Cash registers, they're sooooo dull, sooooooo bland, soooooooo lame. Keeping on the retail visualisation tip, this latest stock 3D model is a pure work of fiction. No till-maker would ever be cool enough to pull this shit off.

All of the items shown are included along with Cinema 4D textures, etc. to produce the exact renders seen. No photoshop filters have been harmed in the making of these stills (obviously, or there'd be at least 10 lens flares on there because that is all photoshop does).

Available now via Turbosquid:

Cash Register / POS Terminal

Democracy implies a choice. In the UK there is no choice - they're all the exact same load of crap, taking turns at being crapper than the people before.

It doesn't matter which team you've been convinced is looking after your interests: They're not even thinking about you.

I talked at Cornerhouse (Manchester) on Saturday afternoon as part of their 'Show & Tell' series.

I could have spent some time putting together a relevant and interesting presentation with some kind of point, but instead (of course) I left it until a few hours before to throw together some unrelated slides featuring a polaroid of me on the verge of tears at age 3, some stickman doodles, and various other sketchy evidence of stuff I've done the last couple of years.

I found it liberating to be allowed to talk about my inane activities as though they had some creative or artistic merit, and was touched by the number of people going 'awwwwww' and looking sorry for me when stickmen came on screen.

Many thanks to Design by Day for recommending me to talk, and to Cornerhouse for the chance to participate, I highly recommend getting involved if you have the chance.

PS - I now have man flu, and have only moped around and grumbled at 100% of everyone I have come into contact since its official diagnosis yesterday. I cannot pass up this opportunity to let others know that they are not alone, and it will all be okay someday.

I've just released these low poly (but still nice rendering thanks to hypernurbs), 3D models suitable for retail visualisations - inspired by work with my freelance placements where a more contemporary mannequin was required, but not really available at a realistically affordable cost.

They are available to purchase through Turbosquid:

Male Mannequin

Female Mannequin

I've been going on and on and on and on about this for so long that I've completely bored myself to death with it, so I can only offer a brief summary here for fear of alienating myself and having to do some serious self mutilation.

Our render farm blade servers produce nice 3D imagery, but the main by-product from the process is heat - LOTS of heat. This heat is a big problem for server rooms as it makes computers very sad, poorly, and buildup can be a fire risk... Bummer :(

So, in the 'real world', (which features 'serious companies', 'careers', and the UK-wide 'pretending to be a bigger company than you are' mentality.... oh, and also 'crippling amounts of debt and falseness' I have written about before), you'd normally fit a ton of air conditioning to throw the heat outdoors - completely pointless and unethical. But pleasing to shallow IT managers and profit-centric corporations.

The fourth floor toilet features a shower, it also features holes to the outdoors which make it very, very cold. We had heat, it had inverse-heat... Logic dictated that we pipe the heat into the area of negative heat, thereby bringing a small corner of the world into social, temperate, and spiritual equilibrium.

I can only take credit for the server ownership and the idea, the real work was carried out by Glen (pictured). Now the toilet seat is constantly warmed giving you that uneasy thought that someone was recently, intimately, in proximity to it with their anal zone.

Happy Birthday dude! X

I could never have made this infantile masterpiece without the art-supporting Sarah Louise Jay - thanks for the loan of the yellow Sharpie :)

They don't make 'em like they used to :(

Always seemed to find myself in strange situations, nice to have it confirmed.

My instagram stuff from the last year or so, all in one place together, taking up space on the internets, with absolutely no point at all... Isn't technology great!