Monthly Archives: October 2012

Who Cares? Well I can only assume a lot of people but so Apple are probably/maybe making a mini iPad – so what? I know these tech blogs have got to fill column/pages but really regurgitating rumours and dodgy photos doesn’t do any one any favours…. Continue reading →

Well at least this wasn’t inspired by the Iron Age! I had a very strange evening yesterday when I book ended two of the most influential films of the last 50 years. The first was the Bourne Ultimatum, which completely rewrote the rules for action … Continue reading →

So Apple have started to correct some of the problems with their maps – about bloody time. This article is the same as many Apple fan boy web sites – I know this because I follow a few of them – does this make me a fanboy as well? Anyway, it seems… Continue reading →

Just installed this – looks like a really useful app – especially live the wheel to select the station you want. BBC launches an iPlayer exclusively for radio content along with a new app (Wired UK)http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2012-10/08/ip… Continue reading →

So much for just concentrating on art. I just felt like making a quick sketch of a sculpture of Vercingetorix. Sent from my iPad Continue reading →

Having spent much of last week engrossed in historical matters I intend to spend the next few days just kicking back and making art works for myself. This period of relaxation/change was kicked off by this little sketch of the one time political j… Continue reading →

Well for the past 5 days I have been wading through a 70 year old publication about salt ways in the southern midlands. It has been fascinating and I have learnt an awful but now I just sitting here looking at the screen wondering where those 5 da… Continue reading →

Having thought a little about the people of the Iron Age it is now the turn of there beasts of burden – in this case the pony. It is doubtful that the great unwashed of Iron Age society had access to what we would describe as a horse. This was the… Continue reading →

One of the problems with a lot of Iron Age illustration I have looked at over the last few days is that, well, they are not that realistic. Now I have to be very careful here because, in truth, we don’t really know what Iron Age people actually lo… Continue reading →

Over the past two or three weeks have been slowly building a new map as part of my historical research project looking at Salt Ways/Roads. This is a long winded and at times mind numbing but it involved finding data about an area entering it into … Continue reading →