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From nothing to animated image

The initial sketch I did with my wacom and photoshop (A4 sized).

Over a month ago, one afternoon while just idling on my sofa wondering what to do, I suddenly got up, grabbed my Wacom-tablet’s pen and started to draw something in Photoshop. It didn’t matter what, I just wanted to do something creative instead of wasting the day away. After some no-brainer sketching, I ended up … [ read more » ]

A few watercolour paintings

Lehdet

I might as well throw in some watercolour paintings I did while I was in the countryside. I’ve been painting with watercolours for two years weekly during spring and autumn courses, but hardly by myself at all. Now that I was away from other distractions, I found myself painting quite often, which I didn’t mind … [ read more » ]

Few summer photos

Relaxing lake scenery

I just uploaded some photos I took while in the countryside. Not that many this time around as I tend not to take photos that I feel I’ve already taken before. I really should reinvent my style of photography somehow. Maybe it will happen now since I broke my trusty EF 35mm f2.0 lens, which … [ read more » ]

MacBook Pro upgrade

The MacBook Pro with its glossy, reflective screen.

Over a month ago, after months of hesitating, I bought a new 15 inch MacBook Pro to replace my old 15 inch PowerBook (titanium version). Before that, I searched and read countless of reviews of it on the web. Now it is my turn to throw in some thoughts about it too. Note that my … [ read more » ]

Troublesome IE6

Now that the house is more or less up and running, this would be a good moment to write down some thoughts and facts that occurred during the design phase. I won’t get too detailed (since I have already forgotten some of them), but let me dive right away into the most common problem all … [ read more » ]

Version seven

Here we go again. After a few months living with a static web-page, I finally decided to break the silence and built a new layout powered by WordPress. Old visitors might notice that the graphical layout has remained much the same as in the previous one (which was powered by MovableType). I untypically decided to … [ read more » ]