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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.
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I really thought I was going to have a load of time through August as the month started. Instead it turned out to be absolutely rammed at work, including a conference attendance and giving a guest lecture for a course run by the local Uni. As a result I was regularly exhausted in the evenings and weekends and so...
Continued my efforts last weekend of working out Blender workflows for the abstract styles I used to make in c4D. 1st up my "oldschool" style that I have been doing some variation of for a long time. Anyway here it is, Breaking of the World (I may be reading the Wheel of Time series at the moment, so far its...
I've had a busy last 6 weeks or so, probably something to do with getting married and then a honeymoon (it was great btw, some photos from the honeymoon of Sweden's High Coast to come when I get a chance to compile them). But That didn't stop me from continuing (just) my piece a month aim that I set myself at the...
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 subscription run out last year when I was making very very little art and so it didn't...
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 piece and so will try and do another later this month for April. Anyway, without...
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 scratch for the foreground hasn't progressed much at all (I think that one is...
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 two years Microsoft (or is that Microslop?) and Google have been doing everything...
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 be a bit harder looking at the calander, but hopefully I can pull something...
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 wonderful. I know that’s a privileged position to be in. Many people have to...
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). The sun was shining and the sky was totally clear giving that crisp winter vibe...
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