Bookz

Never one to hold back long from buying books... well u know its rained horribly all day so i got a bit insular & bought a Dr Who audio book on ebay & a very old book on Henry Moore (a book of pix of him working) for 3 pounds from UK. Then I decided i would yes actually buy those Faurat (Feurat?) books on doing portrait sculpture. His work scares the sh*t outta me & i never want to do work like that (ref: wikipedia: uncanny valley) but he has certainly studied heads & i could use more info. So i ordered both of those from USA & then i said to myself well WTF & sorted out the Amazon order i'd had gathering dust in the Cart there. I got like 70 books in the save for later cart that can wait but what i really wanted was the Carving in Stone book that gives u the full guff on using pantographs or pointing machines. We shall see if it does eh.... some review whinges about how its all page after page of technical stuff on enlarging... whoo-hoo! Just what i wanna read.

A course none of the technical books will get here within a month... so its all business as usual. Dr who should get here soon tho :) I like audio books in the studio.. Dr who is pretty senseless but thats good for working, u don't want anything to really distract you.

Never got to the studio... mserable sort of day & i thought i'd be cold there. But tomorrow i'll rug up & do a full day. Sundays are the best days there its quiet & its like i'm the only person for miles. Trying to work out if i'm a country person or a city person. Sometimes i could really be a country person. Alone & maybe with a dog. Nice.

Yesterday went to see an Airplane Museum down south. Was great, planes are the most awesome mechanical devices ever made i reckon. They were pulling a Constellation apart for repairs & there were all sorts of beaut craft about in various states. There were the really skinny helicopters from Vietnam & Iraq, mad things. One had a wire cutter attachment on the front. How would you ever manouver a helicopter to cut a wire! Yet of course it'd be mighty handy to have a wire cutter on the nose like that..... can see that... when u need to cut a wire, u bloody need to don't you. Inside on the observers dashboard was a button called 'wire cut'.