Baxter at Copenhagen

 cartoons  Comments Off
Dec 222009
 

the real reason the talks derailed:

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(I’m not happy with this Baxter, not at all, but it’s been such a while since I grappled with him that I thought it better to bodge one out and springboard off its mediocrity back up into the soaring heights of The Fish than fuss forever with an unhappy cartoon. Better out than in. I don’t like: the subject, the words, the posture, the colour and the composition, the chair, the table, the nameplate thing. I do like: the pointer, the fish. If I could say that the whole cartoon is saved by anything at all, it is in the placid disinterest of the fish. Anyway, back in the saddle!)

Instructions for Bruce

 varnish  Comments Off
Dec 042009
 

Hello Bruce. Here is how to get here:

Head out of Oleiros towards Serta, but after only a few hundred metres turn RIGHT up the hill towards Alvaro.

4km up the hill you turn LEFT at the old resin factory (with the chimney) towards Madeira. The road continues climbing towards the wind turbines.

After a few kilometres there is an orange bus stop on the right, with signs to (amongst others) Sarnadas, Longra and Frazumeira. Turn RIGHT down this road.

Drive another couple of kilometres along this road, which begins with a precipitous wiggle downwards, then the road straightens, you head past a crossroads, past a left hand turn to Portela (I think) then on your left you will see a sign to CORGA.
Turn LEFT and drive for 1km down the track, following your nose, to our house. Stop car, apply handbrake, exit car, walk to house, say hello.