deviantART: by:hscottbrown http://search.deviantart.com/?q=by:hscottbrown&section=today deviantART RSS for by:hscottbrown en-us Copyright 2009, deviantART.com Tue, 15 Dec 2009 13:52:41 PST deviantART.com http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://s.deviantart.com/minish/widgets/apple-touch-icon-precomposed.png Back to work http://hscottbrown.deviantart.com/journal/20194632/ http://hscottbrown.deviantart.com/journal/20194632/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 01:24:26 PDT
Probably feeling like more company now and looking forward to Fiona coming out in 2 weeks......yep........over 2 months is a long time on your own.

]]> *hscottbrown Val D'Orcia di Toscana (2 days away) http://hscottbrown.deviantart.com/journal/19935032/ http://hscottbrown.deviantart.com/journal/19935032/ Wed, 13 Aug 2008 13:23:59 PDT
Just spent two really amazing days down in the far south of the region - this time of year is really busy (Ferragosto National holiday in Italy)
I never managed to find an economical place to lay my head down at night....so I took the un-economical option and stayed in a cahrming boutique palazzo in San Quirico [link]

The room was beautiful, cool smooth Egyptian cotton on the 4 poster bed, cold cotto tiles on the floor, wet room bathroom, breakfast in a shady garden under vines with the food at night served in the adjoining restaurant built around an ancient walled garden...temps were around 35 degrees during the day and 22 at night.
The whole of the Val D'Orcia is scorched and burnt this summer and the shots I took reflect that scorching....
quick 1st edit here [link]
I'll maybe come back down in mid Sept and see if there is any less brown and a little more green. However.....that all said, I had a wonderful few days away even if it was on my own.
I can really recommend the hotel - simply beautiful :-)

Bellisma!

]]> *hscottbrown Spamming going on http://hscottbrown.deviantart.com/journal/19838650/ http://hscottbrown.deviantart.com/journal/19838650/ Fri, 08 Aug 2008 03:04:28 PDT
Im being spammed like many others here in dA by a series of Arabic script writing spammers leaving mindless comments and wasting both my time and my patience.

I have a message in English for you. It's very simple !

GTF !

]]> *hscottbrown favs http://hscottbrown.deviantart.com/journal/19800810/ http://hscottbrown.deviantart.com/journal/19800810/ Wed, 06 Aug 2008 00:49:44 PDT
Im getting a tad f**d off and I can really sympathise here with a few other DAs who will remain nameless but chaps.....you know who you are ..coz we've either spoken about this or Im readng your mind.

So....whats it about?
Faving images and not leaving comments - either positive or negative. I feel Im being shafted by some 'cybercreeps' who frequent in here (don't get offended everyone ....I am not referring to 'generically everyone'....but there are some I wonder as to why they come in here :doh: ) and snatch and fav work then leave nothing behind....if you like it? then please say so ...and why....if you think it's schiffeze....then tell me why it's schiffeze....don't just come in and fav then vanish off into the ether..

I'll give this a few more days...if it continues, then Im hibernating and removing my stuff.

wibble wibble

]]> *hscottbrown 37 degrees http://hscottbrown.deviantart.com/journal/19709364/ http://hscottbrown.deviantart.com/journal/19709364/ Thu, 31 Jul 2008 22:56:56 PDT
So......now 6 weeks without any real and proper rain shower....the garden is a burned shell, the grass is dying, the place looks brown and dead but.......the figs are ripening, the lemons are falling off the small tree I bought and planted last year and today i start my official holiday for the month.

Car wash first.....breakfast at Onestis and then a shoot booked with sara later.

Buono !

]]> *hscottbrown Life http://hscottbrown.deviantart.com/journal/17824677/ http://hscottbrown.deviantart.com/journal/17824677/ Sun, 13 Apr 2008 02:28:14 PDT
The 41% mark is history now and I move onwards and upwards

]]> *hscottbrown Im royally f****d off - what a f****g day ! http://hscottbrown.deviantart.com/journal/17781889/ http://hscottbrown.deviantart.com/journal/17781889/ Thu, 10 Apr 2008 15:25:56 PDT
]]> *hscottbrown books http://hscottbrown.deviantart.com/journal/17763626/ http://hscottbrown.deviantart.com/journal/17763626/ Wed, 09 Apr 2008 12:52:16 PDT

They say 'the best things in life are free' (except Paolo Roversi's book)


paolo roversi


I thought I'd do some shopping for some core text and books for my MA, I gravitated towards Paolo Roversi, I went shopping in [link] but sadly I can only afford 1 copy NOT !


What the f**k is that all about? &;pound;950 per copy !!


Have I got it wrong or am I right....a tad on the expensive side? ? No?


 


but....curiously enough ...the people that bought it (errrrrr how many?) bought Pete Doherty's sh**e at &;pound;8 - Yeah that figures !



Carpe Diem ]]> *hscottbrown Airport security - what a joke !! http://hscottbrown.deviantart.com/journal/17601736/ http://hscottbrown.deviantart.com/journal/17601736/ Mon, 31 Mar 2008 07:22:45 PDT


Last night about 1am, I stuffed most of the small bits and bobs into my Billingham camera bag along with the Nikons, lenses etc.....left this morning for Pisa airport in a mad hurry ......and never thought that the Billingham’s contents would cause a furore at the scanner as i tried to board the plane.
Eventually after the bag was disected, almost pulled apart by the over zealous security on it’s first scan, i realised what the were looking for !!
I asked the girl who was rummaging all through the pockets, compartments and padded areas......’momento.....scuse...." then lifted out the pair of furry black handcuffs that were inside an inside pocket.
She said I couldn’t board the plane with them.....they were dangerous !!!????

Eh....am I missing something here??
....How are a pair of ’fun S&M’ handcuffs dangerous in a plane of 200 people!.....what exactly could I do? They are totally useless for anything other than a bit of fun....and the furry black padding? well they're not exactly Federal issue !!

...anyway....

I eventually gave in and gave them to her saying.....’’ok.....I give in....you keep the f****g handcuffs and have somefun tonight with your man when you get home !"


Carpe Diem ]]> *hscottbrown me http://hscottbrown.deviantart.com/journal/16703033/ http://hscottbrown.deviantart.com/journal/16703033/ Mon, 31 Mar 2008 07:22:56 PDT
I'm a photography graduate from Bournemouth & Poole, that eventually left London. I then began a career in teaching. At the start of the new millenium I developed some the first VLE in the UK with my colleaugues at the now defunct 'ULTRALB' (I now embrace the whole concept of OLC and how in 7 years it has changed the world...(Im proud to be part of that initial process)
I now work wholly online as a Senior Lecturer within the Faculty of Education at Anglia Ruskin University, England.
I live and work between our house in the mountains of Tuscany and the other in Scotland, where my wife Fiona, [link] is the Director of Creative Industries at a large Art college.
Fiona is also a graduate from Glasgow School of Art and a practicing artist in her own right.

Photography was always my passion - and... years on... it still remains that way. Somewhat late on in life I am taking my M.A. at the University of Cumbria.
[link]

We have a small "pooch" called Morris. Not my choice but... he was given to us as a Christmas present some years ago......and he decided to stay. [link]

Life has been very good to me .... and I'm thankful and grateful each day for that simple fact.

Carpe Diem ]]> *hscottbrown