Picnik, if you haven't googled it by now, lets you edit your photos. I, for one, love photography and I think maybe one of the best parts of the art, is being able to show your work off  but, that’s not all you can do with this site.

I was set a few hours to look through the site, so I could come up with something to write about and you know what...I was impressed. 

Think flickr and very a cut down version of Photoshop 7, mix them up and Picnik is what you get. It’s a really intuitive little site, enabling the user to edit photos (to a basic level) and then to post them online for the others to see. 

It doesn't stop there, thanks to its speedy server, you can upload photos, then edit and save them back on your desktop in minutes. Not happy with your photo's? Look for inspiration on the homepage by following the featured photographers. 

If you love your photo's, print them to canvas or that special office mug you been longing for, all with a few clicks of a button. 

There is only one draw back...unfortunately Picnik is powered by Flash and Flash being Flash it’s not supported on the iPhone, or iPad which is a bit of disappointment...but hey life goes on!

I am not gonna chat endlessly about Picnik and frankly I ran out of thing to say. But I will say this; if you are interested in photography or just wanna upload photos with your friends quick and easily, then Picnik is for you. 

Go on have a look (picnik.com) you know you want too!

We have all heard of stop motion, right? The technique used to make Morph, Pingu and of course our loveable heroes Wallace & Gromit. 'Stop motion is an animation technique to make a physically manipulated object appear to move on its own. The object is moved in small increments between individually photographed frames, creating the illusion of movement when the series of frames is played as a continuous sequence'. 'Thanks Wiki!'

I remember liking Playdough from an early age, and not just to eat, I used to make my own people and figures. But, it wasn’t until I saw the Plasticine characters on TV where I got the urge to create my own. 

So that’s what I did – and I never stopped! 

I have been replicating characters such as Donkey (Shrek), Bender (Futurama), Wile E. Coyote (Loony tunes) and Bob, the jelly like substance from the film 'Monster vs. Aliens'. 

However, as much as I wanted to animate them I never have, mostly because they are so fragile.  Characters, such as Wallace & Gromit, are built with Armatures in them; 'a framework around which the sculpture is built. This framework provides structure and stability, especially when a plastic material such as wax or clay is being used as the medium' - another thanks to Wiki!' 

To animate my models I would need something strong enough to support the model and has hinges to move the limbs realistically, so I went away to do some research...

I found the answer in 'Meccano'. With this I should be able to create a figure with supportive arms and legs, a fully functional skeleton for my model.

I am going to build and animate a model using Meccano as the skeleton. Now I just need to find some Meccano, maybe ebay or a car boot sale, and start brain storming a character. 

Hit me back in a couple of weeks for an update on how I am doing....

Watch this space.