Cute stuff

.....just because it's time

Surfs up....

Took the long way round home after doing a bit of weekend shopping in Whitley Bay.....good thing I had a couple of heavy bags as ballast or I'd have been blown along to the lighthouse. Worth the temporary pain though!

PS...picture of the progress on the Spanish City dome on the blipfoto journal

Online Etch-a-Sketch

I never was much good at it, maybe you can do better!

Online Etch-a-Sketch

A message for the 7 stone weakling

I was searching for vintage advertising images to use on a poster today when I came across this gem at Google Books (part of their Popular Mechanics archive).... though to be honest I was spoilt for choice, Mr Liederman seems to have invested in multiple full page spreads in every issue during the 20's at least.....it was a close call between this one or one of him sporting a leopard skin off'the-shoulder leotard and strange sandals. Click on the image to read his fantastic over-the-top sales pitch.

Upmarket shopping trip

Here we have Sarah doing a bit of quality shopping at Tynemouth Station Market this afternoon. But by 2.00pm some of the stallholders were already starting to pack up for the day. The weather, the time of year....or the recession, who knows? But I got some bargains, an old necklace (with a metal chain that will probably give me a flare-up of excema on the back of my neck...but hey it was only a pound), a WD & HO Wills cigarette card album for £4 ("The Sea-Shore", 1938, a complete set authentically speckled with age...or nicotine!) and a truly ugly vase (I was sorry for the stallholder, he looked half frozen)

Spin the black circle

Looks hard....as you can see from the screen grab I didn't try for long, maybe tonight!

Play Spin the Black Circle

Lots to look at

The National Film Board of Canada has launched a video archive.... "From entertaining shorts and cartoons, to deeply moving or disturbing documentaries - they're all there for free, with more being added every week."

Link to the "Explore all films" page

New addiction.....

I signed up for a free Photo Journal at blipfoto.com last week.....very simple rules, you can only upload one photo a day and, most importantly, it has to be taken that day. I've managed 6 consecutive entries so far (gasp!) so I thought I'd post a link to keep me on track.

Meanwhile, at the coast..

Zen audio loops

Create your own blend of soothing zen audio loops to work to......very relaxing.
Zendesk FM3 Buddha Machine Wall

Curved horizon

I took the (slightly) longer, scenic way round to the newsagents this morning....this view out to sea overlooking the Table Rocks. Is it my imagination or can you see the curvature of the earth in this shot? (Guaranteed no jiggerypokery/photoshopery....the camera is permanently set to "Auto" because I know no better!)

The Star Wars trilogy in less than 4 minutes....

Star Wars: Retold (by someone who hasn't seen it) from Joe Nicolosi on Vimeo.

....and she does a pretty good job!

Build a squid

Saturday morning, and a perfect opportunity for some quality timewasting.....

Build your very own animated squid....... just because you can.

Another search-for-and-play-music thingy

I'm quite impressed with this one: type either a song title or artist in the search box, click the button and voila, it just works

Try Fizy

Sumo Paint

My steam-driven kitchen table laptop doesn't cut the mustard when it comes to running high-end graphics editing programmes like PhotoShop, I've been using the free to download package PhotoFiltre for all my day-to-day basic cropping and editing needs for ages (and to be honest, most of the time it does everything I want) But sometimes I want just that little bit more. Enter Sumo Paint, a free online image editor that packs a substantial punch and runs in your browser.....I think I'm a convert!

Link to SumoPaint 

The Sky at Night

Just been watching a daytime, probably repeat, episode of "The Sky at Night" (it's Saturday, I was washing dishes at the same time, and anyway I'm allowed, OK?), hadn't realised there was a programme archive here

Bottle tops

Beer cap matching game (age restrictions apply....not)

Play Beer Caps

Give the Stays to Grandmother

One of many surreal illustrations included in "A Picture Book for Little Children" (published circa 1812) available for download from the Internet Archive....or view the flipbook online here

Don't look down!

Truly scary Japanese suspension bridge.

From RGB to a picture

Click here for a clever Flash animation illustrating how those old cathode ray tubes worked. (Stand well back for the full effect!)

Doorstep view

The sky at 8.00am this morning when I was letting the cat out and bringing the milk in.....nice!