Lyndon Hood - self-promotion-promoter, Lower Hutt
Tuesday, January 10, 2012
Just a post for if anyone wants to comment on the year in review thing I published at Scoop, which seems too long to repeat here.
Also, to inform you of its existence.
Also, to inform you of its existence.
Labels: 2011, christchurch earthquake, graphics, images, nz politics, nzvotes, rugby world cup, rwc, satire
Lyndon Hood - lunar blogger, Wellington
Monday, May 03, 2010
werewolf » From The Hood : Faster Liberals, Kill! Kill!
and, in things I didn't make news:
Mining files (Thoughtfulbloke: things I made)
Of note: eden.pdf - greatbarrier.pdf
Labels: brain-eating aliens, environment, grand right wing conspiracy, graphics, images, infographics, mining, nz politics, schedule 4, werewolf
Lyndon Hood, balancing actor, Wellington
Friday, March 05, 2010
I've occasionally made images for Scoop in advance, on the assumption an opportunity could be found or manufactured to use it in the future.
I was so struck by the image Clair Browning launched this Pundit post with I couldn't resist doing my own version. I call it, "Balancing our Environmental Responsibilities with our Economic Opportunities".
Click to enlarge
I'll keep it here for the moment, along with this David Garrett picture, the time of which has, in fact, come, but which remains a bridge too far for the Scoop front page.
I was so struck by the image Clair Browning launched this Pundit post with I couldn't resist doing my own version. I call it, "Balancing our Environmental Responsibilities with our Economic Opportunities".
Click to enlarge
I'll keep it here for the moment, along with this David Garrett picture, the time of which has, in fact, come, but which remains a bridge too far for the Scoop front page.
Labels: boerwoeo, Clair Browning, environment, gerry brownlee, graphics, mining, national parks, national party, pundit.co.nz
Lyndon Hood - logophile, Wellington
Tuesday, March 02, 2010
Werewolf IX: Logo-rhythms
See also the PAS thread, which includes this thoughful suggestion.
Also, I'd just like to note Tangerinegate, complete with Hong Kong new animation goodness. See the Wiki page before it's deleted.
People, if you're going to publish stories about fruit, always check your sauces.
Labels: auckland, graphics, humour, logos, rodney hide, satire, werewolf
Lyndon Hood - Wants to be a spider, Wellington
Wednesday, June 17, 2009
While looking for source images for Little Miss Muffet I found out a couple of things.
The first is that if you're looking for a Miss Muffet costume that isn't a sexy Bo-Peep outfit, you'll be looking pretty (pun observed-and-not-removed) hard.
The other would be that nursery rhymes are be gothically inspiring.
Ash Sivils
Fee Harding
Paula Rego
Gerald Brom
The first is that if you're looking for a Miss Muffet costume that isn't a sexy Bo-Peep outfit, you'll be looking pretty (pun observed-and-not-removed) hard.
The other would be that nursery rhymes are be gothically inspiring.
Ash Sivils
Fee Harding
Paula Rego
Gerald Brom
Labels: art, graphics, miss muffet, nursery rhymes
Lyndon Hood - awesomestruck, Wellington
Tuesday, June 16, 2009
By special request, Giovanni delves into his awesomeness collection and pulls out more John Heartfield (Gallery), also saying kind things about yours truly.
I may as well add that Lew called me "dependably excellent" earlier.
Don't mind me - just using a post about collages as a scrapbook.
On the occasion of the intervention of the Third Reich agasint the international caricaturists exhibition in Prague.
"The more images they take down from the walls, the more evident the truth becomes." (1934)
I may as well add that Lew called me "dependably excellent" earlier.
Don't mind me - just using a post about collages as a scrapbook.
On the occasion of the intervention of the Third Reich agasint the international caricaturists exhibition in Prague.
"The more images they take down from the walls, the more evident the truth becomes." (1934)
Labels: collage, graphics, John Heartfield, satire, satirists, self-commentary
Lyndon Hood - recycler, Wellington
Monday, June 15, 2009
Here's a link full of somethings I prepared earlier:
Lyndon Hood's Pics of the Weeks: March to May '09
Lyndon Hood's Pics of the Weeks: March to May '09
Labels: graphics
Lyndon Hood - Sour Graper, Wellington
Monday, May 11, 2009
The Herald is running ads on their site at them moment encouraging people to vote for them in the Netguide awards.
This one, for example, relates to the category of "Best site for mobile devices that are embedded through your fist".
This one, for example, relates to the category of "Best site for mobile devices that are embedded through your fist".
Labels: advertising, graphics, netguide awards, photoshop disasters, revolutionary chic, the herald
Lyndon Hood - collagist, Wellington
The Extraordinary Anti-Nazi Photomontages of John Heartfield.
It's all very well knowing where ones roots are, but one wish they weren't so oppressively awesome.
[Via Boing Boing.]
Labels: collage, graphics, John Heartfield, satirists
Pics of the Weeks: Nov 08 to Feb 09
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
Lyndon Hood's Pics of the Weeks: Nov 08 to Feb 09
Bit of a long one there.
Labels: graphics, nz politics, pics of the weeks
Lyndon Hood - cyberpunk, Wellington
Wednesday, October 01, 2008
I have no idea what ur talking about, so here's a picture of Nicky Hager as a Borg:
Lyndon Hood's Pics of the Weeks: July 2008
Lyndon Hood's Pics of the Weeks: June 2008
Also, I'm in Micetro tonight (Wed 1) at Blue Note. Because I know you'll read this in time.
Lyndon Hood's Pics of the Weeks: July 2008
Lyndon Hood's Pics of the Weeks: June 2008
Also, I'm in Micetro tonight (Wed 1) at Blue Note. Because I know you'll read this in time.
Labels: graphics, improv, nicky hager
Lyndon Hood - closet celebrity
Tuesday, July 29, 2008
A couple of my pictures have developed some independence lately, two of them in a good way:
This is about the first time, looking through the logs, that I've particularly noted referrers from Google images. Perhaps this is because some of them were odd. Searches for "things" or "do", for example (words from the title of the column). I was on the first page of results for both at the time. The "do" searcher came from Google Hungary or Czechoslovakia - whichever language it is, I worry about what "do" means.
That one was also mentioned on the radio in a rather flattering comment from Jim Mora on the ability of jokes or cartoons to sum up issues. I think he also read the wheel as a dart board - I always enjoy it when people appreciate aspects of my work I didn't put in deliberately.
And then this one
... made the TV news (wait for the end). I should here mention Mr Kevin List for proposing I make a "picture of John Key morphing into Michael Cullen" and that I be quick about it. I also have the impression I owe someone a beer for the on-the-tele thing.
Famous.
Although not in a way that mentions my name at any stage.
**
In other news, I was waiting for last week's general debate to come up on the Hansard website so I could confirm attribution for this quote:
This is about the first time, looking through the logs, that I've particularly noted referrers from Google images. Perhaps this is because some of them were odd. Searches for "things" or "do", for example (words from the title of the column). I was on the first page of results for both at the time. The "do" searcher came from Google Hungary or Czechoslovakia - whichever language it is, I worry about what "do" means.
That one was also mentioned on the radio in a rather flattering comment from Jim Mora on the ability of jokes or cartoons to sum up issues. I think he also read the wheel as a dart board - I always enjoy it when people appreciate aspects of my work I didn't put in deliberately.
And then this one
... made the TV news (wait for the end). I should here mention Mr Kevin List for proposing I make a "picture of John Key morphing into Michael Cullen" and that I be quick about it. I also have the impression I owe someone a beer for the on-the-tele thing.
Famous.
Although not in a way that mentions my name at any stage.
**
In other news, I was waiting for last week's general debate to come up on the Hansard website so I could confirm attribution for this quote:
He has been on the Māori Affairs Committee since 2002 and knew the real record, but he said that none the less, because that is the party line that the Goebbels department on the ninth floor instructed him to give.It was, indeed, Christopher "Godwin" Finlayson.
Labels: google image search, graphics, media, nz politics, satire
Lyndon Hood - power user, Wellington
Tuesday, June 10, 2008
New Hood: The [Previous] Week Incoherence
Pics of the Weeks: May 2008
I've been reading Mark Twain. The compilation has some "opening remarks" from Kurt Vonnegut at the start of it - I believe they were published when he was alive but given it refers to a couple of pieces that aren't in the compilation it doesn't seem to have been written specially. Vonnegut notes a slew of US satirists who started in the newspapers with a juicy quote I add here when I have the volume to hand.
[Viz:
Anyhow, in wondering if this reading would influence my output it did strike me that if Tom Sawyer et al were around today the would be tagging something. When I put this idea to the office it was pointed out that Tom Sawyer would have everyone else tagging things for him.
Pics of the Weeks: May 2008
I've been reading Mark Twain. The compilation has some "opening remarks" from Kurt Vonnegut at the start of it - I believe they were published when he was alive but given it refers to a couple of pieces that aren't in the compilation it doesn't seem to have been written specially. Vonnegut notes a slew of US satirists who started in the newspapers with a juicy quote I add here when I have the volume to hand.
[Viz:
So many of America's funniest writers have come up through newspapers [he rolls off a few names] that it may be correct to think of them as editorial writers gone berserk.He doesn't specifically mention Ambrose Bierce, more or less comptemporary to Twain. But then, Bierce probably didn't crack - I gather he was like that the whole time.]
It is as through they had written solemnly and respectfully about mankind's problems year after year. And then, one day, they couldn't stand it any more. Nothing would do but that they jeer at their luckless readers for belonging to such a stupid and vain and unlucky and greedy species.
Hi ho.
Anyhow, in wondering if this reading would influence my output it did strike me that if Tom Sawyer et al were around today the would be tagging something. When I put this idea to the office it was pointed out that Tom Sawyer would have everyone else tagging things for him.
Labels: graphics, Mark Twain, satire
Lyndon Hood - diurnal emitter, Wellington
Monday, May 12, 2008
New Hood: Emitting Sector Excluded From ETS
For what it's worth, this morning I remembered a further explanation I meant to include for the term 'grandparenting': "the way, at this rate, those who are currently children will be grandparents before a proper scheme gets implemented".
So, there you go. Director's cut.
Elsewhere - as you may have read in places with more punch than here - The Dim-Post gets a room.
Late Bonus: http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0805/S00159.htm
For what it's worth, this morning I remembered a further explanation I meant to include for the term 'grandparenting': "the way, at this rate, those who are currently children will be grandparents before a proper scheme gets implemented".
So, there you go. Director's cut.
Elsewhere - as you may have read in places with more punch than here - The Dim-Post gets a room.
Late Bonus: http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0805/S00159.htm
Labels: climate change, graphics, nz politics, satire
Lyndon Hood - More Than Meets The Eye, Wellington
Friday, September 07, 2007
Having had it Public Address'd and Spare Room'd, it thought I'd add the might of Fighting Talk to the traffic-referring juggernaught:
New Hood: Moorephing
Made, I should say, on a PC using the reasonably useful, fun and free WinMorph. The last Helen Clark was two morphs spliced together with CombiMovie (which may be responsible for slightly inconsistent playback in Quicktime). Also among the various other ultimately redundant software I downloaded during days of on-and-off trying make things work was the useful set of command-line flash tools swftools.
Overall if the videos don't play, I blame Microsoft*. And be grateful. At one pooint they may have crashed your browser.
* I will accept offers of more effective code, but I will still blame Microsoft for making it necessary.
New Hood: Moorephing
Made, I should say, on a PC using the reasonably useful, fun and free WinMorph. The last Helen Clark was two morphs spliced together with CombiMovie (which may be responsible for slightly inconsistent playback in Quicktime). Also among the various other ultimately redundant software I downloaded during days of on-and-off trying make things work was the useful set of command-line flash tools swftools.
Overall if the videos don't play, I blame Microsoft*. And be grateful. At one pooint they may have crashed your browser.
* I will accept offers of more effective code, but I will still blame Microsoft for making it necessary.
Labels: graphics, mike moore, nz politics, satire
