Wild Game Hunting

Not sure whether this is a very good drawing? I seem to have rushed this and wasn't too concerned about proportions so I can't say I am too happy with the result. I even don't think the post production on the iPad worked. So as usual this has left me wondering how I could improve on things.

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Learning about paper

The other week I bought some cheap sketch pads an initially I thought I might have made a mistake. However, now I am using graphite and suddenly what appeared to be suspect paper seems to have come alive. Of course another reason could be 'user error' i.e. I'm the problem not the paper - which is likely. Anyway, whatever the cause for the earlier confusion I now love the paper and perhaps these were a bargain rather than a waste of money.

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Kate Moss

Graphite drawing processed through brushes and Photoshop - not a bad effect.

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Dead Man

Does this look like a dead man?

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Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition

Every year a lot of American sports TV seem to rave about the Sports Illustrated (SI) Swimsuit Edition.  Well this year I have taken the opportunity to but a copy and well to say I am underwhelmed is an understatement.  The women are uniformly beautiful and wholesome and the photography is perfectly competent.  However, the combination of the two creates something that is really uninteresting.   In an age of all access Internet photography this whole  concept seems so 1950's.  This is a shame as the place to go to see first class sports photography.  It also has been an innovator over the years and yet their idea of what make interesting  and dare I say it sexy beautiful photography is stuck so far in the past.  I have no idea why this.
 

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iPhoneography triptych

I am not sure whether this can be viewed very well on line but I have been working on the idea I had this morning for cutting up parts of an iPhonegraph.  This time I have a triptych out of the results.   Certainly making me think.

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Chopping up the iPhone

Well I have done it.  I have chopped up my iPhone.  Just kidding??  Actually what I have done is start to chop up iPhone photographs and then reassembled them.  I really like the results and it does open up whole new avenues of exploration of the photographic image.  Is this original, I doubt it, but it pleases me.
 

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Old Russian Man

I can't recall how the old man this is based on actually is - I based this on some one I saw on TV. I love drawing with a pen and then adding a tint by using Brushes. I think it works really well.

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Texture and the maelstrom

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Another variation

This is purely a digital image. I made an image with the iPhone in such a way as it distorted the new drawing I had made. This was then edited in Photoshop and Brushes to make a unique digital image based on a drawing I had just made.

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Oops - should have used pencil

Perhaps pen and ink was not the best thing to use or more likely I didn't really make best use of the equipment I had. Anyway, in the bleak mid winter at Dawn with, perhaps, a nearby volcano making the sky come a light.

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Doodling

Watching Mike Leigh talking to Tim Marlow at the cation museum and I thought I'd have a go at a cartoon.

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Creating a high dynamic range image.

Just created this image using a form of HDR .   This was created using only one image.  I tried this technique with an iPhone image and the result was very poor. 

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A digital landscape - very iterating

This is a truly hybrid creation - part live sketch, part digital manipulation. The sketch is pure fantasy that I drew whilst watching some art programme last night. The subject was Turner and suddenly I felt the need to sketch something. Now I am not for one moment claiming to but that make a 'Turner' but that this was inspired by his work. Actually it would be more accurate to say I was inspired by Paul Nash - but that is another story.

Having slept on work this morning I decided to digitally manipulate the result by first making an image with my iPhone, then transferring it to the iPad and finally manipulating the resultant image by using a combination of Photoshop and Brushes. The result is a totally new work, one that is far more interesting than the original, actually the spell check had corrected my original spelling of interesting to iterating and I suppose that actually is really good description of how the image was made. Welcome to the world of digital iteration.

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Playing around with Corfe Castle

I bought three cheap sketch books the other day and initially I thought I had made a big mistake - it really wasn't that good for portrait drawing, or at least I couldn't make it work. However, I have discovered that it is ideal for less delicate work - in this case playing around with pastels and the like. In the digital image made from the sketches the colour has been depended and made more intense - which is an interesting idea for the real drawings. However this is just playing around so. May not take it any further.

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Just messing about

Well I am on anti booties at the moment and feeling a bit and the weather so I don't really feel up to anything more serious that just messing about with Brushes.

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It is done!

After weeks of soul search and procrastination I have done it - I have published my 2010 portfolio  of photographs.  Last year I was really concerned about including some of the text from my blog - not this year.  Instead I have only included the photographs - the blog entries can float about in the ether.  I really don't think my mindless ramblings are that important - certainly not important enough to save them in a book anyway.

So it is all about the photographs.  I wondered whether to include one or two digital art works I have created but rejected this.  I want this book to reflect my photography.

Well if you want to take a look at the book, why not buy it makes a perfect birthday gift (ha ha), then just click on the link and you will see last year's work in all its glory?
 

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Big game hunting

Over the next day or so I am going to be working on this drawing of an elephant. This is just the first outline which might have a hint of Disney at the moment. It will be interesting to record my progress as I do battle with the drawing. Let's hope the best man wins.

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Messing about with Leo

It is a while since I tried to make some animal drawings and I think I can see the difference. In the past I was happy with a rough likeness now I want it to be more accurate whilst at same time to try and reflect my reaction to the photograph. Some time ago I blogged about some artist who was making a perfect copy of a photograph - I just couldn't see the point. These words have come back to haunt me because what am I doing but making a drawing from a photograph. I hope that this is more than a just a copy, which of course it isn't because I have heavenly cropped the original photograph. This gives the drawing a totally different life to the photograph.

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When will I feel better?

I am getting really bored with this virus/bug thing I seem to be suffering from.  It started back in September and has hung around for months.  It comes and goes but I just don't seem to be able to shake it.  Over the past two weeks i have been feeling really great and getting some worth while, by my standard, work outs on the exercise bike.  However, by Wednesday of this week I was really starting to feel the effects of the bug again.  By Friday I was really under the weather.   The good news is that I am now starting to feel a little better so lets hope that I can have a week or two with this, whatever it might be.

Today I decided to experiment with soft pastels and to be honest it was a disaster - well in the morning anyway.  I tried to 'paint' with the pastels and really got nowhere. (see photo #1) I suspect I need to read the books again and work on something a little simpler.   Just before I gave up this morning I turned the paper over and tried again.   This time I just went for it and attacked the paper with pastel and charcoal.  I just left this feeling down cast.   This evening I went to clear up and suddenly the drawing seemed to come alive.  I attacked it with vigour, just letting myself go with the pastel and suddenly a very interesting drawing was born.  I am not sure what lessons I have learnt from today just yet, I need time to mull things over, but I feel the second drawing has real promise.   Strange how leaving something for a few hours helps clear you head.
 

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Playing with light, shade and digital manipulation.

Yesterday I bought a new sketch book that had black paper instead of white. The idea was to try and work with white and yellow rather than the usual shades of grey of graphite. This is o e of the first images I produced. I then thought it might be an idea to process this further using Brushes and Photoshop on the iPad - the I age first being captured by my iPhone. So the question is this - just what exactly have I produced? Is it a photograph or drawing or neither or both? I know this is far from an original question but the availability of more and more powerful digital manipulative technology so easily available, note that no PC, Mac or Laptop was used in the production, that we are now reaching a point of maturity in the application of technology that none of the o.d rules apply at all. The image has made subtle changes as a result of the different technologies applied along the way. Oh it was so much more clear cut 10 or so years ago when film was still king. A drawing was a drawing and a photograph of the drawing was just that rather than taking a life of it's own. Simpler times?

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In the corner with Vincent

What an exhausting day I had yesterday.  However, it was a good type of exhausting as I spent the day in London with my friend David.  We started off at the British museum and the excellent '...Picasso to Julie Mehretu - modern drawing...' exhibition.  

We then made our way to the Courtauld Gallery to OD on impressionist brilliance.  Actually the Courtauld is so much more and yet it maintains a very intimate feel, as well as being far too hot.   This is where I cam across these two women.  Initially they were deep in conversation totally oblivious to one of the masterpieces of west art just feet away from them.  It was only when the man joined them that they seemed to notice the painting on the wall.  Aren't people wonderful!
 

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Slowly making our way to London

So we are somewhere outside London.

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New Year's resolution working a treat!

As you can see my New Year's resolution is coming on nicely. I have not felt this good in a long time - really feel I am getting some definition and things are looking pretty good. Oh and the exercise I am doings having it's effect as well - some day I might have a body like this - fat chance!

One of my New Year's resolution was to try and make better drawings of the human form - I started this at the end of last year with the female form and now it is the turn of the men. The photo I used wasn't as well proportioned as this drawing, well I think it is better - more body builder than this classical torso and I feel I have been able to correct this. This, after all, is one of the fun things about drawing. Off to London tomorrow to OD on art - usual come back exhausted but inspired.

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Working with light and shade

Just made this drawing as an exercise in light and shade - interesting first attempt.

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Hockney driving

A quick sketch based on something I've just seen on the tv.

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Lenora Crichlow - boy was she hard work!

Before there is any misunderstandings I have no idea what the actress Lenora Crichlow is like. I am sure she is a perfectly nice person. However, when it comes to drawing her it has been a real pain. Earlier this week I made a reasonable stab at capturing her using Brushes but after that I just seem to loose my ability to make a likeness of her. This was really frustrating. It was there somewhere but could I find it.

Rescue was on hand. As a I mentioned in a previous post I reverted back to basics and bang the skill came rushing back. This afternoon I decided to put this to the test with Lenora and thankfully I was able to pass. The sense of relief and satisfaction is well I can't think of the word but whatever it is that is it.

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An hour of my life

This is how long this took me to draw. I have been having a mini crises over the past day or so - I just couldn't seem to make a likeness of the person I was trying to draw. My skill had evaporated. However last night I seem to have relocated it by, well there is no easy way to say this, looking and then looking some more and checking and finally I seem to have rediscovered the ability to draw.

Now I am sure much more experienced artists will laugh at this but I did feel for a few hours that I had lost it. This being said I did discover new ways of portraying the face which are really quite interesting so perhaps it wasn't a total waste of time.

If you are interested this the actress Fiona Shaw.

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Happy 1st Birthday, iPad

How time flies past...one year old and something that has changed the way I run my life.  Now that is some sort of endorsement.

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Walking through Jumanji

Last week and friend I spent some time in Oxford.  We visited the Ashmolean, which is a revelation in itself and well worth another visit.  However, the main point of the visit was to visit the Pitt Rivers museum to see a really interesting exhibition of the photography of Wilfred Thesiger in Africa which reflects his many visits to many parts of Africa.  Both of these would be a star of any other visit but they pale when compared to the main collection hall of the Pitt Rivers.  Many people  have written many words about the '...Victorian Displays...' of the objects.  My own reaction was to think of the film Jumanji.  It had that strange jumble effect of the film - you just don't know what you will find when walk around the next corner of densely packed glass display cabinets.   

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Work in progress

Well I don't seem to have screwed things up too much so far - early days yet!

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If David Hockney can do it why can't I?

What a stupid question. There is a million reason why David Hockney can make drawings and paintings that I can't - if ever there was a truism this is it. Yet this has inspired me to have another serious attempt at making another drawing using Brushes - I just saw what Hockney could do with the iPad - perhaps I was missing something. And it turns out that I was - the will to approach the medium sensibly and forget about the detached feeling I now get from drawing using the iPad.

And you know what I seem to be able to make a reasonable stab at a a likeness - this is far from finished but it does mark an interesting first step. I wonder how I can screw this up over the next day or so? Only time will tell.

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An experiment in getting my hands dirty

I've been messing around with oil pastels this afternoon as part of a first step into painting. I have played around with these before but now I am going to seriously work on this. Let's hope that after a couple of months I am able to produce better results than this experiment - time will tell.

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In bed with Tracy Emmins - a fine minute sketch

Not really. But a strange thing has happened to me - a 2001 moment. Suddenly, I understand what the jaw bone can be used for - perhaps Saul on the road to Damascus? Well forget all this hyperbole and frankly ridicules self engrandisment What the he'll am I talking about?

Yesterday I went to the Ashmolian in Oxford and saw some exceptional work of art. Somehow I felt effected by them. When I got home I sat down in front of the TV to try and catch up with all the programmes I had recorded. As I did this I started to sketch the people I say on the screen. Slowly I started to draw them in a different way - something I had never done before. I have no idea why I did is but suddenly I was able to make really good likenesses of people with little or no effort. Sketch after sketch just seemed to come together in moments. I have no explanation for this and I am now frightened that this is just a passing phase and I will soon drop out of the zone - god bless mental health! But while it is lasting it is wonderful.

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Doing a de Vinci

Oh Chiaroscuro how interesting you make a drawing.   I am starting to work on a drawing of three Russian men.  It is based on three unknown men I saw on TV the other day who just seemed so full of sorrow and power.   I have been too frightened to start and so I have been looking at a photo I captured of the three for a couple of days.  It is really quite a complicated image and to be truthful I am not sure I will be able to make it.  However, any journey starts with the first step and so I have made a couple of preparatory sketches for two reasons.  The first is try and get something down on paper and the second to actually work through the problems created by this project.  I suppose these represent either side of my brain, the emotional and the rational. 

This is one of the sketches and it was essentially an experiment in Chiaroscuro.  Much to my surprise it worked out really quite well.  Now I am starting to wonder if I should just concentrate on each man on their own?  I'm not sure at the moment but I have to say it is a fascinating problem to address.  I wonder of de Vinci had these problems?

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King Kenny's eyes

Over the past week I seem to have been sketching faces I see on TV. One of these was Kenny Dalglish. Yesterday I decided to make a more in depth study of Liverpool's best player of the last 40 or so years. This took me over a day of working and reworking but eventually I captured a likeness that I found acceptable. I have now started to work with colour in my drawings, introducing it were it is required. Here I have coloured his eyes and this seems to add to the work - capturing Dalglish's hawk like eyes.

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Decaying Hastings

Good it has been a tiring day.  Up at 4am, out on the road at 5am, over 400 miles in one day and some fresh winter sea air.  I'm knackered!   By the time I got to Winchelsea the light was going and my creative juices were no longer flowing.   Anyway had a very interesting in old Hastings.  The rest of Hastings seemed to be slowly decaying into the English channel - however a cold and bleak winter's day is not the best time to see an English seaside town so I think it is fair to give Hastings the benefit of the doubt.

I decided to take my G10 instead of anything bigger and this produced a mixed bag of photographs - oh how I wish Canon hadn't upped the Pixel count on this camera - anything above 200 ISO and you are starting to struggle to produce anything usable.  The later incarnations of this camera have had their pixel count reduced - a sensible step towards usability.

Played around the iPhone on the way down and I will work on these over the next day or so when I have recovered.  Not long before I am in bed!
 

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On the road again.

Early start this morning - out of the house before 5am! Going to just outside Hastings with friend who needs to get some camera gear fixed. After this we are going to Winchelsea to see what it is like - hopefully capture some interesting details.

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Hubris - well I am not so sure

Hubris is such a great learning tool. The other day I was so pleased with myself when I thought I had captured Scarlet Johansson's likeness. On reflection I hadn't or at least to my satisfaction. Hubris. However, this made me have another attempt and again not quite right. This was getting frustrating and then I took. Step back and looked again at what I had produced and suddenly it struck me that, whilst they weren't likenesses they were nonetheless very good drawings. The woman in this drawing has a beauty that Johansson doesn't. This isn't to down play the actress but rather to say that she has inspired me to produce something beautiful and in the end that is more important than any false pursuit of a likeness that is false.

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My new toy - thank you google

I have just down loaded the google app for the iPad and to my great joy it has a voice search facility. As with all these application they either work brilliantly or very badly. I have just tried to search for the '...artist Ingres...'. This was too much for the system and it came up with some wonderful options - including 'Jobs in breast' ( the mind boggles). So thank you Google for your new toy, it is much appreciated.

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Another stab at Scarlet

Had another go at trying to make a likeness of Scarlett Johansson and this time I think I might have got it a bit better.

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Doing a Vermeer

I was watching the Girl with the Pearl Earring last night and it inspired me to run off a sketch of the said woman. Initially I wanted to make it a likeness of Scarlett Johansson but this quickly got away from me and as I tried to recover this another woman started to appear who seemed to fit the requirements much better so I went with her. It really is hard this art business, one moment things are working out just right and then the next bang! The whole thing goes wrong. You just have to have faith that you will be able to pull it off in the end.

My art classes start again next week and it will be interesting to see who returns from last year. It will also be interesting to see what they have made, if anything, over the Christmas break. I feel I have moved to the next level, whatever that might be, over this time. Another few months of this and I think I might be ready to take the next leap - painting. Now that will be fun???

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From the freezer

Thankfully we are back into a more normal, whatever that might mean, winter and for now the frozen tundra has gone away.  However, it looks like it may well return over the next few days.  So here are a couple of photos I made during the last ice age!
 

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Pastels

More experimentation. I can now make an acceptable likeness of my father - well at least the last two drawings are turning out like him so based on this I have decided that the aforementioned fact is correct. So much for statistics!

Given this I have decided to work on what the final production will look like. One idea is to make it with pastels so this is what I have been trying out. I have discovered a technique that seems to suit me at the moment. I make the drawing with pencil then shade it using Letraset promarkers (note to Amazon my new order of these has yet to turn up - whine & whinge!). Finally I work on the drawing with pastels. These I blend and rub out and apply and so on until I finish up with something interesting - I find it interesting and really that is all that matters at the moment. The whole process takes about an hour or so but I sully take a break in the middle to give me time to get some prospective on the drawing. Quite an interesting image emerges from the whole process and this is yet another idea to add to the others I have had whilst developing the project. I must admit I am finding whole thing fascinating. The rest of the day I have been working through my photographs. I had cut the selection down to around 60 but then found some more I had missed so I am back to around 80. My target is between 40 - 50 so some serious soul searching is to be had. Deep joy.

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Working with my father

Well the New Year is well under way. People are going back to work - oh how I am glad I no longer have to do that! All we need now is for schools to go back and we will be back to normality. So what I have I been doing? Well most of the morning I have been working on the year book. Looking back at a whole year's work it makes one realise how one's life can change. In the afternoon I started working on another sketch of my father. I hadn't done anything for a couple of days and thought it would be worth while going back to work on him. What a different a couple of days makes. Now I am starting to really understand the face and relating what I remember to the photograph I am working on. I guess this comes from working the problem, not that my father is or was a problem. Well he was but then we all are in our own way.

The photograph here had a lot more contrast than the drawing which in itself is very interesting as it gives me new ideas and possibilities. Funny how life works out.

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Another year over and a new one just begun...

So that was 2010 and what a year it has been.  I started off with grand plans which I have set out at length in this blog only to find by the end of the year my life has gone in a totally different direction - I have no idea how this new year will end up - rather exciting isn't it.  Anyway, the reason for all this reflection is that I am starting to think about my 2010 year book.   I started this last year after threatening to do this for a number of years.  It is an interesting way to reflect on the year just past and to create something tangible to hold and keep rather than all these digital files.

So where to start?  Well I have around 700 images to work through and select the 50 that will go into the book.  I will then select the most relevant blog entries from the last 12 months to produce as complete record as I can.  One decision I have made already is that I will not include any of my drawings.  whilst this is a year book I am going to keep it as a photographic one.  This may well change but not this year.   Let the sifting and selecting begin.
 

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Web Site Blues...

I have just spent sometime trying to set up one of my friends new web site only to fail miserably.  I have no idea why it won't work but I suspect the 'free service' is little more than a con (perhaps I am being unfair on the unnamed company as this may all be user error.  If this is the case then their set up process is crap!)

This made me re visit my site and I have made one or two more tweaks.  The first I linked the site to my Posterous blog instead on the Blogspot version.  I have also introduced better integration from the Posterous blog and the web site.   The final thing I have done is posted a new intro photo.  All this took about 15 minutes which reinforces my view expressed above.
 

Simon Marchini LRPS

Web: http://WWW.simonmarchini.co.uk

Blog: http://simonmarchini.posterous.com/

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Our carriers have proven over time to offer a very efficient and reliable service. However...

Whinge, Whinge Whinge.   That's what I feel like doing.  The Royal Mail has yet again proven that they are not able to deliver items on time.   I have placed an order with Amazon and they have been up front about the problems they are having with the postal service.  Interestingly, they only use Royal Mail if the order was placed in the morning, if you place an order in the afternoon they use a private carrier and guess what - the is delivered on time.  I think there is a lesson there somewhere.   Here endth the whinge.
 

Simon Marchini LRPS

Web: http://WWW.simonmarchini.co.uk

Blog: http://simonmarchini.posterous.com/

Fotos:http://www.flickr.com/photos/Guthlac

Twitter: http://twitter.com/@simonmarchini

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