Week 6 - Art. - Balance £13.50

Ahoy there all! Its Monday and that means time for another update!
This week I haven't received any donations, however I've made £4.50 from advertisement revenue, also this week nothing to interesting has happened in terms of my life or my life related activities, apart from several trips to some local public houses.

(Me outside local pub. No donation money was, or ever will be spent on my alcohol bindges)

Speaking of pubs, On the job front, i have also recently applied to the local pub The College inn for bar work, so fingers crossed!

Arty stuff for sale

In an attempt to boost my profits and hopefully one day achieve my goal of becoming a millionaire I have decided to put my previously mentioned useless art and design degree's to use and now selling prints of my art work.
I've been drawing, painting, and generally an arty kinda guy since properly the first time my neurons connected and starting firing signals back and forth when i was nothing more then a barely developed fetus in my mothers womb.
so to get a glimpse of what goes on inside my head and to own a quality print of original art work from an amateur artist check out my deviant art store at:
http://d-murphy.deviantart.com/store/

Prices range from £1.42 ($2.95) for small 5x7 inch print, £24.15 ($49.95) medium 18x24 inch print with no frame, to £38.66 ($79.95) for a large 30x40 inch print.

Heres three Examples of whats up for grabs:


Horse bike by ~D-Murphy on deviantART


Face of war by ~D-Murphy on deviantART


cow gun by ~D-Murphy on deviantART

You can check out rest of my gallery (not all works are for sale) at my deviant art gallery.
If this really does take off im planning to get some work printed at a local printers and sell it on Ebay, as the profit i get from sales on Deviant art after they take a cut are somewhat, crap.

Well that pretty much sums up this weeks blog post, so ill see you as usual next Monday.

Weekly Linky bits

Wooden car pics
Talking cats
10 most insane medical practices in history
Zombie walk in Cardiff - Why wasn't I informed of this!?
Cool exoskeleton suit for military
Some skillful ball antics
"The front fell off"

Week 5 - Its all going swimmingly. - balance £9.00

First off thanks to Mr.Luke Mulligan, Jason Cannon and Laura Blackwell for there generous donations and helping me on my way to £1 million!


A rather frightened looking Laura donating me a pound.

What I've been up to:
During this week as you can see above i have managed to get my digital camera working, so expect some more photos of me and donors, and other blog related photography in the near future!

Also this week I have been putting my otherwise pretty useless Art and Design qualifications to good use by brain storming ideas for promoting my blog and generating more site traffic and thus more income from Advertising revenue and, hopefully, donations. I have already attempted to acquire more traffic by starting a facebook group, and adding a Digg Button however if this crazy schemes going to make me any sort of money i need to get the word out past the boarders of my home town Barry. Any ideas and suggestions you can think of feel free to leave a comment on this post! And you guys can help out by joining and inviting your buddys to the FaceBook group!

Brain Storm, Click to enlarge.

Job Hunting, Part 2. The ongoing saga:

Since handing my notice in to Iceland Frozen foods ltd. many many weeks ago, i have since roamed the damp cold streets of Barry looking for further employment. In retrospect perhaps maybe i should of found other employment before leaving my previous 'sales assistant/minimum wage slave' position in the local supermarket. Vowing never to work in a supermarket again for the sake of my own sanity has since made it extremely difficult to find work in town where Morrisions and Tesco seem to employ nearly 90% of the local population, including nearly all my friends and family.

however recently i have applied to a few places around town including Game Station and Lloyds Pharmacy, unfortunately the feedback has been far from promising:
So if any of my fellow Barryians are reading this, and know of places looking for under qualified staff willing to work for peanuts whiles constantly having to deal with disgruntled customers that seem to have large un-lubricated, possibly splintered, wooden sticks firmly lodged up there backsides, let me know.

Mr.Murphys Weekly link round up!
Paper cant win
Pretty nifty digital brush. Hard to explain just watch the vid.
Drive a RC car fitted with web cam around this guys apartment.
Bike sex man placed on probation - BBC news story
Some cool photos of nuclear explosions
Chinese school, built inside a giant cave
Crayon Physics on tablet PC
Old advertisement from coca-cola
Find your blind spot! Cool optically illusions

New site up and running!

Welcome to the new site people, have decided to move from wordpress to blogger, as blogger is easier to use and more user friendly also its much more flexible and has many more features, so expect to see new fancy things on the site in the near future! see you all next Monday.

Cheers, and good bye!

Old site

Week 4 - Going no where fast. Balance - *still* £4.00

Once again its time for a blog update! this weeks update shall be pretty short as, believe it or not iv pretty much done naff all this week and i have not even received one donation!

Lately I have been asked by a few people: "why should i give you a pound?" and my reply is hell, you don't have to give me any thing! This isn't any sort of scam and your not going to get ripped off, or have billions of spam email in your inbox, the only thing I'm asking for is your generosity in giving me, a one off donation, of an insignificant sum of money. If i could get another million people to also be generous and donate that same small amount, it change my life forever! yet the only you'd be missing is £1, and is that £1 really that important to you? your £1 is more important to me, or rather ALL you peoples £1's are important to me! And hey, if do make a million, i could pay you back your £1 off the interest i earn from it, if you sent me an email id be happy to!.

So once again people, this isn't a scam, or con, or anything like that, I'm not asking you for your bank details, or to donate me £1 with a £100 hidden charge, or anything of the sort! All I'm doing is asking you to change one poor post student teenagers life by donating your spare change, that extra £1 stuck in your bank account you cant withdraw, or thous couple of coppers and 10 or 5ps sitting in a jar or in bottom of your wallet gathering dust, it could all go towards something meaningful if you, and a million people just like you, just generously donated it to a complete stranger!

Or as my long time buddy Lewis Phillips puts it in a comment on my blog post a few weeks back:

"fikerty fik fac giv me a tic tac murfayyyyyy!!!!! feee feee feeee fiiii foooo fummmmm is a kind fellow , he needs his money 2 drink on his own day in day out hiding from work and others who r better that him …..JOKE thats not murf , just pay the man or il crush ur head in a vice n brake ur wind pipe wiv an axxxx!"

So to avoid your eyes suddenly being brought closer together and your windpipe being violated with an "axxxx" Donate a pound via paypal today

Wow, well that went on longer then i was expecting so without further-a-doo heres:

Mr.Murphy's Weekly link round up

The 8 most needlessly detailed wikipedia articles

UK chooses 'most ludicrous laws'

9 creative staircases

5 Awesome Sci-Fi inventions (that would actually suck)

Pretty addictive Pirate game

My next idea for a money making scheme is inspired by this!

The 9 most Manliest names in the world

See you all next week!