| Not sure how the two are connected – MobileMe and my struggles with Soft Pastels but I’ll wing it and see what happens. First of all Pastels. A couple of years ago I spent quite a lot of money on a couple of sets of soft pastels and then failed, quite spectacularly, to make use of them. I guess one of the reasons for this is that I found that quite a lot of the expensive pigment was ending up on the floor rather than the paper. Yesterday, for no real discernible reason, I took the pastels out and again got a mixed result. Initially I was being very structured in my approach and this turn out a real disaster and I mean a REAL disaster. So I just let rip and this was the resultant painting which I find oddly interesting. I still have to say I haven’t got any real clue as to how to get the best out of the material and I made a very expensive mess but at least something positive came from the session.
Now talking about an expensive mess we come to iCloud. I’ve just received an email from Apple saying that the complementary 20GB of iCloud storage has been removed and I now have only 5GB free. So if I want to continue to use the 20GB I had better pay up or loose it. I really can’t understand the logic of Apple, in one breath they trumpet the great advantages of iCloud, and they are useful if you live in an Apple environment, which I do, but then start to want money from you for a relatively small amount of Cloud storage. Fortunately I have never used iCloud for storage instead I use Dropbox, which is so much more straightforward to use and is, what for this, free. It mets my Cloud storage needs and I suspect it does many of its users so why do Apple feel the need to charge? So I did manage to link the two together after all. Not bad before breakfast. Simon Marchini |
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