Mark B. Tomlinson

Blogging As some may be aware I am quite a quiet fan of blogs and blogging. I like the low profile old school method of posting news information and updates. No big companies in the background milking our content for the advertising cow. Just ordinary people posting their thoughts and ideas. Sometimes mundane, sometimes informative but always human. AI blogging will come I suppose eventually, I think it may already be here in some form, though I haven’t been mithered by it, yet! I won’t be partaking of it in any way shape or form. Someone mentioned in their blog they had stopped using M-Dash ‘’— " punctuation as it is oft used by AI, I have no idea, also no reason not to believe them. ...

Over the last few years I have read and listened to many books. I had kept a list of them on Goodreads site. Then one day in a fit of pique I decided to delete my account and of course the list. However I later decided it was more useful than I had thought at the time, and so opened a new account, reimporting my previously exported list not reimporting or maybe it did, it was hard to tell. ...

March Of Time March is nearly over and European Summer Time is just a few days away, and I haven’t posted on here again. I missed February completely and so I was determined not to fail March. To that end here is a little post about nothing in particular to fill the gap. To be fair though March went by quite quickly, I guess the depressing news cycle helped pass the time with its constant sabre rattling and doom scrolling headlines. Try as I might I find it hard not get caught up in it, mostly in the hope there is some good news and the end of the madness is on the horizon. Of course it isn’t these things go on and on, powered by ego, greed, and stupidity. So no end in sight. ...

Dark Days This year has not got off to a particularly good start, geopolitically at least, and do not worry this is not going to focus on that, it is only the basis for my current state of well-being. I am not one to get involved with online discussions that involve anything much beyond my interest in Computer Graphics and 3D modelling in particular. That is not to say I am happy with what is happening, it is just that, for the sake of sanity, I am avoiding it as much as possible right now. ...

End Of An Era For a long time now I have been meaning to delete my Artstation account. One reason I kept it around was that it was a link source of some images on my other website, the other was a lack of impetus. I haven’t used the place in a very long time. Posting just once in the last twelve months, and then only because I hadn’t posted; very meta I know. ...

And another year bites the dust: This has not been a particularly pleasant year for many. The world seems to be on the verge of some social implosion, it has become tiresome and depressing. Most, I think, hope that the next one will be better, personally however, I doubt it, and so don’t want to think too much about it. The global state of affairs has certainly affected my will and energy to post or comment, the later always a stressor due to others oft hostile reactions. So I spent most of the year doodling in Blender as a stress distractor and listened to a good number of books whilst modelling. ...

That time again: End of the month once again and as usual I have been lapse in my blog posting. A combination of external distractions and a general lack of interest in everything at the moment. So, forcing myself, I have managed to do a last minute post, the image fits my lack of energy and I had fun making it, so all good. I don’t suppose next month will be any different as I seem to be in somewhat of a rut. Having said that I do like September and the end of the school holidays, which is a welcome change. ...

Lack Of Interest I haven’t posted in a while and missed June completely, I could come up with some esoteric reason but the truth is I just couldn’t be arsed. I have a lot of external things on my mind at the moment and writing a post for the web isn’t high on my list of things to do. That said I do hold with the idea of posting regularly even it isn’t anything of particular import. ...

Some virtual fruit brought back to life Some years ago, back when I still using Modo as my daily driver, what a stupid term, as my main modelling tool, that’s better, I made some fruit models. I have been making a few icons for my stuff over the last years and thought it would be nice to bring the old fruit models over and freshen them up for use in Blender. ...

Moving Instances For no particular reason I have decided to move Mastodon instances: from fosstodon.org to graphics.social Okay partially it was due to my posting: I tend to post 3d renders and graphics and so it felt more fitting to be on an instance that appears to be ostensibly more graphical than software. Also I know a few folk on there and so assumed it would be a good fit. ...