ewa really liked it. I on the other hand, was left annoyingly unmoved. Every bit as visually lovely as the trailers make out, but it never quite came together emotionally for me.
Pan’s Labyrinth
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ewa really liked it. I on the other hand, was left annoyingly unmoved. Every bit as visually lovely as the trailers make out, but it never quite came together emotionally for me.
Food fans:
A side-splittingly savage review of Heston Blumenthal’s new cookbook.
Via, X, Via Y, we get Z
Specifically, via cairmen, we find Bruce Sterling’s list of quotes from IDEA2006.
I feel this quote (which I assume is talking about Second Life, or similar) more or less sums up the modern world:
“People will run across a battlefield to spray a DJ’s name on a tank.”
Department of the blindingly obvious:
The new Tom Waits triple album really is that bloody good.
ATP: Anyone going?
The Dirty Three are curating All Tomorrow’s Parties in April next year. Nick Cave solo is the headline act, other noteables include Grinderman, The Dirty Three (obv) Low, and A Silver Mt Zion.
http://www.atpfestival.com/events/the-dirty-three/line_up.php
Can I tempt anyone?
30 Seconds Over Tokyo
The second of that pair I mentioned the other day, and as might be obvious, it’s detail cropped from the first, and is a quite radically different photo, I think.
As I said the other day, I’d be interested to know which one people prefer. (I know which I prefer, but I don’t want to prejudice anyone’s answers by saying anything until I’ve heard from a few people.)
Happy Birthday, Andrew!
I usually don’t bother cluttering up people’s friendspage’s with birthday wishes for people they don’t know. I figure my friends probably know I wish them all the best, or they will when I wish them happy birthday in person. But anw turns 30 today, and y’know, I think that’s worth making an exception for.
Happy birthday, mate. May your 30s be everything you could want them to be.
The rest of you: Go wish my friend a happy birthday, because he deserves it.
Golden Lotus
Peace In The Valley
One of those rare shots that I just flat out like, and wouldn’t change anything about. Well, aside from the fact that this is actually a detail from a larger shot, but I took the shot knowing I’d be cropping it to this.
I’ve been give an early christmas present of a Nikon 50mm F1.8 AF D lens. Basically, it’s a lens that has a wide aperture, so is good for low light photography, but no zoom at all, and obviously, sometimes you just can’t move to frame the exact shot you want.
So instead, I took something else, and pulled the shot I actually wanted out of the detail.