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Stewarding at Festivals with Oxfam this Summer

I’m only mentioning this once, as I get asked about it every year, sometimes by the same people.
In the Summer months I usually steward at festivals with Oxfam. I’ve been doing this since 2005 and it really is a great experience for a great cause. Applications for the general public opened yesterday (31st March), so […]

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Stitches and Hos

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Stitches and ho’s, originally uploaded by hellocatfood.

Last night saw me and a host of others go to the first Stitches and Hos event at the Hare and Hounds.
I’ve never knitted before and I’ve never really […]

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Integrating Tumblr-like functions into Wordpress

I’ve always had mixed feelings towards Tumblr. I really like how you can easily post about anything, but then again I think to myself, can’t “Wordpress do this already”?
I’m subscribed to two Tumblr feeds: The first is one by Tom Davis. If you’re into your literature and photography go subscribe! The other is an online […]

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Leaves

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Leaves at Lloyds No.1, originally uploaded by hellocatfood.

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Soapbox

Something that I saw some time ago on the artsjobs mailing list but forgot to post. It’ll be great for workshop deliverers and anyone else involved in learning (perhaps you, Bobbie?):
Supported by Black Country Creative Partnerships: Soapbox is an informal space where creative practitioners who work in learning can meet up with each other to:

question, […]

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What to do with the blog

Awhile back when I started this blog I had no idea what I wanted it to be. Although the general aim of this website is to promote my work I feel that the blogging side may be overshadowing it and some of the blog posts don’t really focus on art or other creative subjects. As […]

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Photoshop Photo Philters

25 Photoshop Postwork Actions by ^manicho on deviantART
For anyone who manipulates their photos I absolutely reccommend this set of Photoshop Actions. I’ve used them for the past year with great results. A quick search on DeviantArt reveals that Birmingham-based photographer Lara Jade (who can haz an blog (thanks D’log) also has a good set of […]

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Drumming

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Drumming, originally uploaded by hellocatfood.

I don’t play drums, but I can try. I pluck the geetar!

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Dragon Eggs at the Ikon

There’s something about this current exhibition at the Ikon that made me want to go back to it twice. The way that the light hits all of the balls scattered across the floor reminded me of marbles or Dragon Egg Fractals. Here’s one a I made earlier

For anyone not familiar with Fractals, they’re usually created […]

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Information Overload? Enter BlogRovR

Ever since my computer crashed I’ve been trying to piece back together my online activities when suddenly Irealised that I spent far to much time reading information thrown at me from RSS Feeds, Facebook feeds, Twitter feeds, Thunderbird feeds, and Google Reader Feeds, not to mention following links from blog posts. It’s just all too […]