Flip Flop Flying
It's got a G not an apostrophe at the end. This is where I write down stuff that comes into my head, the sort of thing that is commonly known as a blog.
Flip Flop Fly Ball
A love of baseball and a love of infographics equals Flip Flop Fly Ball. Examining the sport through maps, charts, and graphs.
Craig Robinson
One day very soon, this site will be a portfolio. Note to self: do it, don't just say it.
My books
I've written and illustrated four books: Flip Flop Fly Ball, Atlas, Schmatlas, Fun Fun Fun, and Minipops. Plenty more info here.
Minipops app
1,000 Minipops crammed into an app for the iPhone or iPod touch. Easy-to-use; alphabetical or random views; quiz mode; and other functions. Available on iTunes.


8 May, 2012
This is an idea that has been floating around in my head for a few months, and for obvious reasons, I got around to realising it this weekend. It's a visual representation of who sings what in the Beastie Boys song, "(You Gotta) Fight for Your Right (To Party!). See it here.

8 May, 2012
A new Twitter poem: Chris Brown is.

7 May, 2012
Two new Twitter poems: You know what's awesome? and Pigging out.

6 April, 2012
A new Twitter poem: Hey guys.

23 February, 2012
So, it means nothing to you, the visitor, but to me it's kind of a big thing. And if having your own Web site is about one thing: it's about one's own ego, really. Thus, I will talk about it. Looking at the "Ongoing" section below, I came to the conclusion that for all intents and purposes, the Minipops are dead. Now, we've been here before, but I doubt you will remember.

Back in 2002, I'd become a wee bit sick of doing them, and stopped. For about six months, I think. I started up again after doing one of the Polyphonic Spree. And fairly soon after that, good things started to happen. The Minipops I'd drawn started to get more and more visitors. I made a poster which sold quite well. I was asked to do a Minipops book. All good. I kept on keeping on with them. And in 2009, I'd finally made 1,000 of them (and an iPhone app). Since then, though, I've done none. Not sure why, really. But the desire clearly hasn't been there. So, after two-and-a-half years of Minipops not being "Ongoing" in any way, it's time to say that's that.

I started drawing them in 1999. And finished in 2009. Ten years. 1,000 Minipops. It's taken me two-and-a-half years to notice those nicely nice round numbers. The archive of Minipops moves away from the "Ongoing" section, all the way down to the "1999" section. (This is a good time to note that everything is ordered by the year they were created, or began if the project in question spans multiple years.) They are, of course, listed under M in the right-hand column's alphabetised menu. I guess I might be shooting myself in the foot by making them not as easy to find, but it's doing me no good having former, ahem, "glories" front and centre constantly. If Flip Flop Flyin' as a site is to continue, to grow, to keep feeling like something I want to do, I have to forget about the old hits and write a new album, right?

So let's start with Flopps. It's a concept you may recognise: pixelated drawings of well-known people. Minipops ends, Flopps is here to take its place. Flopps began as drawings of baseball players. I've been doing them since 2010 on the baseball-themed sister site, Flip Flop Fly Ball. And that's where all the baseball ones still live. But I've been doing some non-baseball-y ones, so figured it's time to put them up in one place. So far I've done a bunch of Mexican people, and a couple of Canadians. I figure it might be nice, for my own brain at least, to continue in this nationality-based way. But we'll see. Hope you enjoy the Flopps.

16 February, 2012
Two new Twitter poems: Like X on acid, and Like X on steroids.

27 January, 2012
A new Twitter poem today, entirely culled from Pizza Hut's tweets during January.

6 January, 2012
A drawing of the South Common in Lincoln. Happy New Year, by the way.

8 November, 2011
A comic strip-type of thing about the creative process and the creative process' arch-enemy, The rather tedious tale of the occasional battles in my head.

19 September, 2011
It's been quite a long time since I've done any kinda silly little animation. Here's one: The dog who hates golf.

17 September, 2011
Hungry Man.
What, what, what?
My name is Craig Robinson.
I'm English. I live in Mexico.

Any questions, just email me:
craig AT flipflopflyin DOT com

If you're interested in hiring me:
I'm represented by Debut Art

© 1999-2012 Craig Robinson

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Ongoing attractions
Ballcap watch
G things
Flopps
Much fuck it's drawing
Twitter poems
Witham & Woodhall

Archives
A bench
A streetcar named Desire
A trip to the museum
A very long pencil
A year of streets
Alex the weather boy
All coast U.S.A.
An Arthur in the world
Back of Flip
Banana
Batman & Robinson
Being 40
Billy's page
Bingo flamingo
Blu Tack Monster
Body of Christ
Bored mountains
Boy meets Pixel
Bueller...
Cabin
Can't sleep
Cheap ABC
Cheap space documentary
Cheap zoo
Clouds and under
Cnuts
Collecting
Colours of the week
Country life
David with one long arm
The disenchanted forest
The dog who hates golf
Döner flamingo
Doublesize
England's Glory
Everybody's dogs
Facial hair pies
FFF Boy's animation corner
FFF does
Flipcam
Fun fun fun
Gee Willikers
George
Ghost of Hawdin's Wood
Ghosts are rubbish at squash
Golf Buddies
Gran's apple crumble
Harold's diary
Helping the wind and rain
Hip hip hip hooray
Hungry Man
How I will catch Jon Bon Jovi
I love Colette
I saw her standing there
I'm not from New York
Internal debate
Jesus doesn't always love you
Jimmy & Jamie
Kings of the stone age
Kraftwerk Kam
Ladybird
Lamppost
Lollipops
Love Actually graphically
Mapping Bruce
Matchbook
Mike & Jill
Minipops
Mini Euro 2000
Mini Euro 2004
Mini World Cup 2006
Minimoma
My 15th of September 2011
My life
Night workers
Normalpops
North Pole
Not available in the shops
NLVROPS
Nuestra nada de Guadalupe
Nummern/Numbers
October
Ohne Titel
Der Ohrwurm
On God's Earth
On this day
One to a hundred
One track mind
Personal pies
Pete & Bob
Pigeon
Portraits
Pretend you're famous
Public bathroom trilogy
Qurple
Ralf
The rather tedious tale...
The real Paraguay
Recession
Robinsonia
Rooftop parties
Scared snow
Shakse
Sleeping laptops
Some technology...
Sparrow
Squirrel playing
Sunny 2009
Swimming in coffee boy
Technically perfect hair
Train station
Uibbles
Unfinished Sympathy
Valley of the Cnuties
Very short films about US states
Watching you watching me
We are Tigers '80
Weaknesses
What are you thinking about?
What if...
Where do I belong?
Wilco
De Wonderboom
Die Wunderbäume
XXXX
Yummy yummy yummy...

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Flip Flop Jr.

In the attic
Christmas trunk
Other bits & bobs
Other people's things

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30 gms
Abstract City by Christoph Neimann
Anoushka Matus
Audiodregs
B3ta
Bill Hicks
Bob Truby's Brand Name Pencils
Cassandra-m
Daniel Eatock
DELAware
Douglas Coupland
Experimental Jetset
Flag Identifier
Hanni Pannier
Henry VIII's Wives
Hi monkey!
Hole In My Pocket
Hoogerbrugge
I Like
Information Aesthetics
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Kennedy James
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Meomi
Milky Elephant
Mister Ministeck
Mouchette
Mumbleboy
My Little Eskimo
Naho
Netbabyworld
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Pocket Films For Travelers
Pop! & Circumstance
Radical Cartography
Shift
Slowly Downward
Square America
Strange Harvest
Strange Maps
Strawberry Sucker
Sur La Lune
Tenderoni
The FAT Channel
Things magazine
Tom Gauld
Veer: The Skinny
We make money not art
Wilfrid Wood
Yomgaille

Much fuck it's drawing
Drawings done using the Brushes app on my iPod touch.
Flopps
Pixelly drawings of people.
Twitter poems
Creating poems by searching Twitter.
Witham and Woodhall
Two distinguished gentlemen who run a bunch of museums.
G things
Sometimes I do things on the blog that are kinda nice, but don't really fit anywhere else on the site. So they get dumped here.
Ballcap watch
A fairly simply diary of what my head wears every day.

Fight for Your Right
A visual way to look at the Beastie Boys song, (You Gotta) Fight for Your Right (To Party!)

A streetcar named Desire
And some other streetcars.
Being 40
The brain feels one way, the body feels another.
Cabin
Life away from the city.
The dog who hates golf
A short film about a dog. Not a fan of golf, this dog.
Hungry man
Sometimes people eat more than they should.
My 15th of September 2011
Title says it all, really.
Nummern/Numbers
Some mathematics about a Kraftwerk song.
The rather tedious tale...
... of the occasional battles in my head.
What are you thinking about?
A very brief story.

All coast U.S.A.
Erasing land borders and making the U.S.A. an island.
I'm not from New York
And I will always feel like an outsider.
Lamppost
A story about flyers on a lamppost.
Matchbook
Quick silly one-liner.
Nuestra nada de Guadalupe
(trans. Our nothing of Guadalupe.)
One track mind
After spending most of the year working on a book about baseball...
Rooftop parties
Two paintings of rooftop parties, duh.
Squirrel playing
Just a wee film of a squirrel playing with a bird.
Unfinished Sympathy
The video for the Massive Attack song recreated in Google Street View.
Very short films...
...about two of the United States.
Where do I belong?
A question I ask myself a lot.
XXXX
A simple diptych.




Döner flamingo
The mess left behind on my plate after I'd eaten a kebab.
Internal debate
A poem about maybe becoming a poet.
Ladybird
A true story. Kind of.
Love Actually graphically
Charting the connections between characters.
Nightworkers
Can be insomniacs too.
Public bathroom trilogy
Cutting edge video art and no mistake..
Sleeping laptops
While you are resting, so are your laptops.
Sunny 2009
Photographs of the sun. Taken in 2009.
Weaknesses
Sometimes it can be the little things that do it for you.

A year of streets
I wondered if there was a street somewhere in the world named after every date. There is.
Body of Christ
Should the Catholic Church ever run out of money, here's my revenue stream idea.
Hip hip hip hooray
A story about the sun wanting to have some fun.
I saw her standing there
The Beatles song from her point of view.
Jesus doesn't always love you
That's hey-zoos, not gee-zuss.
North Pole
A wee poem I wrote in 1994 put together with a drawing.
Pigeon
33 comic strips about nothing much in particular. (External link to Spreeblick.com)
The real Paraguay
Disappointed that crossing a national border doesn't take you into wonderland, I drew what I'd rather see.
Recession
Short tale of reactions to the economic downturn.
Scared Snow
What's really happening when the white stuff comes out of the sky.
Sparrow
A true story from a visit to my home town.
De Wonderboom
A wonderful Belgian tree.

A very long pencil
It's not short.
Alex the weather boy
A boy who's appearance changes with the weather.
Bored mountains
A drawing I did on an aeroplane. Scanned. Coloured in.
Bueller...
Animating a bit of dialogue from "Ferris Bueller's Day Off."
Clouds and under
I have absolutely no idea what the hell this is all about.
The disenchanted forest
Oh, those poor trees in their boring forest.
Facial hair pies
Pie charts looking at the facial hair of world leaders.
Helping the wind and rain
Because the weather needs my help.
My life
The good and the bad from every year of my life.
Ohne Titel
Nothing more than a bunch of drawings of people.
Personal pies
My life to that point in pie charts.
We are Tigers '80
A very well documented gang.
Die Wunderbäume
Some "wonder trees" in and around Mauerpark, Berlin.

A bench
A day in the life of a park bench.
Collecting
Re-ordering the things around me so they fit into nice, neat categories.
Colours of the week
Seven days, seven colours in the rainbow: there's an idea, Craig...
England's glory
A drawing of the type of people that make me ashamed to be English.
Gee Willikers
Some short stories.
How I will catch Jon Bon Jovi
And, damn it! I will catch him one day...
Mini World Cup 2006
Minipops of football players.
On God's Earth
The director's commentary for a planet.
Not available in the shops
An mp3 kinda like the ones you get for TV-advertised compilation albums.
Pictorial atlas of the world
Stuff about countries; this eventually became the Atlas, Schmatlas book.
Robinsonia
Meglomaniacal delusions based around the one piece of land on the planet not claimed by any other country.

An Arthur in the world
Representing one side of my personality.
Banana
A dumb one-liner.
Mapping Bruce
Places mentioned in songs by Bruce Springsteen.
NLVROPS
Notably literal visual representations of popular songs.
On this day
Mixing up the news from dates in history.
Valley of the Cnuties
An eight-part animation following several generations through their lives. (External link to SubmarineChannel.com)

Batman and Robinson
One panel cartoons of me hanging out with the Dark Knight.
Billy's page
A whole bunch of stuff about a dog that used to live with me.
Blu Tack Monster
Damn, he's one scary monster.
Cheap space documentary
A badly-drawn documentary about space.
Ghost of Hawdin's Wood
A very talented ghost who lives in a wood in Lincolnshire
Jimmy and Jamie
A story about brothers.
Lollipops
Pop stars drawn with big round heads.
Mini Euro 2004
Minipops of football players.
One to a hundred
An mp3 that took me a really really long time to put together.
Portraits
Drawings done as guides for paintings exhibited in Berlin.
Train station
A drawing of a British train station.
Watching you watching me
I want them to know that I know they are watching me.
What if...
Wondering about the different lives I could've had.
Wilco
A bear being forced to dance to a Kylie Minogue song.

Back of Flip
What the back of a web site looks like.
Can't sleep
Just one of the thoughts that goes through the mind when one can't sleep.
Everybody's dogs
Drawings done for an exhibition in Sapporo.
Harold's diary
The diary of retired man.
Normalpops
Kinda like Minipops, but of generic people.
Some technology
A piece done for a group exhibition in Paris.
Uibbles
Little bouncy thingies.
Yummy yummy yummy...
Drawings done as guides for paintings exhibited in Amsterdam.

Cheap ABC
A badly-drawn alphabet thingy.
Country life
The tale of a house in the countryside.
David with one long arm
Three stories about a boy with three normal-sized limbs.
Gran's apple crumble
My grandmother gave me a recipe shortly before she died. It's tasty, so I thought I'd share it with you.
FFF does
Visual travel diaries from trips between 2002 and 2007. Kinda been usurped by blogging.
Kings of the Stone Age
My awesome version of "No One Knows."
Mike and Jill
Two bears having fun.
Der Ohrwurm
Writing about every song that got stuck in my head between 2002 and 2004.
Pete and Bob
Owls that love to dance.
Technically perfect hair
A dumping ground for lots of things that didn't fit elsewhere.

Bingo flamingo
Fun with rhymes.
Cheap zoo
A badly-drawn zoo.
Cnuts
Some felt tip drawings that turned into animations and stuff.
FFF Boy's animation corner
The former "face" of Flip Flop Flyin'. Lots of animation very loosely representing what was going on in my life at the time.
George
A conversation.
Golf Buddies
FFF's in-house band; kind of like a really ropey DJ Shadow.
Qurple
A true story about a boy called Nathan.
Ralf
Nine-part animated story about a duck on his travels.

Boy meets Pixel
An eight-part animated love story. Starring Meg Ryan.
Doublesize
So called because they are double the size of Minipops. Little animations of normal people.
Fun fun fun
Suggesting ways to have a bit of fun.
Ghosts are rubbish at squash
Oh man, are they rubbish.
I love Colette
A web site I made for the Colette store in Paris.
Kraftwerk kam
An animated "webcam" looking in on the band as they worked on the follow-up to 1986's Electric Cafe album.
Mini Euro 2000
Minipops of football players.
Minimoma
Life in an art museum.
Shakse
This was a bunch of drawings/animations done just for the sake of drawing.
Swimming in coffee boy
Because I was staying up late and drinking too much coffee at the time.

Flipcam
The tale of a kitchen shelf in my old apartment in Crystal Palace, London.
Minipops
Famous people drawn really small.
Pretend you're famous
Exactly what it must be like.


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