Sometimes I can be almost creative, but not quite. I was bored the other day so I decided to make myself some business cards. I was so pleased with the results that I decided to get some stickers made as well. I did this for no particular reason, other than I was bored. I could never actually give them out to anyone and keep a straight face…
Being a narcissistic egomaniac, I decided to use myself as a background image, using this photoshopped picture of me I made back in January (another example of my twisted sense of “art”)
http://tomfogarty.com/blog/tattoos-2011/
Then I used the “Andre the Giant Has a Posse” viral campaign as a basis for the 2-tone print effect. The idea for this was also inspired by the skull stickers I kept seeing dotted around London a while back (I never did find out where they came from or what they meant):
http://tomfogarty.com/blog/geek-skull-sticker/
Et voila!
I got them printed for free online. I took the time to make them at the right high-res dpi, converted them into the right file format (.ai), correct dimensions including a 3mm bleed mark around the edge.
They came out shit.
I could have done a better job printing them out myself and cutting them out with scissors left-handed and with my eyes closed.
Guess there’s no such thing as a free lunch, eh?
So I’ve been having problems with my hosting company. The redirects I’ve set up only seem to work when they want to. My sub-domains hardly ever work (blog.tomfogarty.com, archive.tomfogarty.com). And now I’ve found out I’m nearly out of space.
This is a pain in the arse because I’m regular blogger at the moment, and I like to upload pictures.
My hosting company is French by the way, making communication with them almost impossible. I can’t remember why I decided it would be a good idea to opt for a French-speaking web hosting company. I was probably drunk at the time.
I will probably switch hosts at some point soon, but it’s somewhere down on a very long “to do” list. Somewhere behind “Natalie Imbruglia”.
What I’ve decided to do is this: I’ve set up a new blog: www.spiderwebdezign.com/blog
I will use this to blog about the current projects I am working on – web design, web development, photography, art etcetera – and the bulk of my photos will be uploaded there. As that blog is tied to my “professional” website (www.spiderwebdezign.com), I will try to be sensible and keep the nonsense down to a minimum.
I will continue to post my stupid stories, rants and rambles on this blog. Any pictures I do upload here (homemade tattoo misadventures, embarrassing drunken pub jaunts etcetera) – I can host on Flickr or Picasa and hotlink to them.
I’ve been blogging for just over a year now and I’m coming close to 100 posts. One of my first blog posts last year, was a picture of my tattooed torso and it was very popular. I also stuck the picture up on flickr and it was by far my most viewed picture. The only trouble was that tattoos were actually photoshop gimickry.
I thought I’d upload a new version one year on, and yes – those ARE long johns (for that authentic prison/gulag-look). And as you can also see, I hang to the left..
Some are genuine, some are pretend, and some are intended for the new year.
As always, comments and feedback and always welcome!
I’m clearly a bloke with too much spare time on his hands this weekend (what with the snow and all) – but rather than sitting round in my pants, masturbating to Natalie Imbruglia ‘nip slips’ – I decided to photoshop some new tattoos on my arms.
Some are real, some are not…
I’m seriously considering getting some of these done now…
Around Xmas time last year I was playing around with photoshop, and I put a load of tattoos on my skinny torso. This was like a blueprint of random ideas and the results can be seen below. Some of them are fake, some of them are real (and as you can see from the look on my face – tattoos really do make you happy).
I was bored this evening so I did a similar thing with my left thigh. Again, some are real, some are fake…
