New address...

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

Yeah well new rules

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

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

Shop smart...

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.

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

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!

I never expected all this hoopla

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

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...

Make it bigger and stronger than ever!

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...

Here's my card.

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).

Let Polly do the printing

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?

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.