That walk in the park worked .... aided by your skewer, Bob :)
John
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That walk in the park worked .... aided by your skewer, Bob :)
John
And inspiration flows just before retiring .......
The walk in the park was time well spent, John.
Three for the price of two as well.
The bow and the arrow are simple and effective.
The toothpaste is a signal effort too!
I think I shall have to go for a stroll, for inspiration,
but it has been wet and very windy all day today.
Listening to music helps me, Tangerine Dream "Phaedra"
at the moment, may help.
Saludos,
Bob.
Rebought that a couple of months ago, along with Rubycon :) On CD - had a burglary about 15 years ago and all my vinyl (about 400 albums) went plus record deck etc. It's taken a while (for a few years I didn't rebuy anything except a few tapes and they just weren't the same) but I've slowly built up a collection including a fair amount of the stuff I lost. Amazing what's become available on CD in the past few years, and now they're saying that format is going!
Ah well, que sera .... been playing The Traveling Wilburys as background today so can't be bad :)
Walk ended up more of a paddle!!
John
quite partial to stratosfear myself :)
"Phaedra" is my favourite Tangerine Dream Album, used to listen to it all the time. It's been a while since it was last out of it's sleeve though. Glad you reminded me I may even dig it out again this evening.
The Tangerines seem to get the vote for concentration/inspiration don't they :) Good for focus I suspect. Last week Dr Feelgood and Max Webster never left my deck - lots of doodling with quick shapes etc - wonder how my Xara usage/output would change if I went through a Beethoven or :eek: Hawkwind phase
John
Inspired by the eponymous
Tangerine Dream album.
It worked for me.
Saludos,
Bob.
Nice one :)
a breeze Bob !
Thanks, chaps.
This was easy, because frost doesn't really look like anything.
From memories of frost patterns on my bedroom window in the
days before central heating. Brrrr!
Saludos,
Bob.
I used to think the glass was cracking :p No CH, fog/smog, walking to school .... and then they wanted us to do algebra!
It's warmer in space :cool:
John
Did they ever make a bad album?
Crazy planets, and I think someone's
been influenced by the starfield thread?
For this one, the font came first, I like
the way it decays and the rest seemed
logical to me.
Saludos,
Bob
nice drawings both
and nice font too Bob - I shall seek it out
I really like that effect :) good font too.
I got that Universe plug-in a couple of months ago and was going to suggest it but someone beat me to it:D (Reminds me, must try Gnurf's workaround - looks good.) Influenced by '3rd Rock From The Sun' too.
Thanks Steve :)
John
Seeing as this thread is nearing a ton-up I thought this might help .... as long as Sledger doesn't start bowling :D
John
Just the text and nothing else. Simple and elegant.
Nice choice of fonts. That must have taken a bit of working out.
For the readers here not from the USA, a semi is a truck rather
than what is known as a house in the UK.
Saludos,
Bob.
would that be as in 'artic' Bob? Nice Drawings once again :)
Good one Bob - really catches it :) Glad you both explained the 'semi' business tho - so, an articulated mobile home would be a semi-semi :p
ps did you get live-maps working ok?
John
Couldn't just use text for this one - there'd be nothing of it:p
John
I demand a recount! :D
I've spent ages looking at the font trying to make
out the Upper Case H to match the Upper Case C.
But no, it's an Upper Case S. So it reads:
"Crochet Skooh"
This, as soon as I saw the Upper Case H in the font
you used jumped straight out and bit me!
I'm calling it "Eldeen Tehcorc" :)
Saludos,
Bob.
:D Artistic licence :D Mind you, if you think about it, there's more sense in 'Crochet hookS' than 'Crochet Hooks'. I think all sentences, as well, should not only begin but end with a capital letteR.
OK .... it's a mess :o
JohN
Haven't seen one for years, but ......
John
The font is not only funny, but works too.
To go off topic for a moment, do you have these "elevated crossings" in the UK or in the rest of the world, for that matter. They prevent one driving faster than 5 kph over them without "grounding" your vehicle. If you have a low profile car like the Rover I drive, it's a cinch to rip out your sump at speeds of around 25 kph - perfectly legal in any built up area in Spain (see example below).
What makes it even more fun is that if you are driving into the sun, the glare from the gloss paint makes them invisible. The no advanced warning signs are an absolute delight, and of course they are unlit at night. If you do have them in the UK and they are submerged by all the flooding, what is the Flood Supremo, Gordon Brown going to do about it, that's what the country needs to know.
It was bad enough in the UK with the "traffic calming" chicanes which made it a race to the death to beat the car coming towards you to the obstructions.
Aside from the aesthetic viewpoint of painting 68.7 % of the road surfaces in the UK in such gaudy colours that they are visible from Alpha Centaurai, this road furniture is an absolute menace.
Why they don't just set landmines to go off at speeds in excess of the speed limit, and do away with speed cameras, I don't know - it would save a lot of the courts' time. I know I sound like Victor Meldrew from One Foot In The Grave, but you've got to let off steam:) .
Saludos,
Bob.
Nice rant :D Speaking as a pedestrian - no, no, don't swerve .... health reasons! Partly! - can't say I've noticed those extreme crossings, though round here in the past couple of years they've inserted 'sleeping policemen' every 25 yards or so into every street bounded by the four main roads and some of these streets have become one way dead ends to boot! A tad excessive. And outside my local health centre there's one of those chicanes and a junior school just opposite and down the road a bit: the outpourings (verbal and exhaust) on the morning school run are probably killing more people than the traffic 'calming' measures save! But there's a 'suit' somewhere with a nice bonus from his boss for justifying his job ;)
It's very healthy having a rant, btw :D
John
Yep, I like a good rant, plenty of stuff to rant about, too. :D
We also get "rumble strips" here, usually made from concrete
rather than the traditional variety. They are usually grouped in twos or threes,
depending how close they are to the perceived danger, usually a junction,
concealed exit, village, school, ant crossing, whatever.
They usually occupy both carriageways even when only one is needed.
You also never know when you've hit the last one either.
Unlit and unpainted, they usually come as a complete surprise at night.
It's a miracle that there are any cars on the road here, rather than off
the road being repaired.
Despite it all, I'd still much rather be in Spain than anywhere else.
Latest effort is straightforward enough.
Saludos,
Bob.
HA! Not with-it today yet .... for a minute or two I thought you'd forgotten the "U" :o Cobweb-clearing walk on the agenda again methinks! Did do a pic last night but it's so contrived looking I didn't put it up, and looking at it again this morning I was glad I didn't! :p
I'm sure Lee v Ebdon will inspire me :confused:
John
Not bothering with either quarter final today.
Ebdon/Lee will probably be painful to watch, and I find
Marco Fu marginally more interesting than watching
paint dry.
There have been a few diamonds in the rough,
Selby/Maguire, Higgins/Ding and O'Sullivan/Maguire
are the only ones I can think of. It's a shame that
Mark Williams went out so early, he's always good to
watch, win or lose. Ken Doherty blows hot and cold,
and I think that unless there is a huge upset, Mark
Selby will lift the odd looking trophy on Sunday evening.
He's certainly come through the tougher half of the draw.
Anyway, I consider the attached effort my best yet,
inspired by Sledger's fruit 'n veg series.
Saludos,
Bob.
That is really good Bob :D You've got the colours spot on!
Talking of colours, it's 5-0 to Lee [hope I'm not spoiling any highlights watching] :)
John
Bob - if I didn't have to spend so much time waiting for ink and paint to dry I would never have any time to be here ;)
Hi guys, the Lee lead is a bit of a surprise, I must say.
Not spoiling anything, John.
So you actually do watch paint dry then Steve!
This one appeals to me, no frills.
Saludos,
Bob.
More accurate to say I keep an eye on it whilst its drying - and technically its coloured ink not paint, theres a difference. Sometimes you can use a hairdryer to speed things up, depending on the type of paper that's being used.
This is why when I use the saying, it's always 'as boring as watching paint that's already dry' [aka procrastination] ;)
Nice one Bob :) As you say, no frills - they're the best. Good choice of font - I'm picking up lots of tips in that context too :D
To demonstrate the opposite (and because I can't get the soggy brain cells working today!) here's the one I mentioned above that I was reluctant to post .... you can see why :D
John
Or how about this one:
That's the one - thread back on track :)
John
My braincells have dried out a bit :)
John
Busy here while I've been busy elsewhere.
John, the chess pieces are well designed, the font works well.
"My braincells have dried out a bit" more like they are overwrought
judging by the front gates.
Keith, I get the impression that yours was probably harder
than it looks. Nice choice of font, too. Very effective.
Steve, I would have thought a hairdrier would make the paper
go crinkly. Depends on the paper though, I suppose.
But how do you know? Trial and error?
My effort is food related again.
A Lilliputian, not a Blefuscan, when it comes to your breakfast I see, Bob :)
John
you are all very creative in this thread :)
Bob - yes like I say it does depend on the paper - and how you blow dry it :D
If it all goes wrong can always re-wet the whole drawing and use a damp cloth and iron to flatten it - there you didnt know that did you - and again this won't work with any old paper - and of course you got to have used ink that's waterproof when dry ;)
In my experience, John the egg just has to be broken at the tapered end to maximise the chances of leaving the yolk (good and runny) intact. No spoons either, knife only! And toasted soldiers spread with real butter, none of that margarine (the devil's work) nonsense in our household. (as an aside did you know that margarine is only one molecule away from plastic?) Hampered as I am with a cholesterol problem, I have no more than 2 eggs a week and I alternate with poached and lightly boiled (just time enough to do the Times Cryptic Crossword on a good day) accompanied by a mug of English Breakfast Tea. Never crossed my mind that I'd hear mention of Blefescu here. Life's full of surprises.
Saludos,
Bob.