April 2009
Update from the studio:
I’ve started my new painting, and so far so good. Although her face is looking a little deformed right now.
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Stephen Fry's letter to his 16-year-old self |... →
appliedculture:
Please read it. Doesn’t matter if you are gay, straight, or both. It’s such a moving piece, please, read it for yourself and those you love.
I haven’t read this yet, because I am running out the door to go and not paint, but if it is recommneded by Applied Culture, then I know it’ll be good.
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So, apart from playing around with her hands, my other plan today is to figure out another painting… I have a matching canvas to work on, and I want to paint something with Ostrich feathers…. And a really deep background…. and a woman, naturellement.
But I am sort of playing jedi mind tricks with myself and thinking I can’t do it…. which is what I spend my time doing...
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So, I’ve got two big canvases and I’ve decided to paint my stripper, sans balloons, on one of them. I think.
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Speaking of Radio 4 (as I often do), this is worth a listen:
The Reunion is a series of shows that reunite a group of people that are bonded by a particular event.
Last week they spoke to people connected by the Hillsborough tragedy. There were two mothers of young people that were killed there, and an ambulance man that had tried to help the victims. It was incredibly moving.
This week was a...
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DJ Pantshead vs. Flying Lizards vs. Sugar Hill...
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Reasons why i love my job: the sun is shining, i am eating icecream, there are three athletic young men spinning on their heads infront of my studio.
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“When Ian Tomlinson died on the day of the G20 protests we were told the cause of death was a heart attack. Now a second post mortem ordered by the Independent Police Complaints Commission contradicts that - saying he died from an abdominal haemorrhage. It is a huge and disturbing development which would never have come to light without the footage from the day showing a policeman striking...
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Sir Clement Freud. →
This is the radio tribute that Radio4 played yesterday morning.
I love his voice, and, what he used it to say.
This tribute includes memories of his grandfather, Stephen Fry, and Just a Minute.
Perfect.
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butterflyeffects:
The Shamen - Ebeneezer Goode
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Pirate Bay
They lost their case, and are each going to jail for a year.
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Womans Hour were talking about Ms Springfield and...
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I SERIOUSLY NEED ALL OF YOU TUMBLRS TO HELP....
poobah:
inothernews:sedatedm:ohcrapshitcrap:
I’m not a big, important tumblr-I only have 55 followers-but I need the tumblrverse’s help. Hopefully you’re all familiar with the story of “Flat Stanley”. If you aren’t, it’s basically a little guy who is sent around the world via the mail. I was hoping to accomplish something along the lines of this by sending a stuffed penguin and a guest book to...
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There is a pigeon on my window sill, and it is staring at me.
I think he must be a spy acting for the seagulls.
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G20
Footage of a woman demonstrator being slapped and then hit with a baton by a police officer.
Apparently, as with the officer that assaulted Ian Tomlinson, this officer (from the same unit) obscured his police number. Nice.
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Soy tu Aire →
appliedculture:
One of the most beautiful uses of Flash in combination with music I have ever seen. While the music plays, you paint the screen like a canvas, every time you click the mouse, a new texture emerges. The “painting” is recorded and can be played like a video afterwards.
Oh, this is amazing.
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Rene Gruau
I love his fashion illustrations. I can remember the quickening of my heart beat the first time I saw his work.
I think it’s the cleaness of the lines, the simplicity, which emphasises his amazing draftsmanship.
As for the use of color… it’s so clean and so clever.
Really amazing.
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Hillsborough
This interview with Alan Green, the BBC sports commentator who was there that day was very moving.
Although I am pretty far from being a footie fan, Hillsborough was heartbreaking.
I read at the weekend about a young guy who was trying to escape the crush, and was pushed back in by a police officer. He had a bruise in the shape of an adult hand on his back for days after.
