Skip to main content
Tag

cartoon

April competition – How many jelly beans in the jar?

By Competitions

Well, not really ‘how many jellybeans in the jar’, more like, ‘how many images in my latest release Flip toon’. I just thought this would be a good analogy.

So this competition has been especially released for those of you who prefer the ‘guessing’ type competition, versus the ‘effort’ type competition. It shouldn’t take you more than 15 seconds to enter, and there’s a prize for the winner!

Click here to be the first to enter.

Walk like an Egyptian Flip Toon

By Flip Toon

You’ll have to click here to see the cartoon today – it’s on You Tube!

I’m very excited to release my very first ‘Flip Toon’.

‘What the flip is is a Flip Toon?’ I hear you ask. Well it’s a Marti’ism. It combines those hand made flip books that show an animation (remember them from your childhood?) with a cartoon. I daren’t call it an animation, that would be too brash, for what I consider to be a modest extension to the cartoon media.

I hope to make more, but first I’ll need to recover from this experience. My hat goes out to those very talented people, who rightfully call themselves animators.  It just about sent me over the edge making this – but that’s another story, probably a whole new blog…but I digress.

I hope you enjoy it.

Dead elephant

By Animals

I don’t know where the myth concerning elephants standing after they die came from. Various theories are out there, but I couldn’t find any evidence on Google. Here is Tyler’s theory on the subject.

House for sale

By Animals

It never ceases to amaze me the different types of business opportunities people pursue – fashion accessories for your pet hermit crab

It’s a neutrino vs photon war

By Space and Aliens

No sooner, do I post a cartoon on the amazing speed of Neutrinos, then things all change.

It looks like the Photons are fighting back, supporting Einstein and his theory on relativity and claiming the prize for being the fastest in the Universe.  CERN released a press statement in February indicating that a faulty cable may be the reason for the faster than light speed measurements taken from our little friends the Neutrinos. See the UK Daily Mail for a non  scientific explanation. (I decided not to link the official CERN site press release as it was a bit heavy reading, but possibly more technically precise).

Carnivorous plants

By Animals

Carnivorous plants are also called insectivorous plants. (What’s with insectivorous? – an unimaginative biologist trying to come up with a new word or something?). Bet they never heard of the Nepenthes Rajah. It is known to prey on small reptiles and animals and has a ‘belly’ capacity of 3.5 litres. Here’s an image I found on the web.