Today we went to one of our fave indoor places in Yorkshire. Salts Mill, Saltaire in Shipley. Titus Salt who built the place in the middle of the 1800s was quite an amazing fella. Whilst a lot of his contemporaries were…
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Bagged a bargainSo - this keyboard (an eKit Bluetooth Keyboard) feels great to type on. Being a trained (but bad habited) touch typist, I'm quite fussy about keyboards. I'm currently reposing in bed, typing this blog on the new…
- Desert Island Dish
Just before tea time yesterday, the most torrential downpour I've seen in years took place. Incredible volume and incredible volumes. Cue ark graphics on a weather chart type proportions. Not to be put off by 'a bit' of…
Benefit show for SkateistanWe went to a leaving do in Leeds last night. Another never before experienced format of an evening for us; a benefit gig and art auction raffle for a skateboard based charity. Wharfe Chambers - the utterly unique venue…
New Adventures in Web Design 2013[ I'm going to dive straight into this whilst it's still very fresh in my head.. The short version : New Adventures in Web Design was a brilliant. The slightly* longer version: I see web people. 400 of them in Albert…
Workshop and test shotsHad the fortune of having a drink with these guys last night ; Greg and Colly, event organisers for the New Adventures in Web Design conference that I'm at. Colly (head honcho, no glasses) seemed quite pleased with the…
DragonFly Tattoo EP LaunchThere's one constant quality of art that's hard to describe. Originality. There isn't a readily available frame of reference because no one has done what they are doing before. This can either mean original 'crap',…
- Way back when...
[[1-Projects/DragonDrop-Adventures/posts/2003/2003-01-15-204|As this blog post reports]], my son Felix started school 10 years ago today. He's changed a fair bit since this blogs started. So has pretty much everything…
Procrastination Elf and the Final VersionAbout 3 years ago, [[1-Projects/DragonDrop-Adventures/posts/2010/2010-01-31-id-become-curious-with-the-phrase-life-hacking|I'd become curious with the phrase 'Life Hacking']]. My life is pretty full, what with nearly 4…
RIFE RADIOSo, I've had this project bubbling away for a few months now. Myself and a friend DJ a weekly radio show. I've not talked about it at all on DragonDrop so far. I guess I'd been waiting till it hit critical mass -…
KTHNXBAI 2012, oh HAI 2013!Thumbnails from my instagram faves set on flickr What a year it's been. Sometime around this time of year I get a bit reflective and retrospective. I did exactly 10 years ago today anyway, in a post entitled…
Christmas kick-offThere's always the rhetoric around this time of year that Christmas has lost its magic and that it has gotten far too commercial for its own good. I must admit, that compared to when I was a kid (and Christmas was the…
LadyfingersWe were lucky enough to be invited to the UK premier of what turned out to be a funny, heart warming short film called Ladyfingers. The venue was fascinating; The Wharfe Chambers in Leeds. Stories of_ moles going…
But is it art?Yesterday, I fancied a beach walk. Bridlington, on the East Coast of Yorkshire was the destination I plumped for, so having suitably enthused my family, off we set. We parked at a spot about 2 and a half miles south of…
Uship reviewuShip potential customers - beware. We recently contacted a service provider through a service called uShip . The concept of Uship seemed really good - a real dragons den of an idea - in essence, service providers…