
then again, it's a vile colour.
great arts, btw
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great arts, btw

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Thu 3 May 2012, 11:24,
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I thought they split up though? Was the only reason they did that recent video because converse gave them lots of money?
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They disappeared up their own arses, accompanied by a ridiculously overlong Syrian bongo solo
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Wasn't their finest moment, though seeing Mick Jones sashay about the stage as he was reported to have done would have been worth the price of admission.
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They sort of put their friendship on hold at the end of 2010 and Damon's been pursuing a number of other things, namely the Dr Dee opera, rekindling Blur for another album (reportedly, but it seems to waver between 'yes we're doing it' and 'no we're not') plus Jamie's working on more things other than Gorillaz art. Also Zombie Flesh Eaters who did the G character animations went belly-up last year and Damon and Jamie changed Management.
Mostly though, it's because EMI didn't make as much money from 'Plastic Beach' as they'd hoped, but since they did fuckall marketing for it, I'm not surprised, even though it's a brilliant album. EMI canned the 'Rhinestone Eyes' animated video which would essentially have been the next chapter in the whole story, and it just never got made, and made 'Doncamatic' instead, which was great for Daley, but not for Gorillaz.
Gorillaz were essentially 'on hiatus' when the Converse deal was struck and they did the 'Do Ya Thing' release with Andre 3000 and James whathisface, but at the moment, until Damon and Jamie kiss and make up and want to work together again, it'll be a while before we see anything new from Gorillaz. The Converse gig wasn't worth much when you consider Damon was said to be worth $40million just this week, he's not short of a quid. G fans are all hanging out for the 'P Sides' of Plastic Beach, but no sign of such a thing at the moment.
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Mostly though, it's because EMI didn't make as much money from 'Plastic Beach' as they'd hoped, but since they did fuckall marketing for it, I'm not surprised, even though it's a brilliant album. EMI canned the 'Rhinestone Eyes' animated video which would essentially have been the next chapter in the whole story, and it just never got made, and made 'Doncamatic' instead, which was great for Daley, but not for Gorillaz.
Gorillaz were essentially 'on hiatus' when the Converse deal was struck and they did the 'Do Ya Thing' release with Andre 3000 and James whathisface, but at the moment, until Damon and Jamie kiss and make up and want to work together again, it'll be a while before we see anything new from Gorillaz. The Converse gig wasn't worth much when you consider Damon was said to be worth $40million just this week, he's not short of a quid. G fans are all hanging out for the 'P Sides' of Plastic Beach, but no sign of such a thing at the moment.

Shame they didnt do music videos for all of plazzy beach, like daft punk did for that interstella film. I loved that
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but animation is horrendously time consuming and exxy, hence them using CGI for more of the PB stuff, the dressing room vids, and the Converse thing, because once they've got the base forms programmed, everything else is just easy to add really. I like the traditional animation, but when time and money is a constraint, I'll take anything, these characters crack me up, although I couldn't care less for Noodle and Russel to be honest.
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I'll do a more serious entry on the weekend, this is strictly for giggles.
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Thu 3 May 2012, 11:35,
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Or am I thinking the wrong kind of 'head' here? LOL
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O-o
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And no carping on, mind. :D

EDIT! Not biro, you funsters, it's boring old colouring pencil but thank you :)
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Thu 3 May 2012, 10:34,
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EDIT! Not biro, you funsters, it's boring old colouring pencil but thank you :)

Pretty amazing you did that with a biro!
EDIT - that one at the front looks a bit like Murdoc though...
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EDIT - that one at the front looks a bit like Murdoc though...

I'm so typecast now it's not funny. But I still laugh, damn you :D
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Thu 3 May 2012, 10:41,
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I like textured surfaces for my pencil and pastel stuff so I also draw on sandpaper. I'll post one of those tomorrow night, don't want to spam the board as I've a biro pic to put up in a sec. The only thing that's digital on this is my signature (erased my real name).
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Reminds me of the Stott's when they asked Damon Hill if he likes a big Omo
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This week's challenge is to create your next masterpiece in biro, or model something out of several biros. Show those poncy charcoal/acrylic users the true power of the ballpoint pen. Show them hard. Challenge suggested by Yo 'Ho Charles and a bottle o' rum.

Seems like everyone's used up all their ideas yesterday
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it's got a damn good chance :D
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![Challenge Entry: Biro Art! [challenge entry]](/images/board_posticon_c.gif)

PS: Where is the compo it link?

what's she disappointed about?
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Thu 3 May 2012, 8:17,
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What series are we on, now?
EDIT: Series 5. Which means 65 episodes to catch up with.
Hmm. Perhaps not.
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EDIT: Series 5. Which means 65 episodes to catch up with.
Hmm. Perhaps not.


i can't remember which episodes.
though mad men is very good
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Thu 3 May 2012, 9:21,
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though mad men is very good

at least two of which feature Christina Hendricks
the show itself is more wild westy than trekky, though obviously they do live in a spaceship
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Thu 3 May 2012, 9:47,
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the show itself is more wild westy than trekky, though obviously they do live in a spaceship

It features a naked Christina Hendricks, if such is your thing. I think this should be made clear.
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Thu 3 May 2012, 10:07,
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a naked Christina Hendricks is definitely, definitely my thing
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no fight can continue when one man calls the other "an utter winkle"
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Governments and dictatorships take note.
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Call someone a winkle and you'll be laughing over shared knob jokes before you know it.
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Christina Hendricks (not that I looked for any others).

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as a result Tory win next election
game over man, game over
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Thu 3 May 2012, 8:54,
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game over man, game over

I think I value Hutch's advice when it comes to London politics
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Thu 3 May 2012, 9:45,
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On the understanding that somebody would probably chew him up and we'd have the mayoral equivalent of a by-election within the week.
Ken it is then.
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Thu 3 May 2012, 11:36,
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Ken it is then.

[mod edit - linked for size, 1.3mb champagne wank gif we've seen before]
desmond.imageshack.us/Himg16/scaled.php?server=16&filename=fridaygifdump25glhhx02.gif&res=landing
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desmond.imageshack.us/Himg16/scaled.php?server=16&filename=fridaygifdump25glhhx02.gif&res=landing

Every time I watch motorsport and they jizz all over each other with champers.
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Thu 3 May 2012, 9:27,
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*web vacuum

I'm full of questions today, does clicking before a post is edit-compo'ed count for the compo?
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edit: we'll soon find out when happytoast's one goes straight to the top
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nice to see a bit of normality among the biro stuff :D
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![Challenge Entry: Biro Art! [challenge entry]](/images/board_posticon_c.gif)

and you've got to have the appropriate biro for the job:

10 colours! (and yes I know what it looks like)

then I saw a pack of four in the 99p store last year
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Thu 3 May 2012, 0:09,
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such magically advanced technology available for that price?!?
Madness!
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Madness!

and then mess with people's minds by rearranging the different coloured nibs so they went to the wrong colour buttons.
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I ask as in North America it's usually called a "Bic" or a "ball-point".
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edit:*zoom camera out a bit*

But since they all write the same I guess any ballpoint would do for this compo.
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The pen, not the cock.
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I found some of these in Smiggle, but it's only got six colours. Cost AU$2.50
So the biro idea got up then for the next challenge??? If so WOO!
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So the biro idea got up then for the next challenge??? If so WOO!

Boris or Ken?
I quite like our bumbling current mayor on comic value, but to be quite frank I simply can't find any ounce within me to ever justify voting for a Tory; the concept simply seems dark and repugnant. But Ken, I actually have grown to really dislike him. He seems wrapped by ego and some god given right to be London's mayor. Though I do approve of his pledge to lower public transport costs, which are obscene these days.
Edit: Have a macaw

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I quite like our bumbling current mayor on comic value, but to be quite frank I simply can't find any ounce within me to ever justify voting for a Tory; the concept simply seems dark and repugnant. But Ken, I actually have grown to really dislike him. He seems wrapped by ego and some god given right to be London's mayor. Though I do approve of his pledge to lower public transport costs, which are obscene these days.
Edit: Have a macaw


rather than bringing LOLitics into this.
There's a seporate board for talk, yknow.
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Wed 2 May 2012, 22:43,
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There's a seporate board for talk, yknow.

SHAZAM! satire.
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Wed 2 May 2012, 22:48,
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I imagine things would be marginally better under Ken.
Also what taters says; ninja in a pic pls
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Wed 2 May 2012, 22:44,
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Also what taters says; ninja in a pic pls

Ken said "jews aren't any different to anyone else" and got condemned as anti-semitic for it. This makes me laugh, so Ken gets points.
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To me, it matters little.
But we did have a chat in the pub about Boris on Friday, and we all reached the conclusion that people vote for him because of how bumbling and incompetent he is, because the public figure they're going to get fucked whoever they vote for, so it might as well be someone funny.
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But we did have a chat in the pub about Boris on Friday, and we all reached the conclusion that people vote for him because of how bumbling and incompetent he is, because the public figure they're going to get fucked whoever they vote for, so it might as well be someone funny.

They are all awful, so I personally went for comedy value. I don't think I'll even bother this time.
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I am just not sure what I will be voting for tomorrow, an individual or for a party
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Wed 2 May 2012, 22:52,
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that the only two things the Mayor really has an influence on are transport and the police. The rest is down to councils or Central Govt, so ignore all the other bollocks and see who you agree with most on those two.
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If you are on on a good salary and reasonably comfortable in life, it should be human nature not to be to miffed about a bit of extra tax you aren't really going to notice benefiting the rest of society.
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Millions died over the years for me to have the right to walk into a polling station and make my opinion count.
But Boris is a buffoon, and less funny than he was.
Ken is a slimeball.
Lib dems don't know the public at all.
Greens are insane.
UKIP has naff all to do with local government.
BNP are... well.
No matter what I vote, fares will go up, rent will go up and the standard of living will fall.
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Wed 2 May 2012, 23:10,
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But Boris is a buffoon, and less funny than he was.
Ken is a slimeball.
Lib dems don't know the public at all.
Greens are insane.
UKIP has naff all to do with local government.
BNP are... well.
No matter what I vote, fares will go up, rent will go up and the standard of living will fall.

That seems like a fairly reasonable assessment of what's up. Poor old Brian Paddock seems quite likeable but his party well and truly lost the plot getting into bed with the Tories. I've voted Green once in my life as a protest vote, but not again; we would be left with a bit of pocket money after their taxes
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It all seems rather futile, because let's face it, nobody voted for what we have now, a battered and bruised system that sort of resembles a government.
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He knows what he's doing.
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Wed 2 May 2012, 22:53,
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I dont do politics, but i like Boris, because he's funny, and appears to be a very unconventional politician. Plus, he lives 5 mins walk up the road from me and i bumped into him outside his house
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Winter is coming!
(since that is all they talk about up north, it seems.)
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(since that is all they talk about up north, it seems.)

LOL
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That tablet will quickly become one of the finest tools at your disposal. :)
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found it quite intuitive to use... pestered him into getting the touch version & it's a bit.. err touchy & maybe oversensitive.. only gripe is the pen forgets where you think you are quite a bit & bit of a lag to catch up/scrawls across the screen?
edit: & having done loads of stuff in PSElements (& it links straight into that) i haven't had to learn new toolkits etc.. freebase was done on 3 layers
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edit: & having done loads of stuff in PSElements (& it links straight into that) i haven't had to learn new toolkits etc.. freebase was done on 3 layers

I got mine for a song (never used) on evilBay for AU$71, still in all the factory wrappers. It sat on my table for three months because I was worried I'd not be able to master it, but after setting up and taking the bull by the horns, I had a go and holy SHIT, I've never looked back. I've never drawn so much in my ruddy life as what I have with this Bamboo.
Congratulations, you are going to have SO much fun!
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Congratulations, you are going to have SO much fun!

got it after seeing David Hockney get to grips with an ipad... also after being on b3ta 9 months & neglecting my own things, think this will be the best of both worlds for a while, and *just maybe* i'll be a bit more productive again :))
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but i still believe that at a basic level, kens motives are more driven towards people, while boris is driven towards shareholders and businesses.
boris has traded off of 'bumbling cartoon' as a career device, while ken is what he is. what you see is what you get.
as a londoner in exile, ken still seems to live and breathe london, while i'm not convinced boris actually breathes.
shame there isn't a viable left of centre alternative.
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boris has traded off of 'bumbling cartoon' as a career device, while ken is what he is. what you see is what you get.
as a londoner in exile, ken still seems to live and breathe london, while i'm not convinced boris actually breathes.
shame there isn't a viable left of centre alternative.

...i don't have the option of kicking the tories, as there isn't one for miles round sheffield. i do get to piss on the local lib dems though, who have a council seat to defend.
labour have put up a 21 year old student who is clearly looking to build a career in 'big' politics, from outside our local area so it feels like a miserable choice.
the green party candidate, the only other candidate with a hope, is a hippy with long facial hair, a track record of vegan activism and lead singer of a band called something like 'TreeBeard', and the 'socialist and trade union alliance leaflet reads like a mix of citizen smith and school newspaper.
it's all so disappointing, its made me seriously think about standing as an independent looking represent local micro issues.
all told, the most important thing to happen round here tomorrow is my wife and son coming home from hospital! makes the local machinations seem trivial beyond all calculation.
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Wed 2 May 2012, 23:09,
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labour have put up a 21 year old student who is clearly looking to build a career in 'big' politics, from outside our local area so it feels like a miserable choice.
the green party candidate, the only other candidate with a hope, is a hippy with long facial hair, a track record of vegan activism and lead singer of a band called something like 'TreeBeard', and the 'socialist and trade union alliance leaflet reads like a mix of citizen smith and school newspaper.
it's all so disappointing, its made me seriously think about standing as an independent looking represent local micro issues.
all told, the most important thing to happen round here tomorrow is my wife and son coming home from hospital! makes the local machinations seem trivial beyond all calculation.

Politics in Sheffield are depressing. I was faced with a similar lack of options on my polling card. At the moment it seems to boil down to which one of these fuckwits would you least mind fucking you dry
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Thu 3 May 2012, 10:08,
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in a Spanish show saw some wearing roller skates and riding scooters -true fact
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Wed 2 May 2012, 23:09,
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I really really really hate him. He fucking nasal voice cuts me and I still remember seeing 100s of mayor of london poster on the tube everyday. Kill a newt every time i see him on TV. Its not about making London better. Life without Ken is better. I've hated him back from the GLC days. Its a vote against not him not for the other person. They are all cunts and I've never noticed much change during any government term.
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Wed 2 May 2012, 23:30,
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Hold your nose and pull.
ALSO: Woo!
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Wed 2 May 2012, 23:39,
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ALSO: Woo!

From listening to cyclists, Boris seems to even have dropped the ball on that avenue. I'm an American, so I can't speak from experience. I can say that much of what happens in high up places has to do with how wealthy the people are that are telling them what to do. Us little folks don't have much leverage unless we organize. There's hope, maybe.
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Thu 3 May 2012, 1:01,
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www.b3ta.com/board/10760360
and now to bed!
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Wed 2 May 2012, 22:28,
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and now to bed!
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