Good friends...

I recently received a present of a painting from a mate of mine, and I realised how lucky I am to have such really good solid friends. I have friends all over the place, and, even though I don't see them sometimes for long periods of time, I know I can just pick up the phone and talk to them as if we were just picking up on the last conversation.

I've decided that I am going to actually take time off and start smelling the daisies, including taking up some of the offers from all around the world to go and stay with friends.

Will this happen?I think it really has to. Business is getting busier and busier, and I have to start enjoying some real time off.

great technology.......

We've been considering a CAC for ages, and we finally bought one, a Verevide Colour Assessment Cabinet. What a great piece of technology! Transmissive and reflective work can be assessed as a comparison on the box or cabinet. That combined with our Pantone Two reader means that our colour reproduction accuracy is going to be higher than ever, and our artist clients in particular will be happy bunnies.

Another new service we're offering is a 4000 dpi scan up to 6 x 7 transparencies on a Super Nikon scanner.

Time to start looking for our next premises at this rate :)

twitter - whoo...

I was sent a link from a friends Twitter page. I was interested as I hadn't really looked at this before. Ye gods! What a waste of time. I've seen some stupid nonsense as part of the web revolution, but this is the complete nadir of the technology....

I seriously expect some people even tell you when they are in the toilet. It really is that trite a concept. Who is interested in every little detail of someone elses day? Don't they have a life of their own.

I suspect that this is aimed squarely at people who can be called the first 4 letters of Twitter.

a smile...

Just read ' a smile in the mind' again. It really is one of the definitive design books around. I was totally amazed when some of our staff said they hardly ever read a book, instead getting all their information off the web.
What's wrong with that I hear you say.... it's something like the way that all the news programmes report the same events in the same way. Why? because they're taught to go online in their comfy warm office, and Google for information. Of course, they are using the same search terms so they end up with the same results.
So much for journalism degrees. I think that the media was better served by having people learn their trade (or profession) in the field, which lead to widely varying news coverage instaed of the current myopic view we all have now.

catching up..

Been a while since I put anything on this blog. I just haven't had the time, but I'm going to do it regularly now... a belated New Year's resolution.

So what's been happening? ....

I sold a few prints after my exhibition last year, and am just away to launch my personal site on boxorange, our new service to artists.

Anything else? So much I can't even think about it. I've finally put together my (hopefully) next book of poetry....

da baby thing.....

got a shout from a mate of mine in Londinium asking if I could build a site for his new baby. Y'know, all that sort of thing...baby photos etc. So i've said yes, and have made up my mind it's going to be about the adventures of 'superdev' (baby's name is Dev btw), and how he's conquered the world etc ...... watch this space.

times they are a changin' .....

Sorry about that. I've always had a slightly strange sense of humour. Well, where do I start ...... a friend and business associate has suggested that we share a lve-work space in central London (not at the same time...I'm not that sort of guy and neither is he :) to enable a proper presence in the City for both of our businesses. Sounds very interesting, as we only have a non-official presence there at the moment.

Add to that the sudden influx of database job enquiries, both here and in London, and it looks likely it will happen.

However, do I commute or do I go down for a week at a time or what?