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As you’ll no doubt be aware if you know me, since I bang on about it at any opportunity, I wrote a novel a few years back. A shoddy, first draft of a novel.

Pretty much ever since, I’ve had the ambition of redrafting it as a comic book. I’ve spent a long time thinking about every minor detail and paying it lip service, but so far, have managed to produce just under 3 pages in the last 2 years.

I’ve not been skiving though. Oh no. I’ve had very good reason. Quite simply, if I don’t read all the Twitter posts, Facebook status updates, watch all the kitten videos and keep up with the latest memes, then who will?

All the while, the backlog of writing, drawing and everything else has been steadily growing. For that reason, I’m going to try something out.

I’m giving up the internet for a few weeks. No Twitter, no Facebook, no Youtube. Not sure how I’ll last but I’m wasting far too much time so I need to try something. I might still post to Twitter and Facebook but I’ll be in write only mode.

Ironically, this should hopefully mean I actually appear more active online, since I’ll be producing stuff I want to share.

See you on the other side.

Following on from the original post, here is the finished collage I made to hang in our bedroom. Click for full size (and it’s huge!)

Below, is a photo of it hanging in place. I’m pretty chuffed with it.

On Saturday, we read that Andy Scott’s new sculpture had been unveiled in Cumbernauld the day before, so headed through for a few photos.

Provisionally named Comar Nan Allt (Cumbernauld in Gaelic) It was renamed Arria following a local competition. Arria was the mother of local boy, Roman Emperor Antoninus Pius. (He of the Antonine wall which runs nearby).

The video below shows a timelapse of the 13 hours it took to construct it condensed into 5 minutes. I love how dramatic, almost apocalyptic, the clouds look in much of the first half of the video and the perfect timing of the sun appearing just as the head and body are lowered into place. Read the rest of this entry →