{"id":175,"date":"2015-01-06T22:52:07","date_gmt":"2015-01-06T11:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greole.com\/blog\/?p=175"},"modified":"2015-01-06T22:52:07","modified_gmt":"2015-01-06T11:52:07","slug":"changing-my-blog-title-and-other-nonsense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2015\/01\/06\/changing-my-blog-title-and-other-nonsense\/","title":{"rendered":"Changing my blog title and other nonsense"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I’ve decided to change my blog title to “Home to Gregory Long – Fantasist, Artist, Author, Experimenter and General Eccentric”. As part of the course “Blogging 101” they said to consider making the title more appropriate. I think that this meets the specification.<\/p>\n

So why this?<\/p>\n

Well, besides the obvious I just felt that simple having “Home to Gregory Long – Fantasist” was a bit limiting. Probably the best descriptor there is eccentric.<\/p>\n

This aside, I was very excited to discover that a blog called “Excel Roundup<\/a>” had linked to my article on using Excel to create cityscape backgrounds for use in illustrations. That link practically doubled my readership! I will obviously have to write more articles on using Excel for artistic purposes. I actually love Excel and generally tend to think that most people in business totally underutilise its abilities to generate beautiful charts.<\/p>\n

Having said that, my next artistic project (as opposed to my writing one) is to see whether I can use DAZ Studio to create an image in the style of Caravaggio<\/span><\/a>. Caravaggio, for those of you unfamiliar with Sixteenth Century Italian painters, was a um… Sixteenth Century Italian painter. His dramatic use of light influenced the Baroque movement. So expect that in a few days.<\/p>\n

regards<\/p>\n

Greg<\/p>\n

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PS: as an aside, here is a link to an exhibition called “Beyond Caravaggio<\/a>” at the National Gallery of Ireland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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