a rummage - PLEP
- Finding fascinating this - The Nonist
- Random & amusing - Neatorama
- Does what it says on the tin - As Found
- Beautifully bizarre - Musselsoppans Vanner
- Eclectic & historic images at - Bibliodyssey
- Venn Diagrams are always funny at - Indexed
- It's like a kick in the balls - Nad Shot
- Support the - Little People
- Food For Designers - Dirty Little Mice
- Things look nice on - The Style Press
- Daily dose of design inspiration - The Serif
- Russel Davies, when he's not in a cafe - RussellDavies
- Andy Polaine, in his interactive - Playpen
- Ben Terrett, writes - Noisy Decent Graphics
- Charles Firth, thinking differently at - Punk Planning
- Web dude based in Tokyo - Yongfook
- Design links at - We Made This
- What's happening on the street - Wooster Collective
- A Visual Digest - 30gms
- Crazy ass art - VVORK
- Recalling the golden age of - Illustration Art
- Classic cartoons - International Animated Film Society
- To be posted here it has to be - Drawn!
Inspirational Websites
- All the inspiration you need at - FFFFOUND
- Class work from - YES
- Always great - New Future Graphic
- Scott Hansen, awsome style & skill - ISO50
- Mike & Katie, it's just so super cute - Tado
- Painting signs as they should be - Jeff Canham