Yesterday my wife and I went out to witness our local murmuration of Starlings. It’s pretty spectacular, happens on the Albert Bridge and you can see them slowly congregate and then swoop in vast clouds of black splatter up and
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Time
We’re in a super accelerated world now. Time just seems to whizz past. December felt like three days. Pre-Christmas, Christmas Day and post Christmas. Maybe this is an age thing, maybe this is just the stage of life now where
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Hair Today
I have a note with a suggestion for today’s blog, it simply says “haircut”. Why it says that, I’ve no idea. I know that I got a haircut yesterday and I know I had something I’d intended to say about
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Rain Down On Me
Ireland, as I like to tell people, is called the Emerald Isle because it’s always bloody wet and everything is covered in moss. Went to go for a run this morning, and it’s bucketing down and has been all week
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Padding time
I had gotten quite used to, for some time, drawing digitally. You set up a new file and proceed and that’s it. Time is marked by projects. Having returned to drawing on paper, I’m finding a odd little marker of
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Dredd vs Dredd.
A Dredd head to head. Quick blog post, back from a run and not enough time in the day, so I thought I’d have my final say on the Dredd movies. 1995 Stallone Dredd, the best depiction of Dredd’s world
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The New Normal
I’ve mentioned this a few times in the past but will very much make a point of spelling it out here. I hit, prior to covid, on a strategy I called “Two Things” (A terrible none-name but describes it perfectly)
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Stand by for Action
When I started doing Terran Omega, there were a couple of things I really wanted to do, quite apart from write/draw my own comic. I wanted to really experiment with how I bring an audience to it. As an artist,
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The unbearable lightness of boredom
I’ve long contended that any creative needs boredom, and we’ve largely robbed ourselves of it. When my kids where young, I’d call the iPhone “daddy’s little helper” because I would so frequently turn to it when the kids were playing,
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This blog intentionally left blank
Woke up a little late for a blog post, and yesterday… Well, hopefully you’ll hear all about yesterday at some point. If you don’t hear it’s because it has like so many things piffled away to nothing. But we’ll see.
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