Archive for December, 2007

Dave Brown in The Indy – This link takes you to the comments page where you can then click to enlarge. A direct link can mess up your browser.
The cartoon link from the comments page is updated daily, so this will be out of date tomorrow.
and
Morten Morland in The Times – This link takes you to the cartoon section, so it will be gone in a few days.
Very different styles, lovely ‘gags’ analogies/settings – both outstanding.
Great stuff.

I may as well repost this then.
EDIT – Currently badly rated by one Lib Dem supporter who has now suggested that I delete the video and kill myself.
I am crushed.
BTW – If it doesn’t seem to be loading, click on it and you can see it directly from YouTube.
(Looks like YouTube has a bit of a problem with the embedding at the moment.)

I’m currently working on this week’s image for Channel 4 News.
Hopefully completed by close of play or tomorrow.
No other posts until then as I’ve a bit of a prob with my neck and back. Fused vertebrae combined with an old rugby injury.
Hopefully the problem clears up soon but huddling over a mouse and keyboard can’t be helping.

In the meantime, you can have a look at the kind of naive crap I produced much longer ago :

BBC Report :

But to date not a single interpreter has been offered resettlement in the UK and reports suggest that over 100 have so far been rejected for not meeting the criteria.

Words fail me and other Iain Dale-isms…

Gordon Brown’s visits overseas – New animation for Channel 4 News.

Why did you come here from another site that was previously hosting the full animation ? – Explanation below.

Note – If you came here from another site that was previously hosting the full animation, here’s the explanation :
The other sites were running the animation from my server which, due to their traffic, was hitting me very hard and affecting this site’s performance, bandwidth and ultimately my pocket.
I won’t get into the complexities of cache-ing but even if someone visited the commercial sites and didn’t press play, the whole animation is downloaded from my server.
So, rather than remove or rename the file (or replace it with something dodgy), I thought it best to provide an intro giving the viewer (with the necessary notification) the opportunity to view the animation here.
While it’s nice to have one’s work appreciated, it becomes a bit of a problem when, not only is my bandwidth taking a major hit but a commercial site with all its funded resource uses my content without considering the impact on my own self-funded operation.
This can also affect my relationships with those who may have commissioned the work when they may think, because it is run from my server, that I am condoning its use.
I hope you appreciate that my redirection is not a cynical ploy but a way of minimising the effect on my server without damaging any relationship with viewers from other sites.
I’ve said before that I don’t have a problem with non-commercial sites using most of my work as long as there is a credit and a link back to this blog.

Meanwhile, the government has broken its word over Iraqis who have helped UK forces.
Channel 4 report here.
More info on Bloggerheads here.

Coincidence?