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About Guthlac

An artist, historian and middle aged man who'se aim in life is to try and enjoy as much of it as he can

Morpheus

Posted on April 16, 2011 by Guthlac

Well I suppose it was always going to happen – yes I watched the original Matrix movie or at least part of it, tonight and I had to make a drawing of Morpheus. I think the treatment I have made in post production on the iPad has made it into a rea… Continue reading →

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Mr Anderson

Posted on April 15, 2011 by Guthlac

Last night I finally got around to watching the matrix revolution, an utter waste of money and demonstrates that an awful lot of money cannot save a movie without any real purpose other than to make lots of money. According to Wiki the Matrix Tril… Continue reading →

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Converting Spacial into Linear

Posted on April 14, 2011 by Guthlac

Well I’ve started to put the presentation together for Sunday’s meeting. This spray/mind map-ish diagram is the start of the process. I find that I understand concepts much better like this as I have difficult assimilating information when present… Continue reading →

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Trinity

Posted on April 14, 2011 by Guthlac

I sat down last night to start to watch the highly disappointing The Matrix Reloaded with one thing in mind – find an image I can draw. Within the first five minutes Trinity was in action and the image I wanted just popped out. This took me about … Continue reading →

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Iron Age, Art and Photography

Posted on April 13, 2011 by Guthlac

It’s been a bit of a bizarre few days. My new car arrived and I have spent quite bait of time driving around in it. Yesterday, for the first time in my motoring career the windscreen was cracked by a flying object on the motorway – this is real fr… Continue reading →

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Melton portraiture class

Posted on April 12, 2011 by Guthlac

Each Monday I drive over to Melton for a portrait course. A few weeks ago I published my first drawing and this is my latest. I think I can detect significant improvement – let’s hope it continues.Sent from my iPad Continue reading →

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Windows App Store?

Posted on April 12, 2011 by Guthlac

Seems that the concept of the micro program (app) store is really catching on. Perhaps someone will launch an app that is native across all platforms and so we can start to forget the nonsense of which OS is better. Perhaps. Windows App Store? I S… Continue reading →

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iPad to rule the roost until 2015

Posted on April 12, 2011 by Guthlac

This article seems about right to me. I suspect that move away from Apple in the iPad Market will be much less marked as in the phone Market where I believe the glory days of the iPhone are behind it smoothed by the weight of the android onslaught… Continue reading →

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Skull

Posted on April 9, 2011 by Guthlac

A couple of weeks ago I attended a day long workshop about portraiture. The tutor mentioned that one of the best ways to really start to understand the human face was to draw and redraw the human skull. Well I have now got a skull, other than my o… Continue reading →

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Funny Short from Funny or Die website

Posted on April 9, 2011 by Guthlac

Hopefully this will embed correctly… When Harry met Sally 2http://player.ordienetworks.com/flash/fodplayer.swf” />When Harry Met Sally 2 with Billy Crystal & Helen Mirren from Billy’>http://www.funnyordie.com/billy_crystal”>Billy Crystal Simon M… Continue reading →

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