http://search.deviantart.com/?q=by:stumbo&section=today deviantART RSS for by:stumbo en-us Copyright 2009, deviantART.com Thu, 10 Dec 2009 22:01:27 PST deviantART.com http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://s.deviantart.com/minish/widgets/apple-touch-icon-precomposed.png http://stumbo.deviantart.com/journal/9875194/ http://stumbo.deviantart.com/journal/9875194/ Sun, 27 Aug 2006 16:08:54 PDT (I'll be right back) ]]> ~stumbo http://stumbo.deviantart.com/journal/6366437/ http://stumbo.deviantart.com/journal/6366437/ Tue, 30 Aug 2005 06:10:21 PDT Unsettlingly quick decision, much uncertainty: jumping anyhoo.

Don't know when I'll be back online again - need to arrange a line and ISP from new premises (eek!)

Missing you all already - and well, have been for some time really.
(1007 unseen deviant postings on my watch list already)


Normal service will be resumed as soon as possible, but only if we can establish agreed parameters for the concept 'normal', and have ascertained it as a worthwhile goal.

till then

x ]]> ~stumbo http://stumbo.deviantart.com/journal/6009148/ http://stumbo.deviantart.com/journal/6009148/ Fri, 22 Jul 2005 23:10:06 PDT
Been neglecting this site a bit while trying my best to cope with everything else life's been chucking at me, and haven't really had a lot of time or energy to spare.

Currently dealing with serious worries about my elderly parents, and trying to find new accommodation for myself. There's NEVER enough money at the best of times - and this ain't them - and don't even talk to me about relationships . . . oh please no . . .
Meanwhile, I'm trying to hold it together through a prolonged series of assessments to ascertain whether or not I'm a likely candidate for a permanent position doing the work I've been doing as a temp for a year and a half.
I'm not even sure how much I even want the position anymore - and despite the job security, better rate of pay etc, it's getting to be a grind. If I do get it I move from a weekly onto a monthly paycheque, with a month's 'lying time' i.e. two months till the next cheque arrives . . .

So forgive me if I've not been keeping up.

To quote Norm from Cheers "It's a dog-eat-dog world, and I'm wearing Milkbone Underwear"



OK, that's my futile howl at the moon over . . . move along now, nothing more to see here . . . ]]> ~stumbo http://stumbo.deviantart.com/journal/5314591/ http://stumbo.deviantart.com/journal/5314591/ Mon, 09 May 2005 19:16:28 PDT May 10th - It's my beautiful talented wonderful daughter's birthday!

I can't celebrate with her because she's away at school (sniff) but we'll do something special next time we get together.

Posting a couple of pics of her now; and thinking about her all the time.

Have a great day sweetie - happy 14th!

You make my

X ]]> ~stumbo http://stumbo.deviantart.com/journal/5102286/ http://stumbo.deviantart.com/journal/5102286/ Sat, 16 Apr 2005 09:26:18 PDT
I've just started a stock account as ~stumbo-stock afew days ago: [link]

So far I've posted some landscape, water and sunset stuff from a day out last month, but plan to sift through my digital pics for other stuff I'd probably do something with myself if I wasn't so damn lazy - hopefully others might find some of it useful, and it gives me a chance to show off some of the stuff from my digital camera that I do like / think might be worth using, without cluttering up my 'art' (heeheh) account.

Guess I ought to ad a sig with links to my messagery.

My daughter kierah, home from school for easter holidays, spent some time on the account she opened here months ago as 'kikichunt' from a friend's house to drop me a mail. Li'l bugger, stole my only absolutely unique web name (a rude spoonerism at that!)
Anyhoo, she's uploaded an id pic, and posted some pictures over at: [link] if you're interested . . . including a b&w self portrait of me that I couldn't decide whether to post here or not (!) [link]

+++

News of a sad blog-like navel gazing nature;

STILL full of this bloody cold. bloody not even a metaphor at one point, having blown my nose till it bled. much fun with clotted blood and poisonous green snot ensued - damn, should have taken some macro shots . . . interesting abstract texture pack for 'resurgere' maybe? [link]

Convincing myself I've been getting better, still woke today feeling too tired and snotty to consider going out with a (really nice) friend to a through-night drinking session in a remote highland location - I'm unbelievably p*ssed off about that . . .

Why am I blogging here at all? In fact, what are any of us doing here showing our stuff off in our various ways for that matter? I mean, positive criticism of your stuff is nice, but I'm wondering / worrying about some deep underlying need for the attention . . . oh blah blah blah, yakketty schmacketty.

la di da di da . . . [ahCHOO!] sniff . . .

Throat Singing? [link] ]]> ~stumbo http://stumbo.deviantart.com/journal/5003518/ http://stumbo.deviantart.com/journal/5003518/ Tue, 05 Apr 2005 01:28:43 PDT if like me you just scanned it quickly and ignored it, you really ought to visit Scmitt's journal here: [link] where he highlights a few salient features of it.

It seems that under the new rules, by submitting art to the site you are agreeing that dA can pretty much use and abuse your artwork in any way they see fit for commercial or other purposes, or remove it, without being legally bound to so much as let you know about it.

They also state quite clearly that they will refuse any responsibility for dealing with anyone else's misuse of it.

I'm pretty shocked at the implications of this. I don't see my own meagre selection of imagery here being in much danger of exploitation, but I know that's not how a very large number of artists with more of a stake in protecting their work are going to see it.

I'd like to believe I could trust the fine folk at dA not to misuse and profit from our work, but frankly within the bounds of the 'agreement' they have license to do just about anything they want with any of our creations posted here.

Just seems devious. And not in a good way.
Thinking hard about it.

At the very least it's made it that bit more likely that I *won't* be becoming a paid subscriber here in a hurry (which I was considering doing quite soon) and I'll be thinking very carefully before posting anything of mine that might be marketable . . . as *if* . . . ]]> ~stumbo http://stumbo.deviantart.com/journal/4868224/ http://stumbo.deviantart.com/journal/4868224/ Mon, 21 Mar 2005 00:45:26 PST
Having taken a short sabbatical from DA, whenever I do visit here, I've been trying desperately to get my watched list of deviant's submissions below the 300 mark - getting there now, but slowly, as these guys seem to churn out the quality stuff quicker than I can view it, it's a bit of a struggle - and adding new deviant talents to the list when I find them isn't helping!

Basically haven't been terribly creative myself recently - work's been a bit of a grind, my new PC still isn't fully set-up with all the software I usually use, and I've recently split with a long term partner. No sympathy required really; seems we're being much better at being friends than we were lovers. We've actually just spent the day out together with a couple of mutual friends - they did a bit of fishing while the sun went down over a beautiful little loch in the highlands, I had my first ever go in a canoe (trickier than it looks, huh?) and took lots of pictures , which I should probably put up as stock here. Add a dash of 18yr old single malt later on, and I'm happier than I've been in months.

So why am I rambling about it here? God only knows, I lost the plot hours ago - woke up on the couch, couldn't sleep - now this . . . Does anyone ever read these things anyways?

See you all soon.
probably.
I hope. ]]> ~stumbo http://stumbo.deviantart.com/journal/3819771/ http://stumbo.deviantart.com/journal/3819771/ Fri, 12 Nov 2004 17:40:53 PST ]]> ~stumbo http://stumbo.deviantart.com/journal/3650735/ http://stumbo.deviantart.com/journal/3650735/ Fri, 22 Oct 2004 18:07:03 PDT
Not an issue when creating digital art: as many copies as you want, and as many tweaked versions as you like: then that became a problem . . .

I've been more than averagely creative lately, and have done a bunch of stuff since I last posted here. But I tend to rework and re-edit stuff to destruction, and can never be sure which versions are best, so save as many as my decrepit old hard-drive allows, and sometimes never do manage to decide on a 'finished' one: after hacking at them consistantly for X days, I'll stop and leave them for ages, then just pick at them once in a while before they get shifted onto CD - and lost forever . . .

So right now, I have a couple of [possibly] finished spacescapes, a bunch of abstract wallpapers, and several bits and pieces in a variety of styles I haven't posted because I can't pick from several versions of each, most of which are barely different to one another by any degree anyway . . .

And all the folk I've been watching here have posted more than 100 items since I last visited.

Oh bugger

02:00am. Will have to do something about all this.
(tomorrow) ]]> ~stumbo http://stumbo.deviantart.com/journal/3009342/ http://stumbo.deviantart.com/journal/3009342/ Sat, 31 Jul 2004 07:04:27 PDT ~stumbo