December 10th, 2006
Took this pic a while ago and it amused me so I thought I would share, I don’t love MySpace in the slightest although I have though about getting an account just to keep in touch with friends who use it…
Kinda scary concept, I’ll consult my doctor on monday!
October 17th, 2006
Whilst trawling my RSS feeds today I found out that my friend over at Renegade Zen has taken the time to make himself into a South Park Character using a rather fun tool over at http://www.sp-studio.de/. He has encouraged everyone else to take part so here is mine…
I look forward to seeing what you all get up to with this so please ping us both back so we can check ‘em out.
Have fun!
October 3rd, 2006
This is a definitely a picture worth sharing which I found by accident this morning, hope it makes you think that little bit more creative for the day. It certainly has me ready for action!
August 29th, 2006
When I launched this redesign as part of the CSS Reboot back in may, I was was really excited about the comic I was going to be running on my site but unfortunately some people are not as driven as myself and I have been somewhat let down by the guy that did the comic. It’s bit of a shame really as he is really talented and I was looking forward to having a graf twist to the site.
No biggie though, I will just do a site re-align that I have been wanting to do anyway. It is about time that I had a tinker with the site so that I can add some extra functionality that I hope you will enjoy, I know I will benefit from having a few extra tools at my disposal.
If any of you out there are talented artists that would like to get some exposure for your work then feel free to contact me and I’m sure we can work something out. I am very much into symbiotic relationships so don’t mind clearing some floor space to help someone out whilst adding value for my users, that might be wishful thinking but hey I gotta try and fill the void don’t I…
Yay… I got some tinkering fun ahead 
August 2nd, 2006
For those of you out there that have been using Photoshop for years you may well understand my dilema, I have just switched to to the Ubuntu operating system and can no longer use Photoshop. Now if I really wanted to I could do so by doing one of the following…
None of these seem really appealing although options 1 & 2 seem to be the most logical, there is however another option that although frustrating seem to me to be the most sensible…
Guess which one I am doing?
Yep… It’s conundrum time… I have decided that seeing as I am living the open source life at the moment it would make sense to bite the bullet and reverse engineer my brain so I could start using what looks to be a very powerful tool if only I can get my head around it!
The first thing I encountered when I started delving into The GIMP was a little thing called GIMPShop which changes the way that menu options are named and also modifies keyboard shortcuts to mimic as closely as possible the shortcuts from Photoshop. Nice idea but I couldn’t get it running niether from source, nor from the debian package I downloaded. Maybe I will go back and try it again some time but I have things to get on with and don’t have any more time to mess about.
So where am I at with it? Well after much head scratching I think I am beginning to get somewhere and have made a little progress. Here are the first couple of things I have done to try and make my life easier, I thought I would share just in case any of you are in a similar boat.
I know this is a short list but I will no doubt add to this and share my discoveries as I learn, this was at least enough to have me moving about and at least able to perform the most basic but essential tasks.
The downside to switching away from your comfort zone when it comes to operating systems and software is that you are stepping into a rather steep learning curve. I don’t mind getting into this as I made my decision probably 3 years ago I’d love to go open source but it still frustrates me when I come to hurdles like compiling software from source or having to learn new ways of doing things.
Anyway, I hope these little tips might have been of some use to you and if you have any for me then feel free to share…
April 10th, 2006
It is my massive pleasure to announce that I am going to be doing some work with an artist called JZY in the very near future for my reboot project and as an ongoing thing. It looks like there are going to be some fun and games with an online comic and various other things so I thought I would give you a heads up… Part of the cool thing about my domain is the “and co” bit as it opens up the floor for some collaboration (which I am hoping to do a lot more of) and on that front, ladies and gentlemen, I present to you… JZY…
Looking forward to this!
March 29th, 2006
I like to see good artwork in many shapes and forms but it is always good to see it up close and personal. I was playing a gig with Pangea Nation on Friday night and they actually have live graffiti going on which I wanted to give a little exposure as I am hopefully going to be collaborating with some of the artists real soon.
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