Meckin’ stuff: Badges
I’ve been lusting (that’s right, lusting) for a badge press for years. In fact, this is one of the few things my sensible side has consistently managed to veto. So I was boyishly excited when I unwrapped my Christmas presents and found that my sister had bought one for me.
Here’s how I squander my time putting it to use.
Meckin’ stuff: Books
Book making is one of the beautifully redundant things I do to recharge my batteries and fire up some creative spirit. It’s one of the only things I can think of where I get complete creative control of the final product, from the shape of the book, to the materials it’s made of, to the design of the page; it’s all me, baby.
For now, I’ll talk through the process I went through to make a book to celebrate my Mum’s 21st (ahem) birthday.
Twittering the Tube
I’ve found myself on the wrong end of some meaty tube delays over the past few days. So much so that I signed myself up for TFL’s free tube updates, which proceeded to get themselves eaten by my spam barrier at random, arrive when I was already on my way home, and would only tell me about some very specific routes if they did arrive in time to be of any use.
And so, with the fiery passion of a man who’s wasted too much life on crowded tube platforms, I took matters into my own hands and created THE TUBINATOR!. Every 15 minutes, old tubey updates twitter with any tube lines that aren’t quite up to scratch at the time. It doesn’t do planned outages, which I’m assuming people have already noticed, but it does cover the DLR. Us South-East Londoners are people too, dammit.
Go ahead and say ‘Hi’ to THE TUBINATOR!.
