Check out my latest bid to get Freelance web design work:

http://www.shiptonwebdesign.co.uk/

Heres my cartoon I made which in many ways I think represents the role of the web designer:

A taster image for my upcoming exhibition

I am having an exhibition of my works. I wrote a brilliant blog post about it, but then my blog was broken and i have spent the last 3 hours upgrading it. So here is a taster image of the work, hopefully if you are reading this you can be persuaded to come and see it. Details as follows:

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Yes – its nearly March and I have decided not to cancel the blog after all! However I have spent so long re-jigging it I have forgotten to write any content for it… Please tak a look around my new and completely empty website with placeholder content in it!
Also checkout some of the brilliant comments people have left on Shiptonblog recently:
And another thing… Maxims’ top twenty worst films list

How to Make a Tin Foil Hat

Madeline Mccann has appeared in my toast!

100th post on Shiptonblog

Shiptonblog Threat Warning Alert Terror System Status

Dear Shiptonblog readers. Happy new year!

Shiptonblogs greatest achievement is out googling the image of Bernard Matthews when you do a Google image search. Also I am quite proud of the shiptonblog result from a Google image search on London Fashion week.

So have a happy 2008 and keep an eye out for new stuff from me!

Chris

Bernard Matthews Image – Zombie Turkey Attack
Bernard Matthews Image – The Farms Dark Secret
London fashion Week – The real horror

There has been a new twist in the drama surrounding ‘The Upsiders‘. A US punk band I designed T-Shirts for and never got paid,despite the shirts appearance at the gigs.

I recieved communication from one of the band members, Andrew, who pledged to post me 5 T-Shirts (which have yet to appear). He stated there were hardly any shirts left (despite an earlier blog post that mentioned they had plenty of shirts). Meanwhile the bands MySpace Blog has been re-written with some startling revalations. And a personal message to me! Which I will repeat here:

“This part is for Chris Shipton. Don’t believe the hype. Everyone knew the deal, 36 shirts in the sizes you specified shipped to you. As for you not getting yours, talk to andrew and tony once again. Ask them or pretty much anyone. The shirts were printed, counted and divided by four. Andrew/Tony hacked the myspace/email accounts, told me to fuck off and basically decided they were in charge of the band from that point on. If they decided that getting you 4 or 5 shirts was enough, then fuck it, thats what “the band” decided. Please contact our label (feeder fish records) its in our myspace friends and ask them if I didn’t call and specifically say that not a single upsiders robot shirt could be sold or given out because we don’t have any rights to the art until we give chris his shirts. Please ask him or call me and I’ll give you his number to verify that they made it impossible to get you the shirts AND that I notified our label that we were not allowed to do anything with those shirts till our dept to you is paid.”

Bryce – formerly of ‘The Upsiders’

Sadly Feeder Fish records were unable to give me any further info on the T-Shirts – stating the hadn’t even got any.

So No T-Shirts yet and I am wondering if I can get Watchdog interested…

Professional Lurking

On BBC2′s Apprentice meets Kitchen Nightmares ‘The Restaurant’. It came to my work canteen, at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratories. Readers of this blog may be aware of the misery the canteen has caused me. From over zealous canteen ladies charging me twice for chips, lumpy one mushroom steak and kidney pie to careful plate size manipulation the canteen has become more trouble than its worth. Imagine my surprise when TV crews turned up! The premise is three of the failing kitchen teams have to take a challenge – in this episode to utilise my work canteen to feed the hordes of builders, cardigan wearing scientists and rotund IT nerds. If you watch the show you will have noticed an American ‘actress’ with an incredibly annoying voice – I went to her kitchen. The food was about a millions times better than usual – I had a burrito with salsa. But if you watch the prog you will notice I go to the counter then leave. That’s because she was explaining in her piercing shrill voice that we could have a ‘side’ of nachos. I had to step away and come back to get my food once she had shut her trap…

In this scene I have queue barged

Shiptonblogs green credentials took a major leap forward today as I got a rant read out on Matthew Bannister’s phone in on 5live this morning.The morning phone in is the rantie-est programme around and I often listen to it, and find myself firing off emails as I disagree with whatever nutter, politco or so-called expert has to say. And recently I have had some success getting them actually read out!
So when I heard the trail for today’s show was going to be on the environment and carbon trading and the governments lame ideas I prepared a little rant and fired it off. Imagine my surprise when it was the FIRST email read out to open the show!! Success!! So for your listen pleasure you can download the Mp3 I cunningly made.

I looked out the window and saw it was snowing!

Yep! its still snowing!

I have finally gotten around to making a MySpace page. While I am initially suspicious of it I’ve decided to give it a go to see if it actually works. The problem is I don’t like Rupert Murdoch (owner of MySpace) that much, the Sun and Fox News being shining examples of his evilitude. Similarly I find Lilly Allen unbearably irritating and I refuse to listen to the Arctic Monkeys on principle. But on the other hand there seem to be loads of artists and illustrators amongst others hanging around on MySpace so perhaps it isn’t all that bad. It seems to be outlasting the average lifespan of a fad (not that I am against fads in general). So please check out my MySpace page and if you have one add me to your friends as I have none but ‘Tom’ who appears to be the surplus cnut who invented MySpace in the first place. At this rate Ill be getting a flicker site and stuff on YouTube before long!

Shiptonblog on myspace

Staying over at a friend‚Äôs house and having a lovely evening drinking and partying. Upon leaving in the morning discovering your lift from the previous night had run over the host’s cat.