Alastair Temple | Blog
Alastair Temple | Blog
Alastair Temple
Personal blog which I inconsistently write to, but trying to do so more often. Will cover a whole massive range of topics given I work in fire safety (engineering building design), am a hobbyist digital artist/very occasional freelancer with other interests in sport and general tech stuff.
Latest Posts
After the failure of March I am back up to a new piece per month this year! This piece I completed last weekend, just squeezinig it in before the end of the month. There isn't so much to say about this one, I let my Octane Render...
So I failed in my "make at least one piece of art a month this year" goal already. Didn't even manage 3 months. That said the idea is to be making things regularly again rather than anything stricter, so I'm counting this as March's...
After a bit of a burst of activity and motivation in January, life took over again for most of February leaving me very little time to do much. So my planned piece for the month which involves modelling a new spaceship in Blender from...
Mozilla is in a state We have known the likes of Meta and the Entity Formally Known As Twitter have not been serious organisations for a long time (not that it stops them from causing enormous harm), and through the course of the last...
New Art - Leaving Chiark I managed to find some time this weekend to do a little art and so finished off a piece I started back in May last year allowing me to tick off January for goal 1 of my creative goals for 2026. Next month might...
Lets work less. In the words of The Happy Place's resident computer (Mr Jon Mac), "I could go for that". The work-life balance of a 3 day week and a 4 day weekendthat Jeremy Kieth has managed to chisel out for himself sounds absolutely...
And wintery days Following on from my last post I took my camera with me when I popped into town at the weekend to top up our supply of decaf Yorkshire Tea from Malmö's British shop (a vitaly important thing to have around the house)....
Malmö's wintery nights It has been a bit cold and slighty snowy here recently and so I have taken my camera out a couple of times, once (before it snowed) just on a walk to test if it was possible to get anything ok handheld at night on...
New Wallpaper - Threading The Needle Following on from my last post I have managed to find the time to put together something new in 2025 so I am finishing the year the way I intend to continue through 2026. Actually making some art!...
Creative Goals for 2026 I have never been one for new years resolutions, being of the opinion that if you want to make a change in your life do it when you think of it, not waiting for some arbitary date to re-assess. That said, I am now...
Random update time Well October was a month, it started off with IT issues at work which left me without a usable account or laptop for most of a week, followed by catching Covid the next week and sort of went downhill from there....
Some photos from my summer trip to Italy and Northumberland
My RSS feed now contains images
My thoughts on Starmer's Labour party, its not pretty.
2 new wallpapers, with light and dark variants, available for download.