Owl on April 16th, 2010

Julia Kay, originally uploaded by purple0wl. If you’re keen on painting portraits, you’ll never be short of a model at Julia’s Portrait Party. Flickr groups, as far as I know, are all free to join, and this portrait group is a splendid opportunity. Post up a photo of yourself for others to paint, and lo [...]

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Owl on December 30th, 2009

iPhone Painting, originally uploaded by purple0wl. I was just lounging in front of the TV watching someone talking about the news. I started to caricature him on my iphone in a new drawing app called Vellum …only to find he had disappeared and it was another face I was drawing. Cut to an hour or [...]

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Owl on October 31st, 2008

How’s your memory for faces? The other day I realised something about the way I call up mental images of friends and relations. I was quite surprised. I wonder if your memory cheats on you the same way mine does. One thing is almost certain. Considering the number of faces there are in the world, [...]

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Owl on October 18th, 2008

Can your camera phone take videos as well as stills? These days most camera phones can. The iPhone can’t. Is that a glaring omission? Are stills really out of date? A huge amount is packed into the iPhone. Perhaps there’s no room for a movie camera. Hmm. Other phone camera makers cheerfully stuff in more [...]

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