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I’m Pissing On Your Car

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Recently did a video for a charity and amongst the footage we shot (we meaning and my wife) there was me pretending to pee on a neighbours car. Simple enough to do – just a water bottle and holding the camera at the right angle.

Today I’m meant to be working on something else, but procrastination is a dreadful thing and I found myself making a donk about weeing on cars. Sorry, it won’t happen again.

EDIT: Ooh, there’s been requests for MP3s. Firstly someone wants it as a ringtone, and secondly someone else asked for an acapella for remixing. How exciting.

UPDATE: Spam Master Dave writes, “I made a remix. I hope you enjoy listening to it as much as i enjoyed producing it”. And here it is.


I-Spot Iconic Game Characters

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Huzzah – we’ve produced another book for E4. This one on the bestest ever computer game characters. I personally love Manic Miner so this is the cover I proposed, Jody the chappy who commissioned the work prefers Street Fighter so that’s the version on the E4 site.

I hope you like the little jokes we wrote at the bottom of each page.

http://www.e4.com/wtf/iconic-game-characters/


I Spot School Misery

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The third I Spot “book” is out. Produced by me and Dave for E4.

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http://www.e4.com/wtf/school/index.html

People I went to school with might possibly recognise a few references. Sorry!


I Spot Bad Films

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As the previous booklet went down well with E4 (it cost them pennies and produced a reasonable amount of traffic), they commissioned another.

This one has got a MUCH better cover as it features Sean Connery in thigh-boots AND makes clearer the range of content within the pages.

Of course you’ll completely disagree with the films we’ve chosen, but that’s the point of lists isn’t it? Or at least my wife, a TV list show producer says so. She also made us stick in Peter’s Friends.

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http://www.e4.com/wtf/bad-films/


I Spot Internet Humour

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James Goss from E4 got in touch recently and asked for something on theme of internet culture possibly in the style of an old Ladybird book.

Taking the idea and running with it, we (me and Dave of course) turned to the I Spy books of the 70s and combined it with our 50 favourite web memes.

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Really hope you enjoy this, as to create this project was a joy.


More Jibjab

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Doing more songs and animation for JibJab – for this batch we (yes, that’s me and Dave) used claymation.

Stupid Clients

Not the easiest thing to pitch – “Dear client, please buy this song and animatiod. It’s called ‘stupid clients’. It’s not about you.”

The smashing phone thing, I’ve done that too many times.

Background? A pile of CDs.

Play Stupid Clients.

Snowman

Song written muttering under by breath waiting for a meeting. I probably looked utterly mad – tapping out the rhythm with a pencil on my forehead.

Background? Twigs and tissue paper for snow.

Play Snowman.

Rotten Christmas

Pleased with the melody on this one – partly written in a waiting room at Wittington Hosptial.

Background? More twigs from the garden.

Play Rotten Christmas.

This little thing likes you

The most throwaway one – maybe the simplicity is charming? Or maybe it’s just RUBBISH.

Background? Out of focus wall.

Play This Little Thing.

Happy Birthday Groovy Chick

Has a walking a bassline. Never tried one of those before, ended up so pleased with it I reused it as a cheesy organ part.

Background? Postit notes.

Play Groovy Chick.


Tacky Celebs

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Dave and I in a moment of bordem challenged each other to create celebs from Blu Tack.


Matackma Gandhi by Rob


John Lennon – Get Tack by Dave


Osama Blu Tacken by Rob


Dame Edna Edhesive by Dave


Arthur Scarglue by Rob


Charles Darwin – Origin of the Adhesives by Dave


Windsor Clayvies by Rob


Albert Einstick by Dave


Erstick Cartman by Rob


Adolf Stickler by Dave


Ronald Reagum by Dave


George Washingtack by Dave


Amnesty – The Ball is Back

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Commissioned to make a short animation for Amnesty to promote The Ball is Back, me and Dave have come up with this.

http://www.protectthehuman.com/videos/the-ball-is-back-

Stuff to note:

* Visually – our most ambitious stop-motion to date.
* Produced on the edge of my desk – as the photo should make clearer
* The wooden sets? They’re offcuts from Angus’s shed
* Mostly referencing Indiana Jones, although I confess the Boosh shot is obviously Star Wars
* We flmed this thing 2 times, losing the first version in the Great Hard Disk Crash of 2008

Production photos

Amnesty production

Amnesty - characters from The Ball is Back


Jibjab – 10 more songs

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We (me and Dave) have been doing a lot of work for JibJab recently – found it quite an education attempting to quickly bash out songs and videos using different styles. It’s certainly improved our chops.

We’re like a Brill Building of novelty song.

Mondays suck

Releasing our inner calypso band. And yes, it does look like Howard from the Halifax ads.

Thank you

Ardman, the Blutack years.

I love you more than…

Video written via visiting Woolworths and looking for props. Aha! Some own-brand post-it notes for less than £1. The original punch-line, “I love you more than Amy Winehouse loves drugs” still amuses me.

Thank God It’s Friday

In my head this is an Emo version of the Friends theme. What I most remember about the video was walking round shops in Camden looking for a cheap diary.

My Master Fancies You

BTW: We also did a ‘fan edit’ of this using Kraftwerk’s The Robot but we can’t stick that online as Kraftwerk aren’t actually the client.

Hurty Blister

Notable for its Windows Vista bashing, born from irritation at Joel Veitch spending £££ on a dell machine that didn’t work properly.

You Rock

One of the few we bought props for. Spent about £7 on cheese. My son likes the messiness of this and shouts “urgh!” when we play it.

Old People’s Cancer

If Roger Waters made birthday cards.

Slash

The most perfunctory birthday greeting possible. Hopefully people get this point rather than think it’s just crap.

Halloween means

If cannibalistic pedophiles are your bag, then this is for you


Scroll Wheel Cheese, 2 cups 1 bag, 48k Celebrity Awards and Coin Stack Challenge

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Hello peeps, here’s a bunch of stuff we did recently. Lovely Dave helped.

Scroll Wheel Cheese – inspecting the crud in my mouse.
48k Celebrity Awards – looking at spectrumy pixel art. BTW: I drew Clive myself – such talent.
Coin Stack Challenge – I’ve got a jar of change, we had a little game to see who’d make the biggest tower. Oooh the thrills!
2 cups 1 bag – a complaint that everyone should use less teabags.