There was that huge curved ball that CBS/Paramount bowled late last year when they removed Star Trek Discovery from Netflix just days before it was due to premiere. The press release was a classic example of working to the rules of positivity when a more empathic approach was needed for an action that affected every fan who didn't live in North America. The bottom line was "No more new Star Trek until your country gets Paramount+ as a streaming service.
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I was asked by John who runs the @Bionic_Tweets Twitter account. He'd seen my work and wanted me to produce some annuals featuring popular characters from the TV shows 'The Six Million Dollar Man' and 'The Bionic Woman' for the Christmas period. We settled on four titles featuring 'Oscar Goldman' (the non-bionic boss of lead characters Steve Austin and Jaime Sommers), 'Bigfoot' (a space android disguised as the legendary US crypto-beast Sasquatch), the 'Fembots' (android doppelgangers used to infiltrate whatever the script writers deemed interesting that week... and inspiration for the villains of the same name in the Austin Powers movies) and, last but by no means least, Max the Bionic Dog (the fence and shark jumping German Shepherd looked after by Jaime Sommers).
The covers used some lovely hi-res photographs from the series and I was able to create some designs that had a colourful feel for the period.
Continuing with the retro Target books, here's season 13.
I've done some more retro Target book covers. Actually, I've done quite a lot more retro Target book covers.
NUMBER ONE IS WALKING is an illustrated memoir of Steve Martin's legendary acting career with stories from his most popular films with artwork by New Yorker cartoonist Harry Bliss. The book is filled with anecdotes from film sets, exploits with co-stars, moments of inspiration, and other stories. Also: stand-up, banjos, writing, and cartooning.
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The vice president of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion talks about the St. Louis Fed’s focus on DEI and about her career spent advancing equity and empowering women.
Cutting petrol tax to bring down the cost of living used to be the political version of a joke. Failed US presidential candidates John McCain and Hillary Clinton both tried it in 2008. Their bipartisan advocacy of a “summer gas tax holiday” was derided as dumb, a turkey and a “metaphor for the entire campaign”.
When 230 economists released a letter opposing it in 2008, Clinton said: “I’ll tell you what, I’m not going to put my lot in with economists”.
Here's a few other items I did based on series 13. Three annuals and a game.
As was usual, I produced some absurd TV annual covers for the festive season. They were done over a period of months so I probably would've ended up posting them one at a time had I been updating the blog then.
This is all of them together in one place:
This is late!
I should've posted this last year in the week following the final episode of the series. These are the six covers I produced for series 13. It would be interesting to see how Target would've handled this back in the day - six short novelisations (more profitable) or a single big one (probably more logical for a six part story).
As for the episodes, I really enjoyed this series. Some great visuals, a far ranging story packed with colourful characters and some great twists along the way. It certainly corrects the issues I have with the last two series.
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I got the audio files mixed up. I actually reposted the the first episode. The second recording, as it turned out, was made in March last year. I recorded it on my Purism phone but the audio quality is terrible which is a shame because I remember having a …
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In 1989, as the Berlin Wall was breached and the political order of Europe was upended, two obscure people in their mid-thirties watched it happen from inside an imploding Communist state, the German Democratic Republic. In Dresden, Vladimir Putin, an agent of the KGB, burned secret files in a furnace at the intelligence agency’s headquarters. […]
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Signs go up in shop windows, announcing relocation, or the final sale, then the buildings stand empty. Nothing happens for a while, and it seems like maybe nothing will. But one day the demolition team arrives and begins to take the buildings down. The first thing they do is take off the awnings, so the […]
The Free Software Foundation (FSF), a Massachusetts 501(c)(3) charity with a worldwide mission to protect computer user freedom, seeks a motivated and talented Boston-based individual to provide bookkeeping and financial operations support. This is a temporary, part-time contract opportunity with potential for additional hours and/or extension.
I’m halfway through a memo for work. I’m struggling a bit with the style, because it’s stuck between being broadly informative and terse, and rah-rah-inspiring, and I’m not sure which way to go with it. It’s also the first bit of writing I’ve done for a while (and certainly the first since my heavy flirtation […]
Are we prepared to re-route our cognitive map, or will the 'new normal' become permanent?
Ross Ashcroft met up with Robinson, to discuss why none of what we're experiencing is normal and, more importantly, what the alternative is.
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Well, it's been over six months since I last added to this blog. Sorry if you've been waiting that long. I have tended to concentrate on my Twitter feed and adding a selection of material to the gallery on my Ko-fi page. I'm not the best writer of prose and the blog can be a bit of a chore at times.
I'll be spending the next week or so bringing it up to date with my work so far. Most of this will be stuff that I've tweeted over the past six months but there will be some new things thrown in there too. I'll also try to give each piece some context where I can.
Welcome back.
I’ve written a ‘top 10’ overview of the recent Alberta budget. My overview can be found here: https://monitormag.ca/articles/ten-things-to-know-about-the-recent-alberta-budget
Research suggests the racial wealth gap has been less about making different choices and more about having different choices to make, according to an opinion piece.