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It has been nearly two years since my last journal. There is a reason for this. Unfortunately, devaintArt has become something of a porn site. When I look at the suggestions it gives me when I view images and on the front page there is far to much unpleasant nudity. I'm not adverse to a good artistic nude image and once there were plenty of great ones on this site, but when the images are of under age people doing selfies of their nether regions, well that is not art, it's not cool, it's not a turn on, and it's not legal. Once I would recommend the site to my students and fought to have it unblocked. It was a safe place to deposit some of t

It's one of those days when I'm being totally unproductive. So while I'm waiting for a couple of records to dry ready for transfer to CD, a bit of an update... The motorshow was about the only day I had to myself over the break. The remaining time was spent at the ScreenFutures conference, Awards judging, and so on. My Saturdays are spent doing a short journalism course. One of the big things taking up my time is getting a new magazine together. With the rise of tablets we thought we'd get in on the ground floor and create an electronic only magazine. I'll be moving reference stuff from some of my existing websites to a dedicated site that

Yes it's term break time again. Given the foul weather - it seems strange to actually have a Winter after 12 years of drought - I'm not going very far from home. Yesterday I went to the motor show. Strangely unexcited by the cars, despite some 45 new models on display. I haven't been for decades, perhaps it was the propensity of mundane everyday cars, and lack of soul cars have these days. I somehow found the cars that were up for auction outside more interesting.   Tomorrow begins my annual three days of judging for the ATOM awards. Then from Saturday I will be at a five day media conference. The rest of my time is taken up with preparat