Becoming Batman

One of YouTube's most impressive series is ending this week. Fourteen episodes of fantastic deadpan humour and excellent acting from Stuart Laws and Alastair Clayton; you probably miss a lot of the jokes if (like me) you're not a great fan of the Batman/Dark Knight mythos, but it's still very funny and well worth the time.

I mean, if you consider YouTube a good use of your time in the first place.

Direct link to first episode here, and a series recap here in case you want to see the kind of thing you'll be getting.

More faffing with background design

Here's a reverse angle of Dane Geld in Graham's front yard.

Big in Zambia

One of the most self-indulgently pointless yet interesting ways I've found to procrastinate is by clicking through the statistics in YouTube's "Insight" pages. Unsurprisingly, Grey Bloke is usually most popular in the UK, US, Canada and Australia - except for today, when Zambia makes a strange guest appearance at Number 3. Frustratingly, it doesn't seem possible to find out why.

Almost makes up for the fact that both Channel 4 and BBC television have now passed on the SGB sitcom...

Facebook

The video I made about Facebook is doing pleasing business: 50,000 views in a week. And it's suddenly appeared here on Buzzfeed, with a nice badge saying "Most Shared" and a charming "LOL" sticker.

Still not "Viral" yet, though. Boo.

Faffing with background design

About a year ago I was messing about with ideas for how Graham's world would look if we ever got to see him away from his computer. This weekend I tried building a 3D house for him, and I quite like the combination of cartoon and "volume" in this picture.

Still a lot of details need clearing up (windows, textures, props etc) but for the moment this seems more interesting than the cartoon look I was originally thinking of.