Too Many Ideas - Archive for 2011

Don’t Make the Little Guy Angry…

…You’ll not like him when he’s angry. My avatar was mistaken for a goblin’s mugshot and he really isn’t happy about it.  First he’s never been in trouble with the law.  So they don’t have his DNA, clawprints or photograph on file.  Secondly he’s not a goblin:  Goblins don’t have tails or wings – at […]

Paul Trevor – Like you’ve Never Been Away

In a smaller gallery next to the Art in Revolution: Liverpool 1911 is an exhibition of black and white photographs by Paul Trevor of inner city Liverpool taken in 1975.  The exhibition features a sequence of stunning images that reflect both the poverty and material decay that afflicted inner city life in the 1970s.  Most […]

Art in Revolution: Liverpool 1911

The Art in Revolution: Liverpool 1911 exhibition at the Walker Art Gallery celebrates the centenary of the 1911 exhibition of Post-Impressionist works and local avant-garde artists at the Bluecoat  (The Sandon Studios Society exhibition of Modern Art including work by the Post-Impressionists).  The breadth of styles is breath-taking – there are works by van Gogh, Gauguin […]

Sunrise City / Finally 64 Bits

    A quick post for a quick render – Sunrise City – my first proper test render with my new 64 Bit PC built entirely with it.  My last PC was supposed to be 64 Bit but there was a complication in the manufacturing (otherwise known as Dell used some 32 Bit parts thus […]

X-Men First Class

X-Men First Class wasn’t a film I had particularly high expectations of.  Super hero films aren’t my first choice for a night out and the X-Men haven’t really done a lot for me in the past.  On top of all that I was struggling to imagine James McAvoy as a young Patrick Stewart. So I […]

View from Hardwick Hall

Hardwick Hall Colonnade

The Colonnade (or Loggia) at Hardwick Hall, Derbyshire.

Hardwick Hall

Doctor Who: A Good Man Goes to War

There were some nice things about the latest Doctor Who episode: A Good Man Goes to War.  It started very well with the Cybermen and the collection of various allies from across Time and Space.  There was the nice idea that Doctor becoming word for warrior in many cultures that have encountered him.   There was […]

Nighttime Hailstorm

A photograph of the overnight torrential downpour and hailstorm with thunder and lightning from the bank holiday weekend just gone. You can see a few of the hailstones bouncing off the top of the street light as bright dashes flying away from it.