Posters - 2012

These three posters were for an exhibition for 4th year work at the Paisley campus at the University of the West of Scotland in June 2012.

(These images have been reduced in resolution for loading onto this blog. 

The original images were made for printing on A2.)

The Pile

Information Overload

The Jam

A discovery in Forbidden Planet

I just been to the Forbidden Planet comic book shop on Buchanan Street, Glasgow, earlier today and I made a discovery.
It was something I thought couldn't be done on print.....

.... A comic book crossover of Doctor Who and Star Trek!

The two greatest sci-fi franchises ever to come form the 1960s (except for Ultraman and the works of Gerry Anderson) together in a single storyline! How could this be possible? (I know it has been done online, check the link below.) But the fact that it has been printed astonishes me.

Doctor Who and Star Trek Next Generation Crossover fan-fiction

I should note that the comic I discovered is a crossover of Star Trek - The Next Generation (That's the Patrick Stewart Captain Picard series for you non-Trekkies out there.) and the 11th Doctor Who (Matt Smith).

So, did I buy it.... no (I had already bought a lot of stuff that day, so I didn't. Plus, I'm not that well into Star Trek to make such a purchase (I seen the J.J. Abrams 2009 movie and a few episodes and movies, but that's it).

If you are curious enough to click the link, feel free to explore the site. There's a lot of crazy stuff on it. There's one story where the Doctor kills Stewie Griffin to prevent him dominating the world (which is very dramatically-written) and a few about him getting mixed up with a certain high school club whose interest is in aliens, time travellers and ESPers, whose leader could destroy the world (although she doesn't know that). (I'm not telling you who I'm talking about there. Find out for yourself.)

One month to the end of the World

As we are one month away from the Apocalypse (if you one of those people who believe in that misinterpreted Mayan calender stuff or are concerned about that newly discovered wondering planet, which has made Professor Brian Cox very pissed by the number of twits he's getting from you) I have a few spanners I like to throw into the conspiracy works.

Is it me, or is it a coincidence that the supposed date of the end of the world coincides with the 25th anniversary of the Lockerbie bombing?

And here's a few more events that happen to coincide with the end of the world...

(I may have got the numbers wrong, but they are close)

The 894th birthday of Archbishop  Thomas Becket
The 737th anniversary of the death of  Giovanni Boccaccio
The 392nd anniversary of the landing of the Mayflower at Plymouth Rock, Massachusetts
The 208th birthday of  Benjamin Disraeli
The 199th birthday of Archbishop Archibald Campbell Tait
The 172nd anniversary of the founding of the Rochdale Society of Equitable Pioneers
The 105th anniversary of the Santa Maria School Massacre in Chile
The 99th anniversary of the publication of the world's first crossword puzzle
The 75th anniversary of the premiere of Walt Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
The 72nd anniversary of the death of F. Scott Fitzgerald
The 50th anniversary of the finding of Rondane National Park, Norway
The 45th anniversary of the death of  Louis Washkansky
The 44th anniversary of the launch of Apollo 8
The 33rd anniversary of the signing of the  Lancaster House Agreement
The 20th anniversary of the crash of Martinair Flight 495
The 18th anniversary of the eruption of Popocatepeti, Mexico.

In fact, here's a list to sieve through yourself.

Wikipedia - December 21st

With such information, I'm sure all your conspiracy nuts could think of something that connects all these events (no matter how far-fetched). It'll give you something to do while you wait for the end of the world (and trying to find a way around that security system that's preventing you from stowing away on that rocket ship/ ark that's been built in a secret location to protect the best of the best from Earth (or whoever's got the most money)).

Although, recent excavations of the Mayan kingdom do show some evidence that the Mayans knew that some of us will assume the world is about to end because of their calculations. In fact, one recently discovered scribble on a wall has been translated and said "The simpletons will think this will mean the end of the world. What a jabe that will be - Bazinga!"

The BBC is 90

The BBC is now 90 years old. To celebrate, the BBC's various radio stations broadcast this message at 5:33pm on 14th November 2012.

What would the guys who built and run transmitter 2LO would have made of Orson Welles, Spike Milligan, Douglas Adams and Chris Moyles?

Its great that you are now 90, but sadly much of my radio listening is dominated by local commercial stations.  Today, I mostly change station during my listening time (thanks to digital push-button memory tuning) if the one I'm listening to is playing a song I don't like or a commercial.
But I wasn't always like that. During my high school days, I tuned in to the radio almost every weeknight Monday to Thursday to listen to Tiger Tim Stevens on Clyde 1. I do have fond memories of those nights (Except Fridays, as this was when George Bowie did his dance club music show (I wasn't into dance music then... or clubbing)).

My listening habits changed in 2006, when I got my first MP3 player (a small black 4Gb Archos Gemini XS10D).

I (mostly) stopped listening to the radio after that. But I still got my music fix. I have upgraded since (from two Sony Walkman MP4 players (the first one was destroyed in the washer when I left it in my pocket) to a massive 160Gb iPod Classic).

This is Gordon Wallace signing off now.

(Play end tune)

Ooohhh, oh oh oh oh oh oooohhhhh! Bye bye....!

Spam Comic Strip (2005)

This was comic strip that was planned to go on a school web site. Me and a friend of mine very briefly took part in the creation of a web site for the school (we only took part in two meetings, one been which was about what content could be place on it). In the time of this creation some vandals had recently broke into the school and smashed up the place a bit, hence the destructive theme of the strip.
This was a typical strip I made at this time (although this is the only one I made at this time). This hasn't been touched up in Photoshop, this is as it was drawn on paper. The text is handwritten, you can tell that a ruler was used for the borders and the pencil isn't fully rubbed out.
If I was doing this strip today, the only big change I was do will be the graphics on the side of the van. I would make it more like it was from the Spam company (lettering and everything).

Stealth Car (c2007)

This is a doodle I made during my first year at College studying graphics design. 

(excuse the spelling mistakes)

This was based on the episode of Mythbusters where the junior team tested out various ways to evade the radar speed trap.

They covered the hub caps with tin foil (then the whole car), then painted the whole car with matt black paint. They used flashing LEDs around the number plate. They attached magnetrons from microwave ovens on the hood.They hung reflective objects from the rearview mirror (such as CDs, keys and a disco mirror ball). They even tried a shun gun (an air cannon full of pieces of foil to create distracting reflections in radar signals (they were used for real on planes during World War II)). The only thing they tried that did affect eh signals sent out by the radar gun (sightly) was a device of their own invention (called "The Wheel of Death") that was placed on the roof (the picture closely matches it).

The car pictured is meant to match the 1970s Cadillac  Elderado they used on the show.

Stonehouse Primary (old) 2008

This is a photo-collage of Stonehouse Primary School. The collage was created in 2008 from photos I took from my parents bedroom. The building itself was demolished in 2011 and was replaced by a more modern building, which opened in September 2012. It had an open day on the 7th November and I had a browse with my parents and nephew (Who's a student there).