Amazon’s Kindle Fire: A tablet... (thenextweb.com).

This is an interesting comparison between the the iPad and the Kindle.   I guess the killer app with all these things is iTunes / Amazon.   This means seamless shopping - especially as they are now enveloping cloud computing.   

Can't wait to see what the iPad 3 looks like.

Amazon’s Kindle Fire: A tablet more dangerous to Android than iPad
http://thenextweb.com/mobile/2011/09/29/amazons-kindle-fire-a-tablet-more-dangerous-to-android-than-ipad/?awesm=tnw.to_1B3I8

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Work in progress

I'm taking a breather from my latest drawing of the latest model at the portrait drawing course I am attending. I find the conditions in the classroom less than conducive to producing my best work - too many people and interruptions and if truth be known not enough time to really get stuck into producing something interesting. So I work in the class but also make some photographs that I can refer to after the class. Another thing you don't get in the class is time to take a breather and look at what you have produced - although I suspect that is more to do with me than the constraints of the class. Now to put the kettle on and then scream when I see all the faults I have yet to address.

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Another Version

Here's one I made earlier - this one is more of a likeness I suppose.

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Book Published

A day late but I have now published my latest book.  If you wish to view it then go to:

http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/invited/2004849/2f1f67de3a042317ae788b1a825fd7f2ac07873f
 

Simon Marchini 

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I ain't no Einstein

Over the past few weeks I have become more interested in tone rather than likeness. I have been told many times that the mind creates an image and in many ways the more you leave out the better for the mind. So I have been looking at shapes and tones within the face and their relationship to one another than striving for a likeness. This has been a very frustrating week so far for me. I started my new art course this week and the work I produced there was appalling. I spent much of Tuesday trying to exercise the frustration built up which fortunately I was able to do. In the process I reexamined a book I had bought some time ago discussing the power of tonal value in a drawing - especially when trying to capture the likeness. As with many things in life some of it made sense and others I will have to think about but there is no doubt that may development is starting to move in new directions. One final thing. I have completed my latest photo book - this time of my drawings. Today I intend to send it to Blurb to publish - lets hope it works out ok.

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Remembering times past and futures to come

It is so strange to hear cutting edge programmes from the past discussing the future and realising that no one really has any idea what is going to happen over the long term. I was listening to a podcast from the archive of In Our Time, one of my favourite radio programmes. This one dated back to early 2000 and was discussing the future of information technology. Bragg was talking to two people who had just written a book on the subject, one with a pessimistic view of the future and one with an optimistic one. The most striking thing was that neither understood how the world would change over the next ten years. One example illustrates this:
In 2000 200 million people had a computer. Now over 500 million people are a member of Facebook alone - something that wouldn't come along for another 3 half years. Neither even mentioned the new driving force in information technology - mobile access to the internet/communication.

So what to draw from all this? Well I suppose the only thing is to realise is that when someone says that something is bound to happen you have just as much chance the opposite happening - a really good example is the latest 'rouge' trader. Banks would have us believe that all their bad habits are in the past and then guess what - they're not - yet we still listen to these people.

That felt better. Anyway, why the drawing of Dominic West? Well last week he portrayed a really evil man - Fred West (no relation to Dominic) - and as I was drawing this this morning something struck me. You might never be able to predict the future with any degree of certainty but you can always be sure that there will be evil in the world. Now there is a gloomy thought to end on.

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Baby you're a rich man

Having just watched The Social Network again I can't get 'Baby you're a rich man' by the Beatles out of my head, in fact it is playing at the moment as I am typing this. Anyway, a question for Facebook - why haven't you developed an ipad app yet? I have the iphone app but this is really clunky when using the ipad.

Anyway, the drawing...just did this by eye rather than using the Colestream method..I like it...hope someone else might.

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Cartoon Drawing

I thought I would try to be a little freer with my drawing today so I tried to make a cartoon sketch - it is harder than i thought.

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Untitled - No Hash Mark

As I came to write this I have discovered that the Apple keyboard doesn't have a hash mark key. I am sure that there must be a way of creating such a mark but I am not aware of that at the moment . Interesting.

The reason why I have called this Untitled is that I am currently working on my next book entitled Untitled. This is the default heading for all drawings etc created in Brushes and I thought I would use this. The book will be a collection of digital images of my drawings created by using the iPhone, iPad and Brushes. I find the process interesting because it is a away to measure my development over the past 12 months. Hopefully it will be completed in a week or so. As they say...watch this space...

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Russian people

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