As the dread day dawns of the first anniversary of our incarceration in these caves, here’s a lovely thing I’ve just heard about that’s cheered me up a bit. Commissioned by the UK government’s Department for Children, Schools and Families, The School Library Association has just produced Everyone’s Reading – a list of books the [...]
Archive > January 2010
All this snow makes it feel like Christmas …
As a pilot for over twenty years it was my job not to crash into things. Occasionally accidents do happen though. I lost count of how many times I massacred birds with my various flying machines. I once had a chunk of ice the size of a grapefruit hit my windshield whilst I was flying at [...]
Feast Your Eyes!
Here are a few quick links to some stunning animation I’ve been enjoying lately. First up – and thanks to Andy for spotting this one and mentioning it on his Twitter – here’s a wonderfully macabre short film called Alma, directed by Rodrigo Blaas. Creeped out by dolls? I know I am – and after [...]
THE ONLY BATTLE CARDS FOR 2010!
Forget Pokething and Didgiwostit – the only cards worth collecting in 2010 are the TRAPPED BY MONSTERS BATTLECARDS! YES! TBM battle cards are exciting, full colour, handy-sized paper nuggets of edge-of-the-seat fun. THRILL when you learn of Mark Robson’s exact HEIGHT! Andy Brigg’s embarrassing 70s-themed WEAKNESS! Ali Sparkes’ STUPID POEM ATTACK and Joe Craig’s alarmingly healthy [...]
A plea from Chris Bradford…
Now it’s time for us all to do a little good. I received the email below from Chris Bradford, author of the superb Young Samurai series. Come on folks, dig in for any help you can give and please pass the message on around your school, family, office – everyone! Now, from Chris: I hope [...]
Top Writing Tips
This week, I was going to write a post filled with writing tips, but then I found this video – which says just about everything I was planning to cover:
Evil Thoughts …
If there’s one thing I’ve learned in here, it’s to keep my mouth shut as much as possible!
One for The Road
Monsters don’t tend to be big fans of human-made monster films, and when you consider what happens to monsters in most of those stories that’s hardly surprising. But I’ve noticed that some human movies attract a lot of attention from our captors: one, in particular, the monsters have been waiting for avidly. Last night I [...]
Reading Pictures
I posted an article a while back, about how I like to produce a short sequence of drawings on a single page as a warming up exercise before I get down to the really messy business of ‘creativity.’ Well, with this recent cold snap moving in I’ve been needing more warm-ups than usual and I [...]
