Stuff

 Here, this time in the morning, I should be in bed, but no, I must do some crap before I decide that enough is enough. But right now, drinking some nice beer, and listening to Cirez D going to bed don’t sound too interesting.
I recently got an electric guitar, nothing much, but it sounds ok, specially when I plug it to my Marshall amp, it sounds great then. I’m very rusty, because I haven’t played the electric guitar for many years now, and I feel clumsy, but slowly my hands and my head start to get together, and is fun, even if is just for my self.
 I been uploading a lot of pictures on DeviantArt, and there is a lot of talent there, so I feel like a kid in the dark ages trying to go to war along with the mean knights during the crusades.
Here is some of the stuff I been putting on there.

Photoshop.

I been having a need to create some stuff, not really sure what, and not really sure how, but I been starving for some decent art for a while now. I know that I’m far from perfect when it comes to art creation, but I’m very happy with some of the stuff I have made recently. In the past month or two I been back to Photoshop, and I been experimenting with some of Photoshop features. I have never been able to learn from somebody else, so what I learn, I basically made it up along the way, and that’s why a lot of my work is so different from each other.
Here I’m adding some of this works, and I know that some of them are too “In your face”, with all them bright colours and details that over saturate the image, but I’m sure somewhere, someone, may find it interesting.
By the way, you may want to put some eye protection for this viewing.

More B&W

Christmas just gone  I went back to Spain to see my family and have a brake from my monotonous life here in Wales. I had my beloved Minolta X-700 with me and lots of film, so I had great fun and lots of things to immortalize.
Here is some of my favourite shots from the black and white films.
I been using  Kodak BW400cn, it is an ISO 400, so is quite flexible and it can be used for many things. I particularly like how it work on low light situations, and on portrait specially. I had the pleasure to have my daughter Aida posing for me in a few occasions, so I finally got the chance to experiment with portrait, and I must say that the results are better than I anticipated. I only wish that Alexandra, my other daughter, was just as keen.

I see everything black & white.

Walking around Newport’s town centre I realise the amount of interesting people and things that are worth the picture. This is “Street photography”, and is not a photography style for shy people. Is handy to use a large zoom lens, the subject don’t realise that is being photographed, but if there is a lot of activity in the street things become a bit harder due to the amount of people walking between you and the subject, at list the actual subject is the activity in the street.
Anyway, the first time I used black and white film I was quite impressed with the outcome, so I decided to purchase more, now the results are even better than the first time. Also, I been using a fully manual camera, a Minolta X-700 for which I own three different lenses.

Some changes to "House of flies"

I decided to change the appearance of “House of Flies”, the old red background with the banner on top with the red lettering was a bit unpleasant, so I decided to pull my little digital camera out and set up a little photo shoot on my table with some of my beloved items, like some of my favourite CD’s, cassette tapes that only just recently I start to use again, some great books too, like “Zombies“, or “Day by day Armageddon”, or the creepy “The rising”. Also added my good hi-fi headphones, some of my 35mm cameras and lenses, and some 35mm negatives.
All together was a big mess on the table, but made for a great picture, and below here I added some pictures of the hall process.

And now the chosen picture with the conversion to black and white and the final result.

Music category bursts gone wild.

When I listen to music I normally do it in music category bursts. For example, today, for some reason, I feel like listening to some Jazz, and I may expend a week or two listening mostly jazz. Then maybe I see a music video of a metal group and I just listen to Thrash Metal for a while, or maybe something a bit more classic like Motorhead, Iron Maiden, or AC/DC. Sometimes I’m in the mellow electronic mood and I want to listen to some Trip-hop. You get the picture.
I Been missing my guitars quite a lot lately, and when this kind of things happens I get more sensitive with music. My ears seems to open more to the sounds of music, and my brain separates one instrument from another, every note from each chord, while my heart and my lungs get affected by this much audio activity by acting odd, what we call a rush, something similar to what you would get out of drugs.
I seem to have this feelings with many different types of music, and right now I been going through some of that, but the difference this time is that I’m not just listening to one kind of music, but many, like if my music listening routine is gone wild.
So here I am, with Deftones “White Pony”,  Il Nino’s “Revolutions”, KT Tunstall’s “Tiger suit”, U2’s “The Joshua Tree”, The Police “Zenyatta Mondatta”, Portishead’s “Third”, Ojos de Brujo “Aocana”, Gossoos “A L’auditori”, Dave Pearce “Trance Anthems”,  Iron Maiden “Best of the beast”, Miles Davis “Kind of blue”, etc.

Satisfaction on inspiration.

I got the impression that I left this blog a bit neglected; no because I run out of things to say, but because I run out of time.
Life sometimes give you a handful of things to do, and sometimes nothing is there for you to do. In occasions it gives you far too much to do, and that’s when life becomes faster, more interesting, and also stressful. Is then, when you stop to breath, that you realise all the things you used  to do for fun and for love, and whatever that made you happy, can’t hardly do any more.
In my case, I think is a little bit of this, and a little bit of that, that is making me loose inspiration, and I feel like something inside me is missing, like if I left something behind, and it kips on buggering me, going round in my head, feeling like a song from the Rolling Stones, I can’t get no satisfaction, because playing games on the net is not what I want, hanging about in FaceBook is not what I need, seating watching films doesn’t cut it anymore. I need to create something, a new tune, some new drawings.
However, while I look for this lost inspiration of mine I can very well listen to some good music, watch some really good and inspiring films, view some pictures from my favourite artists, and some photos from my favourite photographers.
I must say, my life is not as busy as it once was, but I still haven’t find the time to organise my self.
Hopefully, I’ll be talking about music next, and maybe I bring something new here. Until then, hasta la vista.

 

A little thing I made while bored.