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Cmprssnsm #1
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Come Through
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This Site: The Making Of
I've been reading about Static Site Generation and decided I'd to learn about it by doing. My personal site was due a rebuild and this would present a good training ground. With no deadlines I'd be able to take my time, go the slow way around and learn as much as possible along the way.
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Bob Ross Lorem Ipsum
When designers are working on something that contains writing but don't yet have the final text, they use lorem ipsum (a kind of nonsensical latin) as a placeholder.
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Pretty Yellow Flowers
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Japanese Trees and Stars
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Albi the Alpaca
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Ladybird
The Site
This website is under construction. You know those shops which always have massive "CLOSING DOWN SALE" signs in their window? This site is like those shops – it will be finshed when they close.
The design and some of the content is heavily experimental. This is my place and I like playing around with it. There is nobody telling me what to do, no brief, no brand guidelines. It may get ugly.
If you're a geek you may be interested to know that this is a statically generated site built with metalsmith and hosted on Netlify. If you're not a geek you definitely shouldn't read the long detailed write-up of how this site is built (and congratulations).
The Person
I paint. I code. I make objects to hold in your hand and words to hold in your head (not that you'll want to). This is where I put my stuff so I can show it to people. A small, embarrassing number of people. The number is small – not the people. Words.
The Art
I like Paul Cézanne, Joseph Turner, Albrecht Dürer... growing up, these were the painters who's paintings I looked at in books. I could go on forever though: Pablo Picasso, Tamara de Lempicka, Frida Kahlo, Gerhard Richter, George Shaw, Peter Doig...
I'm interested in how our visual systems work and how easily they can be tripped up. Sometimes I make realistic-ish paintings built from extremely messy strokes.
The Name
I read it on the back of a packet of seeds (sow, cover in soil then firm gently)...I liked it, it pertains to cultivation and growth.