Robot Wars

I really don’t like to post just for the sake of it, especially if the subject is somewhat off topic for this blog, but I came across this youtube video.  Most of us will have heard of the television series ‘Robot wars’ where amateur team robot builders battle their radio controlled vehicles around a arena with traps and obstacles. 
These [...]

Office Advent Calendar (2007)

For quite a few years we have done the traditional thing and purchased a chocolate advent calendar.  we would take turns to open a day and have the chocolate.  This year we decided to do something different.  Mainly because we forgot to get a chocolate advent calendar for the office.  We searched and found a printable calendar from kaboose.  There are two versions, one for [...]

Technical Illustration Effect with Gimp

I came across this Technical Illustration Affect tutorial for Photoshop and thought it would be good to have a go at doing it in Gimp.
Techniques used in this tutorial:

Pen tool
Layer masks
Fading out lines
 

This is the image I started with (courtesy of Freedigitalphotos.net):

And this is the end result: 

You may notice I did not fade out my lines as in the tutorial, as [...]

robottoms – even robots have to go sometimes!

 Occasionally I find a cartoon which brings a smile to my face, this was one.
robottoms – even robots have to go sometimes! « roodiedoodie
So it got me thinking, if a robot uses a toilet would you call it a blog instead of a bog.  And would the robot use blogroll.