Sunday 21 September 2008

I'm feeling arty = )

I uploaded some art on myspace today, most are scans of drawings & sketches I did over the last few months. Most of them range from anime style to films & music inspired, I’m not sure of all of them but I thought it would be worth putting them out there to see what people think, art was my favourite subject in school & I still love to draw & create art. I will be adding more over the next few weeks & hopefully more photography work too, at the moment I post all my new photography work & shots on myspace - including personal galleries. The one that I like the most has to be St anger, I took the idea from the metallica album of the same name, the original drawing was done in about 5mins with just a pen & an A4 sheet of paper - the finished piece is all paint based with different techniques like smudging used to create the backdrop & sky. The anime drawings are a mix of my own personal style of drawing & of the bratz animation, random robotguy is of course my own design & I’m not really sure if I like the finished colours, all art & drawings can be commented on through myspace = )

Palins yahoo account was a simple hack

Experts explained that Sarah Palin could have easily avoided the whole embarrassment related to her email address by making use of some simple security practices. The hacker gained access to the Republican vice Presidential candidate’s account by resetting the password so it was no work of art. He forced a password reset by answering questions about Palin’s birth date, zip code and where she met her spouse, Wasilla High School. The group that calls itself "Anonymous," announced that it had cracked into Palin's Yahoo account in a message posted on a site that regularly posts confidential documents. The group posted five screenshots, two digital photos of Mrs Palin's family and an address book to the whistle-blowing Wikileaks website. The hackers also claimed that the information was taken from Ms Palin's gov.palin@yahoo.com e-mail account. The FBI and the US Secret Service have now begun a formal investigation into the attack and who may have been behind it. The hackers used the CTunnel proxy service. Moreover the screenshots for the attack lead to the original web address used by the proxy which may help investigators track down the hackers. Though federal law prohibits the unauthorized access of someone's e-mail account, the Department of Justice's interpretation of one particular case might only hold the Palin hackers accountable for accessing unopened messages. Under DOJ's interpretation, the Palin hackers might only be prosecuted for accessing e-mails the Alaska governor had not yet opened. Based on the data leaked by the hackers, it is not clear if they opened any unread messages.

New 007 bond theme announced

Its official the new james bond theme has been announced, the song called “another way to die” was written & produced by jack white of the White Stripes. Not only did he write the track but he also performs on the song alongside Alicia keys - its also rumoured the track will feature on the a commercial for the drink sprite zero. In the past the music played an integral part in every bond movie - the last movie casino royale had chris cornells “you know my name” & it was a hit, before that such artists as Madonna, sheryl crow, tina turner, duran duran, garbage & many more all provided solid sounding songs for the bond movies however this latest track by alice keys & chris cornell just doesn’t cut it. At the very start of the song the music sounds like something from the remake of the hills have eyes & as it nears the middle of the track it just gets worse, its such a shame that the music is so bad because like all bond movies the music plays such an important part of the overall movie. It has also been confirmed that David Arnold will also return to compose the actual score of the movie, Arnold has also scored the previous “tomorrow never dies“ “the world is not enough” “die another day” & “casino royale” & if his past movies are anything to go by then the score will makeup for the awful sounding keys & the terrible song writing of jack white.