Organising Beatles Memorabilia

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The Beatles A & B C Chewing Gum Ltd (second series)

Owning a complete set of Beatles gum cards from the 1960s, has made my collection complete…

I understand the joys of collecting things like stamps, trading cards etc. there is always the pleasure of finding, buying that elusive one that will make the set. Chewing gum cards were my thing when I was small – I loved the chance element, the hope of getting what I wanted.

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The Art of Blogging…

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Has blogging become boring and your website gone out of control, then get in touch with us and we can fix it for you.

 
One of the best ways to get into search engines is to use the blogging tool WordPress. This content management system delivers a mighty bang when optimising a website. WordPress appeared in 2003, with a few users who were looking for a way to enhance the typography of writing on the Web. Since then it has grown to be the largest self-hosted blogging tool in the world, used on millions of sites and seen by tens of millions of people every day. Please contact us via email is you want us to progress your business. 
 
Most websites suffer from unoriginality; they belong to the herd of mediocrity and banality. If you write a controversial blog or web page, you can bet a few minutes later, a thousand bloggers are parodying it with their unique take on the concept…or not!
 
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Below is an extract from a WordPress blog we update:
 
 
Since the proliferation of computers, painting could be argued to have migrated to the digital age (world). There is a massive community of artists who use computers to paint colour onto a digital canvas using programs such as Adobe Photoshop, Corel Painter, Gimp and others. Does this mean that new printing techniques have now become absorbed into painting methodologies and practices?
 
 
This meshing together of processes, unrelated imagery and the breaking down of barriers cannot be seen as a shortcut to intellectual credibility. The dedicated thought process that goes with the creative procedure should be one of intense reasoning. It is therefore unrealistic to expect the uneducated masses to use the computers prescriptive decision making to create ‘real art’. The birth of Photoshop has enabled everybody to create ‘non-intellectual’ versions of Rauschenberg (and Warhol) – this is not ART.
 
“Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, colour or other medium to a surface. The application of the medium is commonly applied with a brush. In art, the term painting describes both the act and the result of the action. These same criteria can be used to describe printing.” Continue reading