Here is an image of some new characters I’ve been working on. I’m developing a few of them to full colour which I’ll post tomorrow.

These monsters are made from various bits of waste by Brandon Jan Blommeart. More can be seen in his flickr set called eco_station.

Over at Pitchfork they have started to compile their end of the decade lists of best albums and best tracks (the tracks are up now, albums are coming up later in the year). This is accompanied by a series of articles about various aspects of music in this decade. It’s worth a look even if it is just to violently disagree with their chosen top 100 lists.

Here are some photo’s of a DIY Qee I drew all over with a Little Old Men block of flats. I am just finishing off another one at the moment, this time a custom Qee Bear.

Click on the images to see them bigger.

This is a new sketchbook drawing of some creepy (yet melancholy) insects. I might work them up into full colour characters sometime soon.

In the middle of August is probably not the best time to post a Christmas animation but I have just entered my short “Walking In The Air” into the Aniboom Holiday Animation Challenge. Submissions are open till the 31th August if you want to enter one yourself.

Click here or on the picture above to see the animation.

This beautiful video was made by Yanni Kronenberg and Lucinda Schreiber for the Australian band Firekites and their song “Autumn Story”. I love the illustrations and the simple set up that was used to it’s full potential.

This is full of quick fire jokes from the master of animation, Tex Avery. I don’t think you could get away with some of this anymore (see if you can guess which parts) which is probably a good thing. Very funny and very of it’s time.

This simple but effective animation attempts to explain quantum physic’s principles of dimensions in a visual way. I really enjoyed it and thought I’d been taught something until I read the comments on Boing Boing. Accurate or not, it’s still very interesting if you like this type of thing.

I’ve been listening to the Collings And Herring Podcast for quite a while now. Full of ramshackle talking and the odd bit about things going on in the newspapers, it is usually done in the comedian Richard Herring’s attic when Andrew Collins brings over his laptop to record on its internal mic. It’s very funny but not for people with delicate ears. If you listen to podcast number 57 you can even hear some jingles I made for them (and Richard’s own special way of being grateful for my efforts).

This week they are doing a 5 day live run of the podcast in front of an audience at the Edinburgh Festival. These are then put up on iTunes later in the day for people who couldn’t attend to listen to. Click here or on the picture above to get the podcasts.