“Because we never really know each other as well as we think, in response to this post I’d like you to ask a question. Anything about which you are curious, anything you feel you ought to know about me. Silly, serious, personal, fannish. Ask away. Then copy this to your own journal, and see what people don’t know about you.”
Nicked from, y’know, whoever was passing…
“Because we never really know each other as well as we think, in response to this post I’d like you to ask a question. Anything about which you are curious, anything you feel you ought to know about me. Silly, serious, personal, fannish. Ask away. Then copy this to your own journal, and see what people don’t know about you.”
In Place Of Original Thought
That random song title meme that’s doing the rounds. You know the one – hit randomise, then paste the titles in as answers to the questions, without changing the order. Just like everyone else, some of these are tripe, some erm, accurate, and some just funny.
Play along at home, and see if you can guess which is which. I’ll award marks for the most correct answers. And a small prize. Or something.
IF SOMEONE SAYS “IS THIS OKAY?” YOU SAY?
The Torch
HOW WOULD YOU DESCRIBE YOURSELF?
Closedown
WHAT DO YOU LIKE IN A GIRL?
Sealclubbing
HOW DO YOU FEEL TODAY?
BulletProof!
Mother and the Misogynist
Louise Bourgeois’s Sculpture “Maman 1999”, outside the Tate Modern, with the dome of St Paul’s Cathedral below. (St Paul being the titular misogynist, of course.) This is another one of those shots that’s going to niggle at me, as however much I like parts of it, it’s still full of little imperfections, particularly in the bottom left and right corners.
As is almost always the case with by B&W work, I’ve left the merest hint of a colour wash in – a very slight red tint, this time around. I experimented with versions of this where the red was a much stronger element, but in the end, settled on this.
Another(wise) Dull Day
A retake, several years later. If you look back in my flickr archives (in fact, if you look in my “Most Interesting” photos), you’ll find a shot titled “An Otherwise Dull Day“, taken years ago when I was first getting interested in photography. I like the shot, but there were things about it that niggled at me, especially as the standard of my photography has improved. So when I was passing the spot where I took the original the other day, I thought I’d have a go more or less the same shot again, with the benefit of several years practice. I like this shot rather better – it’s better composed, and much better post-processed. Let me know what you think?
Finale
Possibly the nerdiest photo I will ever post – at my players urging, I took a photo of the final do-or-die dice roll of our long running Mage RPG. The roll was a success, the world was saved, and here it is, captured for posterity.
I actually quite like this as a photo – post-processing it for colour was a bit of a bastard, as the yellow backdrop was made even yellower by the tone of the light in my living room, and anything that toned that down often did weird things to the colour of the dice, but I like the backdrop and the effect I eventually decided on.
2007
I was trying to do one of those year-in-review memes that’re traditional at this time of year, but it turns out that really nothing interesting happened to me this year. I took up, and gave up, rollerblading. Work was busy, and is going to get busier in the first few months of next year. My friends and loved ones were ace, as always. I met some cool new people. I didn’t do enough photography. Nothing momentous really feels like it happened.
Looking ahead to 2008, well, I’m about to be very busy with work, which is kind of obscuring everything else – until that settles down to whatever it’s new level turns out to be (I hope around May) I’m not really thinking of much else. I’ll be single again in April, which is depressing, but I’ve had plenty of time to come to terms with that. I’d like to keep up the gym going I’ve managed to re-establish. My Dad’s 60th is coming up. A number of friends and family have recently spawned/are due to spawn in the next few months which is nice for them.
I guess it’s kind of indicative of the general flatness of 2007 and the start of 2008 that I can see that I really don’t feel like marking the new year terribly much, which is unusual for me. Now, the last time I asked for exciting surprises around this time of year, everything went tits up on me over the course of the next year, so I shall refrain from doing that, but it’d be nice if 2008 brought a few significant and ace things to remember for me personally, because I don’t think 2007 did.
Belfast Eye
It’s Over!
So, as most of you know, I’m an RPG nerd. Not, y’know, as much as I was a teenager, but still – I’m an RPG nerd. I had a few years break a while back, but then, on a whim, I got a group of friends together, and started running a game of White Wolf’s old game, Mage. I came up with a plot that I thought would take about a year or so to play, assuming a three to four hour session every other weekend – a game based on a gnostic murder mystery and a series of conspiracies and mad bastards as old as the human race. As it turns out, I was a little off in my estimation.
Tonight, three and half years later, playing more or less every other weekend, we finally finished that game, and it went exactly as I might have wished. The players saved the world against impossible odds, and in the end it all came down to one final roll of the dice – either they would triumph, or they would perish, and triumph they did.
It seemed appropriate to mark it. Three and a half years. I’ve had important relationships that didn’t last that long. :)
So, thank you to everyone who has ever taken part in it – marysiak, Danni, wmute, tintintin, cairmen, tyrell and most especially to burge, stu_n, chrisisiddall and anw.
And in two weeks time, we start something new. Thanks, guys.
It’s Over!
So, as most of you know, I’m an RPG nerd. Not, y’know, as much as I was a teenager, but still – I’m an RPG nerd. I had a few years break a while back, but then, on a whim, I got a group of friends together, and started running a game of White Wolf’s old game, Mage. I came up with a plot that I thought would take about a year or so to play, assuming a three to four hour session every other weekend – a game based on a gnostic murder mystery and a series of conspiracies and mad bastards as old as the human race. As it turns out, I was a little off in my estimation.
Tonight, three and half years later, playing more or less every other weekend, we finally finished that game, and it went exactly as I might have wished. The players saved the world against impossible odds, and in the end it all came down to one final roll of the dice – either they would triumph, or they would perish, and triumph they did.
It seemed appropriate to mark it. Three and a half years. I’ve had important relationships that didn’t last that long. :)
So, thank you to everyone who has ever taken part in it – ![[info]](http://stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small}
marysiak, Danni, wmute, tintintin, cairmen, tyrell and most especially to burge, stu_n, chrisisiddall and anw.
And in two weeks time, we start something new. Thanks, guys.