Grant Killoran

2012-02-05T22:53:00.000Z

Whimsical Pipe Photography

2012-02-05T22:23:00.000Z

While me and Kat were having a photographic jaunt on the beach I discovered the perfect piece of driftwood for some off the cuff pipe photography. I put the pipe down mid smoke so it is a bit ashy but its nothing that a nice shallow depth of field can't rectify.

Society 6

2012-02-01T09:53:00.000Z

I have put my first piece of work up on Society 6. I'm hoping to build a half decent portfolio on there in the coming months. I'll keep posting about it no doubt. You can find it here.

2012-01-27T09:06:00.000Z

Seaside Rendezvous

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1953 BC - naked eye planets

2012-01-12T19:44:00.001Z

In 1953BC the naked eye planets were in the close alignment - within around 4 degrees. I think the next closest alignment will be in 2044 odd, and that'll be around 11 degrees off. Enough boring facts, here are a few images I'm working on for this event. Thinking of bastardising some type for it too. We shall see.

2000 BC - stonehenge

2012-01-10T16:22:00.000Z

I am planning a project looking at the main events from the past 4000 years - key points in history and generally interesting things. Ideally I am looking to produce an illustration for every single year, although this would be a monumental undertaking! As well as that it's actually quite hard finding solid dates and events for each year (a lot of stuff I have found has been quite boring - kings dying or taking the throne and wars pretty much). If anyone knows of any interesting events in mind from 2000 - 1000 BC let me know about it! This is my first attempt at an illo for 2000BC which is the date when Stonehenge was completed (allegedly). It feels a little rough around the edges and not quite on the money, so I may come back to it and develop it a bit more after I tackle a few more events.

Skull Drawings....again.

2011-11-20T15:16:00.000Z

I Can't get enough of anatomical drawing, or skulls. So here are some more sketches I did recently. I know it's all a bit lame - drawing skulls and that - but I can't help myself! I did one sketch and then messed around with it in various ways.

I had a go at drawing the muscle structure over the skull - I definitely want to do more muscle drawings...

How about overlaying them all? Weird.

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2011-11-08T16:35:00.000Z

Some screen shots of a piece I'm working on. Typeface is egypt 22, which I think is beautiful. Everyone should (and probably will be now) using it!

2011-11-07T23:47:00.000Z

Gliese Typeface

2011-11-07T16:35:00.000Z

I'm working on a new typeface - inspired by the planet Gliese 581 c

This is a quick comp just to give an idea of where I am at the moment - I want to improve my Photoshop planet creation skills. Obviously that is an important skill to have.

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Horizon - Seeing Stars

2011-08-19T23:29:00.000+01:00

I watched this episode of horizon the other day, and one of the scientists had made this awesome little model of a black hole and its accretion disk. Go science! Reminds me of my final major project...ah, the fun.

Guilloché Pattern Generator

2011-08-15T15:22:00.000+01:00

experimenting with this interesting pattern generator

I made a quick animation, might also look at incorporating it into some of the digital collages I've been making.

Moons of Saturn

2011-08-06T19:04:00.004+01:00

new digital collages

2011-07-30T10:45:00.001+01:00

A few ideas for a recent competition I entered. I want to do some more digital collage and use some of my own textures. These images are inspired by the phases of the moon, and some of the textures are taken from old astrology books.

Grafik mag

2011-07-20T16:19:00.000+01:00

The lovely people at Grafik have written a few kind words about me on their website. Find it here

a few new sketches

2011-07-19T12:37:00.000+01:00

these are some sketches for our new collective zine. I'm thinking of making an illustration based on the idea of dawn/dusk on the moon...I actually want to draw some things for a change too!

Prints for sale in the Rag Factory

2011-07-02T00:43:00.000+01:00

I didn't take my camera to the private view so I only have pictures taken with my terrible camera phone. If you are in the Brick Lane area between now and Sunday you should get yourself down to the Rag Factory and buy yourself a print or two!

work going up on the pdye website

2011-06-22T00:09:00.000+01:00

check out everyone's work, its looking pretty cool - pdye.eu

2011-06-13T20:18:00.000+01:00

yesterday's cyanotypes

2011-06-10T17:43:00.002+01:00

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Photomicroscopy

2011-06-04T23:08:00.000+01:00

I'm actually really chuffed with these images, which is rare for me. It might just be the fact that I am completely knackered after an exhausting few days of constant running, sawing, cutting and bleeding. They look very 'galactic' to me - like a collection of stars/planets, which is fitting.

Resin casts

2011-06-04T22:56:00.001+01:00

I made some resin casts of the brain and heart, I've been thinking of mounting them on a board and back lighting them with LEDs. Here are a couple of tests.

My idea of a degree show invite

2011-06-03T21:40:00.002+01:00

atmosphere diagram

2011-06-01T01:08:00.000+01:00

A diagram showing the relationship between the gravitational pull of the earth and its affect on time. The higher up in the atomosphere you go - and into outer space - the faster time travels.

Disposing of your black hole

2011-05-29T21:01:00.000+01:00

Plaster Casts

2011-05-27T03:52:00.000+01:00

plasticine brain cut in two - so I could make a latex mould for both sides.

building up layers of latex.

mould for phrenology bust type thing.

Next I am making a heart - here is the plasticine model.

beginning the latex moulds...

spacetime fabricated

2011-05-26T12:14:00.000+01:00

I'm looking at overlaying some animations depicting spacetime onto some live footage - I like the texture of the first image - it has the footage showing through, might make things a bit more interesting...

halftone late night madness

2011-05-26T00:29:00.000+01:00

I'm looking to make some halftone designs to use for cyanotypes, just been throwing shapes together. I want to have some more loose work in the show potentially, and not just dry old schematics.

episode 2: light

2011-05-23T16:59:00.000+01:00

I'm working on some diagrams for the second episode. Quite interesting looking at light - phototransduction is pretty awesome.

star diagrams

2011-05-21T20:46:00.003+01:00

'Time Tape'

2011-05-17T13:43:00.000+01:00

initial blueprint/information graphic idea, explaining how the time tape works.

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Black Hole Diagrams

2011-05-11T17:49:00.000+01:00

Developing ideas for cyanotypes/schematics around the whole black hole subject area.

Also, I have learned that objects apparently move faster than the speed of light within the inner horizon of a black hole. I'm thinking that if you could harness this extreme gravitational force time travel might be fairly feasible! If you were travelling faster than light...it just blows my mind. You would be seeing 'old' photons of light in front of you? Would you become invisible? If you are approaching someone at faster than lightspeed, surely you cannot be seen....

Collaboration with Ambrose Vevers

2011-05-09T12:56:00.000+01:00

Brose told me he had developed a ground breaking woodcarving technique, and would like some images to carve. The main stipulation was that I 'think what a robot would do'. I sent him this impossible triangle, and he has carved it like the woodworking maestro he is. More to come soon I hope!

Microscopic Illustration

2011-05-01T21:58:00.001+01:00

I wanted to photograph some of the stuff I was looking at through the microscope (the supplied USB ocular has a pretty low resolution), so I fashioned a makeshift adaptor tube for my DSLR out of a toilet roll tube, a pringles lid and some electrical tape! Here are some of the tiny illustrations:

I want to make some microscopic illustrations, so I am testing some ideas, images and text. I printed everything as small as I could on the inkjet printer - the images are no more than 3-4mm across. I want to try printing on the laser printer to see how that compares.

These images are of blood cells and a cross section of a plant stem. I quite like the whacky radials I'm getting from the bogroll tube here! Looks like the intro to a Bond film.

2011-04-28T22:08:00.001+01:00

The Big Update

2011-04-23T18:34:00.000+01:00

I haven't found the time to blog for a while, so here is an update of some progress I've made recently.

Latest loaf of bread was the best yet, it's getting better. Got another dough on the go today as well...

I bought an oscilloscope and some kind of voltage meter/thing from the dump a little while back. I'm probably going to use them for the 'time machine mk.2' or perhaps the prediction machine. We'll see. Maybe both.

I have been making some cyanotype prints over the last few days. I am thinking of using one of the sketchbooks I made as a cyanotype sketchbook - exposing each page as I go.

Pain Au Chocolat

2011-04-23T15:17:00.002+01:00

Made these a while ago now, didn't get around to blogging it til today. Turned out the chocolate I used was a bit bitter - lesson learned!

Retro mock up

2011-04-13T01:56:00.004+01:00

A quick mock up to give a feel for the style I want to use for the video/animation element of my project.

optical GIF

2011-04-10T18:28:00.002+01:00

planning on appying this giffing technique to some of the earlier graphics I made...

cross sections

2011-04-10T11:54:00.001+01:00

commodore

2011-04-06T15:45:00.000+01:00

I bought an old Commodore VIC 20 at a bootsale the other day. I was quite surprised to see it still works! I've been trying to figure out how to program images/sound on it but it's frying my brain slightly. Hopefully I can come up with some images to use with my project.

Sketch doodling

2011-04-06T11:31:00.002+01:00

I was messing around with the sketch app for google chrome this morning and discovered you could rotate around your doodles in 3D, so I made this quick animation.

tracing paper animation

2011-04-05T16:29:00.000+01:00

I am really happy with this little animation, and I don't quite know why. Maybe it is the sheer crappyness of it. I have been meaning to animate this image for a while and finally got round to it today. I am thinking of making some more stop frame animations using tracing paper overlays and lino cuts.

Bakery Progression

2011-04-05T15:29:00.000+01:00

Here are my latest experiments along the bread/pastry front. It's probably the best bread I've made so far, I'm starting to get the hang of it. Next up - pain au chocolat.....

Animated lino cuts

2011-04-01T00:01:00.000+01:00

Hopefully they won't destroy your eyes...

sketchbook pics

2011-03-30T23:34:00.000+01:00

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the blackboard

2011-03-29T13:04:00.000+01:00

new lino cut

2011-03-22T20:31:00.003Z

took some advice from hollybobs and returned to a bit of lino printing. Quite like the fact that the printed area looks a bit like a starfield, might print a plain block just for the texture and use it for something...I suddenly also have an urge to do loads of stuff on squared paper. More to come soon.

Orion Correlation

2011-03-22T10:00:00.000Z

mandalala!

2011-03-21T00:11:00.001Z

I'm beginning to construct stuff, I'm trying to work along the lines of mandalas, Aztec calendars, chinese symbols etc. At the moment it all looks like flowers.

black holes and optical illusions

2011-03-18T11:39:00.006Z

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How a Black Hole Works

2011-03-13T16:28:00.001Z

here is my illustration of a black hole. This unlucky person has happened to have passed the event horizon (point of no return, as shown by the heavy black line on the right) and would have to be travelling at faster than the speed of light just to remain stationary at this time. They are uttering the word 'help', but because they are in the vacuum of space this desperate cry would not be audible.

new odd things

2011-03-10T21:16:00.003Z

I just drew a sloth

2011-03-08T17:48:00.002Z

and here he is.

mossy form of seat furniture

2011-02-23T21:39:00.001Z

I photographed the stool I will be using for my Penguin entry today. I used pyrography to illustrate elements from the book on the legs and added some moss - another reference from the book. Wahey.

Other stuffs

2011-02-16T20:45:00.001Z

world book day madness

2011-02-16T20:24:00.000Z

I felt over enthusiastic today and so decided start working on a poster for the planned fun at WSA for World Book Day. I was inspired by carnival posters, faires and playing cards. I want to start making things sooner rather than later, because time is rapidly running away from me. This design will no doubt change quite a bit, hopefully we will make more than one for the event, but I would definitely like to have them screen printed.

2011-02-07T22:12:00.001Z

teleportation

2011-02-07T22:04:00.001Z

A quick info graphic-type experiment. I'm intending to make these in order to simplify and outline the facts from each element of fringe science I will be looking at. These will not be the outcomes but a step in the process to aid the creation of other work.

Cardboard Objects

2011-01-19T19:27:00.001Z

Over the last few days I have been working to finish all my projects, and now I have just completed the 21 sided dice I wanted to make for the manifesto project.

The die, before cutting it out:

Here it is finished, but I still want to add a layer of varnish or something to protect it a bit before it gets rolled around. I'm quite eager to give it a go!

The depth of field here is a tad ridiculous but they were really quick snaps, just wanted something to shove on the old blog. Will hopefully photograph them tomorrow using the copy stand...

2011-01-19T00:03:00.000Z

brief 2 typeface

2011-01-17T10:59:00.002Z

Gifs

2011-01-17T09:52:00.004Z

today's progress

2011-01-16T13:26:00.009Z

DIESEL bits and bobs

2011-01-15T23:29:00.009Z

I'm sad to say that I am entering triangle territory. But in my defense it is due to the shape of my teleidoscopes. Hopefully I will make more sense at a later date.

Ju-Ju-Julia!

2011-01-15T16:06:00.003Z

Just starting to try and piece some things together for the Julia brief. I would really appreciate some feedback from people, so if you have an opinion feel free to give it. Meh! I'm planning on laser cutting some quite simplistic graphic poster designs onto cardboard too, so they should look far more awesome than this....I hope!

Wheel of Fortune-type thing

2011-01-14T17:51:00.000Z

An update on the progress of my wheel of fortune for the manifesto brief. I did the second screen print layer the other day, sadly the white I intended to use was far to translucent and so I used brown instead. Needs to be neatened up a bit but it's more or less there now.

Final DPT

2011-01-11T19:35:00.000Z

Finished DPT video. I was right, it changed again!

DPT screen grabs

2011-01-06T11:32:00.000Z

Just a few quick shots of some of the crap I have been doing for DPT. It will probably change yet again before I am finished!

JACKARSE

2010-12-29T16:08:00.000Z

I felt inspired today to make an attempt at playing with the jackarse idea. I was thinking 80's films, ford orion badges, lens flare and cheese. I'm kinda thinking this could be a TV series or something...of course in no way related to jackass. Inspired by Josh and his comment on the sauceblog.

weekend sketchbook challenge

2010-12-20T16:13:00.000Z

bit of cross stitch

2010-12-15T19:56:00.000Z

orbit

2010-11-19T19:01:00.000Z

I'm developing the orbiting idea that I came to at the end of the music project. I am in the process of creating an animation in After Effects to demonstrate how this could be used in iTunes etc.

Julia Brief

2010-11-15T17:51:00.002Z

Some examples of ideas for the Julia brief. Still got some way to go before I have some proper finals.

Brief 2 progress

2010-11-04T21:42:00.000Z

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