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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

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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Good Queen Bess

Posted on April 8, 2011 by Guthlac

My afternoon session at Stowe was much more productive. In the morning I had spent my time capturing a sculpture on a secluded temple and in the process creating one of the most unsettling image I have ever created. In the afternoon I spent time w… Continue reading →

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Outbreak of irrationalism

Posted on April 8, 2011 by Guthlac

Well I guess I am progressing as an artist. I was overcome with a highly irrational urge last night to destroy this drawing I had made during the day at Stowe. I just started to hate it with a passion, the face seemed to me to so unappealing, almo… Continue reading →

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Article: What Will the Smartphone Market Look Like in 2015?

Posted on April 8, 2011 by Guthlac

Another interesting vision into the future. How accurate will it be? Well it is worth noting, as the article does, that a bright future was pedi ted for Symbian OS only for this to be proven wrong by events – the tie up between Microsoft and Nokia… Continue reading →

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Oops…it’s Clive Anderson

Posted on April 6, 2011 by Guthlac

So there I was just minding my own business happily making a sketch based very loosely on a photograph I found in a book when who should pop out of the drawing but Clive Anderson. I am sure you could read many things into this but honestly it was … Continue reading →

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inmaserranito’s Photostream

Posted on April 6, 2011 by Guthlac

via flickr.com This is a wonderful series of sketches I have just found on Flickr – enjoy Continue reading →

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Platform war gets ugly – ouch the Apple tech blogs get touchy

Posted on April 4, 2011 by Guthlac

A couple of days ago Businessinsider (see entry on 3rd April) stated that the Android operating system phone had taken over from iPhone in the smartphone Market – this has caused a storm amongst the Mac tech blogs. In short it would seem that anyt… Continue reading →

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Father #2

Posted on April 4, 2011 by Guthlac

This is the next stage of the drawing – still a long way to go.Sent from my iPad Continue reading →

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