kimmings

About me and this site

This site is the personal weblog of julian kimmings, an illustrator, a yorkshire man and digital media developer in based in chester.

The site is a custom build blog built using php, xhtml / xml and some javascript (these 3 technologies combined are often called AJAX). The site was written using textmate, it simply kicks the ass out of any HTML editing tool you can possibly buy. I'm married with 3 kids that keep me pretty busy, pretty stressed but most of all happy. I've recently started painting again after a long gap - the reason for which I'm still trying to ascertain. I'd like to paint full-time.

There have been over twenty variations of this site, I'm fairly happy with this one, so far.

Artwork

The artwork displayed here is a mix of my older illustration work, new work I'm working on and sketches, experiments in in new techniques and styles. I hope you like it, if you do... pop over to my redbubble page where you can buy prints.

Listening and reading

Listening, quite literally is whatever I happen to be listening to at the time on iTunes. The list is pulled from lastfm.com feeds. Rather than using the lastfm.com feed readers I created my own using php... it's fairly simple - but it works fine and means I can style the list anyway I choose.

Reading is my personal list of favourite websites that I visit quite regularly. Some are friends, others websites or people I like to keep an eye on. Take a look at some and see for yourself.