Remember when radio was fun? When it wasn’t about playing the same-o lame-o crud hour after hour and the presenters all for the music? It still is! You just have to know where to look. It’s no secret that I’m […]
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Borobo Reef
I had planned to have finished the first draft of the next book by the 30th of March. To this end, I pulled out all the stops. I was writing day and night, lunch time, after dinner, before going to […]
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The Struggle of the Artist – Health
I’ve said it before and I’ll keep repeating myself until my lungs don’t work any more: indie artists are nut-bags. Day after day they’ll smash their fingers against the keyboards, drag their paint brush over the canvas, feverishly making order […]
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Tell me a bit about yourself
In the previous post, I told you that, along with all of your other hats, your going to need to don a marketing cap. Goody. Sounds like fun. Let’s start with a few cliches: You are an artist. You make […]
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The Black Knight
The other day Rebecca handed me a piece of board and told me to get creative. Yesterday I handed it back to her: Word to the wise: the vinyl backing glue ain’t the best for sticking tiles to tiles. I […]
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Add that salt
In previous posts, I was banging on about how the audience can give feedback to the artist. In short, it’s a personal reflection from the reviewer and says more about their tastes and attitudes than the work itself. This is […]
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Back to the Music
The Grosvenor Lane Ghost animation is out, woot! That doesn’t mean that I’m done with yakking on about it. Music, you see, underpins an animation or video, it brings it all together and sets the mood and the tempo, the […]
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Presenting – Grosvenor Lane Ghost
Wow! I’m bushed. I thoroughly gave a Synfig, Audacity, Anvil Studio, Gimp, Corel and good ol’ Microsoft Movie Maker a workout. I haven’t got a lot to say except that the promotional animation for Grosvenor Lane Ghost is now up […]
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The Front Porch at Grosvenor Lane
With the backdrops pretty much ready to go, with the exception of the fireplace, which needs some serious shadows, I’ve been looking at the animation side of things. Nothing gets stuff done like getting stuff started, eh? Synfig Opening up […]
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Grosvenor Lane Graphics
Making scenes to represent the various parts of Grosvenor Lane Ghost proved harder than I expected. I had, in my mind, a grand set of a horse and carriage, of a row of dilapidated houses, of looking up to see […]
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