The more tattoo art I see the more I realise that tattoo artists are some of the bravest arrest out there…no eraser available or reprint!
Inspirational Examples Of Tattoo Art Designs
http://www.bloggs74.com/artwork/tattoo-artwork-designs/
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Simon Marchini
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Over the past few weeks I’ve been playing around with the settings on the KitCam app on my iPhone. Instead of using the post production facilities with the app I decided to set the app up to apply the effects at the time of capture. Now this has a number of benefits but in the end I’ve not been able to apply the one thing that I really dig at the moment – the square image format. So I’ve decided to go back to the post op option – apart from when creating the four in one images which I really quite like.
So the funny thing in the Apple store? Well not particularly funny really…I was messing around on one of the new iMac’s, which by the way have some stunning screens but don’t believe the Apple person when they tell you they are all same calibration – especially when they quote the official Apple website as clinching evidence. But I digress. One of the ways I always test computer screens is to look at the images on website, I know what they look like on my machine and it does provide a baseline for comparison, so I looked at my KitCam gallery and noticed just how great the square format is, especially when the image is produced by KitCam. So not very funny I know but it made realise that I must go back to the square format. You were warned it wasn’t that funny.
Simon Marchini
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What a pleasure it always is when the first rose of the season opens. It always seem that summer has finally arrives, even though today is a little cooler than yesterday. Over the past year or so we’ve planted a fine collection of roses in the garden and this year they are all looking really good – so hopefully we should get a bumper show.
Simon Marchini
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Collateral damage: why US drone operators risk PTSD
http://blogs.channel4.com/alex-thomsons-view/collateral-damage-drone-operators-risk-ptsd/4998
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Simon Marchini
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| Well I’ve been working on this painting this morning and I really feel I’m starting to loose my way with it. The idea was to see whether I could use the iPad and Brushes as a ‘serious’ art media and I have to say I’m not entirely sure I like the results…not yet anyway. However there is no rush for what I’m doing so more reflection needed.
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| Now this is far from finished and I’m not entirely sure I’m going in the right direction but here is a painting I’m trying to make using the iPad. I’m really unsure about this…isn’t this when profound break throughs are made? Perhaps not. I think I need to reflect on what I’ve done so far.
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Some more images of the Big Hole at Croft. The screen grab from Google Earth shows where the image was taken from. The whole itself is around 1km across and probably at least 200 metres deep. Now I know there are much bigger quarries in many places all over the world but this is still a big whole and just gives you some idea as to what man can do when it wants to.
Simon Marchini
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What a beautiful morning it has been, in fact the week looks set fair so this morning I went out and conquered the local mountain – Croft Hill. This makes it sound like a great achievement and I suppose on one level it is. However, it doesn’t even qualify as much of a hill apart from the fact that compared to the surrounding countryside it literally sticks out like a sore thumb.
Of course I also had a bit of a ulterior motive. The hills figures in my local history research as well as my long term photographic project “Deep Time”. Anyway, it was wonderful to be on top of the hill surveying the world around – however most of the hill has been consumed by one of the biggest holes in Leicestershire leaving just the rim. This is somewhat ironic as the rock that created the hill was first created in a huge volcano some 500 million years ago. If I had stood where I did then I would be in the middle of a magma chamber – not the best place to be.
However, this furtherest from my mind as I stood there on the hill above the birds. Instead I was thinking about how the hill used to be before the rock was removed. Then the hill was a common where people used graze their cattle and sheep. This will never be able to happen again because, well, most of the hill no longer exists.
Simon Marchini
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Some of you are already aware but my son recently passed his viva to become a Doctor, not a medical Doctor but a real Doctor. I was at an exhibition opening yesterday when I was talking to the artist Robert Luzar and his charming wife, who’se name, I have to say, has escaped me…should you read this may I say I’m very sorry for my failing memory… about all things PhD – he’s just about to suffer the endure the viva ordeal in the near future – when I was asked “…what was your son’s research about?…”.
“Festivology” was my reply. I then explained that this was a made up word by one of my son’s friends but I think it is a wonderful word so I have decided to coin it. I have checked Google and well there is a website called Festivology – but nothing on it relating to the study of festivals at a high academic level. There are also a load of stats saying that there are no stats for this site. But I am going to claim the coining of the word in the sense that my son has spent studying making festivals more energy efficient. So when the OED coming looking for the true coining of the word Festivology they will have come here to my little blog.
A bit pretentious I know but that is what we proud fathers are.
Simon Marchini
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I know it is a bit of type casting, well his father was a doctor, and anyone outside of Britain well always think of Laurie as a Doctor anyway – House was never shown on terrestrial TV so he is not that well known for this programme here and anyway we’ll always know him as George in Blackadder. But wouldn’t it be a great for Hugh Laurie to be the new Dr Who – just simply wonderful. In fact it is character just made for his comic and acting skills.
Of course it will never happen, well probably not well….I live in hope.
Simon Marchini
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