Issue 1 of Vomit Party now available in full gore - o- rama vision. Tremble in horror as a feast of curiosities is unleashed, and remember

Also if you live in the US it may work out cheaper for you to buy this from mag cloud

Every now and then a magazine comes along with such cultural significance that it shakes the very fabric of our society and redfines our concepts of 'self', 'love', 'being' and 'unity'. It has been a very long time since a magazine of this calibire has been given to society and it will probably be ages till the next one so in the mean time why not read this magazine of artwork?

If you live in America then it will prbably be cheaper for you to buy one on demand from mag cloud the fine publsihers of this trash

So if you are viewing this site in safari chances are you have noticed that occasionaly the site doesn't load and instead just shows a completely blank page. I noticed this too and after much searching for answers It turns that the fault is not mine (I hope but do please comment if you think it is). There seems to be a bug in Webkit, the only thing I can think to do is to post a warning to safari users, the disconcerting thing  is that this bug was reported quite a while ago and still seems to be occuring.

I contacted  Sarah Ricks who filed the bug report and she said that she hasnt noticed it happning on her site recently but is not sure what could have caused the change.  Needless to say this is pretty anoying.

JQuery Loves me!

I having been using JQuery for a while now but only recently have I started trying to use it elegantly.

var tabbedcontents = "#tabbed-holder";
var tabbedmenu = "#tabs";

$($(tabbedcontents)).children("div:not(:first)").css("display", "none");
//hide all but the first div if content
var currentOn = $($(tabbedcontents + " div:first"))
// set current var
 $('[rel=tab]').click(function(e) {
    e.preventDefault();
    // to stop the div jump
    $(tabbedmenu + ' li a.active').removeClass('active');
    $(this).addClass('active');
    currentOn.css("display", "none");
    $($(this).attr("href")).css("display", "block");
    currentOn = $($(this).attr("href"));
});

The function above takes in the division holding the tabbed navigation and the division holding the tabbed contents. Firstly it hides all but the first division of contents. It then sets up the first tab as active and then click handler for the tabbed menu. The click handler starts by disabling the defualt action of the anchor and then handles the active class, hides the currently visible content division and then uses the href value of the click tab to show the desired content. It would be pretty simple to add your own animation effect and with javascript disabled the html will degrade to use the anchors to jump to content. Easy!

It is 20 pages of glossy portraits of star trek characters and is well worth the 6 dollars asking price (i think).

I used magcloud to make all this happen. Magcloud is an on demand magazine publishing service and is a project of HP Labs. I found it much cheaper and easier to use than services like lulu due in no small part to the fact that the publishing options are limited to letter size magazine format.  I'm not complaining though I found the whole process quick and easy the only down side was the lead time to get my test copy printed and then shipped to glasgow.

I think on demand services like this have a lot of potential for artists, my work is mostly digital and so having the oppurtinty to get a hard copy without having to order a batch of 1000 is pretty great.

Even though Gnar Trek is available to anyone, anywhere, anytime I am not convinced that I will sell more through mag cloud than the one i already have (thanks Tom).  So I will still be ordering a bulk load to try and palm them off on any and all galleries and book shops that will stock them.  Does this defeat the point? I'm not sure, probably, but just because the internet can buy my zine doesn't mean they will, or should.

My re-design has attempted to get a bit more of a tumblog feel to the site. All the products i post are part of the rss feed, so when a user subscribes to the feed the yget blog posts and new products and art work when i post them. This means that i dont have to re-blog about the new stuff i put up. So here are the things I have implemented and why I think the are cool.

Blogas mentioned above all pieces of content i post are sucked through by the RSS feed, I implemented this using the blog for umbraco and then modifiying the rss output macro. Because my products have a seperate image field (rather than a image embedded in rich text) I had to add the following to the rss output in order to pull through the image

I also added a facebook comments box to replace the normal comments box that blog 4 umbraco uses. Facebook have a really useful developers page which lists all the cool widgets you can embed and even gives you rough estimates for how long it will take. I think one of the downsides i can see with this implementation is that it wont be possible for me to set up umbraco notifications on new comments made but I think that is a small price to pay.

In my next post I will talk about my implementation of simpleCart.js and awesome discoveries in safari debugging.

As mentioned I have also integrated some aspects of facebook connect so that you can post comments on my blog using your facebook login and details. My shop is still powered by wojo goups simpleCart which works pretty well.

Well thats enough for now, please get in touch if  you find anything wrong or would like to discuss potential collabortations web/art or otherwise.

Deadly lions are from Africa all other lions are not as good and mostly are pascifists. This tshirt was made by a battle hungry lion with a lust for blood. You too can tout yourself about as a hard man (or she-man) with this t-shirt.

Sometimes t shirts made from the emulsified remains of an animals's digestive system are just the baddest! this one however can boast a zero tolerance for animal ofal whilst still maintaining the comfort and style you have come to expect from t-shirts made of guts.

This is a kettle of flesh a 32 page full colour zine! Its not about anything in particular theres no story or anythingits just a bunch of pictures of old people.

Trouble brewing at the old mill. Some say local vandals have kidnapped old man stevens and taken him hostage. What can be done about this terrible crime? who will call the sherrif? god knows but doesnt care! NOW why not buy this top? what have you got to loose except some money and maybe some freinds.

REMEBER: this top is sort of one of a kind, i will do my best to replicate it but may do some embelishments that you cant see on this picture. If you really really want it to look only like this then send me a message and we work out a deal.

You think you can but you cant. Aint that the truth. Are youaware of this why not? Unholy frise proclaims the iminent arrival of the dark lord and stuff, you know what i mean. get used to it.

Originaly created for my friend Keenan Marshall Keller this design is now available to the general public. Now you to can own this delightful item, why not

A) Impress your mum.
B) Get the girl.
C) Win back your family farm

All these things and more are now possible with this tshirt. ps: th price is a bit higher cause it takes waaaay longer to make.

Satan buys all his clothes from me. He even asked my to make him some pyjamas but i had to decline given that pattern would have to be pretty custom to fit his goats legs and pulsating evil. Anyway this is a jersey. and it says hail satan I could do this design with any animal you want they are all equaly satanic. Just let me know.

Note: This top is now sold out, Im sorry to dissapoint but I am getting a bit bored making them. I plan to make batches of some of my older stock periodicaly and will post word when they are ready so why not sign up to my RSS feed

This T-shirt was created for the ultra-wolves gang of sau paulo they wear it and so can you. Wearing this top will gain you access to all secret areas controled by the gang but watch out for the illustrious tigers cause they are the ultra wolves mortal enemies and if they catch you, they will beat you.

remember to read the terms of sale before buying