As I start the journey to make a new spooky indie adventure game, I will also be creating a couple of one off pieces of original MediEvil art to sell - drawn in the exact style and materials of the hand drawn design work I did for the original games.

The next time a director says bullshit like this, I want the interviewer to ask: "If AI was around when you made your other films, which artists would you have fired?" I mean it. Name real fucking names. Of all the brilliant people you worked with, who do you think doesn't deserve a job anymore?

C W Stoneking was on fire last night in London, almost literally as it was sooooo goddamn unbearably hot and humid at the Islington venue! Worth it for a night of that vintage 20/30s Roots Blues sound. Bliss. 🔥

If you don’t do this you may want to do so (depending on household/property etc)… In a bid to tighten up my outgoings I was appalled at my recent water bill price hike - around £75 a month! So, I had the water company install a water meter. My bill this month then fell by £50+! Wow!

It’s been so hot these past few days, turning the upstairs into an oven, that some of the command strips that are holding up my larger picture frames (not glass frames) have melted/dried up sending one large framed poster crashing to the floor!

Lovely work!

Looking forward to seeing the human manifeststion of John Crops live later this week. youtu.be/Jgncwm9cMio?...

Greeting from my hike around Austria this week.

Ugh.

So happy AND jealous for Claire, she gets to meet with all the cool kids in her work. 💀❤️

Saw this today. I like it

An enjoyable later afternoon of framing and hanging artwork, I reckon that I have the most monster-tastic staircase of Cambridge! 😁 A mix of official Toho 1950/60s era Godzilla posters that I picked up in Japan some years ago, including an old 1950s seafood shop banner.

Instead of thinking about a certain odious grinning cretin, I’m enjoying the writings of someone far more wholesome who has done more good to educated and unite the historic psyche of Britain than any small minded populist ever could. David Attenborough who turned 100 this week. Happy birthday!

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Framed and hung some Moebius that I bought from one of his exhibitions long ago in Paris.

Hope you all voted in the UK today. Not too many great options but let’s at least keep nefarious populism out of the picture.

Brilliantly devilish news from BFI.

Does anyone remember the newspaper comic strip “Garth?” My dad used to buy the Daily Mirror when I was a kid, I would cut out the daily Garth strips and stick them in a scrap book. They were weird and a bit too adult fur me. Anyway, I was tidying up and found a reprinted collection of them.

This was a great archeological scanning trip that I joined in Rome earlier in the year. Mind you, at one point I got very distracted by a fabulous Italian film poster shop - we have a 3D model scan of that too! 😄

It’s been a crazy month of big decisions and bigger risks taken. Feels like the last few years have been running on full steam and adrenalin to get by. For now, a little rest is in order as I unscramble my brain and plot my next move. Time to get back to what I love. There will be skeletons! 😄

Love these two filmmaking biopic films “Nouvelle Vague” and “Ed Wood”. Both broke the rules but left entirely different legacies on cinema.

A beautiful new box set for my favourite Guillermo del Toro film. A lovely sun kissed day for a spooky sun kissed ghost film.

One of the (many) sad implications of generative AI is that whoever I now see some nice artwork in Videogames that I would have once assumed was hand drawn/painted, is now to think is it AI? Even in indie games. The erosion of trust in the craft of imagery and art is saddening.

Unfinished business. Exciting developments. Soon to return to the mythology of this world. Watch this space.

Framed my beautiful signed Nori Yorstein and Francheska Yarbusova animation prints taken from their painted glass stopmotion animations. Now to find an inspirational place to hang them.

Unfinished business. Exciting developments. Soon to return to the mythology of this world. Watch this space.

I wonder if seven priests have been dispatched from Italy this week?

Trump as ‘American Jesus’ (rolls eyes and then vomits) should be the next big boss in another Blasphemous game!

Another new(ish) game I’ve been playing on my Switch 2 is “Star Wars: Outlaws”. Full disclosure; I am not a big SW nerd but I like the original trilogy. The tech/engine running the game on S2 is most impressive, ray tracing looks good, runs at a smooth 30fps. Enjoying it tho’ it does nothing new.

“Reanimal” and the lonesome bus stop on my work commute from ‘HaverHell.’ When games and reality collide.

Only in the 1970s would this be the lineup for the leading men roles in a film. And I love the uncool nerdiness of it! 😁

Fuuuuuuuuuuuck!

Trump… probably not a fan. ‘Better to be a pig than a fascist.’ ❤️

Love it when living in my home city feels like being on holiday. 😄 Especially when you know the quiet spots to avoid the streams of tourists.

What is the point of a game key card (Switch 2) - the full game is not on the actual card? I notice that in some cases a game key card is cheaper than the version sold on the Nintendo e-store. Seems a bit daft! The modern way of doing this is so janky.

Trump is destroying and undermining everything that offered the West peace and security based on lessons learned after WW2. So exhausted by Trump’s dangerous man baby bullshit. Not only weakening alliances but making America both a laughing stock and a feared populist power by its allies and friend.

What’s everyone’s take on Spike Jonze’s live action adaptation of Maurice Sendak’s “Where the Wild Things are?” Due a revisit tonight, meant to do it some time ago but never got around to it. I found it interesting back on release but I wonder how it will play out over a decade and a half later.

I think I gave an interview sat beneath this life sized statue back in the dim and distant retro year of 1998. 💀

@deafcrocodile.bsky.social are really knocking it out of the park with these blu ray film releases from around the world, particularly Eastern Europe. The jewel for me is the Yuri Norstein animation film release.

Trump … what an absolute chaotic drag on the world he continues to be.

Listening to some CD soundtracks that I actually bought back in the 1980s/1990 and they all play perfectly almost 40 years later! Never had a single physical CD fail on me yet and I don’t have to rely on streaming. 💿

An early birthday treat… beautiful hand signed artworks by Stopmotion artist/film director Yuri Norstein. “Goodnight Children” created by Norstein and Francheska Yarbusova. I adore Norstein’s layered glass animations. Each moving part of every detail is hand painted onto small pieces of glass.

Went out last night to the nature reservoir to watch the astonishing Starling murmurations - a beautiful free show that nature puts on for us to witness. Photos do not do justice to how amazing these liquid bird forms are as they fly as one collective. Starling numbers fell by 57% since 1995.

Retro games dev’ Sunday - found the pixel sprites online from the “Motörhead” game that I worked on for Virgin back in 1992! Art and design. It was a different time back then! 😆🎸

Had a fun day at the Wes Anderson Exhibition at the Design Museum. Lots of props, costumes, models and art on display.

At the Wes Anderson costume, models and concept design exhibition at the Design Museum in London. Should be fun.

Great to see “Sinners” getting love during awards season. Best time I had at the cinema in 2025 - I came out of that film so pumped up with so many great moments, images and sounds replaying in my mind.

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Oh boy, there are so many great SID chip-tune bangers on this old 2018 Retro Gamer CD! Thalamusik is f*cking awesome (among many other highlights). 😄😄🕹️

Love the fact that my local riverside independent coffee shop indulges my David Lynch fetish by branding their cups as the patterning from the Black Lodge as seen on my lapel Twin Peaks pin badge! 😁