I'm a 22 year old student from London, studying a degree in Graphic Design. As you'll be able to see from these pages I explore several forms of art media; primarily conventional drawing, photography, and photoshop type graphics/photo manipulation. I'm also fairly capable at CG design work, painting, animation, film and sculpture, but they're not my major interests. I have produced several short films, but as yet I haven't found a convenient method of uploading them to this site.

Oh and of course I'm a trekkie, or I at least I used to be. I still like the old shows with Kirk, The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine and most of the movies, but my interest in the rest has waned quite a bit in the last few years. I mainly use it as a basis for art now, it gives me a starting point for creating something. If you shut me in a room with a pencil and paper for a few hours, you'll return to find loads of little doodles of spaceships. Shit, that does sound sad. I'm also a fan of other sci-fi(like Stargate) and Britcoms(like Little Britain), as well as movies with Vin Diesel(... oh come on, I'm not that sad). Also into shooting pool, going to the movies, listening to music and looking intelligent with a pair of glasses.

And this is where it gets bloggy.

Johnny's Weekend Adventures:

30th August 2006: I haven't added anything to this blog for a while, mostly because I doubt anyone's too interested in what I've been doing all week("the joy of paper"? wtf?). Anyway, I know the photos from the Star Trek auction are interesting a lot of people, but didn't want to bring up my thoughts about it on that page, so I'll do it here. Like anyone who went to the auction house, I enjoyed looking at all the props, models and costumes, but I can't help feeling worried that it'll be the last we fans ever get to see of these important parts of science fiction history. I suppose we never really got to see them before the auction came along, but at least we knew(thanks to those short DVD features that toured the warehouses) that they were all in one place and being looked after. As you can see from the pictures, some of the models do look quite tatty in places, and the Amabassador class model in particular has splits in it, but then again the models probably weren't designed to last particularly long. I just hope that whoever buys them looks after them well and maybe one day has the inclination to display them publicly in some way. It'd be a shame if all of this virtually disappeared forever. That seems to be the main fear in the fan community, added to the thought that if they're selling all this, Paramount must not have any interest in using it again. It's easy to understand that in the new world of CGI, the old models might not be needed, but it seems odd to sell all the props and costumes as well. Items that can't be easily replaced or duplicated on a hard drive. Maybe we really have seen the end of 24th century Star Trek?

23rd October: It was actually a bit of a weekend adventure this week. Yesterday, as part of my degree course, we met up at the British Museum to discover "the joy of paper". After a short visit to the British Library we were instructed to go out and about in this great city of ours and pick up bits of paper(they work us so hard). Of course, we all just buggered off to Oxford Street and devoted our student loans to the glorious swathes of discounted CDs, DVDs, books and games in the HMV sale. But along the way, we did do some "work", picking up bits of paper. This provided a unique window into the hidden underbelly of urban Britain. I'm debating whether I should show the results on here or not. Suffice to say, by the end of the day I'd discovered a plea for help and been offered a bj via paper. I also saw the cast of Corpse Bride. Oh and there was that Jesus/Steven Fry thing.

27th August: Happy Birthday, website! The Gallery's been up for a year today and it's been a pretty successful one at that. Not as many visitors as I hoped for, but considering that it's only linked on a handful of other sites, it's not bad. There's still tons more work to do on here, plenty of updates to come and a few new features I'm planning on rolling out over the next year, including video, music and model downloads, so stay tuned! As a mini mark of celebration I've updated almost all of the pages on the site and next month I'll be making it more user friendly for different browsers and screen resolutions.

15th July: Well of course the event that's overshadowed almost everything in London this week has been the bombings and the aftermath from them. This city has 7-10 million people in it and the terrorists killed 50+, that's not an insignificant number, and we won't forget, but it won't make us change our lives. Even by the end of the day Londoners were getting back on the trains and buses, out of necessity and of a wish to show that they would not be frightened. I've been on the tubes and buses myself in central London since the attacks, and to be honest there was a slight sense of trepidation at first, but I was also determined not to let the pointless and inhuman attacks of the 7th change the way I travel about the city I love. Yesterday a vigil was held in Trafalgar Square where many thousands from many hundreds of cultures demonstrated their unity and will to embrace what we have in common rather than letting our differences divide us as the terrorists want. Yesterday I was more proud to call myself a Londoner than ever before. Far from dividing us, this has brought us all closer together. We may hold very different ideas in the belief of God, what man's purpose is, or what, if anything - comes after death, but we are all united in a complete rejection of the idea that specifically targetting and murdering civilians in cold blood does anything to further any cause and it will only be met with a determination to stop it by all peoples regardless of their differing views on any other issue.

Sorry to go all political and keep mentioning London, but I didn't want to post any update without first mentioning this subject. In other news, I was lucky enough to meet Anthony "that bloke from Buffy" Stewart "and Little Britain" Head. I think he just likes to be called Tony.

Out of interest, the varied mix of speakers also included Iqbal Sacranie( Secretary General, the Muslim Council of Britain), Jo Brand, Richard & Judy, Margarita Taylor, Ken Livingstone, Lord Coe, Sir Trevor McDonald, Shami Chakrabarti, several members of the emergency services, the Salvation Army and Jeff Porter, one of the Tube drivers who led hundreds of passengers through the tunnels to safety.

1st July: Yay! I finished my Foundation course this week and got a merit, so I'll be off to uni in September. And this also means I'll have way more time to add stuff to this site. In the meantime, lots of partying.

19th March: So, yeah, I went on an anti-war march. I actually went straight to the destination so I could film the marchers coming in to Trafalgar Square. As I said on the page with the photos, I didn't agree with everything that was said, but I suppose that goes for anyone there. You take what you like, and agree to disagree with the rest. Either way, I felt privelaged to get a backstage pass as an honourary member of the event crew. I saw a bunch of famous people including Maxi Jazz from Faithless and my favourite politician, Tony Benn. My friend says she got a wink from George Galloway.

29th Jan: Went to France(pics here) last week, got slightly inebriated. Now I've decided to flood France. Below is a testshot from a video I'm producing about climate change. I'm told it's unlikely that Paris would be flooded as it isn't low lying, and it's far inland, but as I say, this is an fx test. The other pictures are from my last graphics project.

26th Oct: I'm on holiday, but need 40 pages of work done by next monday, so this week I ave been mostly doing work(or at least thinking about considering doing work). I did a sort of copy of an Escher drawing, but it's a bit pants. And a copy of a Roy Lichtenstein pop art piece. Which is pretty good since I'm not used to doing freehand line work, let alone while trying to make an accurate copy. Oh and I painted on textured plastic to mimmick the printing dots in his paintings. Doesn't show up very well in the photos, but it looks good in real life. I swear.

19th Oct: Went to a screening of a film called Arna's Children followed by a Q&A with the Israeli director, Juliano Mer Khamis. The documentary film centres around a group of children in Palestine who take part in an amateur theatre group, and over ten years we see how they eventually ended up becoming suicide attackers and resistance fighters. With nothing left to live for, they try to make a difference with their deaths. I was of two minds about the situation. The indescriminate attacks on Israeli civilians were despicable, but I could understand why the youths inside Palestine wanted to rebel against the occupying soldiers. Meanwhile we had first term reviews and I've been predicted merit/distinction in most of my subjects. Again I'm baffled, but excited.

17th Oct: Went to the houses of George Orwell, Robert Louis Stevenson and Boy George, then off to central London where I got caught up in an ironically violent peace protest. Pics below. After hanging around graveyards, woods, dead and/or gay people's homes and mental asylums, I felt like having a relaxing wander round London, the officially greatest place on earth that isn't inside Kirsten Dunst. But as soon as I came out of the tube I felt a disturbing atmosphere. A helicopter was hovering overhead and there were more odd people than usual on the streets. As I turned into Westminster I was presented with the most police I've ever seen ever. Dozens of vans, bikes, a few more choppers and some coppers for good measure. Plus a few thousand loons with whistles crossing Westminster Bridge. Being a curious sort of fellow, I followed the sound of unintelligable loud hailers and took a load of pics. I've never been in a peace march before and it was actually kind of frightening. The police were forceful and the loons beardy. But it all ended okayishly. There were some fights and the barriers got broken through, but it was friggin cool. Next time I'll bring a William Shatner banner.

11th Oct: Handed in my essay on "What Is Graphics?" and my lecturer says it's one of the best he's ever had for the subject. That's really weird since I finished it an hour before I gave it in and I'm generally totally shit at writing. Hope my other essays will be as good, but I'm not betting on it. Made this graphics pic about identity.