Scusi Coffee-Shop, Parkview, Johannesburg
Thursday, August 31, 2006 Service: * * * * Food: * * * * Ambience: * * * * Babe Count: * * * * * Phone: +27 11 646 8639 I’ve been strolling up and down Tyrone Avenue for …
Month: August 2006
Trying out Zooomr as an alternative to Flickr
When I submitted my story about Flickr silencing artists to DIGG, one of the replies I got was from Thomas Hawk at Zooomr. Here’s his message: Hey feel free to send your art to Zooomr. We are happy to have …
Illustration Friday — ‘Run’ — 2006-07-23 To Run From the Sun
2006-07-23 To Run From the Sun Originally uploaded by royblumenthal. This week’s Illustration Friday topic is ‘Run’. I haven’t been painting for a little while, cos I’ve been on a hectic writing deadline for a piece of corporate video I …
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Flickr forcing artists to become ‘non-public’, known by them as ‘NIPSA’
Something disturbing is happening at Flickr at the moment. They’re forcing people who have predominantly art in their galleries to become ‘not public’. This means that if you do a search for something, non-public pictures will not show up in …
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Illustration Friday — Match — 2006-05-13 Diani & Carli
2006-05-13 Diani & Carli Originally uploaded by royblumenthal. Today’s Illustration Friday topic is ‘match’. This one’s a drawing I made in May. (I’m on a writing deadline right now, so don’t want to procrastinate by making a new drawing. And …
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2006-08-13 Ingredients for a successful relationship
This is from the book, ADULT CHILDREN OF ALCOHOLICS by Janet Geringer Woititz. I’m sure the list is incomplete, but these bits are essential. Vulnerability Understanding Empathy Compassion Respect Trust Acceptance Honesty Communication Compatibility Personal Integrity Consideration Tags: relationship, relationships, …
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2006-08-13 How many of these characteristics of ‘Adult Children of Alcoholics’ do you have?
Last night I was sitting at the Seattle Coffee Company in Hyde Park, with a whole bunch of books from the Exclusive Books next door. One of them was ADULT CHILDREN OF ALCOHOLICS by Janet geringer Woititz. She lists a …
2006-08-11 Illustration Friday — Play
2006-08-11 Illustration Friday — PlayOriginally uploaded by royblumenthal. This week’s Illustration Friday topic is ‘Play’. I searched stock.xchng for ‘poker’ and ‘cards’, and found two reference images which I combined in CorelDraw. One was A good poker hand for me …
2006-08-10 Illustration Friday — Capture
2006-08-10 Illustration Friday — Capture Originally uploaded by royblumenthal. This week’s Illustration Friday topic is ‘Capture’. I’ve just extricated myself from a co-dependent relationship. And this pic really illustrates co-dependence for me. Here we’ve got a cat… ostensibly the captor, …
‘S’ kisses someone to clarify her feelings for me. Bye bye, ‘S’.
‘S’ and I are fully broken up. She had some kind of a fling with someone in Cape Town two nights ago, and has been carefully keeping the information away from me. Doing a bit of a Bill Clinton. We …
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