Do you subscribe to the conspiracy theory or the cock up theory – it does not matter the end result is the same.
When I was a kid I believed America held the baton, passed by the Europeans, of human cultural progress, improving on all which had gone before and making a better world. But a generation of foolish politician have cocked it all up and America is in danger of going down in history as one of the shortest lived empires – a self inflicted failure.
My new app for the iPad
There are more than 800 glyph illustrations including 400 Egyptian word examples and over 300 hieroglyphs from the Gardiner list. The app includes detailed information on the history of Egyptian writing and mathematics, the use of the different types of symbols, how to write your name, how to recognise kings names and the story of the scribe with a video showing how papyrus is made. The latest version of the Hieroglyphic Typewriter and Math Calculator is included. The on screen QWERTY keyboard incorporates alphabet and number symbols together with a selection of determinative signs. The keys include Latin symbols together with their hieroglyph equivalents and descriptions, which allow you to type messages naturally and at a glance see the translations. You can quickly write names and short secret messages and then with the email function you send the results by email. http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/egyptian-hieroglyphs/id499539517?ls=1&mt=82012 Ancient Egyptian Gods Calendar is free
This is an A4 calendar I made for my Newsletter subscribers, you can write your important dates on it.
Download it here
http://shop.discoveringegypt.com/2012_EGYPTIAN_GODS_CALENDAR.html
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My new application explains the mystery of Egyptian cult temples, it is illustrated with six videos, photos, drawings and 30 highly detailed computer generated reconstructions.
It is available for the iPad
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/egypt-temples/id486820743?ls=1&mt=8
the Blackberry playbook
http://appworld.blackberry.com/webstore/content/54543?lang=en
and for PC and Mac
http://shop.discoveringegypt.com/CULT-TEMPLES.html
I’ve recently been thinking about my mentor Lionel Miskin. I owe him a great debt – he was my teacher at art school from 1976-80 and continued to encouraged and supported my artistic endeavours until his death in 2006. He was one of those lovable English eccentric gentlemen that are now extinct in 21st century Britain, with its rough manners, obsession with mediocrity and pretentious celebrity.
There’s a lot I could say about Lionel but I’ll let his works of art speak and Evelyn Williams, who wrote his Obituary in the Guardian, and which captures the essence of the man.The artist and writer Lionel Miskin, who has died aged 81, appeared at St Martins in 1943 dressed in Air Force uniform, a red scarf slung nonchalantly round his neck, bringing glamour into a wartime art school. He was the gentlest, funniest, most interesting person we had ever met. He would breeze into class, draw a brilliant portrait or two and regale us with tales of "Lionel's war", which included visits to a neutral Dublin where he claimed the restaurants were full of German officers. He had been at Cheltenham college with Lindsay Anderson and Gavin Lambert, and when Lindsay made his brilliant film If ... the lead, Malcolm McDowell, was the spitting image of Lionel, Lindsay's life-long friend. His home in Mevagissey, with his wife Pru, their three sons and Labrador Picasso, was a focal point in a community of writers and artists. He was a draughtsman of great depth and skill, also a painter, writer (his novel The Pantechnicon was published in 1969), potter, etcher and filmmaker (for the Arts Council). Later he became head of department at Falmouth art school. When he later moved to Cyprus to bathe in the warm sea, he produced sumptuous drawings of the landscape there. On returning to England, he and Pru settled in Bovey Tracey, and he continued to work to within a couple of months of his death. If you want to find out more about Lionel go herewww.lionelmiskin.com
