I’ve been playing with OpenGL over the weekend, and the hippos forced me to publish this repeating animated microshort.
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hippos weaving
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Great performance by Pete Oxley and Nick Meier last night at the Albion Beatnik Bookstore. I prepped my coloured pencils and riffed along with the fluid melodies and oh so tight rapport. I managed to include references to almost every title played, except for Vera Cruz (because I didn’t know what to draw).
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Pete Oxley and Nick Meier "Chasing Tails"
Today Karen and I participated in an event in our local museum of the history of science. We drew pictures of insects seen through a microscope, and then transferred our drawings into monoprint. That’s my* body louse, Pediculus humanus, reproduced above – I forgot to reverse the caption. The event was designed to celebrate the famous work Micrographia, by Robert Hooke.
UPDATE: Got some paint and had a go at home today. This isn’t a print, this is the back-lit acetate block I used to hold the paint after making a print (so it’s a kind of negative). 
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* only borrowed. I wasn’t allowed to keep her.
So there I was, pulling New Year crackers at our office party, when out fell a tiny notebook, no bigger than my thumb*. After a little while I noticed it was full of dancing hippos. I spent the rest of the evening on the dance floor with Karen, trying to emulate the funky, cool moves of this smooth dancer. Karen laughed a lot, so I reckon I must have succeeded.
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* casual hyperbole, under section IV of the Artistic Licensing Act 2008. True figure** is 60 (+/-1) x 40 (+/- 1) mm^2.
** for the notebook. The thumb is smaller.
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thumbnail sketches of a hippo having a hippo of a time dancing.
Here’s a picture of a very self-confident and well-fed little character we met on our traditional New Year’s Day walk around Oxford with friends. Wishing you a Happy New Year for 2016 from everyone at invisibules.org – we hope you get as many nuts out of life as he obviously does.
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Cheeky squirrel munching the nut he charmed from us.
Yesterday I took the day off work and we went to London Zoo for a fabulous day of animal treats. Among the treats not pictured were the aye-aye (too dark to see it for long, but it came right up to the glass;) and the baby two-toed sloth, Edward, who is not on public view but we happened to coincide with him as he was being taken home for the evening by his surrogate (human) mother, and stopped for a chat. The baby emperor tamarin twins were very interested in my sketch-book, and had a go at climbing all over it, and trying to see if there was food hidden between the pages. The brown titi monkey was then inspired to do the same.
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making lunch, and travelling on the X90 coach to London.
Western gorilla, 2 weeks old;
tigers;
komodo dragon;
axolotl;
long horned cow fish;
stingray;
okapi;
ring-tailed lemur;
southern tamandua (tree anteater);
piranha;
2 baby emperor tamarin twins, in my sketchbook;
red titi monkey (also in sketchbook);
dinner at Rajdoot;
back to Oxford on the X90 coach..
Western gorilla, 2 weeks old;
tigers;
komodo dragon;
axolotl;
long horned cow fish;
stingray;
okapi;
ring-tailed lemur;
southern tamandua (tree anteater);
piranha;
2 baby emperor tamarin twins, in my sketchbook;
red titi monkey (also in sketchbook);
dinner at Rajdoot;
back to Oxford on the X90 coach..
I created this comic as my entry for a competition. I didn’t win, so now I’m free to share it with my readers! To make it easier for most people, I’ve translated it out of the original Latvian into English.
[Art note: I decided in this case to use vector graphics (rather than my usual rough sketches and bitmaps) — which was interesting, being simultaneously liberating (let the computer do the work) and challenging (the need to make definite decisions on line position). Thank you inkscape.]
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The urban hunter explores the urban jungle, ants, bees, elephant, hippo, rhino, giraffe, zebra, lion, wildebeest and the odd human commuter.
I don’t have a comic to post at the moment, so instead here is yesterday’s page from my sketchbook, I realise that’s not quite the same thing. We wandered around the V&A without a plan, and somehow the page filled with drawings of things that caught my attention. Later we went to a concert South of the River, out beyond Peckham, with friends.
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China:
vase with lotus and fish design, 1750-1850 Qing dynasty.
Teapot 1989, Gerald Gulotta and Bao Li'an
Owl-shaped wine vessel, 1250-1050BC, Shang dynasty. Bronze.
Korea: Bottle with willow design 1100-1300 Koryo- dynasty
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"Bartmann" pitcher with medallions and a crucifixion scene. 1575. (Workshop of?) Jans Emens Mennicken
Two earthenware pots ~1880. Linthorpe Art Pottery, designed by Christopher Dresser
Knitted green hat. Provenance unknown. ~late 20th century?
vase with lotus and fish design, 1750-1850 Qing dynasty.
Teapot 1989, Gerald Gulotta and Bao Li'an
Owl-shaped wine vessel, 1250-1050BC, Shang dynasty. Bronze.
Korea: Bottle with willow design 1100-1300 Koryo- dynasty
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"Bartmann" pitcher with medallions and a crucifixion scene. 1575. (Workshop of?) Jans Emens Mennicken
Two earthenware pots ~1880. Linthorpe Art Pottery, designed by Christopher Dresser
Knitted green hat. Provenance unknown. ~late 20th century?
I would like to thank my wonderful and surreal wife, Karen, for the wordplay that underpins this comic. I merely added the seahorses and coloured it in.
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It was just another tedious social function. But then, magically, across the crowded room, their lips met. [picture: fish at a party. Two seahorses kiss across the room using their long long snouts)]
Yesterday I took the day off work and we went into London to visit the Natural History Museum. Darwin says “Hi!”
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almost compleat stegosaurus. Arthur Pain collection. Tube Worms. Aragonite. Icthyosaur with babies. Brain coral. Umbrella-mouthed gulper. Deep sea gnosher (before feeding - after feeding) The blue whale is being serviced.