You want splendid, this will be splendid:
A video game of the day trip to Brighton board game ("BN1") is in the works...
I'd like my copy now please!
Monday, 31 December 2012
Saturday, 10 November 2012
A great T design
My youngest, Isabella (9) has made this for a T-shirt design.
I think it's great, I would like one!
And here's a close up...
Well done Isabella.
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. http://mobro.co/kevinbramhill
Thank you!
Tuesday, 28 August 2012
Location 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.
Here is the view as it is now(ish) cropped from a Google Street View:
Here is the painting (naive style of course) done in circa 1934:
You can read more about Ivy Langton HERE.
Here is the view as it is now(ish) cropped from a Google Street View:
Here is the painting (naive style of course) done in circa 1934:
You can read more about Ivy Langton HERE.
Monday, 13 August 2012
Kurt 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...
As you may know, Kurt Seligmann was a Swiss-American Surrealist painter and engraver.
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.
If you like your surreal art and have any comments I would be delighted to hear them.
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!):
As you may know, Kurt Seligmann was a Swiss-American Surrealist painter and engraver.
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.
If you like your surreal art and have any comments I would be delighted to hear them.
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!):
Saturday, 21 July 2012
Vivobarefoot Ultras vs Neo
I have been running in the VivoBarefoot Neo shoes for quite a while now. Here they are:
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 Mesh", 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:
There is a different texture to the upper of this "Mesh" version. It's LESS mesh like! The rest of the shoe seems the same.
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.
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:
Above you can see the bootie bit (middle) out of one shoe (top) and in the other shoe (bottom).
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 Mesh", 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:
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.
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:
Above you can see the bootie bit (middle) out of one shoe (top) and in the other shoe (bottom).
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.
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.
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.
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.
Monday, 9 July 2012
New Book: "Running Desperado" - 2nd edition
I 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.
Thursday, 21 June 2012
A new book
Well books are art, just of a different kind. Today I put my first book on Amazon for the Kindle. You don't need a Kindle to read the book, you can just download a Kindle "reader" for your PC/MAC/Phone.
If you like fairly detailed things about running or exercise then this could be something that you enjoy:
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.
If you like fairly detailed things about running or exercise then this could be something that you enjoy:
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.
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