skateboarding again >>

if you have read this blog before you will know that I have a particular interest in skateboarding and have ridden skateboards from the very early days. I have owned more than a few skateboards and still have one sitting next to me as a write.

so today was pleased to see some pictures that were emailed to luca (nearly 17) my eldest son showing gabes (14) my second eldest getting some air while street skating see below.

I have never been that good at freestyle skating preferring to skate ramps & half pipes, but I have to say street skating has always been harder (for me) anyway. perhaps it is because I like the smoothness of surfing and the crossover from surfing to riding a half pipe even a bowl is closer all the same I am impressed gabes hope you landed it!

photos >> surf & more

I think I am very lucky, I see many pictures of surfing and surfers as well as beaches and seascapes sent to me as the owner of the surf site surf98.
moby one of the sur98 team, he has posted hundreds of surfing pictures through in the last 10 or so years. very grateful I am too. I am looking forward to seeing the photos of his next trip to morocco at the end of this month. as he is experimenting with a water camera with which he has already taken and sent through some excellent pictures. I will make sure to add some moroccan picture to this blog when they come through

more great pictures have been provided by lelia maffey see pictures below and here. it is so good to have many different views of the same thing.

surfing please...>>

it has been just one of those days when I have seem to have been very busy, but achieved very little. amongst the time spent trying to do stuff I rushed back in the hope that the weather would bring perhaps a change in the swell patterns in order to at least make plans to get in the water this weekend, but the chances of clean waves are slim in cornwall, well lots of waves but the wrong kind, looking cold and very choppy.

design & planning >> denmark

it was while I was looking for inspiration that I found myself side tracked. I was while revisiting some textile design research online that I was led me to the web site of the danish museum of art & design. to be honest I know very little about it in fact I didn't really know of its existence until today. from my textile design past I am aware of danish fabric designers.
anyway I liked the site so decided to post something about it.

if you have some time it is well worth a look round. I was delving in to their archive looking for a particular type of printed textile design to illustrate some stuff I need for teaching with. it was worth looking as I found this and though it wasn't exactly what I wanted it made me happy.

television >> art school

a long time ago in fact when I was completing sorry starting a foundation studies course in art & design, before going on to do a degree. I listened to the song marquee moon and album of the same name by the band television three or four times a week especially when I was working on my drawing, when I would just put it on repeat.

I have such good memories of the time and it was underlined tonight when I went in to my son luca's room to hear him listening to the same song whilst he was working on his drawing (he is currently studying for 'A' levels at college, art being one of them).

the song is so good it stands against anything from the same time even perhaps gets better with age. it is strange though how history has this habit of repeating its self.

this film is from a more recent concert (live in central park ny) . the original song is from 1977, yes I am that old! & it is only the first 3 minutes 23 seconds the original lasts 10 minutes 40 seconds.

firework night >> surfing on saturday

we had firework night sort of thing on saturday evening, after I had spent the day judging at the british nationals (kneeboard surfing) championships. it was an excellent competition with some quality surfing in good contest conditions. I was pleased to be part of it.

I like fireworks. I like surfing as well

jing >> actually useful

its not that often you find something that is useful and free, but this is a good application while I was searching for something to use in a teaching context, it seems that 'jing' could be the thing as far as screen capture.

‘jing‘ is a project from techsmith that allows you to capture stills and video from your screen and share them online, and the good thing about it is that it works on both pc and mac.

I wont give it a full seal of approval until I have tested it with a class of year 9's next week at work.

space >> lego >> david bowie?

ben likes this, I like this, lego is so cool. mix it with david bowie well it's very interesting and good fun.