Ubuntu

We are using Ubuntu (10.10).  This version is easy to install and is quick to load when installed. We have had a few problems getting a few of the software packages to work properly (or at all) but the basic 'Office' and 'Internet' bundle works brilliantly - this operating system and it's free software is a must if you are running a business on a shoestring. Get the free download.

Ubuntu is free of charge and has no licensing fees. You can download, use and share Ubuntu with your friends, family, school or business for absolutely nothing.

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Small Business – Ubuntu (10.10)

Posted on January 29, 2011 by admin

We are using Ubuntu (10.10).  This version is easy to install and is quick to load when installed. We have had a few problems getting a few of the software packages to work properly (or at all) but the basic … Continue reading →

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Linux we like it!

Posted on August 30, 2008 by admin

We have always been fascinated by Linux based computers – at the moment we are using Ubuntu (7.10). Get the free download or request a free CD.Ubuntu is a community developed, linux-based operating system that is free and perfect for … Continue reading →

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Ubuntu

Posted on November 9, 2007 by admin

M4tr  has always been fascinated by Linux based computers -  at the moment we are using Ubuntu (7.10). Get the free download or request a free CD here: https://shipit.kubuntu.org/ Ubuntu is a community developed, linux-based operating system that is free … Continue reading →

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Bollocks

Robert Rauschenberg was a massive influence on my painting, printing and music. Images (and sounds) that are arbitrarily spliced together in an apparent random manner will, when juxtaposed against each other, create a narrative. This meshing together of unrelated imagery may appear to be arbitrary but the intellectual decision making that goes with the process is absolutely phenomenal. It is therefore unrealistic to expect the uneducated masses to view these images as ‘real art’. The birth of Photoshop has enabled everybody to create ‘non-intellectual’ versions of Rauchenberg (and Warhol) – only the educated truly understand.

Taken from blurb of the show at Broomhill (June 2010)

Bollocks

Robert Rauschenberg was a massive influence on my painting, printing and music. Images (and sounds) that are arbitrarily spliced together in an apparent random manner will, when juxtaposed against each other, create a narrative. This meshing together of unrelated imagery may appear to be arbitrary but the intellectual decision making that goes with the process is absolutely phenomenal. It is therefore unrealistic to expect the uneducated masses to view these images as ‘real art’. The birth of Photoshop has enabled everybody to create ‘non-intellectual’ versions of Rauchenberg (and Warhol) – only the educated truly understand.

Taken from blurb of the show at Broomhill (June 2010)

Music then back to work!!!!

Sometimes you just have to zone out and listen to music when you get 'code blind'.

Julie Peel – Music to SEO to

Posted on February 21, 2011 by admin

Here we are again, sat in front of my trusty old Mac, fiddling with code for my clients who want to get their website onto page one of Google. Keywords and search terms – this solitary career in SEO is … Continue reading ?
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Optimization by music

Posted on February 20, 2011 by admin

It is a sunny Sunday morning and the ocean looks inviting but unfortunately work is piling up. Here is some more music to Seo to and maybe inspire some key search words from – Natasha Kahn: Primary School teacher meets … Continue reading ?
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Amazon MP3

Posted on February 5, 2011 by admin

Have you tried buying mp3s from Amazon? Amazon MP3 offers millions of songs and albums from your various artists in most genres. The downloads are all in MP3 format, which means they can play on any digital media player. Songs … Continue reading ?
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Woodcuts

Rediscovering the printing process after nearly 40 years has been an interesting process – disappointingly modern inks are not as rich in colour (earthy colours are very plastic like) and modern waterbased inks don’t become part of the surface, they sit on it, which is incredibly frustrating – the reason I took up printing in the first place was because of the absorbed flatness of the pigments.

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White Borders

• Fingerprints on white borders – nightmare on a short print run. A fingerprint is an impression left by the friction ridges of a human finger = fingerprints are the traces of an impression from the friction ridges of any part of a human hand. Impressions of fingerprints may be left behind on a surface by the natural secretions of sweat from the eccrine glands that are present in friction ridge skin, or they may be made by ink or other substances transferred from the peaks of friction ridges on the skin to a relatively smooth surface such as a fingerprint card. Fingerprints records normally contain impressions from the pad on the last joint of fingers and thumbs, although fingerprint cards also typically record portions of lower joint areas of the fingers.
• Action Painting – Pollock. Print dribbled paint.

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Alms at Myspace Music

Find more artists like Alms at Myspace Music

How good is this track!!!! – Listen to more tracks by Alms at Myspace Music

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Alms early mix DEMOS NOW UP – gigs a’plently a’coming in run up to launch of the mastered first EP

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Is Business Art

The cliché 'we can learn from history' is in many cases nonsense - we continue to make the same mistakes over and over again. We do however have to ride that fast learning curve to create new product and have new ideas. Business is not a static immovable object it has to evolve. We have to morph into different markets, pushing our ideas onto the next phase - this is what artists do. Boundaries have to be broken and new frontiers challenged or we simply have to do it better than our rivals.

There were many artists trying to claim freedom from nature, to allow themselves the pleasures of more self expression but they were held back by the simple fact that man himself was tied down with his links to nature. We have now become at home with the Internet and its optimized retail opportunities. The steps the artists of the 1880’s were looking for was a break from observed representation. Symbolism and its search for new boundaries of creativity within literature and poetry began to point the way for these young men, their almost post modernist approach to their art looked to steal ideas from every form of intellectual discipline. Web designers and SEO gurus are doing the same now; they are copying code, search words, keywords and optimization tricks from each other. These painters, over a hundred years ago, were a clique and were accused by their contemporaries of being too intellectual to be serious painters. Search Engine Optimization is also a mysterious clique with its differing ethics. Now is the time to break through this structured discipline and re-invent Search Engine Optimization and get our businesses moving forward.

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