I took this picture of a monkey in the road when I was on a local bus in Sri Lanka a few years ago... I started using it as an avatar on my profile for chess.com and quite liked it - since the monkey looked like it was thinking! I recently thought it would be a good replacement for the cat logo for all the reasons mentioned in the previous post - and - because it looks like it it thinking which is great for a website devoted to games about solving problems or challenges. Here

I like pictures in the house to have a story to explain their presence. For example i have this picture in my lounge next to the fire place of a woman's face in negative. I really like it from a purely visual point of view, but I've no idea who it is... But who is she? I'd been wanting to replace it with a woman who I find inspiring and had been considering Hedy Lamarr due to her inventions but the more i found out about the post-Holywood side of things the less inspired i b

Painting is a good way to get extended conversation with the kids, flick paint at each other and do silly stuff. Agent K is already quite handy with a pencil or paint brush being a bit older than Agent J. So one breakfast we decided to have a collaboration between daddy and Agent J. I showed them a handy trick that i'd just learned for making a grid to scale up a picture in a book to a big canvas without the need for measuring anything. Agent J selected the picture from a

I found a drop-leaf table that fitted in the space beside the chimney breast in my lounge and also opened large enough to serve as a dining table occasionally for up to 6 people and more typically serve as a general work surface for making stuff with the kids.. Here's what it looked like when i got it from Gumtree... And i got the idea of painting it bright lime green or like a zebra. I looked online for zebra ideas and found this picture which i took as inspiration... From

Was thinking about a logo for my website. —I like the black cat but it’s not my logo so it has to change :( What I like about it is that it’s - instantly recognisable - simple bold - high contrast - conveys personality (curious, etc) - people have feelings towards pets rather than abstract shapes Bad cone My best idea so far is something along the lines of this sketch of a cone character... It ticks the most of those same bullet points whilst having some connection to t

Boring flights are great opportunities to try out new apps. On the flight home from a holiday in Naples, I tried out the Paper app for the iPad which allows you to paint with water-colour like effects. Unfortunately i only had a finger rather than a paint brush or a stylus. Mount Vesuvius Viewed From Pompeii Pompeii Prima Donna Does Not Watch