February 2010

Simply Say Hello

by Dave

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Hi, I wanted to invite you to say hello and I’ll say hello back to you! It doesn’t need to be much more than that, unless of course you want to. My name is Dave Fowler and the picture is just so you know who you’re talking to. I’m 41, married with four children. Two [...]

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Mona Lisa Million: One Week In

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What a very enjoyable first week I’ve had here at Mister Good Guy! The concept and the website have been five weeks in the making but this was my first week of being ‘on air’. Five sections of the Mona Lisa Million have already been taken, and five more are going free. The site in [...]

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Giving Away Five Sections Of The Mona Lisa

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This is the one where I offer five sections of the Mona Lisa Million picture for free. The first five readers to comment on this post indicating they want in, will be offered a section on the outer ring of the image as indicated below. This is provided your site meets the terms and conditions, [...]

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Mister Good Guy? You’re Joking, Right?

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When I came up with the idea for this site I wondered whether Mister Good Guy would be problematic name. I mean who has the arrogance to appoint himself Mister Good Guy, surely that’s for other people to decide? I concede that the name I’ve chosen for the site could be turn out to be [...]

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The Fab Four

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This is what I consider to be the first real post I’ve written for this site. I’ve already written three posts but they were really just to set the scene. In the first one I laid out what this project is about and how it works. In the next two I explained something of my [...]

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Aiming high. Very high.

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This is a continuation of the previous post and outlines where the idea for the concept of the Mona Lisa Million came from. To recap… As I mentioned before, I’m a stay-at-home dad to four young children, two of whom are pre-school age. I’ve taken a break from an 18 year career to look after [...]

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And All That I Knew Was The Hole In My Shoe

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And all that I knew was the hole in my shoe Which was letting in water Lyric from a 1967 Traffic song. Ideas come from the strangest places, and it was the hole in my shoe (actually, my walking boot!) that prompted me to develop the idea for this project. A little background My name [...]

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Introducing the Mona Lisa Million

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Hello and welcome! This post marks the launch of a new project called the Mona Lisa Million. Over the next six to nine months I’ll be auctioning off pre-defined sections of a million pixel image of the Mona Lisa – probably the most famous image in the world! This is an ambitious project designed to [...]

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