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Wednesday, October 29, 2008

Super Sculpey

I've been abusing a substance called Super Sculpey recently, with good results. Images added to this post soon :)

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Friday, June 01, 2007

call me Miranda

Just got a full-time perm job drawings those grey bears with the blue noses that you see on greetings cards everywhere. The designs are signed 'Miranda' but they've always been drawn by men in a very traditional studio in Chichester, UK.
Like being the new 'Doctor' but somewhat less cool.
Wish me luck, them bears can get hungry.

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Tuesday, April 03, 2007

Finding My Voice

After almost 4 days of losing my voice I have now recovered. So what am I up to now?
Well after the long gap between posts I can reveal that I have finished painting the pub sign for the Cob & Pen, the pub next door, so now I'm just left with the arduous task of framing it. I'll post a photo when it's ready.

I'm starting to work on some greetings card designs to land me a PAYE job at a local card firm.

I'm learning to drive (at last!)- thanks to generous contributions from family for my recent birthday. Thank God I'm the youngest of the litter or my advanced years might be even more embarrassing!

I've finished (kinda) a Flash web-game for an Australian client, you can play it here.
They've already got more than they paid for but I plan to improve the game still further as it's in my Flash folio.

I shall be producing a 3D model of Sudeley castle next week for the big publicity push they're having after Liz Hurley's wedding.

Finally, I'm taking steps to learn PHP, MySQL and Flash Actionscripting 2.0, as and when I get time.

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Sunday, January 07, 2007

Apple Mac Automator Robot!

If, like me, you've been using Macs since back when they were beige you'll be familiar with the way they keep on surprising you with buried treasures.
I'm only now learning the value of a handy robot that can take loads of boring chores off your hands. It's even more powerful than Photoshop's Actions- it's Apple's own Automator application.
If you're shy of learning new tech stuff, here's a handy workflow to get you started.
You download and unzip it, open Automator and go File > Import Workflows, import it then Save As Plugin... (for the Finder application). Once you've done that you can select any two folders and right click on them to compare the contents. Great for those who have millions of image files and no time to carefully read through long lists of file names searching for which files are different. Enjoy.

http://www.runninghead.com/blog/compare2folders.zip

This wonderous gizmo is all thanks to a guy called Ben Long over at http://www.completedigitalphotography.com where there are hundreds more fab Mac robots waiting to lend a hand. Thanks also to Emilie over at the Mac discussions forums for help, advice and a great bit of AppleScripting!

This particular Workflow can compare the contents of two folders in a number of ways- it's customizable! (if you're prepared to learn a little about how Automator works).

The best thing about getting to know Automator though is the way it allows you to use almost any function of any application on your computer without even opening the applications!

With a single click you could take dozens of files from any folder, in to Illustrator, through Photoshop (and it's many Actions), in to Word, save them all in to a new folder as PDFs, Zip the folder and have it upolad or email it'self to any address!

Mind bloggling!

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Monday, September 25, 2006

Make IE display PNG

As some readers (OK, a reader) have asked for it I'm giving away the farm here and letting you all know how to make transparent PNG images display properly in Internet Explorer.

http://www.runninghead.com/images/PNG_Behaviour_Files.zip

Check the code for copyright licence details.

IE 7 won't be along for a while and when it does finally get here it'll still be 5 years before we can stop providing for previous versions of IE anyway so if you're writing a web portfolio or any (X)HTML that needs transparent imagery, you'll need this.

Don't say I never give you anything.

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Monday, July 17, 2006

Great New Paintings

After my recent, successful, exhibition of natural media paintings I was inspired to come up with a new technique.
I never dreamt it would work so well!
Take a look at these two new images, added to the end of my existing painting folio:





More to follow soon.

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Thursday, July 13, 2006

I'm on BBC Science Radio!

I just heard myself mentioned on BBC science radio! Very freaky. I posted some ideas about Grand Unified Theory and gravitation on 'The Uncertainty Principle' website but really never thought they'd read it out. The program's an interesting, and I think brilliant, new approach to popularising science, it's a sort of semi-fictional treasure hunt documentary show. It's obviously also difficult to describe but if anyone happens across this while roaming the blogsphere you can hear the show via internet radio using this link:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/aod/bbc7.shtml
LINK MAY DIE AFTER 2 WEEKS.

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