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Drunk Racing at Le Mans 24 Hour?

Posted by David Kyte on Aug 3, 2011 in Daves Blog, General | 0 comments

Duncan Hamilton, born 1920, was a larger-than-life character. Hamilton’s antics are a timely reminder of an age when racing drivers didn’t stomp back to their Monaco penthouse for a massive sulk. After Thursday practice his Jag was disqualified, bizarrely, for being on track at the same time as another car bearing the same car number. Disheartened, Hamilton and co-driver Tony Rolt immediately did what any driver of that era would do, they found the nearest pub and gave their sorrows a good lubrications with plenty of Gin.

Digital Art Video

Posted by David Kyte on Jul 27, 2011 in Digital, Videos | 0 comments

A Video created with some of my digital artwork.

Most were crated using Corel Painter or Adobe Photoshop. I tend to work in a traditional manner painting what I want using a Wacom Cintiq LCD tablet, the combination of a pressure sensitive pen and a large screen makes for the most natural drawing and painting experience. Painters is fantastic at mimicking natural media, paint blend and smudges with the underlying colors, tools react with textures as if drawing on rough paper or canvas.

Mr Bean Crashes His Car

Posted by David Kyte on Jul 24, 2011 in Daves Blog, Mini Cooper | 2 comments

Bean at the wheel? at the 2009 Goodwood Revival

NOTE: This is bout his earlier crash, not the August 2011 Crash, see below for update.

Unfortunately for auto enthusiast everywhere it was not the ugly piss yellow Mini he drives in the guise of Mr Bean but is own, or should I say Comedian Rowan Atkinson’s expensive 230mph McLaren F1 supercar.

The front of the McLaren F1 supercar was wrecked in the collision with the rear of a lowly Rover Metro. The driver of the Metro, suffered minor whiplash injuries, while Mr Atkinson was unhurt in the accident, well as “unhurt” as you can be if you just bent a million dollar car that as far as I know only 106 were built.