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Right, I'm in a massive rush because it's currently eight minutes ago at 10:52.
I tried to wait this out on the upload, but at 5am this morning I had to concede defeat and go bed, promising myself I'd get up at 10am to do the post. In many ways, you are lucky that I woke up to do it at all, give the two alarms I managed to turn off in my sleep.
Also hard to believe that the lovely sunny day on this video was yesterday, given the dreariness out the window ri...
2022-05-11 10:00:35 +0000 UTC
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(Header description: Wigan rugby league team celebrating in front of their fans)
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I’m going to have to write this quickly because I’m not sure how long I can manage to concentrate with that picture being up the top there.
To explain, that’s a picture of the main rivals to my Rugby League team, celebrating after knocking us out of the cup on Saturday. It’s not something I would have envisioned ever having on my patreon page, but there’s a r...
2022-05-10 10:00:04 +0000 UTC
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A very happy Monday morning to you, and here is the latest episode of Reboot for you, to make it even happier.
There is truly something for everyone in this episode. Fun, silliness, serious, abject tragedy, disputes, reminisces, threats, cooking, education, camaraderie, Wordle, and a genuine whodunnit. All covered nicely by myself, Rob and Jon and broadcast here right now (as well as simulcast on Rob's lovely Patreon page too).
I like this podcast ver...
2022-05-09 09:58:09 +0000 UTC
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It's Saturday which can mean only one thing of any relevance, and that is the brand new, hot off the presses, Cabin Fever podcast.
I am in rather an awake mood in this one, which makes a change, and is also completely incongruous with the time I was recording it. However, if you wish to find out the reason why, you will have to pop it into your ears and have a listen to it.
There's also an autoharp song at the end, so what you do about that ...
2022-05-07 10:01:01 +0000 UTC
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So, I decided that I was gonna have a week off bounty hunters with my drawing this week, and do another thing I was wanting to do after getting a nice screen grab.
I was also pushed toward doing this after having a fresh blub hearing the final Gilbert Gottfried's Amazing Colossal Podcast. Or at least the final one that Gilbert recorded. There was rather a touching add-on ending from his co-host which saw me off.
Am I giving away too many clue...
2022-05-06 10:00:06 +0000 UTC
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It’s one of my written posts today again, and also again it’s a rather self-indulgent self-analysis post.
I agonise over this sort of stuff (which ironically is just further self-indulgent self-analysis), with a slight worry that it comes over as gloomy. That’s not really it’s raison d’etre of course, moreover it’s the ethos of sharing the process of creating things. That sharing, by design, is drawn out and overthought, and I certain...
2022-05-05 10:00:04 +0000 UTC
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This one-off is too hot on the heels of the last one-off a couple of weeks ago, but here we are. I don't want you to mistake this for confidence, it's rather all I had in stock and had to grab something to upload.
In fact, I'd consigned this to unpostable, but events conspired to make me have to re-evaluate. I explain the recording situation in the podcast itself, to give you an idea of how it fell in my day, and I even chopped once song entirely because it...
2022-05-04 10:01:01 +0000 UTC
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Hope you are feeling refreshed and recharged after the long weekend.
Over here I have been catching up on the ongoing art stuff, and here is the latest video showing that.
Today we finish the last bits on the Bounty Hunter box and make good headway with the Bat-Poles, including a first go at using some new material. The success with that is...mixed, but you'll get the idea of what I was at least trying to do.
By all means have a little look if you've ...
2022-05-03 10:00:06 +0000 UTC
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It actually is episode 5 this week, unlike last week when I accidentally called it Episode 5 because we had just recorded this one.
It's a special bank holiday (UK) episode this week (it's not), with plenty of stupidity and stuff that might make you just shake your head. All alongside the usual reminiscences and underlying rebuilding. All simulcast alongside Rob's wonderful Patreon page.
It's a nice one. But they all are really. T...
2022-05-02 10:00:05 +0000 UTC
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Right, messages received and understood.
There was an absolute outrage at the missing autoharp in last week's Cabin Fever, so I made sure to do a bit at the end of this one. I've just done my proof-listen though and I'm afraid it was awful.
That's the thing that suffers the most when I record daft late, and it needs all the help it can get at the best of times. But I at least showed willing. Not like that.
Anyways, you're probably...
2022-04-30 10:01:01 +0000 UTC
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After a day of overwhelming pitch back and forth yesterday, I decided to spend the evening doing some drawing.
Always nice and relaxing that is, and I was pretty confident that this particular Bounty Hunter figure would be an easier one to do. Ten hours later, and I was frankly cursing IG-88. How is this so hard to draw? It was though. Took so long and I fell into bed at 6am never wanting to hear the name IG-88 again.
I like it though. &nb...
2022-04-29 10:01:02 +0000 UTC
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(Header image - sculpts of Rocky and Chip stood side by side)
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First off, just to explain - I am going to start adding text descriptions of images on Patreon beneath the images. These will be in italics, and are because I have discovered that I have some visually impaired Patrons who use text-to-speech software. So this will be helpful for them, and it's hardly going to be intrusive for those of us who aren't visually impaired. It might have been co...
2022-04-28 10:00:04 +0000 UTC
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So rather than label this as Bounty Hunter Box Part 2, I have decided to have these videos as ongoing art projects instead. That way I can do more than one thing in them, which I sort of do in this one.
As I say in the video, been a pretty horrendous start to this week, and I am playing catch up a little bit (whilst being ravaged by horrid medication which I am really not reacting well to). I shall have another go at doing my very best today for tomorrow...
2022-04-27 10:00:06 +0000 UTC
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Okay second try at this post (Patreon went down when I first wrote it and deleted the whole thing. It was brilliant and just what I needed).
Just a little catch progress report on the pitch for The Rocky Robot Show today.
As you shall know, if you heard Cabin Fever or saw the Bounty Hunter box video , my co-writer/assistant Jon, travelled up to my dwelling at the end of last week to help with finally getting these pitches for ...
2022-04-26 10:00:05 +0000 UTC
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A very happy Monday morn to you and yours, and here is the latest instalment of the Reboot podcast, where myself, Rob and Jon, continue to reconnect after years in the wilderness.
It's a - hopefully - lovely mix of reminiscence and silliness, all packaged up nicely for you to have a listen to, and simulcast on Rob's Patreon at the same time. Although he always puts it up a minute earlier to scoop me.
We recorded the next episode last night, w...
2022-04-25 10:00:05 +0000 UTC
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Well good evening.
Look how that picture is missing half my hand like Back To The Future.
First off, little help request. My old hard drive isn't mounting (snigger) on my replacement Mac. It is working on a very old one, so isn't corrupted, but not this one. It shows in the disk utility bit but won't mount. If anyone has the first clue then please do holler because it's an absolute pain. It's this error...I have looked i...
2022-04-23 18:31:00 +0000 UTC
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I am in the thick of a mega meet up with Jon at the moment, as we continue to create our artistic masterpieces.
We have been hitting the Rocky Robot pitch, which is actually finally going out today, discussing some of our other writings, and have just (9.30am) put some chicken in the oven because it went out of date today. By the time you read this at 11am it will be cooked and probably eaten. If you are reading this around 3pm we are probably starting to f...
2022-04-22 10:01:02 +0000 UTC
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Oh, he's on a roll now, after remembering about these last week.
I'm back with the next lot of them. In fact, I am so organised that I've literally just posted last week's one and am doing this one straight away as a scheduled post. By the time the authorities realise, I shall be on a beach in San Jose making twenty percent...
So, really, this is the second part to the ones from last time, as they are the second part of the vaults storyboards. ...
2022-04-21 10:00:04 +0000 UTC
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Yes! it's the eagerly-awaited, and fleeting, return of everybody's favourite podcast in the world, Harping On.
It's just a one-off.
You won't be reading this. You'll have pulled over the car in a lay-by or made all your family go out of the house, so you can give it your full attention and listen to it several times in a row. But if you ever come back and read this blurb I shall tell you all about it.
This is me, "playing" my autoharp, "sing...
2022-04-20 10:00:05 +0000 UTC
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Hope you are all good and well after the long weekend, and here I am with some art. It's been a loooong time since I did any pointillism ink drawing, so let's put that right.
I'll say right off the bat that I am playing with fire here. Those of you who have been here a while will remember the last time I drew vintage Star Wars figures, that I promised that I wasn't going to carry on after drawing the original 12.
This has been proven to be incorrec...
2022-04-19 10:01:01 +0000 UTC
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Here is the third episode of the new podcast, Reboot, where myself, Rob and Jon have a weekly catch up and reminisce about the olden days.
This was an edit and a half, and I'm going for snapshots of conversation with a nice throughline here. Personally I like it, and hope you will too.
It was also hilariously murder to record, with distractions aplenty, and there's one sentence in it that started an hour before it ends in the recording. &nbs...
2022-04-18 10:00:05 +0000 UTC
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It is Saturday, so it's time for our weekly Cabin Fever podcast, where I touch base and blabber.
And blabber.
And blabber.
Today, we are mainly dealing with a gentlemen of increasingly elderly years, who seems to be unable to perform the most basic functions of conversation. Which I am sure you will agree, is an EXCELLENT baseline for a conversational podcast.
Still, if you want some company that you can literally pause, stop or walk aw...
2022-04-16 10:01:01 +0000 UTC
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There are, I think, “anticipatories” on the death chart.
I mean, we are all for the chop ultimately, and there’s older family generations etc, but I also think that perhaps we have strangers that we know are going to break our hearts when they die. So, it has been this week with Gilbert Gottfried being away. There’s still a few left on my list, but they’re all at that age now…
I’ve just sat and watched Gilbert’s funeral on a live stream, whi...
2022-04-15 10:00:06 +0000 UTC
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I've had a little shift around in my planning this week as I wanted to make some room for a specific post tomorrow.
So, here is the storyboard film I sent out to the crew before we filmed at Codnor for the climax of the movie, with a short introduction from me. Again, I think I've subconsciously done that thing of thinking there've been a couple of hefty posts with the Reboot podcast, and the Diablo story, so this is one of those bite-size nuggets. &n...
2022-04-14 10:01:01 +0000 UTC
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Here is another of my Tales From Castle Diablo, which I managed to get finished off yesterday in a bit of a marathon concluding writing session.
I'll be honest, I thought I'd written more of it than I had, but this was another piece of work that was saved in the great broken laptop recovery Saturday.
Again, I'm not gonna bang on in pre-amble, I shall just let you read it. Assuming that is your wish, of course. It's not quite as long as "Re-Te...
2022-04-13 10:01:01 +0000 UTC
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In the topsy turvy, impulsive month away, I had managed to completely forget that I was in the middle of showing you all the storyboards from the movie.
It was only when I spotted them on the shelf in the art room earlier that I remembered, and then I had to scroll back through the posts to see which ones I've actually shown you already. Which, I presume, is what any new patrons will also be doing now.
Incidentally, on the subject of new patrons (and...
2022-04-12 10:00:04 +0000 UTC
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A very happy new week to you, and here is the second episode (still possibly pilot) of Reboot, where myself, Rob and Jon, have a touch of base, reminisce, mess about, chatter, all that stuff.
As I mentioned in Cabin Fever, this episode came out a touch dry I thought (or rather, I thought that whilst editing but was less concerned about it when I heard back what I'd edited). I think this podcast will be like that, where it could be considered or...
2022-04-11 10:00:06 +0000 UTC
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Right I'm typing this right quick cos it's 10:51, and I'd set an alarm to come do this post as the video has been uploading all night. Am going getting more kip once I've typed it.
I knocked this little video up late last night, because I played truant from here on Friday. I will have you know it is a perfectly acceptable way to spend a Saturday night, and you have no business judging me. It's official title is ART PREP PLAN or "Wander Round The House". It ...
2022-04-10 10:01:01 +0000 UTC
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Here he comes, tail between his legs full of excuses and a lowdown on the week that was, in your Cabin Fever podcast for today.
Hear about the trials and tribulations of launching podcasts, a weird day down the shops, a brief mention of my testicles and an Irving Berlin classic at the end, all packed into this handy podcast for you to listen to.
You could either do that now, later or never, depending on your desires and other commitments.
Ei...
2022-04-09 10:01:01 +0000 UTC
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A little step back on here for me today to take you through the progress of my forthcoming The Great Defender podcast project.
It had sort of vaguely been my intention to try and get a first episode to you this week, but by Tuesday I had conceded that this would be a step too far, particularly in my reintroduction week on here. I suppose I was getting slightly caught up in wanting to hammer the shock and awe, and bombard you with a new regime, but that's just ...
2022-04-07 10:01:01 +0000 UTC
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