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  • The State of McArt

    I was finishing off some artwork when I came across a clipping from a newspaper I picked up on my travels in America. After a bit of researching I found out it was an article written by from the California Herald. Here’s an extract: It’s painfully obvious it’s not about talent anymore, in the…

  • CV Dilema

    I was at the pub today with Vickie Wood of CECI, discussing the next performance, when I thought I’d bring up the question about how to mention the previous performance on my CV. Do I say that I worked with CECI, as part of CECI, collaborated with, performed with or as part of or…

  • Freelancing

    I’ve been in the freelancing game for about 7 months now and one of the major problems I’ve found is in managing my time effectively. It’s so easy to just do nothing all day and frantically rush around trying to do too much in the evening. This is why I’m attempting to map out…

  • The Pyramid Stage

    The Pyramid Stage, originally uploaded by hellocatfood. I was at Glastonbury Festival lat week volunteering with Oxfam. When not on my shift watching as people got searched I saw these bands: Thursday King Blues Friday Ben Folds Fun Lovin’ Criminals A little bit of Fatboy Slim Ozomatli Saturday A little bit of Massive Attack…

  • Milkyway at NGA

    Chris Hodson’s work, originally uploaded by hellocatfood. On Tuesday I was at the NGA event at the Q club. I could review the work, which was all very good, especially this work by Chris Hodson (who also has a blog about his work and is a member of B-VAC), but instead I’ll talk a…

  • Thanks and praise to Flying Start

    Last week myself and others were invited to talk to someone from Ofsted about the Flying Start course. For those who don’t already know what it is, here’s the blurb: An accredited training scheme for artists – working in any art form – who want to gain workshop planning and delivery skills and experience…

  • Damn Small Linux

    Late last year, after having numerous troubles with my computer (which resulted in me losing lots of my work) I decided to try out Ubuntu Linux distro. I had a few old computers in the house, but Ubuntu wouldn’t install on any of them! I was royally annoyed! After going to Brumcon 07.5 today…

  • WordPress Theme Development

    I’ve finally updated to WordPress 2.5. Great looking interface! On a similar note I’ve finally decided that I’m going to develop my own WordPress theme. Although I have a bit of knowledge when it comes to CSS and PHP I’m not really clued up on the structure of WordPress, so have always avoided it.…

  • Rebooting

    These last three months have been the most exciting, scary and interesting months of the last few years. I’ve gone from being a student who was shoved out into the real world only to be unemployed for six months to now having steady income, lots of interesting friends and a load of upcoming interesting…

  • Gameboy

    .flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Gameboy, originally uploaded by hellocatfood. It’s surprising how hard it is to win a Gameboy from ebay. Nearly everyone wants one and because they’re usually sold in a bundle with…