Bod, James Bod!
“Bod, James Bod!“
Last week I was browsing Twitter (whilst I should have been working) and stumbled up this tweet by Steve Campbell from Debut Design in Wolverhampton. Having given the photo a quick look, I took my chances and replied saying that I thought it was Gadget Show host Suzi Perry. To my amazement, a few minutes later I got a reply from Steve telling me that I’d won!
I was directed to this page, where I had to upload a photo of myself, along with a brief description of how I wanted my bod to look. I uploaded a photo, and included several things in the description that I considered essential; a beard, long hair, a smile, checked shirt, dark trousers, boots, not too ginger.
I think the result above speaks for itself – it’s a really great likeness, crafted by someone who has never set eyes on me in ‘real life’, and I’m very pleased with it. So much so that I’m now using my bod as my profile pic on my blog, Facebook, Twitter, Google, and various other sites. Whatsmore, you can get your own Bod for the very reasonable price of £20 – check out the Debut website to order one.
Gallery Test
I’ve upgraded my blog to Wordpress version 2.5, so I thought I’d test the built in gallery function with a few photos from a recent stag do my brothers and I went on…
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- Dave ‘Babraham Lincoln’ Hunt – the stag!
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- The brothers grim!
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- Me as a Cowboy
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- Stat as a Sportsfan
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- Al as a redneck trucker
Manimal
About a month ago we had the big party to celebrate my youngest brother Alex’s 18th Birthday. We hired a venue, invited 100+ people and put on a great night of music, food and drink. I can’t remember the last time I had so much fun, all of my close friends and family were there, and it was the best 18th Birthday party I’ve ever attended!For one night only the band ‘Manimal’ was born – this consisted of myself, my brothers (Stat and Al), our cousin Steve, long suffering front-man The Dicko, and as previously mentioned a special guest appearance by my Dad aka ‘Fishman’. We played a 15 song set which included a couple of original tunes from our regular band ‘Scrat‘ and a bunch of party-friendly covers.
Check out the video above of us performing Bryan Adam’s ‘Summer of ‘69′, which ironically was the year my Dad left school…more video can be found on my YouTube Channel here.
Do Not Adjust Your Monitor!
‘The Middle Of Yesterday’ is no more, I’m now blogging under a new domain name; ‘www.jamesdclarke.com’. I’ve decided to switch my blog over to a new domain name – my own name!
I’ve done this for a couple of reasons, firstly because it’s becoming harder and harder to get your hands on good dot com domain name, and secondly in an attempt to build my online profile/brand – something that is becoming more and more important these days (or so I am told), especially when using the internet to make a living as I do. There’s a lot of James Clarkes with an ‘E’ out there – so I decided the time was right to bag my name whilst I still could.
Hopefully my Mom will be pleased about the ‘D’ for Douglas as I was rather ashamed of my middle name as a kid. I remember vividly the only time I got a proper slap around the face from her – I was 10 or 11 years old and we were in the car on the way home from my birthday party at McDonald’s (I was too young to know any better then), my two best mates were in the car and grilling me about my middle name. I was tight lipped, however my Mother (ever the protagonist) told them both, to which I quickly yelled “you bitch!” and SLAP, there it was!
So, I apologise for calling you a bitch Mom, but you shouldn’t have wound me up. I hope you like my new domain name!
