Notorious for not paying anything

esterday I listened to this whole interview with Lol Creme (11cc). It’s over a decade old (I saw a more recent one, weeks old) and was uploaded 2 months ago. In it, Creme explained that his true passion was art and jotting down all sorts of things like that. Kevin’s also. So music was only a second passion to them, yet the one they practiced and made the most of… as artists (it also made them rich).

I recently spent a lot more time drawing. I didn’t use paint, it’s more like pen and pencil art (sketches) – the sorts of things I did a lot as a child.

Sometimes I wonder if one day I’ll “get back to that” proper; slop does not worry me as people generally have a negative sentiment towards slop and don’t consider it to be art.

Society seems to not try to teach art to young people anymore. It’s not “industry”.

used to find it disturbing when some football clubs shared slop, especially in social control media, about their squad.

It looks like actual artists drew the faces of the players today.

HE GIMP is a preferred tools to many who do not do graphics for a living (a 9-5 design job) and it has some neat scripts for banner generation. Here are some examples of banners I’ve been playing around with since last night.

One of the beautiful things about the Internet is its ability to facilitate collaboration and sharing of information, creative art, and code. Some people realised this and created a framework that results in more output and better output. This man deserves many thanks. He recently stepped down.

have not been posting or spurring much activity in my personal blog recently, but this one message is important enough for me to stress here.

Microsoft has recently announced that it would introduce a rival to Flash. It calls it “Silverlight”. I mentioned this a couple of years ago when it was called “Sparkle”. Bear in mind, however, that a lot of truths are being hidden and the intent here is to make the Web incompatible with Free operating systems. The points to remember:

• Silverlight does not support GNU/Linux.
• Silverlight is built to make the Web accessible only to proprietary platforms, even if one can view the source.
• Silverlight can be ‘extended’ at any given time. There is no industry consortium.
• Microsoft corrupts terminology by using the terms ‘Open Source’ and ‘cross platform’ inadequately. It is not the first time this do this. They used ‘cross platform’ to describe programs that work in Windows Mobile, Windows, and XBox.

Don’t be misled. Use Adobe Flash if you must. Better yet, use Open Web standards and make use of cascading style sheets, maybe even JavaScript.

Got something to say? Then say it in satellite pictures.

It’s a nice idea with an implementation that delivers the output as you type.

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• Text to Church Sign Convertor
• ASCII Banner Generator
• Cyborg Name Generator
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