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Saturday, 27 February 2010

Fruit looks gross.


Fruit looks gross.
Originally uploaded by d_thomas_stur
Treated Neil and Kate and myself to a strange array of exotic (and one common) fruit. I had only ever had two of the plate before, those being the housewife's choice honeydew mellon and the hit-and-miss physalis, wrapped in its own paper. Taking centre stage were the passion fruit, dragon fruit and papaya, I will review each thusly...

The Papaya tastes like an under-ripe cantaloupe and is hard to peel.

Passionfruit has about 1 grapes worth of edible matter in each fruit, and feels and tastes like large tomato seeds, if a little sweeter and citric.

Don't even bother with dragonfruit, it's like a less tart kiwi, although it is quite easy to eat with a spoon unlike the logic puzzle that is the halved kiwi.

In conclusion to the question I should have posed at the beginning of this blog; which fruit is the stupidest: the winner is...

The papaya; because while the passion fruit is lame, the papaya is a less nice version of a not so special fruit to begin with.

The end.

Daniel.

Cardboard CupArt


Cardboard CupArt
Originally uploaded by d_thomas_stur
Matt drew me a little Godzilla frame on a paper coffee cup during a composition lecture. How smart is that? I might start marketing this little objeda and make some serious pence. Wisely enough he kept the margin of the image quite printer-friendly and tried (without success) to make the cup a three-frame comic. He failed due to lack of space but there are other issues at play here, namely that comics exist in a specific time frame and the orbitic path of a cup is eternal. That is unless you diagonalise the cells and have a long comic or simply find content that can exist in perpetuation.
Daniel.

Friday, 26 February 2010

Profound.


Profound.
Originally uploaded by d_thomas_stur
If you always think to look amongst the handprints written in "brown", urine puddles and waxy, non-absorbent toilet paper, occasionally you will find a nugget.

www.danielsturman.com


www.danielsturman.com
Originally uploaded by d_thomas_stur
The ultimate www.danielsturman.com

At last a really clean, fresh and fun looking website that I can actually say I'm proud of. Thank You iweb.

I'm also corresponding the design into my myspace and blog. Each page has its own primary colour while the font and feature colour remains a light pearl yellow.

Daniel.

Thursday, 25 February 2010

My Sister.


My Sister.
Originally uploaded by d_thomas_stur
My sister is going to the big apple to represent Lowestoft College in the national hair growing competition. Her speciality is limb hair. Good luck Pippa.
But on a less serious note...
I Got all of my *glee* digital arts documentation done and even whipped up a website for it. [www.faceplaceshouldneverbeonline.com]. Now that is put t bed I can finally look into finishing zombie wedding and making a start on Spirit Heart. Hopefully going to get some people round to dramatically read the samples of Spirit Heart for me to I can get to grips with the drama of it. You would think I would get all the information I need from just the text but Gary has literally sent me the script (in the wrong formatting), no character profiles or even a plot synopsis.

A Half of Half Bore


A Half of Half Bore
Originally uploaded by d_thomas_stur
You could life off of this stuff. Made up of Devon honey and plenty of love, Hunter's Brewery's Half Bore is one smooth son of a pint. It has that delicate malt flavour you imagine drinking water would have once had in the middle ages; the nectar of Chaucer and Henry II. It has a hops smell with very faint but pleasant nodes of summer AND winter fruits as well is a tiny hint of the perfume that you imagine dandelions must smell like. [I say "dandelions must smell like" because dandelions don't smell particularly sweetly. The first sip had lime in it but that soon passed.

I'll finish as I started; you could live off this stuff.

Daniel

Wednesday, 24 February 2010

Stupid Parrot.


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Originally uploaded by d_thomas_stur
When I entered the little room where the Parrot lived, it looked at me, arched it's back, spread it's wings and turned to face me beak to beak. Then it did a poo and relaxed. So like us.

Anyway yes I am still doing this stupid documentation. You should seriously read it, you can hear that I am bitter about a couple of my lecturers being knobs and I am too angervose (that's when your impassioned with evil) to tone it down. Neil convinced me that I should do a website as well as the text documentation and while it's not much of a problem really, its a pain. Also faceplace is a physicalised realisation of Facebook so to put it online would be a little counter-productive. Nevertheless I purchased for about £20 a website called www.faceplaceshouldneverbeonline.com. Clever? I think not. First earning?, doubt it. Documentation only counts for 30% of this mark so I seriously doubt I'll even get a 2:1 for it. I have been stitched up royal this time tweety boy.
Daniel... The Parrot. ... killer. ... just kidding. ... not. ... no I am, I am.
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not kidding.

Cold much?


Cold much?
Originally uploaded by d_thomas_stur
How do you advertise long sleeve vests? By putting a cold man on the front. I hope he's not wearing them while still being cold though.

Tuesday, 23 February 2010

Jack Willy Shakespeare.

When I'm older I'm going to hunt some deer so I can finally have a place to hang my knickers and scarfs.

But on a less serious note, I am severally procrastinating. I have documentation for FACEPLACE (digital arts coursework) in for thursday and I have done about 10% of the word-count. It's so stupid and horrible and I hate it. Don't you hate it when you have work to do but all the while your photo albums are getting dangerously un-tagged, and your font collection is in desperate need of a thinning.

Ugghgg well, back to the sloth. I think I better go make what must be my tenth cup of tea since noon.
Daniel.

Jack Wills is cool.


Jack Wills is cool.
Originally uploaded by d_thomas_stur
Don't get me wrong, I hate rich/posh people, by my word Jack Wills is cool. It's like Hogwarts crossed with Abercrombie and Fitch.

Monday, 22 February 2010

GAPwit.


GAPwit.
Originally uploaded by d_thomas_stur
These GAP novelty socks were just grey or dark brown. No crude or suggestive joke. Just plain trouser socks. Novelty? Scarcely even irony.

That's GAP for you though, can't make a fitted jean, can grasp humour.

Daniel.

Sunday, 21 February 2010

Fishbrain.


Fishbrain.
Originally uploaded by d_thomas_stur
Check out this little guy. I have nothing else to say.

The Model lies.


The Model lies.
Originally uploaded by d_thomas_stur
None of the clothes this model is wearing is available, or as i can tell, has been any time recently. Why do they lie to us?

RE: Zombie Wedding...
R.C. sent me some updated music ideas for pretty much the last three songs but what with my digital arts documentation looming I dare not give it look until Thursday.

So Neil and I came home to the Northlands for a long weekend to celebrate his 26th birthday and boy howdy, it snowed. Considering I was considering wearing shorts in Plymouth a couple days earlier, this is a strange phenomena. Ladies and gentlemen, the British weather. No doubt there is a tornado in Preston right now.

Went to a shopping village today. One of those away from town discount villages, towns built quickly and cheaply purely for the consumption of coffee and high street brands at low low prices. The combination of the drab retail architecture and hunks of snow everywhere I felt like I was in Regina or an open air outlet mall in Montana. Couple that image with the painfully flat and rural Fenlands where this place sits and you really get that middle America feel. Seriously folks, avoid the Fenlands. It's dullness is a breeding ground for serial killers.

Cardboard CupArt


Cardboard CupArt
Originally uploaded by d_thomas_stur
Matt drew me a little Godzilla frame on a paper coffee cup during a composition lecture. How smart is that? I might start marketing this little objeda and make some serious pence. Wisely enough he kept the margin of the image quite printer-friendly and tried (without success) to make the cup a three-frame comic. He failed due to lack of space but there are other issues at play here, namely that comics exist in a specific time frame and the orbitic path of a cup is eternal. That is unless you diagonalise the cells and have a long comic or simply find content that can exist in perpetuation.
Daniel.

Batman toastie


Batman toastie
Originally uploaded by d_thomas_stur
None of the other toasties had this logo written in mushroom across the front, it must be a sign. Ironically really because unlike Bruce Wayne who watched his parents die and then suffered a flourish of bats, a menacing proposition that would go on to cause the man serious mental damage and thus every time he puts on the costume is a confrontation with his dark past, I quite like toasties.

Thursday, 18 February 2010

Garden Whites


Garden Whites
Originally uploaded by d_thomas_stur
This is like ten minutes onto the drift and it got a LOT worse.

Daniel.

Snowy Meadow


Snowy Meadow
Originally uploaded by d_thomas_stur
This totally came out of nowhere. We return home to the Norfolk from the Tropics and the next day... bang! Snow everywhere. When am I going to find a chance to wear my new broad shorts and test out the new jetski?

Smoke over the Dart


Smoke over the Dart
Originally uploaded by d_thomas_stur
Taken about two days after the photo below, and at about the same time, the Dart never ceased to present itself in strange, wonderful ways. The smoke here is not rolling over the hills, it is hovering over the swamp. As the morning drew late all that was left was a fine strip of fog about twenty feet over the river. It looked like an Indian smoke signal moving horizontally.

Amazing morning over Dartmouth.


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Originally uploaded by d_thomas_stur
Had to post this 7am red morning. Naturally I went back to bed and woke up at a more acceptable 9:30 or so. I'm fairly impressed with the iPhone's colour capacity I must say.

Daniel.