There is art out there

Geek 4 x 4, originally uploaded by jawboneradio.

If you look around enough there is art out there... on technology... for example check out Jawboneradio's podcast art on flickr.. the problem as i see it is not so much a lack of art... it more that the great gadgets and geeks that drive their development, let there wonders be marketed and sold by folk that just want to charge for everything.... the original artist is left out of the equation


but don't dispair... think about how to get original artwork on the the screen of your favourite piece of technology... and if you get lost doing that watch some of the thing i try right here.

buzz it! blog note

Twitter

sighclone wonders.... what is the shortess tweet ever? about 1 hour ago from web

Art for all

I've decided to give my slowly burning little campaign, to get more art onto modern technology, a kick along by starting a little flickr group @rt4all ... art for all... I'd love you to come and have a look at the very first steps

all suggestions more than welcome

the return of the torso

Pastel on paper

unofficial survey

I ran a very unofficial survey of what some young friend throught of my blog...
after the laughing died down... here are few things overheard

"way to go old man"

"some of the illustrations and cartoon are wiked"

"Youtube video links, that so yesterday"

"you really post this stuff? serious?"

A "sad" eulogy... but great satire

The chaser team are back in hot water, all because of a wonderfully satirical eulogy song, It was on their website earlier, but seems to have been removed. but luckily the song is still available on last.fm

Andrew Hansen – The Eulogy Song

What is wrong with a bit of honest humour? All those that have taken offense need to take a good look at themselves!


WARNING: OK, if you are a Lady Di fan, or a Steve Erwin fan... or ok there are too many to mention... if you are easily offended...look away

a big weekend

The cats are still out on the town down in geelong and why not 44 years is a long time to wait for a victory, and over night there was anoter sound win in the "other" code of real football, congratulation to the melbourne storm

What better way to chill out after all the euphoria, than with the cat empire... and say hello

puck U miss

Move over Kath and Kim... there is a new show in town that everyone is watching... (and hoping they don't see themselves in)... its another little mockumentary called summer heights high...best of all they have their own website with some fully excellent ways to waste time, like with games, video clips and such.

belated party feed

Its the last saturday in september and I'm hosting a "not really a grandfinal" party, this afternoon, there is music and videos inside for te anti-AFLtypes, but I wanted to have a place out on the balcony... (not for the smokers... they were not invited and anyone my age who smoked is already dead anyway) but for those who simply must be kept in the loop... so I had the idea of looking on twitter and fortunately their is an AFLBOT which I can put on an old TV screen... for the more keyboard obsessed there is also the aflcast which points you to breaking afl news and other related netfeeds.... if your don't know what AFL is? too bad!

Was a good idea but didn't work out... ended up getting the audio of the ABC Grandstand coverage

Congratulations to the cats.

where are the bobos?

No its not a typo in the title... For some time now i have been called the "bourgeois bohemian"... with a specific single handed double quotes gesture... I was starting to think of it as some kind of award...I thought it was because I always ask, "where are the bohemians?", as a rather stale attempt at party conversation that has since become a bit of a habit. I do actually like interacting with the true bohemians... they are always interesting and passionate and couldn't care less about money and other social conventions... they are people that i find it easy to like... even when, or maybe because they commit worse fashion crimes than I... anyway i now discover that I am actually supposed to be a BOBO (as in Bourgeois Bohemians) and that term comes from a recent book called "BOBOS in Paradise"... it is well written and I am having a laugh, because I recognize so many of the characteristics of the idle rich who yearn to be BOBOs... so know I will be asking "show me to the poor bohemians"

IF you are late for your wedding?

For IllustratonFriday's theme weddings

I was thinking about the angry penguins, a group of radical writers in the 40s,in an otherwise very conservative Australia, not weddings or marriage and this cartoon just popped out.

reclining

Soft Pencil Sketch (photogaphed rather than scanned)

the lifeclass

Get your ART fix everyday

I was looking at the range of google gadget, and found one to put art on your technology, called art for today... there are gadget for everything including games. I'll add a couple these gadget down in the other places of interest section on the right hand side and change them from time to time.

mucking around with different media (again)

This is another lifeclass series of quick sketches of the same pose but each in different media, starting with soft charcoal and soft pencil, through compressed charcoal stick and onto watercolour wash.

Is there something deeply psychological in the fact that i was the only one to draw the shadows

We are (not) amused

In actual fact i did think the false motorcade, and osama costume was both funny and a sad reflection on the fultility of all the extra security hype that is cluttering our airways.

"The only thing they posed a risk to ultimately is our senses of humour,"

The boys have been naughty again.

I like the ABC Chaser's War on Everything so much I now subscribe to their vodcasts, if you have itunes, you can subscribe using this link... my ipod nano doesn't do video but my psp does.

Here is some of their work, also about APEC security, from earlier this week -

toktok pidgin

I'm trying to simplify my on-line life, go on a email/chat/IM/social network diet so to speak... and it sound easier than it is. I would not describe myself as an addict but as twitter has shown me it doesn't take long to get out of the loop these days, flickr/yahoo are conspiring to frustrate me, myspace and facebook are not my scene and second life just leaves me cold. So what does an old bloke do.... start speaking in new language of course...

NO it is not a new languauge at all Pidgin is the portable apps upgade of GAIM, that lets you converse across several IM systems, including GTalk, Yahoo and Msn... and while I'm here I should plug portable apps, you can install them on a USB memory stick and carry around your most useful applications, including even the great free graphics software GIMP... everything useful on one memmory stich now that is a diet!

flickr hiccup over...

September FlickrFunMat, originally uploaded by sigh clone.

We'll it looks like my earlier harsh judgment of flickr was a bit premature... now all i ill have to do is figure out why i am unsafe when I have always been a advocate of self filtering...

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ok I deserved it...

ok I deserved it... I'm a crank pants... but my fellow life class student's made me buy a beyondblue wristband... so I looked up the beyondblue website and realized just how many people are suffering, anxiety and depression in silence, so if thats you don't... ...seek help ...and as for me ...the blue wristband will stay on till my splints come off.

What did i expect...

cyclone mad,
originally uploaded by sigh clone.

I have been mulling over where to shift my yahoo photo collection for some time.... you see Yahoo bought out flickr and they want to close their yahoo photo facility... and they offered to send your photos (in my case dominately art work) to several other sites, which included flickr... i procrastinated, what do you expect... but notice they now offered 3 months pro-account on flickr.... so I signed up.... i new i had a few images duplicated, bu i figured with the added power of a pro account I would be able to sort it out.... i'm also laid upo at the moment so it would be a good project or so I though.... ok i had to wait a few days till the transfer was done but then i got the message that every thing was transfered abd the public images from yahoo were now private... click here to make them public again.... Hmmm





I did follow instructions, seems its a little more than hiccups, now I am totally locked out of access to the organizer.... such is life, on the unsafe side of flickr iI suppose