August 2007 Archives

I just bought an Xbox 360 Elite with Bioshock.

Holy crap!

...as my wife would say in a French accent.

Click on this er, entirely un-thumb-like thumbnail, and the link goes to the large (and more visible) comic image file hosted on flickr. This was started at 10.30 pm last night, when I realized I just HAD TO DRAW SOMETHING for my sanity's sake, because otherwise I'd just worry about work.
So...hello, No. 2 / HB pencil, my old chum. You're going to be supplanting the technical pencils for a while.

Right. I'm busy. Whip-me-up-a-Pyramid-by-next-Friday busy.
But I am enjoying a particular musical artiste a lot at the moment, and for once I can share the music with you without fear of ritual live squirrel ingestion at the hands of the RIAA, because it's in the public domain.

Django Reinhardt's 'Minor Swing' with Stephane Grapelli on violin. (link will take you away, or you could right-click and download it)

Stick with it - I know it sounds a bit empty and sinister to start, but man does it get going. The violin rashering backwards and forwards over the guitar towards the end pulls every minor key blues-trick in the book, and a few that I'm sure musical scientists are still puzzling over.
Have a read of the Wikipedia entry for Django, and I'm sure you will, like me, be listening to this fabulous guitarist thinking..."HOW many fingers?"

A large volume of Mr. Reinhardt's work came my way recently courtesy of Buzz. Thank you sir!

Click on this and it will expand to incredible size and you might have to scroll. But it looks better that way.

Also if anyone could let me know how to get paper to appear, well, white...on scanned images, that'd be lovely. I am now fully tricked out with Photoshop, so I'm sure it's possible...I just don't know how.