Concorde – from way back

Posted on July 26, 2012 by Guthlac

Oh they don’t make them like this anymore!  Concorde paid a visit to East Midlands Airport, I think circa 1986, for the grand opening of a local theme park.  Needless to say that the theme park didn’t survive but the aircraft was something.

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Going through some of my old stuff

Posted on July 26, 2012 by Guthlac
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One of the pleasures, and pitfalls, of building a new computer filing systems is that you come across interesting images that you have completely forgotten about.  This is a case in point.   There are probably no prize to be awarded for this image but I like it.
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Bloody Apple!!

Posted on July 26, 2012 by Guthlac

I know this is something that was bound to happen but I have found something that didn’t just work with the Mac! Printing. With every windows machine I have connected to my home network they have detected the network printer – the iMac didn’t. I suspect this has something to do with the network software being Windows based rather than Apple’s, which I believe is Bonjour, however you would think that Apple would be aware of this and come up with some simple solution. However this wasn’t the case and so I had to find the IP address of the printer from looking at the settings only old windows laptop. As soon as I entered this into the Apple system bingo the iMac saw the printer.

A bit annoying but it refreshing to see that perhaps everything in the Apple garden is not all perfect – in fact I quite like that.

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First problem with the set up

Posted on July 25, 2012 by Guthlac

I suspected this might be a problem….my mac won’t / can’t see my network printer! I thought I had stopped having to rummage around in ICP etc. Perhaps this was to much to hope.

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Starting life with my iMac

Posted on July 25, 2012 by Guthlac

I know the apple users who might come across this post will have the told you so look but setting up my iMac has been a breeze. I could retort that the reason for this is that the Apple system is a closed system and so on but that really misses the point. I moved to Apple for life style reasons rather than any real conviction that Apple Macs were superior computers and one of the life system choices was to not have any computer hassles any more. So far so good.

One final observation – I didn’t realise I had so much desk space until now!

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Dark knight rises

Posted on July 23, 2012 by Guthlac

What a movie !!!!!!

I’m on line at:

www.flickr.com/photos/guthlac
http://simonmarchini.posterous.com

www.simonmarchini.co.uk

I hope you enjoy

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Bye bye DOS, Bye Bye Redmond…

Posted on July 19, 2012 by Guthlac
Hello Cupertino I think Im going to cry….

Yes I have taken the plunge and decided to join the Xerox PARC rip off artists.  I’m getting an iMac!   Actually circumstances well beyond my control have forced my hand so I have taken the leap that I have been thinking about for sometime now.

I suspect the iMac wont arrive much before this time next week, again these enigmatic circumstances but this does give me time to work out exact what I am going to do with around 1.5 TB of data from my previous PC.  I think I might have a solution but need to ruminate on this over the week end.  

This really is a big step for me.   It is one of those momentous moments.  I have been working and swearing at a GEM (this does date me)/MSDOS/Windows environment since 1988.  Now this is longer than most people have used a PC and so it is with some sadness I have to move.  In truth I am looking forward to the new challenge ahead and I am sure that after a few months of bedding in and teething problems, within two days of owning my first computer I had deleted the system disks – which was fun! I will see what all the fuss is about with the Mac.

One final thought.   I won’t have to learn to use the Apple keyboard as I already have one which I use with my iPad, i.e. to write this email.  To that is one task completed – check!

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Realism and Brushes

Posted on July 18, 2012 by Guthlac

Over the past few days I’ve been taking a few ideas out or a walk by using brushes on my iPad. At the same time I have been looking through other artists work on the iPad and it is clear that there are a large number of highly talented digital artists who seem to feel at ease with in the digital world, something I just don’t.

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Sir John Falstaff

Posted on July 17, 2012 by Guthlac

I’ve continued to watch the excellent Hollow Crown series on BBC 2 and one of the characters I’ve been inspired to draw is Falstaff.

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Strangeness of a Laptop

Posted on July 16, 2012 by Guthlac
As my PC is poorly sick and away in PC hospital I am having to rely on my now ancient laptop.   By ancient I mean nearly 5 years old.  It doesn’t have the power of the PC but it does the job.  I have connected it to my PC’s monitor to allow me to use it as a PC and I have to say I quite like the set up.   Now if my PC’s illness proves fatal ie not cost effective to fix, then this may well be the set up I move to.   We’ll have to wait and see.

Simon Marchini 

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