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Poison Arrow and Bambi Manslaughter, of the London Roller Girls, at the start of a bout. I’m not enitrely happy with Poison’s eyes in this – I would have liked the whites a little less grey, but I couldn’t find a way to brighten them that didn’t either look very artificial, or throw off the colour balance of the rest of the shot.
Dolly BustHer, skating for Team Pink at the London Roller Girls inaugural bout. I think this once captures a certain spirit of the thing, and is a decent opening for a few shots from the bout. I found shooting at the bout to be an utter bastard, as the one lens I’ve got that has enough zoom to let me get close the action is a zoom that has no anti-shake, and fairly narrow aperture and depth of field at full zoom, but as I said to someone (whose name I have forgotten) at the event who was remarking on the drawbacks of my chosen lens, while I have to take fifty shots to get one usable one, the scattered few like this I get with that lens are generally worth the suffering.
Where might I go to find good public domain sound effect MP3s? City streets, dripping pipes, crowd noise, that sort of thing? (And willing to stump up small amounts for CDs if required, although I’d prefer just to download MP3s.)
I suppose I ought to take a look at this Pownce thing what everyone and their dog has been talking about for months. I haven’t up to now, because as far as I can see, it doesn’t actually fill any need in my life, but a client just mentioned it, and I felt a bit daft, so I should go look just for the sake of professional credibility.
So, anyone got an invite going spare in exchange for a promise of beer?
It may of of interest to some round these parts to know that the London Roller Girls are having their first public bout this weekend. You may have seen them in the papers or on the telly in recent months, and now you can go see them compete in person!
If you’ve never heard of it before, this will give you some idea of what rollerderby is all about.
I’m going, along with several of my friends. You should too. It’s something different to do with your Saturday evening…
All the news that’s fit to look upon in a skeptical manner:
So, my spiffing new website design has a bug, and I’m fucked if I know how to fix it. If anyone round these parts would care to take a look at http://ala.sda.ir, first in Firefox, and then in IE, and then tell me why the photos in the middle column line up in Firefox, but not in IE, and what I need to go to get them to line up nicely in IE, I’d be very grateful, in a beer-buying kind of way.
Cheers.
Anyone interested in going to any of the following?
12/09 – The Go! Team at The Electric Ballroom
20/09 – Skindred at the Scala
29/09 – PJ Harvey at the RFH
Bastard. Must pay more attention in future.
After some small effort, and a couple of false starts, I have more or less finished redesigning my main personal website, ala.sda.ir. I’m quite pleased with how it’s turned out. I’ve got an IE-only display bug to sort out (the photo grid isn’t quite aligned in IE at the moment, and I really want to spend a bit of time on the related posts feature, because I’m not really sure how the plugin I’m using to run it works out what is related – it feels a bit pot-luck to me at the moment. Still, it’s a rather more modern design than I had been using, which is nice.
