Paint your own Gorilla

We uploaded a blank Gorilla .blend under a CC license so you can use Blenders texture paint to decorate your own.

Don't forget to save out the image as well as the blender file itself. You can do this in the UV image window with Image>Save As. There are more instructions in the on hosting site, and inside the .blend file itself
Here is the Blend.

Arty Bristol Gorillas

For the past few weeks Bristol has had a number of artistically painted Gorilla statues placed all over the city.

People have been taking photos of them, and we went on a Home Ed trip to collects some pics too.
Here is our pic set.



The gorillas made us want to paint our own in 3d as a group project and here they are.

Beautiful Avon Walk

We just got back from our walk, and the weather has temporarily returned to beautiful sunshine. We are Home Educators, so we don't go to school.

Portus Abonae, aka Sea Mills

From November Walk along Avon

From November Walk along Avon

We found a secluded path today, and some allotments. and some other things..

CaesarX Watches a Boat

From November Walk along Avon

Boat Goes By.

From November Walk along Avon

Wood Texture.

From November Walk along Avon

Under the Bridge One Time.

From November Walk along Avon

Landscape. Here, the small version:

From November Walk along Avon

Skuzz Texture.

From November Walk along Avon

Boys Walk Ahead

From November Walk along Avon

Is this like God or a UFO or something?

From November Walk along Avon

Evidence of a Frost, in the Shade

From November Walk along Avon

Up there, past them trees...I seeee you...

From November Walk along Avon

Left Leg Skank

From November Walk along Avon

Right Leg Skank

From November Walk along Avon

I don't know why.

Intriguing Plant Portal

You must squat really low to pass here. Or be a child.

From November Walk along Avon

Lit Avon

From November Walk along Avon

Merchant ships used to sail up the Avon. Now it tends to be pleasure craft only. No locals swim here. Do not swim in water unless the locals do. I've never seen fishermen hereabouts either.

Avon Fungus

From November Walk along Avon

Avon Fungus Texture

From November Walk along Avon

This will probably end up being a creature texture (applied to a 3d mesh) at some point, or maybe just a fungus texture. Please comment if you are a Mycologist and know what type it is.

Avon Fungus Texture with Alpha Channel.
.PNG format. Extracted by CaesarX with GIMP Lasso tool.
Help yourself if you have a use for it.

From November Walk along Avon

There are some more pictures embedded below, taken in the area to the North of these, and from another day. Click on the pins. You can drag the map around too.

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Further up the Avon You May Find:

From Bristol Map Pictures

(A replica of)

Cabot's Matthew, a Caravel

We may make ourselves a Caravel, or Portus Abonae, in 3D.

That's all for now. Click on any of the images to go to Picasa for larger versions.

If you enjoyed the album, please leave a comment, as they make us happy.

Here is a link to the Beautiful Avon Walk album.

Map of Bristol Pictures

A map for HE people to embed pictures of Bristol into. Bit of an experiment. Contact me via email or the forum if you want to embed a picture you have taken, and I'll send you an invite.
It might take a moment to fully load, and look like an image until it does.



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Bristol School Bullying - Now Online

Poor kid!
Where were the teachers?
On a break?

Nice blazers though, must be a 'posh' school.

Open Letter to Charlotte Leslie

Dear Charlotte Leslie,
Could you possibly make a comment or two on your blog stating your attitudes to Home Education please?
As home educators in your area, we would like to know what you think.

thanks in advance,
Stuart Dunstan

The Fiery Queen

Just recently we attended a production of Fiery Queen at Redgrave Theatre. This was play written and directed by Kate Edwards of the Bristol HELP (Home Educators Learning Place) group and starring home educated children from all over Bristol.

The play was brilliant!
Everyone enjoyed it, and you could tell that a great deal off effort had gone into the whole show.

The subject of the play, was how several groups of Victorian era children manage to foil a dastardly plot in Victorian Bristol, involving the ship the Fiery Queen. The content of the play was itself quite educational as well as the experience clearly being very good for the folks involved. There were slides accompanying the play, on a projector surface alongside the stage, and the Fiery Queen herself had been on historically accurate trade routes, fetching green tea from China. Yum.

There was a strong musical element to the play, which was nice, but not so much that I would call it a musical. Previously we had also attended a performance of the full versions of the songs and that was a big success too.

I even managed to sneak CaesarX (my eldest) up into the sound/light room to have a look at the technology there!

A big thanks to everyone involved for a really neat Home Education Learning Place production...we loved it!

Cameron Center Animations

These stop motion animations were made at the Cameron Center, with instructor Hannah Currant.
We used pieces of card and plasticene, plus cameras on tripods.
Big thanks to everyone - everyone really enjoyed themselves. Hopefully we will be able to attend the screening tonight as well.