Once upon a time, when I lived in Australia, I began to write some children’s books – for ages 5-8….and those who read with them. The first that came out (a good 3years ago) was "A Message To Send"* You can keep reading on for more about the story, and the backstory  OR if you simply can’t [...]

Nothing new – again. This post is about reminding myself/us what we, and the ancient humans, already knew/know – visuals are KEY! I have been musing on using visuals to explain my work – hand drawn, digital, photos, comic…whatever. In part because visuals tell stories that skip to our right brain – safely sidestepping away from [...]

"With age, some games turn serious" – image below and quote (c) Raph Koster, from A Theory of Fun Quite a while ago, friend and colleague, Colby, alerted me to the importance of ‘gamers’, creaters/designers/players of online games, and their future role in society "they’ll be the future CEO’s" and they will understand what you are [...]

"Isn’t it amazing that all these cities can exist at the same time"? Andrea musing on how there are all these amazing cities in the world… then followed by a comment on the world - we could create whatever we wanted and this is how we built it??? (this is from months ago but just TOO [...]

I just discovered, (thanks Kirst), Harold’s Planet and have spent the last minutes playing on the Harold’s Planet Blog …oodles of fun and … just lots of fun really… Well done to Lisa Swerling and Ralph Lazar from Last Lemon Productions …couldn’t resist a second image: Enjoy the good mood and the seabreeze!

"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands, but in seeing with new eyes" – Marcel Proust Am wanting to create some form of 6 thinking hats equivalent with lens…ie you pop something over your eyes and thus can only think a particular way…I think different ways of thinking take practice, or [...]

When you next feel like a 2minute break pop over here and watch this little Claymation*, "Failure the Slug", by the ever-wonderful (and ever-patient!!*) collaborators Andrea Hendrickson and Alice Tang. Click here to see "Failure"… And be sure to turn up the sound and enjoy the surreal clay universe! * For those unfamiliar with ‘claymation’ it is ’stop motion animation’. [...]

" "Does this frighten you?" asked Antoine de Saint-Exupery in The Little Prince in 1945. "Does this frighten you?" I ask in 2005. Certainly it frightens me. But it frightens me more if it doesn’t frighten you! Because the image is not of a ‘hat’. It is a boa constrictor digesting an elephant. [Hint: If [...]

edward monkton PS edward monkton is actually the pseudonym of Giles Andreae, well known in the UK as the creator of purple ronnie cartoon…

In the list of "what will they think of next?" this was not in line with my thoughts however seems quite a good idea! after all, who hasn’t googled their latest date/boyfriend/crush…? Yes folks, google has gone into online dating "When you think about it, love is just another search problem." Happy playing… (PS make sure you consider [...]