Martin, Poppy and Daniel live in Surrey. They like cats and funny or kitschy stuff. This blog has been dormant for ages. New stuff might be about to happen.
There are some rather cool props, costume and set pictures of the forthcoming Lord of the Rings movie, over at The One Ring.net. Some of them have an obsessive amount of detail on them, like a section of wall from the mines of Moria, with dwarven runes inscribed. Apparently (yes, some nutters study these things) it actually says fairly dwarven things too... "we will hew them out of rock and make lead and mithril and mighty axes under the ground blah blah blah" I suppose.
Well, what do you think dwarves talk about?
posted by mart 11:52 AM ~
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The new issue of Teknidermy was out yesterday. There's loads of cool stuff in there this month, a cool interview with gorman, news about Pixtudio and loads more excellent stuff. I'll be writing a Nextstart article for the next issue, with a free exclusive theme...
posted by mart 11:44 AM ~
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Wednesday, October 31, 2001
Oooh just heard from one of my cousins... check out her boyf's site. Lots of groovy products he has designed. ANd I just spotted that the portable fender PA system is something I used only last month when a visiting lecturer brought one in to work, and I went. "oooh, that's cool."
posted by mart 9:15 AM ~
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Tuesday, October 30, 2001
Woah... check out this amazing photo that got "Daily Deviation" at deviantART today.
It's a close up of an eye, with a visible reflection of the photo being taken in the iris... be sure to click on the Full View link for the full details (it's a big piccie, so be prepared for a wait....)
posted by mart 2:19 PM ~
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Monday, October 29, 2001
Another hard day at the office, and quiet evening as Martin is out playing with his mates tonight. Some days I love my job, and some days I don't. Occasionally I think of doing things like this or this instead.
posted by poppy 9:06 PM ~
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wooo fixed the archives!
check out old stuff down below...
Glad to see the wife is as resourceful as ever.
posted by mart 12:27 PM ~
Pooh. forgot megan's birthday. Once again, I deserve the worst family member of the year award. Sorry Meg if you're reading this :( Oh, you might want to check out this site for a blast from the past...
posted by mart 3:56 PM ~
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Martin: Guess what?
Poppy: What?
Martin: We're going to see Lamb tonight!
Poppy: *sigh* I know.
So went the conversation for most of yesterday. Well, I have to say, they were absolutely fantastic, fantastic live electric double bass, and live guitar and drums, with all sorts of visuals going on, including a freaky regular close up of Andy's head...
Like I said, I thought I was going to be disspointed cos I was getting so excited about it, but they really did rock, quite spectacularly... Andy is a bit crazy, a real crowd-motivator, and seeing the whole crowd dancing to the final song of the first set was quite amazing.
Bristol Anson rooms, however is not really the best venue... it's narrow and deep, like a school hall, and the acoustics aren't great, though the engineers did a good job. Also they had one person serving at their meagre bar, or you could take a risk at the full on, seventeen-people-deep SU bar...
The support were pretty good too, with some truly excellent scratching, unfortuntely, I didn't catch their name...
They've added a messageboard at the site whih is pretty nifty, though the way it threads is not really conducive to carrying on conversations... still it's not a conversation board is it?
posted by mart 3:41 PM ~
