Nikon D90 DSLR

While I'm online I should probably add a note about my latest gadget too. It's a Nikon D90 DSLR with an 18-200mm lens and I bought it as I was itching to do a little photographic experimentation.

A few years ago I used to have a Canon 350D but the Nikon seems to be the important step up I was hoping it would be for me. Not that I'm going to neglect my Panasonic Lumix FX-550, I just wanted to have the option of both compact and DSLR.

Anyway, here's one of my first pictures taken with it, of my car in the recent snow (was impressed at the colour it picked out in the wall and lamp post). Next purchase will be a Sigma 10-20mm wide angle lens for those cool, slightly warped reality images.

Guy Allen • Motoring Illustrator

It's been a while since my last post. Recovery from the broken/dislocated shoulder is just about finished now save for a little physio to do for the next month. So, time to update my blog and what better to do that with than some vanden plas illustration.

Guy Allen's stuff is right up my cul-de-sac and I plan to buy something from him in the new year. He does commissions and you may have seen his work in Octane magazine too. Check out his website here and for an instant aesthetic hit, here is a gorgeous Ferrari 512 S.

Girl Talk • All Day (free mash-up album download)

I heard the track 'Jump on the Stage' lunchtime on 6Music and decided to search for it online.

Turns out it's by a DJ outfit called Girl Talk who are offering an entire album as a free download.

Well worth the 155mb and should get most parties started :)

Download here and just add speakers.

Rolling Stones • Gimme Shelter

Forgotten how much I love this song until I saw the recent ad for Black Ops. From the album 'Let It Bleed' - which incidentally, features cover artwork photo of a cake baked by none other than Delia Smith.

Star Wars Augmented Reality Tie-Fighter Game

I predict this to be the the most downloaded game for the rest of the year on iPhone. Can't wait to shoot Tie-Fighters from the top of Greenwich park looking out over the river and Canary Wharf.

MasterChef • The Alternative Final

Very very funny viral edit of a UK televisual favourite.

Chewing Gum artist

Saw a news segment about this guy, Ben Wilson, on the Beeb website. Brilliant!
Paints miniature pics on chewing gum stuck to the pavement. Some of his work on Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/rahid1/sets/286517