Not much to to report right now, more when I am over this damned virus.
Or at least the stuff I am thinking over is not suitable for this arena. That’s a shame really because this is a good medium for clarifying my thoughts. Also that  wouild move this space away from the aim of logging progress of various artworks.

Hopefuly tomorrow I will feel alert enough to start that new painting, and finish the 3 that are lying around in this room. I’ll do a bit, and probably more video editing. Who ever thinks that graphic work on computers is quick ( because the computer does it all) is plain wrong.

Despirately need something to read  having just finished one book.
This whole entry is all tweenish

Finished:Capture

All the main video clips are loaded, 15.8 Gigabytes in all. They are saved without compression, or at least as DV AVIs. The last Kareoke part will be the toughest to edit, it needs some colour space correction too. Got time to put together any animation elements now, but should really keep that to a minimum. Hmmm.. I wonder what applying gimmick effects to the kareoke section will do- maybe it’s a bad idea- but may as well play with it to see.

– Still light at 22:15; 20°C, light NE wind, 6/10 coud cover. Much grass has been cut. The headcold is no better today.

-when you aren’t 100%

You really have to be alert, there is no point painting when you are ill, hungry or just tired. Last night’s work needed some repair today. There is one effect that is troublesome now though- adding a thin glaze over fairly dry paint causes a repellant resist effect, the liquid seems to be repelled by the dry layer. Adding a body layer seems to solve it but that can be a step backwards.

Remember how annoyed I was in the 1980s when it was suggested to me that I should" use drugs for inspiration in my art". I was livid- how crass is that?

Below is stage 2 in a painting of my feet. It has linseed layers even though the whole thing is is tonal. There is a lil feeling in teh gut that tells me "this is wrong". Perhaps those tonal thoughts are really excised now, unlike college days.    .  

, 19°C,no wind, 0/10 cloud;deep green landscapes everywhere

Firewire:mark II

Yet another go at editing videos, it’s gone on too long this has.
I’m adding a replacement firewire card, assuming the current one is faulty. The card is said ( by device manager) to be working without any problems, no confliics or anything but as soon as I attempt a capture using any of several progs, it freezes the program. If it’s successful, I will post later, if not, I will be blandly optimistic and make no mention.

BTW a DC3 flew over today. It said "dugga-dugga-dugga-dugga-dugga-dugga-" as it went.

Mind:blank so think…

I know–>19°C, brisk SW wind, humid & 9/10th cloud cover.

more thinks:
46.4 miles on the racing bike today.

again- thinks

I’m going to have to sit in a quiet room and thing really-really hard about this.
(I washed the windows today…), it’s no good , I am going…

19°C, no wind.

31.4 miles on the racing bike. Now for tiredness- that deep heavy sinking tiredness, such a wonderful feeling.

Done some more to that ‘Cuda mesh try these links
ONE and TWO
The models are not finished ( buy quite a long way) but I can’t resist spricing up the images anyway, both use GI light-tracer/and a nice shiney material with a fall-off map in the reflection channel.

Anyway: shot this photo before I went out on the bike:

WOW, it’s installed at last, I had to wait for the activation but it’s up & running now. Seems to load a bit more slowly than the last version (v.7), but there are some very useful new tools. 
Some tools seem to be very useful for 3D artists, the vanishing point is one- you can paint selections ( like clone) onto a perspective plane- that will remove the need perspective distort after a clone operation. The best bits seem to be aimed aty digital photographers, jpeg artifact removal, lens distortion and colour correction.

Now I’m off to look for the poorest photograph I have on file and see what can be done with it. Actually the worst photrographs can be found on other peoples blogs.

Tablet:theory
I have an idea why the graphics tablet is no longer working, the cause- a cup of tea, it wasn’t spilt but the hot cup was left on it to be found by me when I got home from work.

Teapothead:work resumed
It’s dry enough to continue, so>changed treapot colour>1st linseed layers

21°C, light winds

House Martins seem to like landing from the same side. I will explain…I stopped at a Cafe in Staunton Harold which is in a square courtyard- probably the old stable block of the house. In the upper floor windows are fairly small windows which have Martin nests in the top-right corner. There were six nests in all, none on the left of any window. The all make their landing approach from the same side, so the pane of glass is on their left. So House Martins are "handed". I couldn’t make up my mind which hand since it was impossible to see which foot alighted first. I did think that they need to do this because it avoids the risk of a collision. If any bird flew towards it’s nest from the right, they would cross over the path of another- possibly.

Time for a rant
Teenagers are going to inherit the world aren’t they. So whay are they so opposed to conservation? Ours are dead against it anyway, they refuse to avoid unnecessary pollution. They want to be driven in the car a mile, they want the lights on in a room that is already full of blazing sunshine, they want the central heating on on warm days. They will only put recyclable rubbish in the normal land-fil bin. We have had recycling bins for over two years now.
But they are inheriting the world, what world do you hope to get? Are you going to blame us for the condition it’s in?
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Phew… that was easy wan’t it

"We will try to answer your request as soon as possible. Generally, we will send an answer within 48 hours of reception (weekends and holidays excluded). Our hours of operation are Monday-Friday 9.00-17.00 CET." The date of the message is 30th November 2004- the date I origionally wrote asking for a new pen.

This is the response I received today. Are they trying to annoy or are they just incompetant?

18°C:strong winds from the west

The BBC are admitting that it is windy again, they have pretended there is no wind for the last two weeks on the TV. Just because they have flashy new graphics on their forcasts, they think they can leave out half the information.