Kasper & The Skull

Well here we are ... just finished this my first attempt at serious modification to a photograph :)

The original picture is of a danish friend of mine, I have used photoshop to darken the glasses and replace half his lower face with that of a skull .. I think it looks pretty cool ;)

Here I am in my full glory :-O and another one of my digitally enhanced pictures. This one has is two copied of the same picture overlayed on top of each other with the overlaid one having a mask so that only me has been enhanced so produce a better skin tone and more accurate hair colour :)

Learning the Art ...

• http://www.good-tutorials.com/
• http://www.photoshopcafe.com/
• http://www.photoshopgurus.com/

3 tutorial sites I'v looked through and used when trying to get to grips with all that photoshop can do ... there are plenty more out there but I thought I'd start with a couple ;-)

I have always had an affinity with art, I am I suppose moderatly talented ... :) I like taking photographs, I'v an eye for a good picture. Now with digital photography and photomanipulation I'm finding that I can expand my creativity to cover a wider scope.

At school, I didn't really excell at practical art .. though I did score an A at O-level for Graphical Communications - Technical Drawing to those doing the CSE :) So I suppose it's always been there, my sketches tend to be of a more technical nature ... spacecraft and the like, but I think my photographs are better :)

Composite Image

This picture is my first attempt at digital photo manipulation ;) It's a composite image of a couple of Danish friends that were over here this summer.

The Epilepsy...

Now onto how I feal about "the illness" ...

The Epilepsy doesn't affect my day to day life. I occasionally get major seizures even though the medication controls the fitting. Up until about 2-3 years ago I really resented my condition and the sesiures and was very bad at taking my medication. But after a series of bad fits I was convinced by both my family and my partner to take my condition a bit more seriously that I had been.

I still resent the ilness to a certain extent because of the time it steals from my life, but I have learnt, in my own way, to deal with it ... The time is lost when I black out with a fit, to describe it is difficult ... initially I'm awake and carrying on with the task at hand, then the next thing I remember it is between 30mins and 2 hours later and I'm vaguely concious and coherent, and able to move a little. Then I sleep off the shock to the system which can be anything from 4 - 10 hours. So, intotal I effectively loose on average 8 hours from a day when I have a fit.

Who am I?

"So here I am once more in the playground of the broken hearts,
one more experience, one more entry in a diary, self penned"
- Script for a Jesters Tear, Marillion.

Well not quite a playground of broken hearts but ... ;-) So to day is brought to you by the website:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page and http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/

Two good resources of information on the net. The first wikipedia I'v been following since it's inception (several years ago) I think it's probably the best online encyclopedia out there. The BBC site is an online Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, a web project similar in concept afaik (as far as i know) to wikipedia.

Now ... onto me :-)

I'v lived here in exeter for 5 years now, before that I lived in london, and before that Portmahomack, a small fishing village 40 miles north of Inverness. Prior to moving to Portmahomack I lived with my parents in Chelmsford, Essex.

I live with my Partner of some 12 years. He is the love of my life, I'd do anything for him. He has his own blog over at MSN Spaces (boo hiss.) I suffer from Epilepsy and have done so since I was 12 years old ... I'm now 35 so that's erm ....... 23 years .. oh my is it really that long ;)

How I think of myself

Well this is how I see myself ... A big old friendly Timber Wolf. Very grey round the edges ;-)

Monday Evening.

Well I'v had time to think about what to use the blog for ...
... shall I list out a webpage a day?
... shall I make it a kind of diary?

.. or a mix of the two.

Hmm .. I think a mix is going to be a bit more interesting ;-)

Today is brought to you by ...
http://www.bloodeagles.org/

This is the website of my Guild in the game Dark Age of Camelot (DAoC). For those that don't know DAoC is a massivly multiplayer online game. I am GM of the guild, along with my partner and some friends we've made online. I enjoy playing it's relaxing, and fills an addiction I have of old for social interaction throught gaming ... I'm a die hard roleplayer, and DAoC seems to fill that niche.

If there are people viewing this that play on the EU Server Excalibur .. My Characters are: Sughild, Khazak, Arctellion and Shavek, I have others but they are not really ones I identify with at the moment ;-) At some point I may have to detail their personalities here, just so I know what they are like ;-) and it might be an interesting insite into my psyche

Well I think that will wrap it up for now ... a website and a bit about me ;-)

First Time Blogging

Well let's see how we go ... I'm a blog newbie.