Another month has passed and last Thursday saw another fantastic doodle planet. Doodle planet is all about chilling out, with a beer or two and having a bit of a doodle. It takes place the last Thursday of most months in Telford’s warehouse, Chester.

The setup this month was great as usual, but with an extra addition… light painting. Having never had a go of light painting before I was of course rubbish at it but it was great to have a go. If you happen to be in the area for the next event, and fancy having a relaxing & creative evening, then I really suggest coming along and joining in.

You can see the photos and video I took of the whole event over on Flickr [ http://www.flickr.com/photos/carlosthedesigner/sets/72157624261645611/ ]

More info:

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?v=wall&gid=27022412230
http://www.compulsivesart.com/
http://www.telfordswarehousechester.com/

I have been struggling to find out how to get the RSS address of a Facebook fan page for some work that I was doing and it’s been a real pain to find the info on how…. But I finally figured it out so I decided to share the method that ended up working the best (It’s beautiful in it’s simplicity)

1. Head on over to www.google.com/reader.
2. Click on the add a subscription (top of menu on the left).
3. paste the fan page link (http://www.facebook.com/thefanpagename) in the search box and click “Add”.
4. Once it’s found it click on the settings tab > reader settings (top right).
5. Click on the subscriptions tab and you should see the full address that you can use in any RSS reader, parser or whatever you need.

There may be an easier way so I would love to find out but this seems pretty simple to me.

Week 11 is here. Only another 41designs or drawings to go. In case you haven’t figured it out already it’s all about designing every week. You can see what’s been added or join in yourself over on flickr. Here is my design for this week on Flickr.

Whoh! It’s week 10 of designing one piece a week, every week, all year. The more observant of you may have noticed that I didn’t do a design last week or the week before, which defeats the philosophy of the whole 52 Designs. Epic Fail? No! It’s not over yet though and there is no point giving up just because of a little hick-up… I just need to do 3 designs for week 10 to get back on track.

In the mean time you can join in or checkout what everyone else has done over on flickr.

Thursday saw another doodleplanet event down at Telfords Warehouse in Chester. Fantastic atmosphere as usual and fab drawings from everyone. The idea of doodle planet is to get creative, have a chill out and chat with other like-minded people over a pint or 3 (Well that’s how I take the event to be). I have posted my (better) pics onto Flickr. Head on over to check them out. There is also a group on facebook where I will be adding my images shortly.

I’m looking forward to the next event already.

Week 9 begins and that means we are over 15% through the 52 Designs. There are almost 50 designs in there already. I am still thrilled by the response from everyone and the fantastic designs that have been added to the group on flickr. Just make a design every week. It’s great for keeping your skills sharp, learning new techniques and trying new ideas and of course, most importantly, it’s fun.

The design pictured is my addition to week 8.

Week 8 Has begun so get your creative hat on and head on over http://www.flickr.com/groups/52designs/.

52 Designs is about creating a design a week (and hopefully every week) to keep skills from getting rusty, trying out new ideas, building a portfolio, just for fun or all of the above.

Week 6 of 52 Designs is here which means we are over 10% the way through the year! 52 Designs is about creating a design a week and now has 15 artists involved with and ever increasing number of designs.

You can create whatever design you want and what ever medium you choose. If you haven’t already done so then head on over to http://www.flickr.com/groups/52designs/ and check out the creative fun.

52 Designs is about designing something every week of the year. Here is a quick look at all the images from January for the 52 Designs pool on Flickr. Click on the images for a bigger/better view.

If you would like to join in then head over to the pool on Flickr. All image credits go to the original artists who you can find in said pool!

Wow can you believe it’s week 4 already! The 52 Designs Flickr group [ http://www.flickr.com/groups/52designs/ ] already has loads of images and people involved making some brilliant images. I’m looking forward to another great week.

In case you missed it, 52 Designs is a creative project to create a new design every week. Anything goes as a design so you can doodle, scribble, paint, scuplt, 3dModel. Just get creative and share the results.

If you want to join up then head on over to the Flickr Group and join in the creative fun. If you don’t have a Flickr/yahoo account then I am working on a solution but you can always post the link to your image in the comments. In the mean time if you have any ideas on how I can include you then drop me a comment below.

Thanks