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A new acquisition - the Beatles by the great John Byrne, I couldn’t find a print anywhere so settled for this 1980 album cover. 🎶

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Saturday night #sonicdoodle in #flstudiomobile while Mrs C was in a #CAKECOMA 🍰💤💤💤 - really liking the new FL Studio Mobile filters.

#sonicdoodle #flstudiomobile #musicmaking #songwriting

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01.03.24

white blossom in trees/ rain turning to hail/ - first day of Spring

#micropoetry #poetry

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01.03.24

between showers/ - a rainbow/ in the water jug

#micropoetry #poetry

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Lo-fi rainbow missing some colours.

#lofiphotography #photography

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‘Nomad Sculpt for Beginners’ by SouthernGFX (YouTube) - Sessions 4, 5 & 6 - I really enjoyed these tutorials, I think I’ll probably be signing up to do some more. I’m very impressed with Nomad Sculpt, amazing value for £14… 🎻 I think back to the late 90’s trying to learn how to use 3d Studio Max on a crashy Windows 95 machine and getting no where. 🎻

Anyway, as my vocal cords have now recovered from Christmas-covid and the following month of coughing and spluttering I’m going to get back to vocal recording. I’ve now got a good idea how to approach making music vids and I’m fairly confident I can make myself an augmented reality spacesuit. I’d quite like to get this album done before everything goes Riddley Walker. 👍

#nomadsculpt #southerngfx

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22.02.24

yawns/ along the hospital corridor/ are contagious

#micropoetry #poetry #mask-ON

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‘Nomad Sculpt for Beginners’ by southerngfx (YouTube) - session 3 - made good progress with the hand this afternoon after taking an age applying a hessian texture to yesterday’s body. 👍🫲🤚🫱

#nomadsculpt #southerngfx

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‘Nomad Sculpt for Beginners’ by southerngfx (YouTube) - session 2 - where did the day go!

#nomadsculpt #southerngfx #3d

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Have been enjoying going through an excellent series of tutorials by southerngfx today on YouTube: ‘Nomad Sculpt for Beginners’.

I can see 3d modelling being quite addictive…

#nomadsculpt #southerngfx

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In my quest to rapidly produce music videos to go along with my tunes, this week I’ve been looking at augmented reality, and I think I’ve now figured out a process that will work - just need to *quickly* learn how to use a 3d package - task number 1 is to make myself a spacesuit. Here’s my first effort with Nomad Sculpt this evening, it looks like a great bit of software, just hoping it doesn’t get too mind boggling.

#nomadsculpt #musicmaking #3d

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10.02.24

after the rain/ floodwater fills the field/ with sunset

#micropoetry

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09.02.24

sudden downpour -/ workmen leave/ a steaming path

#micropoetry

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08.02.24

school run traffic jam -/ car honks/ and the patter of rain

#micropoetry

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Doodling + hairy-hand-cross-hatching-fails in the back of the sketchbook with 3 new biros (Bic Cristal Fine wins) + jottings for a passive aggressive micropoem about neighbours calling out for their cat at 2:30am. Meow.

#sketchbook #passiveaggressivemicropoetry

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Sketch break between episodes of The Expanse, trying out a new Pentel Fude brush pen (with buckets of correction fluid!) - not Moleskin friendly… aside from missing a foot I’ve also shortened Mrs C’s torso by a foot.

#sketchbook #notebook #brushpen #correctionfluidgalore

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A small grouping of thumbnail sized folk lurking between the lines. Just testing how the Kuretake Zig Brush pens and biro get along on the thin Moleskin paper.

#sketchbook #notebook #doodle