Flash Image Gallery

It should load...


Flash Image gallery finsihed, overall i am happy with the way it turned out and how it looks. Right now it all works and am happy with it also found a new host to directly hotlink my files to so no more waiting for deviant art to load.

Its been scaled down to fit on blogger so thats why its not so big and hard to view the text but if you look at the picture ones they work quite well.

Click on it to try it out.



Screenshot of it embeded into my website

There were a few issues with size but i think ive fixed most of them now, not looking foward to validating it though...

Website Progress

Havent updated the blog in about two weeks so this post and ones after it will probably flood it over the next week or so making up for the past two weeks.

Website Progress

Starting off with where i'm currently at and how i'm progressing with pictures.


Here is a screenshot of website progress currently the about page is nearly finished just lacking the flash banner at the top.




In the picture below, is basically my finshed layout for the all the website pages excluding the index page which is more of a portal.

Ive kept within the design style of Modern Toss by keeping the sketchy edges around the borders where content will be placed. On all the pages there are links to Modern Toss twitter and tumblr, with the two fly characters take from the show added just to make it more like modern toss.




Website layout without the fancy grapics, very simple and stuff not much to say about it. Except The footer and the navigation bars were 100px but they seem to big and in the later versions i changed it, to better suit the layout and not take up so much room.




The website currently has six pages or seven Index portal, About, News, Characters, Movies, Gallery.

Index Portal - Is the main page from when the user enters the URL which is mainly going to be a portal.

About - A page explaining about Modern Toss.

News - will be a PHP page which takes News articles from the database i have set up.

Characters - A interactive flash page displaying characters and information about them.

Movies - Embedded Youtube movies, with a list style view

Gallery - A flash gallery displaying extracts from the Modern Toss comics.

I hope to Make a indivdiual banner for each page, in flash either telling a small story about a character or just displaying different characters.


More to follow this post like sketches and wireFrame work! and everything else.

Assignment Brief Two :: Project Design/Ideas 1

Assignment Brief Two

Brief: Artist/Arts Organisation Website
Design and build a artist / arts organisation website. A site which acts as a promotional website for an individual/organisation and which will increase both profile and online traffic for the client.
The choice of artist is wide and could include musician, craftsperson, writer etc etc. These must be real individuals either known to the designer or if not known then with sufficient background material available (on or offline) to make an effective ‘mock’ website (not historical or dead artists!). They can be real ‘live’ commissions if available.

For this project i have chosen Modern Toss as my artist/artist organisation. Modern Toss is created by Mick Bunnage and Jon Link. Originally Modern Toss started off as a series of cartoon booklets and books aimed at adults they also feature quiet regulary as a comic in the Gurdian, and recently they designed the cover for the Gurdian tv times pieces doing the cover and serveral other images inside to promote the live episode of Eastenders for some annerversry or something.


There biggest fame came when channel 4 commissioned two television series of a comedy sketch show of the Modern Toss featuring characters which appeared in the books and comics. The cartoons feature low-quality drawing, offensive language, violence, and satire of mundane life.


The reasons for choosing Modern Toss, well for one i like the show and always laugh at the cartoons. A better reason for choosing Modern Toss is they currently do not have a website set up. The creators have a blog set up and twitter feed and all that but they do not have a website which is can showcases there animations and creations. I would like to design a website to showcase their creations and solely focus on promoting Modern Toss.

Modern Toss is ace. It started out as a series of comics, some of which were later compiled into proper books and finally culminating in the production of 2 series' of televisual crudeness. The drawings are shit, the animation is sketchy, the subject matter's mundane and the language is extremely offensive - perfect.

sourced - http://www.wednesdayblog.co.uk/post.php?id=13

[Front cover for the Gurdian]

Ideas to follow this post and everything else!

Modern Toss

Modern Toss

"Modern Toss the stink of excellence in a world gone tits up!"

For a while now ive been thinking of how to write about Modern Toss and make it relevent to my work and practice and while rewatching old clips and finding more information about it i found a very nice application for Modern Toss in todays media.

I'll start by explaining what Modern Toss is and why it appeals to me. Modern Toss is a British series of cartoon booklets and books aimed at adults, and a television series based on them. It is the creation of Mick Bunnage and Jon Link. I first got into Modern Toss when they were shown on channel 4 a few years ago and have liked them ever since. I find their humour to be very dark and surreal and blunt at the same time. A similar show to Modern Toss was Monkey Dust which is probably a even darker comedy.

Some popular Modern Toss sketches incude:

- Mr Tourette: a French sign-writer who produces offensive signs bearing no relation to his customers' instructions. This usually culminates in his customer being totally unhappy with the work and Mr Tourette calling them "some kind of cunt"

- Alan: a sociopathic, scribble-like creature who plays extreme practical jokes on his middle-class brother-in-law, usually involving Alan turning up uninvited to a social event, causing a large amount of destruction to the tune of "I Like To Move It" by Reel 2 Real before running away, leaving his brother-in-law to shout "Come back, Alan, you wanker!"

- Citizens Advice: irate and often illogical complaints from members of the public about goods, services and employers, usually concluding with the question "where do I stand legally?"

- Work: conversations with disgruntled or complacent employees; for example, a man phones in from home, saying, "I've heard the printer's broken so I won't be coming in"

- Drive-by abuser: a man on a moped who shouts pointless insults at people, animals or inanimate objects he drives past.

- Fly talk: conversations between flies about humans they've encountered, sometimes mentioning celebrities including Chris Martin and 50 Cent..

Sourced http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_Toss

Drive-By Abuser iPhone app

Aswell as Modern Toss being on television and printed in books it has managed to make its way on to the iphone with a very nice and simple appliacation. The appliacation consists of sound bites taken from one of the characters from the television show and allows the user to play them via the iphones speakers. This application looks very simple and easy to make with little bits of animation and a nice easy menu looks very easy to make and to develop. I like it because i like Modern Toss, i have a feeling people who have not seen Modern Toss may not quite get the jokes but unless they like the abuse then they'll find it funny if not then they won't. Here is a example of the application on the iphone.



Modern Toss work shown in gallerys

The last thing i want to mention about Modern Toss is how there work has been showcased in gallerys and some made into posters. In my opionion Modern Toss is not just a badly drawn cartoon, there are much worse than modern toss and have been drawn better but they all lack the originality and humour Modern Toss pocesses. I don't know if i want to go as far and say its art but i definatly like it and love the style it is done in and shows that you don't have to have the nicest designed picture that it can be just as good in any style you want. i belive the writing and the jokes to help alot too.
Catch you later, yeah?

More examples of Modern Toss and links.



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http://www.moderntoss.com/
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