Film the Blanks

New address...

2009-04-21T00:05:00.002+01:00

I've moved to www.Filmtheblanks.com now. But don't worry everything is still the same, only better. Come and see!

Click the poster to guess...

2009-04-17T15:31:00.005+01:00

I'm in the process of moving to Wordpress so although the blanks will still appear here you can have to guess them over at www.Filmtheblanks.com.

Click the poster to guess...

2009-04-15T16:22:00.000+01:00

I'm in the process of moving to Wordpress so although the blanks will still appear here you can have to guess them over at www.Filmtheblanks.com.

Click the poster to guess...

2009-04-14T15:30:00.006+01:00

I'm in the process of moving to Wordpress so although the blanks will still appear here you can have to guess them over at www.Filmtheblanks.com.

Migration… Migration… Migration…

2009-04-11T18:45:00.007+01:00

There will be no blank today as I’m in the process of migrating to (mt) and Wordpress. Please stick with me while a hammer out the dents over the next day or so. Things may move around, change colour, dissappear or change size until things settle down.

Don’t worry normality (only better) will be resumed shortly here:
www.filmtheblanks.com

Apologies for that - but there might be a double-feature tomorrow if you’re especially good today.

70: A complicated man

2009-04-10T15:30:00.006+01:00

0069: B-man begins

2009-04-09T15:30:00.007+01:00

0068: Access to ex-SS

2009-04-08T15:30:00.003+01:00

0067: The PI formerly known as Archer

2009-04-07T15:30:00.005+01:00

0066: Gottle o geer

2009-04-06T15:30:00.007+01:00

0065: Dollars, Taxes

2009-04-03T15:30:00.006+01:00

0064:Shoot the antennae!

2009-04-02T15:30:00.005+01:00

0063: I've Written a Letter to Daddy

2009-04-01T15:30:00.006+01:00

0062: The Doc is a dentist but that's OK

2009-03-31T15:30:00.007+01:00

0061: Maurice Spiked

2009-03-30T15:30:00.008+01:00

0060: Only Amoreena

2009-03-27T15:30:00.014Z

0059: The mad people

2009-03-26T15:30:00.005Z

0058: Carpenter's Eyes

2009-03-25T15:31:00.005Z

Yeah well new rules

2009-03-24T23:42:00.005Z

Rules update:

Axton's rules - Monki variations
From now on I will aim to post Mon-Fri at 15.30.
However the post will be visual only; no clues or titles.

Here's where you come in... when do you want the clue to be provided?
An hour later? Two hours later? Or the following day?

I assure you; we’re open

2009-03-24T22:27:00.008Z

Well... we will be soon.
It all goes off tomorrow morning/afternoon depending on your location.

0057: Drebin in Space

2009-03-24T16:05:00.005Z

0056: An Englishman, a Frenchman, a Mexican and a Texan

2009-03-23T10:58:00.009Z

0055: The mind-killer

2009-03-22T16:52:00.008Z

0054: Good schooling, not

2009-03-20T10:27:00.018Z

0053: Cornetto

2009-03-19T18:21:00.006Z

Shop smart...

2009-03-19T02:35:00.007Z

After a few weeks of steady head-scratching, phone-calling, screen-printing, html-face-pulling, pay-pal-authorising, template breaking, van-delivering, photo-taking, digi-trimming, holographic lasering, tea drinking work...

The shop is nearly here.

Look at the fat button over to the top-right.
Now stop looking at it and click it to see the shop.

You can't buy anything yet but I thought it would be nice to look at it while I fiddle about a bit and wait for these holograms.

0052: Single file, beaks RIGHT!

2009-03-18T17:45:00.007Z

Haven't you heard? Last night... six of 'em.

2009-03-18T11:09:00.009Z

The posters have been sitting here waiting for their holograms for a week now - so I thought I'd take some pictures of them to let everyone have look.

They are as follows:
Eat a Rocking Chair (Limited Edition of 50)
Bruce (Super-limited Edition of 10)

Lousy Bicycles (Limited Edition of 50)
Bolivia (Super-limited Edition of 10)

Milk-Plus (Limited Edition of 50)
Droog (Super-limited Edition of 10)

Have look and click 'em for exciting detailed views.

Holograms should arrive on Tuesday which means the store will be open for business on Wednesday. I'll again update before then. Enjoy!

0051: More intensity

2009-03-17T17:35:00.006Z

0050: Diseases of Canaries

2009-03-16T17:16:00.006Z

0049: Primm Valley Resort

2009-03-13T15:41:00.007Z

0048: That's why I'm considered weak

2009-03-12T20:45:00.012Z

I know it's new and not very abstracted - but I love this poster so much.

0047: Your no more German then that scotch.

2009-03-11T01:02:00.003Z

I never expected all this hoopla

2009-03-10T22:19:00.003Z

First I'd just like to say a quick thank you to anyone who is reading this.

I really started of doing all this after being made extremely miserable and seriously ill by the various stresses and strains of my work and my life in London. My doctor told me to take some time off and do nothing for a while.

When I'd had enough of doing nothing she suggested that I do something creative, something that I could do a bit at a time and that I would be in charge of.

So feeling on a real low I started doing something for myself.

In just over a month I've had almost 10,000 people looking at the site, people getting rather excited about the prints, gallery owners contacting me and even a french design magazine asking me if they can feature my work.

So I'd like to say thanks.

Because although I started just doing this by myself to make myself feel a bit better - everyone of you ended up helping and to be honest I feel like I've had more fun and motivation and rewarding feedback in the last month working alone in my armchair than I have had in the last ten years designing for other people at a desk.

So thanks. I hope you keep enjoying what I do - I want to keep doing it. And there's plenty of other ideas I never had time to do so who knows... maybe I'll do those as well.

But for now - I realise that people are feeling a bit locked out of the guessing game because of the first come first served system. This problem is exacerbated somewhat by the fact that I now have more than my original four readers.

So I will invoke 'Axton's rules' moving forward.

Basically from now on I will accept the first five correct guesses. The comments will be hidden till 5 answers are in - but don't worry I am reading them. If five start going really fast then I'll make it ten.

This takes effect now - but not for previously answered posts.

Hope this helps for people feeling left out.

We're gonna need a bigger boat

2009-03-10T18:53:00.018Z

It was a very sunny day today so I had a quick ride down to the beach and took some shots for the store. Here is the result...

Also got an exciting call from BEP

The posters are ready.

The van is loaded.

Tomorrow they shall be mine...

0046: 97X, bam!

2009-03-09T20:29:00.019Z

Make it bigger and stronger than ever!

2009-03-09T03:33:00.011Z

Given enough time, a hypothetical chimpanzee typing at random would, as part of its output, almost surely produce one of Shakespeare's plays.

Well readers, I may have only had a weekend and I may not know anything about html but by God I am that chimp!

And what I have produced is enough to make a certain so-called playwrite sob into his ruff with jealousy and rage - behold... I give you...

A new sun is rising on the high-rez horizon and the name of this wonderous fiery ball is BIG-A-VISION. SEE coloured blocks as you've never seen them before, LOOK at the blanks even more closelyer than previously possible and then BLINK away the tears of humble disbelief at the sheer power and awesome majesty that is BIG-A-VISION.

So how does it work? Is it game? How do you do it? How do you know when it's done?

Sounds complicated, right?

Wrong! There's nothing to it - why, you probably know how to do it already - just click the poster you want see bigger and SHAZAM! it pops up bigger in a whole new window... you can even zoom into it - imagine that! Or maybe just grab it for your collection. When you're done just close-up the window and keep on browsing.

I know. It's incredible. But wait... there's more... I've also increased the size of all the regular posters so you can see them a bit better even before you make the the leap to BIG-A-VISION.

Hope that helps AXTON :)

Now quite apart from doing that I also popped out today and took a few pictures for the product views for the upcoming shop. So while you're here I thought I'd give you a quick preview on how one of them is looking.

Why not try what you've just learnt and click the pic? Go on you know you want to...

0045: Let it ring.

2009-03-06T14:08:00.005Z

Here's my card.

2009-03-06T01:29:00.006Z

Printing update - the first series of posters have officially begun the printing process. The original colours will be a limited edition of 50, the xtra series (my alternate colourway) will be a super-limited edition of 10 only. All will be individually signed and numbered by my good self.

I hope to have them completed within the next two weeks and to have the store online by the end of the month.

But to give you something printy to look at in the meantime here are the authentication cards.

"What are the authentication cards?" you may ask.

Well they are little mini CMYK versions of the poster that come with each order and act as a little thank you. Each comes in a neat little envelope and is numbered and signed.

And finally you may notice there is a big white gap between the logo and the 'Thank you' - well, even as you read this, somewhere in a secret underground bunker there are some FILM THE BLANKS authentication hologram stickers being created by special robots. With lasers.

That's right I said holograms. And robots. With lasers.

When they arrive they will be placed on each card and matching ones will be placed on the reverse of each poster. Then placed in the envelope. Then placed in a tube with the print and sent to you. If you buy one, of course.

Also just a quick note on the colours here.

The browny colour will actually be metallic gold on the prints themselves. Also the pink and orange that features in "Lousy Bicycles" and "Milk-plus XA" are fluorescent inks. In addition the xtra versions of "Lousy Bicycles" and "Milk-plus" are printed on coloured stock - Pistachio (very pale green) and Smoke (slate grey).

0044: Die sehr großen brechen aus

2009-03-05T11:13:00.008Z

0043: Triskaidekaphobia

2009-03-04T21:53:00.005Z

0042: I've been to Vidal Sassoon

2009-03-03T22:36:00.006Z

0041: I'm no hero

2009-03-03T19:55:00.005Z

0040: Only a daaaaay awaaaaaay

2009-03-02T18:07:00.017Z

0039: Invested in some kind of fruit company.

2009-03-02T00:26:00.009Z

0038: No head for heights

2009-02-28T17:25:00.006Z

0037: Big Ben and Sandywitch

2009-02-27T21:11:00.009Z

Heterochromic alien visits

2009-02-26T23:28:00.011Z

0035: But I'm clean

2009-02-25T23:44:00.012Z

0034: Pup-a-go-go

2009-02-23T16:26:00.008Z

Let Polly do the printing

2009-02-22T16:08:00.009Z

Update on printing. I am looking at getting the first set of posters printed toward the end of the month. The posters will be professionally screen-printed at A1 on 270gsm GF Smith Colourplan. They be limited editions hand numbered and signed.

There will be two sets; one limited edition in the original poster colours and a second super-limited edition in an alternative colourway. Each poster can be bought individually.

The first series of posters will be as follows:

0005: Eat a rocking chair.

0007: Lousy bicycles.

0018: Milk-plus.

More news as it happens.

What does the winner get?

2009-02-22T15:42:00.008Z

People have been guessing the blanks for a while now using the comments section so I thought I'd reward regular respondents with a prize. As you can see I've fudged the tags section to be a sort of scoreboard.

The idea is simple; guess correctly get a 'bing' guess wrong get a 'buzzz'.

For every correct answer you will receive a point. Winners will (potentially) be announced every three or four months. As you can see things get vague here but bear with it...

Prizes will probably be something along the lines of a very limited screenprint of a poster (potentially a one off edition or variation - or something of an equally excitingly limited nature) whatever it is - it will be cool.

If I haven't gone mad from poster blanking by the end of the year there will be a super-duper prize for the overall winner.

There we go. Enjoy. And get guessing!

Oh, just one more thing.

In the SCORES (tags) you can see one called --- CLICK TO SOLVE --- as the name suggests if you click this you'll see all the unsolved ones. I need the name of the film or an imdb link if you want others to keep guessing.

There will be some tough ones on the way.

Mommy, where are you?

2009-02-22T13:00:00.009Z

0032: Y'know. For kids.

2009-02-19T21:11:00.008Z

0031: Famous cavewoman goes go-go

2009-02-18T22:05:00.008Z

0030: Boo!

2009-02-16T19:19:00.009Z

0029: Killed the car

2009-02-15T21:48:00.008Z

Organezized.

2009-02-13T19:59:00.008Z

0027: Release Roderick

2009-02-12T21:52:00.013Z

0026: It happened

2009-02-11T15:52:00.007Z

0025: Man overboard

2009-02-10T17:25:00.007Z

0024: Perfect Wave

2009-02-10T10:15:00.006Z

0023: Black Mamba

2009-02-09T09:27:00.006Z

0022: How's the leg?

2009-02-08T16:28:00.008Z

0021: Third person

2009-02-08T03:08:00.015Z

0020: No shirt no service

2009-02-06T19:39:00.008Z

0019: Room 237

2009-02-06T01:36:00.010Z

0018: Milk-plus

2009-02-04T17:17:00.008Z

0017: Make a rug outta that

2009-02-03T18:35:00.010Z

0016: Under control

2009-02-02T20:21:00.007Z

0015: Now I see the funny side

2009-01-30T01:21:00.007Z

0014: The idiocy of today

2009-01-27T21:44:00.009Z

You look younger since you've been sick

2009-01-27T13:23:00.012Z

Sorry for the break. I've been too busy with dull things for too long. All resulting a rather serious illness.

I'm currently convalescing and will begin a more regular output soon. I find it enormously satisfying and relaxing to do what I want to do rather than what other people are doing and or wanting me to do.

So, good for me. I suppose.

Not that anyone was holding their breath really - but just in case.

0013: Ted & Joanna

2008-04-07T00:01:00.011+01:00

0012: Work, glitter, pain.

2008-04-06T23:12:00.012+01:00

0011: Burying Shelly

2008-04-02T23:20:00.010+01:00

0010: Small patients

2008-03-26T23:42:00.009Z

0009: Dead without a dream

2008-03-26T23:15:00.010Z

0008: Spared no expense

2008-03-25T23:41:00.008Z

0007: Lousy bicycles

2008-03-24T23:00:00.010Z

0006: Balls in your ears

2008-03-24T21:24:00.007Z

0005: Eat a rocking chair

2008-03-24T17:13:00.055Z

0004: Free rice

2008-03-24T14:42:00.009Z

0003: Duality of man

2008-03-24T00:37:00.015Z

0002: Zero charisma

2008-03-24T00:36:00.010Z

0001: Fear of heights

2008-03-24T00:35:00.026Z