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Archive
Though its unlikely I say anything useful or memorable on this site I recorded it all here under the date I posted it. You can either scroll through it all or click on the dates below to be linked straight to the entry for that date. Or not, if you can't be bothered.
For the Happy Orange Archive go Here
Year
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2009
- 9th of September 2009 - I'm Featured in the Robot Snob blog.
- 7th of September 2009 - Big Giraffe Lends Four feet to One Million Giraffes
- 30th of August 2009 - Animals, Facts, and a Fully Working Website. Today is a Good Day.
- 26th of August 2009 - Finally Some New Robots.
- 21st of August 2009 - Shelter House of Cards Entry, with Robots and Octopii.
- 3rd of July 2009 - Excuses and Teaser.
- 26th of April 2009 - Excuses.
- 17th of January 2009 - Lobster Luggage Tag.
2008 - 27th of December 2008 - Last Fact of the Year.
- 23rd of December 2008 - Christmasy Video with Castles and Catapults.
- 15th of December 2008 - Snowman PDF
- 14th of December 2008 - Christmas Tree and Safari Continuation.
- 23rd of November 2008 - Cake for Everyone.
- 11th of November 2008 - My Website is 2.
- 08th of November 2008 - International Armadillo Lizard.
- 28th of October 2008 - Toast and dinosaurs.
- 22nd of October 2008 - Domo guests on Toy-a-day Blog.
- 5th of October 2008 - Happy Orange in 3D.
- 14th of September 2008 - A Fact and no more Problems.
- 10th of September 2008 - Big Robot, Bigger Robot, wedding sheep.
- 23rd of August 2008 - I'm in a design blog.
- 13th of August 2008 - A pirate-y clock and a new layout for the website.
- 14th of July 2008 - Oct-boy, my first make-your-own model.
- 28th of June 2008 - Robot-age.
- 3rd of June 2008 - I'm in a magazine.
- 26th of May 2008 - Some Boots.
- 21st of April 2008 - An Amadillo Lizard. Also buy my T-shirt.
- 20th of March 2008 - Dull Fact.
- 2nd of March 2008 - PUNK. Cardboarded.
- 30th of January 2008 - Fact. x3.
- 13th of January 2008 - Orange facts.
- 06th of January 2008 - A new not Cardboard-y Robot.
2007 - 27th of December 2007 - Wind-up Bellydance Bot, and facts.
- 22nd of December 2007 - Skeletons, Big Robot gets Christmasy.
- 13th of December 2007 - Who is this Robot?
- 2nd of December 2007 - A Little Green Robot.
- 26th of November 2007 - Geography Facts.
- 11th of November 2007 - My Website is 1
- 31st of October 2007 - Happy Orange Dresses up for Halloween.
- 20th of October 2007 - Another attempt at a Threadless design.
- 15th of October 2007 - Cardboard Safari.
- 20th of September 2007 - My Threadless design gets cancelled
- 19th of September 2007 - My first Threadless design.
- 16th of September 2007 - Robot-craft-trade-extravaganza #1
- 09th of September 2007 - Learning random things.
- 16th of August 2007 - What I do at work.
- 12th of August 2007 - Happy Orange's own page.
- 6th of August 2007 - Little Robots.
- 26th of july 2007 - Wedding Presents.
- 17th of july 2007 - A LEGO man in resin.
- 05th of June 2007 - An Evil Robot.
- 20th of May 2007 - Transparent animals.
- 08th of May 2007 - The Flaming Lips on Canvas.
- 24th of April 2007 - A Piñata.
- 07th of March 2007 - A Doctor Who Commission.
- 27th of February 2007 - An Armadillo For Sale and Two more Robots.
- 06th of February 2007 - My First Two Commissions.
- 29th of January 2007 - A Not Cardboard Robot.
2006 - 27th of December 2006 - 3 New Robots and this Archive.
- 18th of December 2006 - Happy Festive Thing.
- 14th of December 2006 - New Animation.
- 13th of December 2006 - New Robot.
- 2nd of December 2006 - New Animation.
- 29th of November 2006 - Update.
- 11th of November 2006 - The First Ever Entry, Happy Orange.
9th of September 2009
Word up.
Just a quick note to say I've been featured in the, possibly unfortunately named, Robot Snob blog.
They like robots. alot.
7th of September 2009
Big Giraffe has been helping out over at One Million Giraffes.
You can see her here.
She encourages you to get creating giraffes.
In other news, not unsurprisingly I failed to win
Shelter's House of Cards competition, but thanks for everyone who voted.
30th of August 2009
Hurray,
I've sorted all the problems, i think, and I've added a few things that I forgot to add last update.
I'm not sure how I could have missed a 3ft 9in giraffe.
Also, new fact
26th of August 2009 - Update It seems I may have been a bit premature with my woohoo-ing as, as you can see, There are many things wrong with this page, I'll sort it soon, but right now I'm too tired.
26th of August 2009
WoooHooo
I've finally got the site updated, i've changed the layout on a lot of the pages, simplified things and made it easier for me to modify in the future, I've also added a few new robots that I've been working on since christmas, and hopefully there'll be some new Happy Orange facts and some make-your-own-models soon.
21st of August 2009
Still updating website things.
However I have just finished my entry for Shelter's "House of Cards" competition, they've put together a deck of cards for charity and have got 52 artists and designers to create artwork for each card, except the 8 of clubs, which was open to the public to design. Everyone can now vote for their favourite 8 of clubs and the top five will be put to artist Simon Henwood who will choose the winner which will be included in the deck.
My card is opposite. (There wasn't a theme to adhere to apart from it had to be the eight of clubs).
If you want to can vote for it (although the only choices are 'love it' or 'hate it') The direct link to the page is here, (although for some reason it doesn't show the whole card)
or you can go here and in the find a card drop down tab in the top right type in XFQYU0L which should bring it up.
Tell your friends. If you want. You can see all the other entries in the gallery section of the site, and vote as many times as you like for as many different cards as you like.
3rd of July 2009
Mmm, Everything is taking a bit longer than I expected, and I keep getting distracted. I'm aiming to have things done approximately sometime, hopefully sooner. Meanwhile, here is a picture of something I made recently.
26th of April 2009
Hello. I have been making things, but I was planning to do some redesigning of the site before I added them, and I haven't done that yet. I plan to do it sometime. probably.
17th of January 2009
Do you feel your bag is a little lacking in lobster? then go here post haste.
Additionaly my sister is a textile designer and upholsterer and has just set up a new website here: Fun Makes Good
You should visit it now.
2008
27th of December 2008
Ice Cold Fact action.
23rd of December 2008
'Morning, I've got a new animation up on my video page. If you click on the soldiers to the left they'll take you to it.
15th of December 2008
Snowman is now avaliable as a downloadable PDF.
14th of December 2008
Hello. I've built a Christmas Tree from cardboard.
I've also got several additions to the Not Robots section of the site, (links after the tree picture)
The Cardboard Safari Continues:
23rd of November 2008
Cake for Everyone
I've put up a PDF of the Chocolate Cake I made earlier in the month for
my website's 2nd birthday.
It's avaliable from the Downloads Page or by clicking on the picture
on the left.
Meanwhile Happy Orange has been learning new things, as well as getting himself some cake, the result of which
is facts and PDFs.
11th of November 2008
Today My Website is 2
And to celebrate everyone here got cardboard cake.
Here is Robokritch looking bemused. And some cake.
(it's the printers fault the cake is grey, not the bakers)
08th of November 2008
Today introduces a new, International, Armadillo Lizard, and brings the opportunity for learning, but avoids mentioning my toastyosaur t-shirt only getting a score of 2.10 on threadless.
28th of October 2008
I've done another design for threadless, combining toast and dinosaurs and creating awesome. If you follow the link above you can vote for it and if it gets enough votes it'll be made into a t-shirt. Yay.
22nd of October 2008
Hello everyone,
I've made a guest appearance on Toy-a-day Blog with my paper version of Domo from Japan's NHK tv station. It's now available to download and build from my Downloads Page or by clicking on the link above.
And if you don't know about Joe's Paper toy a day project (or haven't just come from there) you should go and see it right now as it is dead good, and is full of excellent downloadable paper models.
In other news I also have a new Happy Orange fact.
5th of October 2008
My Favourate fact obsessd fruit becomes 3D with a Make-Your-Own model avaliable from the Downloads Page. Each Happy Orange PDF has a randomly generated accessory (there are currenly 2 options, but I hope to make more soon.)
14th of September 2008
Today brings a Happy Orange fact and the first thing on my new Downloads Page which you can get to via the menu bar at the top of the page.
I think i've also sorted most of the problems with viewing the site through Internet Explorer (it's still doing weird things with the positions of some pictures on a couple of the pages but i'm trying to ignore that). If you notice anything else let me know.
10th of September 2008
I've been sort of busy recently and the results are things. These things.
A Big Robot for a photo shoot, and Bigger Robot for almost an Ad. campaign and some wedding sheep.
23rd of August 2008
My friend Roy has featured me in his Ponoko blog about papercraft toys - here.
There are also links to many more exciting, complex and generally better downloadable paper models, as well as lots of information on open source design.
13th of August 2008
Hopefully you've noticed I've changed the layout of the site a bit, it should be a bit easier to navigate now, the menu bar is now at the top.
I've also created an everlasting battle between man and sea monster, that also tells time.
14th of July 2008
Villains beware! Octo-boy is here and available for everyone to download and build.
28th of June 2008
I've made more Robots. Go Robots.
3rd of June 2008
My Robots have taken over half a page in the Current Issue (Issue 5) of Borne Magazine, which you can pick up free around Glasgow or London, or find online here.
26th of May 2008
Apart from furthering my plan to take over the world i've also designed some boots of a DM competition, if you click on a picture you'll go to the DM site where you can vote on the designs, and if it's in first place when voting ends it'll be made into a shoe. (This has now closed, obviously I didn't win)
21st of April 2008 (formally 3rd of April 2008, but now with more pictures and lizards)
Hello, Here is my newest addition; Armadillo Lizard.
Also my robot t-shirts are now avaliable to buy from the eightpagepullout online store.
20th of March 2008
A fact. Not a very interesting one admittedly.
2nd of March 2008
It's taken me a while, but I've finally had time to finish the project I've been working on since before christmas.
In return for cheesecake I've Cardboarded Punk, then made a T-shirt of it.
30th of January 2008
Another 3 Orange facts, I suppose I should be doing something more constructive with my time.
13th of January 2008
Orange fact....GO!
06th of January 2008
A new not Cardboard-y Robot.
2007
27th of December 2007
Today I bring you wind-up action and facts. There is a video too.
22nd of December 2007
Hello, I've made a new animation. If you click on the happy skeleton to the left he'll take you to it.
This year Big Robot decided to help out with the Christmas Decorations
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mmmm... new things. (I got rid of the first thing because it wasn't very good.)
2nd of December 2007
A new Little Robot, and he doesn't look very happy.
26th of November 2007
Happy Orange brings geography based fact action....Here.
Also I'm currently working on a few things that'll hopefully be ready for Christmas. And not all of them involve cardboard.
11th of November 2007
Hurrah. My Site is 1 year old today.
And I finished Big Robot and some other things (scroll down to find links to them all).
Cake for everyone.
OOOO other things of varying quality.
31st of October 2007
Happy Orange Says Happy Halloween
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On another note, Thanks everyone who voted on my threadless t-shirt. It got 2.79 out of 5 which is often enough to get it made, now all I have to do is wait to see if they select it, which may take several months.
Oh yeh, there's this too:
20th of October 2007
Hello. I'm making another attempt at a threadless t-shirt, based on my Cardboard Safari. So if you like it please vote.
15th of October 2007
Hurrah. Lots of new things. I've been working on a new design for Threadless
and some Not-Robot-y Cardboard-y Creatures. Click the Icons below to join the Cardboard Safari. Hope you like them.
20th of September 2007
mmm. that didn't go too well. My Threadless T-shirt design got cancelled after one day from lack of interest.
Now I feel sad. thanks if you voted, I'm off to find Ice-cream.
19th of September 2007
Hello everybody,
I'm not sure if you know of threadless.com, but it's a website where you can buy nifty t-shirts and submit your own designs'.
I've just submitted a design, which you can see by clicking the little icon of the robot just here.
If it gets enough votes it'll get made into a t-shirt.
16th of September 2007
Disco is not dead, it has been re-made from cardboard and used as currency in a Robot-craft-trade-extravaganza.
Hello, I've just learnt how to link to random pages of websites.
It was a form of learning and therefore fun.
Anyway, now I have a new icon on the right that'll take you to a random Robot. It's dead good. (Keep clicking there's a hidden Robot somewhere.)
Mostly I'm constructive at work (my real, actual, work). Sometimes I'm the wrong type of constructive. This took a month of hard work and concentration.
12th of August 2007
As you may have noticed I've given Happy Orange his own page. It's not very good at the momment, I hope to learn more things and make it awesome sometime in the future, but for now this'll have to do.
6th of August 2007
Two more robots. And you can buy these ones if you want.
When people I know get married, they get robots.
A perfect match (calculated to 1000 decimal places)
17th of july 2007
The start of my obsession with putting things in resin
A LEGO man in Resin
I've been asked to make another robot, but don't give him any attention, he's evil.
The Embodiment of Robot Evil
I've copied Mark Jenkins' Street Installations and made some of my own.
A Transparent Lama
A Transparent Armadillo
I've Finally made a page for the painting I made Stef for Christmas.
The Flaming Lips on Canvas
I've also updated the Piñata.
Still Piñata-y
The 14th was Stef's Birthday, so I made her a Piñata.
Visit it here - Piñata-y
Another Commission
Doctor Who-y - David Tennant as Doctor Who
I made more things, and one of them is for sale
Buy this - An Armadillo
Go Awwww at this - Bobbily-bot
Marvel at this - Courier-bot
Hurray - fantastical things have happened, I have commissions.
Go look, be impressed, then pay me to make you one. woohoo and thanks.
they are here - Captain Blueboid
and here - Skeletron
Woohoo - a new thing, and it's not a cardboard robot.
It is a robot though.
Anyhoozle go here - CTR01
I put it in the Radical Guerilla Potato Art section as I didn't know where else to put it.
2006
Ok, I've moved all these previous entries to a new
Archives page, located on the left hand navigation bar, which you should go to if you want to find out what happened in the past.
Also I've added three new robots Happy Festive Thing
This year I built a tree using mainly bikes left lying around my flat.
this one features Break-bot doing some breakdancing.
I had planned for it to be much longer and much more complicated but break-bot kept falling apart and then my camera got ill.
So this is all there is for now.
The music is "Mama Said Knock You Out" by LL Cool J. (This last bit is no longer true.)
Here
feedback (on anthing on the site) welcome.
I've made new things,well this is actually a stop motion animation i did last year using LEGO,
but i've finally got around to adding music to it.
The music being "Christmas at the Zoo" by The Flaming Lips
Hope you like it. Another animation should be following soon. (Since writing this I've had to remove the music.)
I am currently doing more roboty things (not just models), hopefully they'll be finished by mid december, and will be more awesome than you could shake a stick at or fit in a lift, meanwhile, i'm constantly tweaking these pages in an attempt to stay fashionable. I may also explain Happy Orange.
Woohoo. I built a website. There's not much here at the moment but one day it
will be the Interweb embodiment of me and therefore amazing.
I am probably a freelance artist/designer/engineer.
If you wanna you can pester me I might get back to you.
The Birthplace of Happy Orange