tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3337845839120168302024-02-07T02:03:05.745+00:00Splendid stuff.Stuff that's splendid.Kevinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01298749183919133167noreply@blogger.comBlogger93125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-333784583912016830.post-70729940195442826512015-07-19T13:01:00.000+01:002015-07-19T15:43:10.529+01:00Nurturing a Dream; Audition for "Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them".<div class="MsoNormal">
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We've disembarked from the train after meeting a friend of my daughters at the station going after the same dream too and sharing the journey, beginning to end!</div>
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briefly yesterday and one article said there were 14,000 girls. Today I read 20,000. All I can tell
you is that there were huge numbers of hopefuls like my daughter and her friend. They all wanted that golden ticket in life. Not just an acting role but a likely life changing chance.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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For me, I went there in hope for Isabella's dreams but, (being over 50 years old), with trepidation of how the herds of youngsters would be mysteriously doing their best acting warm ups by casting distasteful looks in my direction but they were a pleasure. It was lovely to see so many happy children skipping about, glancing at the competition, clutching their guardians, asking desperately for any wisp of helpful audition snippet and largely patiently standing around hour after hour with a little nervousness but still full of hope against the seemingly impossible, worsening odds. The parents/aunts/uncles/granddads etc. etc. from near and far were all in the same boat as me and we chatted from time to time discussing the unimaginable draw of this event on so many people.</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;">Ourselves, we'd got up fairly early (at 6 a.m.) and got there for about 8:30 in the morning. Apparently some people had been there since 4a.m.! Already the queue was massive and it was not meant to open until 9am. We continued pass the main zig-zag strip of barriers with a realisation of how we were clearly going to be in for a good few hours. The queue spilled out of the barriers and around the side of the huge building. And on it went into the distance so we trudged after it. We joined the queue and stood around for a while as more and more people filed past hoping to reach their place in the queue soon.</span></div>
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short torture. It turned out that the organisers were just doubling the line up from 2 by 2 to
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not in number). The fire of the sun beating down was trebled from reflection off the water (as
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with provisions to last us until about mid-day. Getting to the barrier,
"proper" queue, felt like it wasn't going to be too much longer. The queue
seemed to keep making steady progress so that, perhaps by around 10 am, we were
near the front, almost ready to go into the building. We couldn't see what was
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headed for the door to go in. On reaching the inside we realised there was yet another
queue but it snaked off into another area where we couldn't see. It was like a cruel hike up a mountain where you think you've got to the top but just as you reach the brow another even steeper section ahead shows up. "Nooooo, mercy!". By about 11 a.m. we could now see the real queue. An absolutely huge "room" with a
gigantic zig-zag area. As we progressed up & down the zig-zags, people
tried to calculate how long we were going to be. Someone near us had sent their
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at that time, (I'm new to this). By sometime after 12 O'clock, I could see it was unlikely we'd
make it to the audition area by then, (although I didn't mention this to
Isabella). Clearly, with the combination of girls and guardians there would be
something like 20,000 people still in the queue by 1pm. If they told people it
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I could see them removing some of the barriers in the final audition lane where
the girls go in (and where parents are separated into another area). Are they finishing, packing away? This did
not look good but I kept quiet about it from Isabella to keep spirits up while occasionally chatting
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joining the queue at some point so once you were in the queue, you were OK, probably! Relief, about 1:30 p.m. and after 5 hours mostly standing around with the
occasional shuffle forward we'd made it. I wished Isabella luck and then asked her
if I was meant to do that or suggest a broken leg. Anyway, I'd done my best to
pep talk and whatever else I could think of to help her remain calm and
composed. You have to remember that I have no knowledge about this world, so I
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chairs where I chose to continue to stand but near where the girls were coming
out. It was interesting observing their reactions. Almost all came out seeming
to be quite happy as they handed over paperwork and were given a certificate. A
few obviously considered they'd not done something so well and there were a few
looks of resignation and some tears but not many. After about half an hour,
Isabella came out and, with certificate in hand, she gave her usual lovely
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I'd seen reported yesterday, 14,000 candidates, that's 1000x more chance than winning our UK National Lottery
but with a prize that could be worth more in what it could do for you in life. Perhaps.
Who knows. You could make a film about trying to be a part of making a modern film! It was a pleasure to try & help nurture a dream and, for most of the girls that went there I imagine that it will take the edge off their fears for the next audition. It will be a little lesson in life of how so much of it can be just down to luck but also how you have to make that luck by having a dream and by trying.</span>Kevinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01298749183919133167noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-333784583912016830.post-36126840000135055392014-12-12T22:03:00.001+00:002014-12-12T22:03:16.042+00:00The RPG you dream of is being made.<div style="text-align: center;">
Development begins...</div>
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There's nothing more to say right now. My dream will come true!</div>
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You want splendid, this will be splendid:</div>
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A video game of the day trip to Brighton board game ("BN1") is in the works...</div>
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I think it's great, I would like one!
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While you're here, you can take a look at another great creation. I'm growing something for charity, take a look here & done a few quid too if you like.
<a href="http://mobro.co/kevinbramhill" target="_blank">http://mobro.co/kevinbramhill</a><br />
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Thank you!</div>
Kevinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01298749183919133167noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-333784583912016830.post-18913788640887873802012-08-28T21:27:00.000+01:002012-08-28T21:27:02.626+01:00Location of 1934 Ivy Langton naive style painting identified.My lovely wife & oldest daughter are in Paris at the moment & my wife asked me the name of the street in an Ivy Langton painting. There is a street name in the painting but it had always been hard to read. Today I got the light just right & that lead me to see if I could see what the view is like now.<br />
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Here is the view as it is now(ish) cropped from a Google Street View:<br />
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Here is the painting (naive style of course) done in circa 1934:<br />
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You can read more about Ivy Langton <a href="http://www.the-cleeve.co.uk/IvyLangton.htm">HERE</a>.Kevinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01298749183919133167noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-333784583912016830.post-57920277594380511432012-08-13T14:51:00.000+01:002012-08-13T14:51:01.852+01:00Kurt Seligmann painting (probably new to you!).I've just returned (yesterday) from a holiday with a few stop offs in various location in the North of Britain. This included some nice cultural stuff in Edinburgh and Glasgow. We saw quite a few surreal works here mostly by Picasso. Continuing along the surreal lines...<br />
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As you may know, Kurt Seligmann was a Swiss-American Surrealist painter and engraver.<br />
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What you may not know is that there is a connection with the English naive artist Ivy Langton. The connections continue but I will leave that aspect of things for another time & place, suffice it to say that it is along these lines that I can show you a Kurt Seligmann painting that has been in the dark for a while which I've been lucky enough to see.<br />
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If you like your surreal art and have any comments I would be delighted to hear them.<br />
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For now I will simply present this snap shot of the work leaning against some old paper and resting on a sheet (you might want to view it the other way up, you decide!):<br />
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Kevinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01298749183919133167noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-333784583912016830.post-3259979915282623912012-07-21T13:39:00.000+01:002012-07-21T13:39:30.010+01:00Vivobarefoot Ultras vs NeoI have been running in the VivoBarefoot Neo shoes for quite a while now. Here they are:<br />
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I recently went into one of the VivoBarefoot factory outlets and found that they had a "sample" pair of what the shop keeper said were a new Neo shoe. These are apparently the "Neo <b>Mesh</b>", an upgrade or update to the original Neo shoes. I did a quick search and have found no reference to a "mesh" version. Anyway, these sample shoes were in my size and on offer for £10 so I grabbed them. Here are my new bargain "Mesh" Neo shoes:<br />
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Now it might be just down to the size of the shoe but I prefer this bargain shoe to my original Neo. This is simply because my feet slip forward quite a lot in the original Neo when running downhill. The original was also quite bad (for me) when I was just walking up a hill because the balls of my feet slipped on every step inside the shoe. This aggravated the Mortons Neuroma like sensation that I sometimes get. I found that the mesh version was much better for walking and a little better for running. But this could be just down to slight differences in the cutting of the shoe to size during manufacture.<br />
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While in the factory outlet I picked up a pair of the Ultra shoes. I won't go into details about how they look, there's lots of that out there in other reviews. Here are mine:<br />
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Above you can see the bootie bit (middle) out of one shoe (top) and in the other shoe (bottom).<br />
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What I'm interested in is how the Ultras compare to the Neos (either the old or the "new"). As mentioned, I've done lots of runs in the Neos. I have now done 5 runs short runs in the Ultras (~2 miles per run mildly hilly - on the streets across Brighton). Four of these runs were in the dry and one was when it was raining about as heavily as you'd ever expect in the UK. My feet did not suffer in either condition and the shoe dried ready for the next day with the bootie bits removed. I have done long runs in continuous rain with the Neo and then found it took several days to dry out. Round one to the Ultras.<br />
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I do not think that it is necessary to do a big build up here. No further detail is necessary. I can say that I much prefer the Ultra to the Neo.<br />
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WHY: It's that bootie thing that the Ultras come with that does the trick I think. Your foot fits snugly in this (and I used thin running socks too anyway). In any running shoe you must have plenty of space around your toes but this can lead to unexpected issues like slipping of your feet inside the shoe. So far so whatever, the Ultra has space around the toes too, big deal. The bit that kills off all that slipping to the extent that it is a big plus is that the bootie thing locks into the outer shell of the shoe. Ground feel seems about the same as with the Neo but the run just feels better by enough to make these my current favourite.<br />
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My conclusion; A well fitting Neo is nice to walk in. It's not bad to run in. People may think that you're using "Crocs" but forget that, the Ultra is a better shoe by design than the Neo for running.Kevinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01298749183919133167noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-333784583912016830.post-17965967533329276422012-07-09T21:58:00.001+01:002012-07-09T21:59:30.012+01:00New Book: "Running Desperado" - 2nd editionI released the second edition of my running diary style book today. I've added more caveman running theories and more runs including my soggiest to date plus more! I also changed the cover to include a little bit of my own art but Amazon can't see the difference & show the old image still.<br />
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If you like fairly detailed things about running or exercise then this could be something that you enjoy:<br />
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This is a diary style exploration covering my desperation to get back into running following years with injury! There are also some of my own observations on the running shoe industry along with ideas about how running shoe design might be improved. But the main thing is trying to get back to regular running even if it's not the mega distances most other books offer because I am a mere mortal. Don't expect spotless grammar or spelling, it's running I'm interested in not willie waving about literature.<br />
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I do hope that we see you here.Kevinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01298749183919133167noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-333784583912016830.post-91843790278375954902012-05-14T09:56:00.000+01:002012-05-14T09:56:19.456+01:00Open House - second weekend.This weekend we had the sunshine to help us along. I think it probably did bring a few more people to see us.<br />
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During a quiet spot at lunch time today I took this wobbly video to give you a (very) rough idea of things...<br />
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Come & see the Open House for a better view.</div>Kevinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01298749183919133167noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-333784583912016830.post-82380892825823114722012-05-07T11:26:00.002+01:002012-05-07T11:26:25.543+01:00Open House - first weekendWell, our first open house weekend has been & gone. I estimate that we had around 200 visitors which was nice. This is perhaps a few more than we expected with all the other things going on, that and I gather the first weekend is normally the quietest.<br />
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For me it was intriguing seeing the different ways people went around what we had on show. For example; A lot of people seemed to go into the front room & they looked down a lot & seemed to barely (if at all) notice things higher up. We did have some sculpture on the floor and low down, some things like jewellery a little higher up but we also had some painting & other things at around eye level or even slightly higher. I tried not to be too obvious in my observation and it wasn't like I was taking scientific notes, just "noticing" different behaviours. For me, when I go to something on show, I like to at least give everything a glance or more. This observation will lead to a little shimmy around of the layout for this coming weekend I think.<br />
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I hope you can make it. I promise I won't scrutinise you too much!<br />
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<br />Kevinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01298749183919133167noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-333784583912016830.post-68140189890278933512012-05-04T16:40:00.001+01:002012-05-04T16:40:58.964+01:00Open House even more nearly ready...I just had a walk around the house & took a few more snaps on my mobile to give you a flavour (but there is still a little more to do yet)...<br />
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We have more things to come yet but we are nearly there now... I hope to see you there.Kevinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01298749183919133167noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-333784583912016830.post-74405246965638105152012-05-03T17:30:00.000+01:002012-05-03T17:30:02.952+01:00Our Open House is nearly Open!We have been trying work out in different locations and our guest artists have been placing their work over the last few days too. The opening is tantalisingly close now.<br />
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Here you can see mostly engravings (but they're not displayed in the book shelf now):<br />
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I hope that we see you at our open house (every weekend in May 2012, 11am - 6pm).Kevinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01298749183919133167noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-333784583912016830.post-88349766639063093682012-04-30T19:43:00.001+01:002012-04-30T19:43:31.624+01:00Bird 162 - completed.At last!<br />
I have completed and framed my "Bird 162" engraving.<br />
It looks great and you can see it <a href="http://www.kevinbramhill.com/kb0036.htm" target="_blank">HERE</a>.<br />
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You can probably tell that I have been a little busy lately. I am now getting everything ready for our Artist Open House. We will be open every weekend in May 2012 11am - 6pm, come & take a look. See where <a href="http://www.kevinbramhill.com/events.htm" target="_blank">HERE</a>.Kevinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01298749183919133167noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-333784583912016830.post-84077423600645583022012-03-29T18:04:00.001+01:002012-03-29T18:05:33.055+01:00"Bird 162" part 2."Bird 162" has come along nicely. In this engraving I have use a little blending too. Not everything went quite to plan...<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Bird 162" - a looking good (I thought...)</td></tr>
</tbody></table>For some reason I had removed the masking tape before painting which was not in my plan. Obviously I put new tape back on and continued...<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Bird 162" - suffering masking problems.</td></tr>
</tbody></table>Now I have removed the second masking tape but it did not quite do the trick. You can see that the pale blue has sneaked under the edge of the mask, mainly at the top so I no longer have a nice crisp edge. Other than this problem I think things have worked out nicely. I will correct the unexpected masking and then I will show you the final piece, soon.Kevinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01298749183919133167noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-333784583912016830.post-91940384460955758572012-03-15T18:20:00.001+00:002012-03-23T10:39:25.073+00:00"Bird 162".<div style="text-align: center;">There is a list.</div><div style="text-align: center;">This list goes back to the year 1600 AD. </div><div style="text-align: center;">It is a sad list.</div><div style="text-align: center;">The list has the names on it.</div><div style="text-align: center;">All the names are those of birds. </div><div style="text-align: center;">All of the birds on the list are now extinct.</div><div style="text-align: center;">The subject of my latest work is bird number 162 on the list.</div><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Bird 162" - stage 1, a fair bit more to do (and my mobile snap is cropped as you can see by the beak).</td></tr>
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There is only one known very poor quality photograph (possibly on an early low resolution digital or mobile phone camera) of this bird. A little has been written about this creature such as where it lived and died. There is only one known stylised picture of this bird.<br />
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I have taken what we know and will shortly present the only known engraving, "Bird 162".<br />
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<div style="text-align: center;">I'll tell you more soon.</div>Kevinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01298749183919133167noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-333784583912016830.post-68044197786845873982012-03-07T13:59:00.001+00:002012-03-08T16:07:16.698+00:00Very early animated graphics timed to music...You need to drift back in time now. You are drifting far back. Right back to the early 1980s:-<br />
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I was toying with ideas when I decided to try to get our "BBC Micro" (computer) to draw <b>animated pictures in time to music</b>. I am not sure but I'd never heard of this being done before then. I simply plugged some wires from a speaker output through a filter into the back of the computer to pick up the bass beat. Next I knocked up some code to let me pick from a number of pre-drawn images that I made or it would generate one in computer code (lots of spinning lines or polygons, stuff like that).<br />
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Snap back to today:<br />
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I was looking at some old photos when I came across the only image I think I have of this. In it you can see the "hi-fi", a cassette player, and on the right a TV picture with some lines drawn on it. You are going to have to crank up your imagination here...<br />
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Just image the (hissy cassette) music, (go on, get into the era). Now, (never having seen it before), on the telly, lines moved. And they changed colour and direction in time to the funky beat! Then the image would change and you had things like cocktail glasses shattering (and re-assembling) to the tune (each frame previously hand drawn on the computer).<br />
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I took this photo as we were getting ready for a party (so the computer is set up under the cupboard the TV is on) and we used this throughout the party as a curious musical accompaniment (along with a homemade sound to light unit!). I'd got the music to graphics going a year or so before this but here we are, June or July 1984:<br />
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<div style="background-color: black; color: lime; text-align: center;"><b>"<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: red;">F</span><span style="color: orange;">a</span><span style="color: yellow;">r </span><span style="color: cyan;">o</span><span style="color: blue;">u</span><span style="color: magenta;">t</span></span>"</b></div><div style="text-align: center;">(as it was not cool to say anymore, even back then but I like the expression).</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Yes, but was it art?</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">I like to think so.</div>Kevinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01298749183919133167noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-333784583912016830.post-2878274678219650992012-03-01T16:41:00.001+00:002012-03-01T17:29:09.028+00:00The BirdsI decided to do a series of endangered birds for my next artwork. These will be more engravings. I have started them.<br />
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<div style="text-align: center;">Days later...</div><br />
A strange thing happened! There were a lot of soft sounds like some small soft lumps tumbling down a chimney and landing behind a blocked off fireplace. After a while the sound of falling stopped but then there was another intermittent sound. A faint sound. An unfamiliar sound. Then there was a faint aroma like moist plaster. What could it be?<br />
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I thought that perhaps birds had just dislodged some old soot or something along those lines. Nothing to worry about. Nothing of note. Nothing going on here. Move along now.<br />
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Later in the day I was in the same room. Now the smell had gone but it sounded like something was scratching around. If I made a sound in the room the scratching stopped. Were the neighbours up to no good?<br />
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I decided to investigate and pulled away some dusty books. These had accumulated tiny bits of very old plaster or perhaps cement. Behind these was an air vent. Time to investigate.<br />
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I had to move piles of maps, piles of shelving, piles of files to get enough access to the vent. I screwdrivered it off and tried to see inside. Nothing but muck. I was about to put my hand inside when, in the vent opening, a scaly leg was plonked down within my field of view. A black bird perhaps. No, the leg is way too big and I can't imagine that a dainty song bird would need such talons! It must be a crow!<br />
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Anticipating mess, I had a black bin bag handy already so I put that against the vent opening. I thought the bird might see the big space and hop in to investigate. Instead, the draft sucked the bag flat against the hole. I need a glove or the crow will start eating me. I propped a book against the bag to keep it there but then the crow started pulling at it. I quickly pulled the bag out again and leant an even bigger book against the hole. I'm a bit worried that the crow will be strong enough to shove the book out of the way. Just imagine the clouds of mess a soot covered crow will make in your house if it gets a chance to flap about. The pale carpets! The white sheets. Nooooo. And then how would I catch it?<br />
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A quick move is needed. As luck would have it, my coat is in the same room & I have a thick glove in the pocket. One glove on I reach into the vent hole. The crow is not happy about this. I don't want to hurt it but know I need to be gentle as it might snap a wing or something if pulled too hard. I grab a leg but that's not much good. I grab something else, it's rear end! The crow finds a grip with those claws on the edge of the vent hole. I have to undo its talons but then another one reacquires the grip. I lever it away. One crow bottom & one crow leg out but now one wing looks to be a problem.<br />
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I turn the crow a little, one wing out, one flailing pecking <span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">occasionally </span>cawing head and now I can remove and gently pull the whole angry bird out taking care not to catch the wing. It is out!<br />
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Now I'm trying to keep this livid creature pointing down as I open doors with one hand. It tried to flap about but I manage to not release it in the hall. As it sees the bright sunshine streaming through the house door windows it struggles to get free.<br />
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We get outside and I think the bird must think that it is pulling me along & wonders if it will be able to fly with me holding on. In case it has hurt a wing or something I release it over a foot square gate post so it has something to land on. No need, the crow is fine and free. It cawed a thank you (or an insult?).<br />
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<div style="text-align: center;">Sorry, no photo of the actual bird but <a href="http://www.kevinbramhill.com/photo30.htm" target="_blank"><u>HERE </u></a>is a crow I photographed on another occasion! </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">I'll show you my engraved birds soon.</div><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Robber Frog" - stage 2, cured engraving.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Robber Frog" - stage 3 partly "DNA stained".</td></tr>
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">This piece is part of my endangered creation series. There are something like 40% of amphibians on the critical list. Strangely a lot of these creatures are suffering death by fungus. They kind of go mouldy. How grim. How did this come about?</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">I think that this engraving has really worked out to give a terrific, interesting and lovely piece of art work (with much better colours than shown here via my mobile camera). You can see it completed (and framed) <a href="http://www.kevinbramhill.com/kb0035.htm" target="_blank"><u>HERE</u></a> (in better colour representation via my new photography set up).</div>Kevinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01298749183919133167noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-333784583912016830.post-66519182470224703432012-02-24T17:13:00.000+00:002012-02-24T17:13:01.044+00:00Salamander (part 2 - complete)I have finished my "Salamander - Death By Fungus" engraving.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Salamander - Death By Fungus" - an engraving by Kevin Bramhill</td></tr>
</tbody></table><div style="text-align: center;">You can see this lovely (framed) engraving <a href="http://www.kevinbramhill.com/kb0034.htm" target="_blank"><u>HERE</u></a>.</div>Kevinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01298749183919133167noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-333784583912016830.post-83729599062957566952012-02-24T17:09:00.000+00:002012-02-24T17:09:22.083+00:00Spiny Starfish (part 4 - complete)I have now completed and framed my Spiny Starfish.<br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjm3-ztk8QEEVuvoRB99aXQDjn_D7OvcGdT3spz_8ynkOI64IgCWCAcn3rKewqnaZHJWtaIEZc2PHtAQARbjGsRozAhYQPhWjEv14sI6DdhBOUtqL4oe9aYGaphmhvKBJ13K9FksHrDUv0S/s1600/Spiny+Starfish+1_thumb.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjm3-ztk8QEEVuvoRB99aXQDjn_D7OvcGdT3spz_8ynkOI64IgCWCAcn3rKewqnaZHJWtaIEZc2PHtAQARbjGsRozAhYQPhWjEv14sI6DdhBOUtqL4oe9aYGaphmhvKBJ13K9FksHrDUv0S/s1600/Spiny+Starfish+1_thumb.jpg" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Spiny Starfish 1 - an engraving by Kevin Bramhill</td></tr>
</tbody></table>You can see them all framed (1) <a href="http://www.kevinbramhill.com/kb0030.htm" target="_blank"><u>HERE</u></a>, (2) <a href="http://www.kevinbramhill.com/kb0031.htm" target="_blank"><u>HERE </u></a>and (3) <a href="http://www.kevinbramhill.com/kb0032.htm" target="_blank"><u>HERE</u></a>. Take a look, they're great.Kevinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01298749183919133167noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-333784583912016830.post-51441417785622553502012-02-22T15:01:00.000+00:002012-02-22T15:01:54.288+00:00Salamander (part 1)<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <o:OfficeDocumentSettings> <o:AllowPNG/> <o:TargetScreenSize>1024x768</o:TargetScreenSize> </o:OfficeDocumentSettings> </xml><![endif][if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:View>Normal</w:View> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:TrackMoves/> <w:TrackFormatting/> <w:PunctuationKerning/> <w:ValidateAgainstSchemas/> <w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:IgnoreMixedContent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:DoNotPromoteQF/> <w:LidThemeOther>EN-GB</w:LidThemeOther> <w:LidThemeAsian>X-NONE</w:LidThemeAsian> <w:LidThemeComplexScript>X-NONE</w:LidThemeComplexScript> <w:Compatibility> <w:BreakWrappedTables/> <w:SnapToGridInCell/> <w:WrapTextWithPunct/> <w:UseAsianBreakRules/> <w:DontGrowAutofit/> <w:SplitPgBreakAndParaMark/> <w:DontVertAlignCellWithSp/> <w:DontBreakConstrainedForcedTables/> <w:DontVertAlignInTxbx/> <w:Word11KerningPairs/> <w:CachedColBalance/> </w:Compatibility> <w:BrowserLevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> <m:mathPr> <m:mathFont m:val="Cambria Math"/> <m:brkBin m:val="before"/> <m:brkBinSub m:val="--"/> <m:smallFrac m:val="off"/> <m:dispDef/> <m:lMargin m:val="0"/> <m:rMargin m:val="0"/> <m:defJc m:val="centerGroup"/> <m:wrapIndent m:val="1440"/> <m:intLim m:val="subSup"/> <m:naryLim m:val="undOvr"/> </m:mathPr></w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif][if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:LatentStyles DefLockedState="false" DefUnhideWhenUsed="true"
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</style> <![endif]--> Today's creature on the road to oblivion is to the canine world, the sausage dog equivalent in the amphibian world, the humble salamander.<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4v5vaOUKfYhZV0E152pzBWvaP2gFjrYEBQ-WRnn_RPRSkek2oBHiv7J3PgK1Pv3CWWveLqnexM0IzyrFgGGwuoAb0m_NLkm08mVi3o8VKGnCH8JY4h8ZgnypjLYDYVs2O5j8l-n1hErpc/s1600/IMAG1470.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="119" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4v5vaOUKfYhZV0E152pzBWvaP2gFjrYEBQ-WRnn_RPRSkek2oBHiv7J3PgK1Pv3CWWveLqnexM0IzyrFgGGwuoAb0m_NLkm08mVi3o8VKGnCH8JY4h8ZgnypjLYDYVs2O5j8l-n1hErpc/s200/IMAG1470.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><br />
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</div>This engraving is a little larger that nearly all those I have done recently so there is room for a little more background detail. I have put my salamander where it might feel comfy, amongst some leaves.<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkPT0xWNfVxBnumfuFxvxFTIVjb3mQE4FbV2J6WvDKsXP9ZT-bugQ6FEMj6mraDMEpU_lMtsY_rhjY8QN-V5dCyyrG8hTv4WVxhBKoCzV-_Ah7Ad3CsQaFSaS7Yrdi5aEyxPGJVo-vcY_S/s1600/IMAG1475.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="190" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkPT0xWNfVxBnumfuFxvxFTIVjb3mQE4FbV2J6WvDKsXP9ZT-bugQ6FEMj6mraDMEpU_lMtsY_rhjY8QN-V5dCyyrG8hTv4WVxhBKoCzV-_Ah7Ad3CsQaFSaS7Yrdi5aEyxPGJVo-vcY_S/s320/IMAG1475.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />
<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Above, the cured engraving ready to DNA stain.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">It all looks nice & simple at the moment. Just wait for the colour. It will remain simple, as it should. </span></div>Kevinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01298749183919133167noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-333784583912016830.post-56489289098502456042012-02-21T17:09:00.000+00:002012-02-21T17:09:33.886+00:00Yangtze Sturgeon (part 2 - complete).<div style="text-align: center;">Do we mark the passing from life to extinction for the "Yangtze Sturgeon" in my finished engraving?</div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Checkout the bigger picture in the link below for the best view.</td></tr>
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">See the bigger picture (and see it framed) and read all about it <a href="http://www.kevinbramhill.com/kb0029.htm" target="_blank"><u>HERE</u></a>.</div>Kevinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01298749183919133167noreply@blogger.com0