update !

yeah two slideshows added to photo pages and myspace updated for another month, also started a war video but it's early days right now, been busy doing stuff lately, what can i say !

i'm serious !

If people do not consider being an artist a legitimate activity, and therefore do not take you seriously, they will not respect you, will not respect your work and will therefore not enable you to succeed. Instead they will undermine what you do and work against you. If you cannot change the mind of such people get away from them as fast as you can. Don't push the issue, just let them be. Seek people who understand what being an artist is about, people who respect you, take you seriously and are willing to help you.

It is also important that you do not feel guilty about being an artist, about your creative freedom, or about doing what you like instead of getting a "real" job. Being an artist is just as difficult as any other occupation, if not more difficult. There is nothing about it that makes one more privileged, or more fortunate, than if one had chosen another occupation. When someone tries to make you feel guilty it is nearly always because they are not happy doing what they are doing and hence jealous that you are doing what you like. This is a reflection of their choices, not of yours. There is no reason to feel guilty about having made the right choices for yourself. If anything, tell them to make different choices, to change their lives so they stop resenting what you do and start doing what they like, so they let you live your life without feeling the need to make you feel guilty about it.

yeah so what !

i've been busy, what else can i say, full on painting mostly, but other stuff aswell, like visiting people, and being visited by people, and going out to get photo's, and going out for supplies, and going out to eat, and sorting stuff out, and sorting stuff out for other people, and just being really busy, and some sleeping aswell somewhere along the journey and then i've invented something else completely, can't talk about it at all but it's quite amazing, watching TV aswell and movies and listening to music oh and today some cleaning of my studio which is gonna have to be finished tomorrow, and yeah tomorrow, another busy day, much to do, not just some of the time but all of the time, yeah it's all go, ain't got no time for the go slow !

yeah yeah yeah

right it's late saturday night and i've been busy all day, and all week as it goes, working on a top secret project for a start off and that's all i'm ever gonna say about it, finished off the second Christina Ricci painting this afternoon then went out in the sunshine to see if there were any photo's to be taken around and about and there was'nt, so, it was back home to continue to develop things and i'm pleased to say that deviantart is taking off, i've had over 3200 hits on myspace and the ddesign hub of info and work is now all linked up, i can now concentrate on new work and update everything as i go along, i've gathered a pretty good amount of work and there is plenty more to come, after i have slept that is !

deviantART linked to myspace !

yeah that's what i've done today, there is over 50 impressive images on deviantART with another 100 postcard designs to come, those will be available for print and though the money is not great it will come in handy, that's if any designs dell that is, you never know anyway, least it's out there which is the main thing, anyway it's looking good that's all i can say, i worked hard today and so was able to go visit a friend who is living in a flat with a stunning view overlooking the whole of Torbay, i was quite inspired and was glad i made the jounrney !

ddesigned again !

yeah i've been doing some new work based on some old stuff, complete redo's basically, different size and shape but using the same images, sometimes they take on a whole new look and more incredibly sometimes i get them looking just like the originals, anyway, these so called "specials" can be seen at deviantART, the new home of all my photo manipulations, i've put them in the catagory of surreal art, which is what i think it is, they are not what they first appear to be and this makes them surreal, and i quote "Salvador Dali never looked that good"

sunday !

oh yet another productive day and weekend now i come to think of it, in fact i've been well busy all the time, that's probably why i hav'nt found the time to write about it, things are developing, work is developing and ddesign is developing, i've been doing my research, i've been working on linking my many talents, my many different projects and my many different interests, linking them all up through myspace, that's just for now, i have bigger plans than that, but for now, myspace will serve me well, my visitors went over 3000 today and my friends is about to go over the 1000 mark, not bad for just a couple of months, i've also got some top secret projects on the go but as they are top secret i can say nothing about them, so i'll do just that, i'm saying nothing, so yeah as it stands, there is myspace, there is eblogger, there is deviantART and there is the saatchi gallery, let's see what happens this week, should be interesting !