Wordle

This is the Wordle of this blog.




Thanks to James for the link.

St Leonards

Found this on Flickr
Just in case you don't know what it's supposed to look like, there are proper pictures here and here.

Hema

If I ever go to Holland, I am going to shop in Hema, purely on the strength of this advert. Wait for a while after the page loads.

I've been busy

I did this



and made these





which I was quite pleased with. At least I was pleased with the video and fairly pleased with the flyer, except that I faded the praying hands too much and they didn't come out on the photocopied one they gave out at church.

I've also been planning things for Katrina's birthday tomorrow - hopefully it won't be too long before I can get back on here and say how it went.

Conversation trailer

I have been playing on the computer this evening, but I haven't been blogging because I've been doing this:

I don't know a lot about art...

...but I know a good way of spending a Saturday morning. Benjamin and I spent the morning at a still life masterclass at Wildern, run by Anthony Kawalski, and jolly good fun it was too. Very relaxed (so that's what Saturday mornings are supposed to be like!) and non-threatening, nobody being critical or telling you what you ought to be doing, just a small canvas, a choice of paints or pencils and a selection of objects to draw. In the end I opted to draw some of the contents of my pockets, and ended up with this:
My phone is in the picture (resting on the gloves) but I took it out of the arrangement to take the photo!
However, on our way over to the D@rt centre for a mid morning cup of coffee, there was something better than any of us could have drawn: grafitti made of light:
The metal letters on the wall were reflecting the sunlight, but what appeared on the ground were strange alien squiggles that changed and disappeared as you walked past them. Fabulous!

Today's cartoon

Cartoon by Dave Walker. Find more cartoons you can freely re-use on your blog at We Blog Cartoons.

Last Saturday

Finally got a chance to post some pictures from the surprise trip to London that Katrina organised last Saturday to celebrate my birthday.

This is the Turbine Hall in Tate Modern, with the tube slides that Katrina thought would be a good way to celebrate my youth! We got tickets to go down the tallest (five storeys high) which was such good fun - especially discovering that if you sing a note the joints in the tube make it come out of the bottom as a strange ululation that gets nearer and nearer...

Swedish furniture (but definitely not IKEA)

I found this via Boing Boing - FRONT use 3D mapping techniques and instant prototyping to turn their designers doodles into plastic furniture. It looks horrible, but I'd love to play with the hardware. Instant 3D graffiti... or how about drawing round a model, à la Anthony Gormley. Performance sculpture!