My name is Ash

I could stare at this Rube Goldbergesque animated GIF for hours at a time…

Rube Goldbergesque

So about 10 years ago I passed my driving test, and about 10 years ago I stopped ridding my bike. Hmm coincidence ? I think not. I decided recently that it was time for me to get back on the bike so I have. I bought myself a GT avalanche 2.0 I have always wanted a GT an now I have got one. YAY!

My new bike

The Crisis of Credit Visualized from Jonathan Jarvis on Vimeo

Sorry it’s been a while, but I had loads on. I came across this today and thought it was great. I have designed a few things in my time that have taken (for one reason or another) a while, but 25 years!

People that know me, know I like photography and I have been going on about HDR (High Dynamic Range) images for some time now, but never done any. Well now I have. 

Dad fishing of Capstone (Ilfracombe, Devon, UK)

The Star Trek holodeck is a staple of geek lore, but its interface was designed 20 years ago. Bruce Branit’s World Builder is a short much along the same technological theme, but made today.

A strange man builds a world using holographic tools for the woman he loves.

This award winning short was created by filmmaker Bruce Branit, widely known as the co-creator of ‘405′. World Builder was shot in a single day followed by about 2 years of post production. Branit is the owner of Branit VFX based in Kansas City.

World Builder from Bruce Branit on Vimeo.

Things are cold around here at the moment and I’m finding hard to blog of late. But that all changed when I saw these.

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It’s snowing today and I have the day off. Great! So Bentley and I have had a play in the snow. 

Bentley - Yummy snow

Bentley going mad in the snow

Bentley - Come take the photo, I'm cold!

“With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.”

- Steven Weinberg - Nobel Laureate in Physics