In the 80s my hair was bigger than hers—and here she is giving me a certificate saying so: [click image to enlarge]
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Photography
26Jan05 — 0
Snapping Again
Woohoo! I finally won an Ebay camera auction and got a mint condition Dynax 5 for sixty quid from the efficient and polite hitchin2001. This is a bargain price for a gem of a camera. Watch out family, friends, and random strangers: I have my third eye back.
Read More09Jan05 — 6
Don’t Knock Cheap Cameras
As you probably know, my not-so-trusty (hundred-and-fifty quid) camera is out of sorts—almost certainly as a result of rough handling by me. So I used the 35mm film compact that I bought for my parents to take pictures of my niece Maisie’s second Christmas. It was maddeningly difficult for a habitual SLR-user like me to […]
Read More27Dec04 — 0
The Countryside Alliance Goes In Hard
Chris The Stoat linked to The Brick Testament yesterday, showing the image of the Lego shepherds gathering. He didn’t link to the next frame of Luke, showing them drawing a bead on a messenger of the Lord with a ground-to-air missile launcher. As the angel is joined by reinforcements, the militants run for cover.
Read More23Dec04 — 0
Blonde Celebrity In Least Convincing “I Am Not A Bimbo” Protest Ever
Read all abaht it! I’m fuming,’ said the 21-year-old. ‘I sat there with a fleshcoloured bikini on and they have air-brushed the whole thing out. ‘That’s not my belly button. I’ve got a sticky out belly button and it’s pierced,’ she added. ‘They’re not my boobs either.’ Ellison, currently starring in the film version of […]
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A Pretty Plague
If you can get hold of a copy of today’s International Herald Tribune there is a superb and surprisingly beautiful front page photograph illustrating an item about the pink locusts in the Canaries. It was taken by Carlos Guevara for Reuters.
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Movie Round-Up
It’s been said before that big studios often release the same story two or three times within a couple of years: Star Wars and Battlestar Galactica, Armageddon and Deep Impact, The Others and The Sixth Sense. Over at Apple’s trailers site, the latest Hollywood obsession seems to be women dealing with the disappearance or reappearance […]
Read More11Nov04 — 1
Missed Opportunity
Despite being away from the lab, I missed my chance to go to “The Wellbeing Show 2004” at the Royal Horticultural Society’s Halls. According to Time Out, if I had attended I could have tried inversion therapy, had myself screened for allergies, or had my aura photographed. Perhaps next year.
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Thanks To The Grassly-Khalifehs
I meant to say thank you to Nicholas and Hind for dinner yesterday. In fact it was my discovering that Adam, the latest addition to their family, looks exactly like Nicholas, but smaller and a bit more Arab, that made me post about the Karzai photo. Thanks for the “Death to the Zionist Infidels” shopping […]
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Not A Photo Of A Cat
This is not open for debate. My niece is cute.
Read More08Oct04 — 5
Making Life Taste Better
It’s amazing what you can pick up at the supermarket these days. [unmanipulated crop of the original scan, taken at the main Cambridge Sainsbury’s]
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All Bald Men Look The Same
The Susurrator nibbles at the shoelaces of titans as he vainly attempts to reduce us, the shining stars of the UK ‘Blogosphere to one-liners. Do you know who I am, child?! And apart from having shaved heads, Irish forenames, and the finely-sculpted bodies of gay icons, where is the resemblance between me and this person? […]
Read More30Aug04 — 9
Cults
There were two other things I enjoyed reading in the edition of The Independent‘s “Review” that I mention below: Andy Gill’s record reviews, of course—he has this anachronistic tendency to write about the music itself and listen to black artists (without making excuses for them)—and a review of yet another book by a middle-class mother […]
Read More21Aug04 — 3
Why I Am Spending This Morning Buying A Camera Cleaning Kit
Last weekend I went with Caroline and Khadija to a wedding. Regulars might be surprised that it was the first time I have ever taken a camera to one. Making good pictures with an old-fashioned SLR can be a bitch, but some days everything seems to go pretty well: [click to enlarge] Sadly it’s not […]
Read More06Aug04 — 0
Competition For The Carpenters And The Osmonds
In the race to be weirdest family pop act of all time, the Trachtenburgs are driving a station wagon very fast. [Thanks to James “le goth” Arthur of Richard‘s film composition course. Requires RealPlayer.]
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Not Exactly Heroes
How’s this for ‘Blogger solipsism? Two people whose work I admire have died this week. Henri Cartier-Bresson is the second. Check out the retrospective at Magnum. (While I’m on the subject, have a look at this very un-H C-B Photo of the Week at photo.net). The way things are going, Aretha Franklin had better remember […]
Read More27Jul04 — 3
Never Say Never Again
So I agreed in the end. They renewed my licence to kill; I loaded my PPK; I strapped on the chronograph with its plutonium-powered homing device; I got back into the Aston Martin; and I went into action. I asked for Clooney, Connery, and Berry as co-stars. What did they send me? A bunch of […]
Read More20Jun04 — 0
Paris In The Springtime
Friends of the PooterGeek might be interested in more photos from Paris. The rest of you will probably want to skip the boring pictures of buildings… … and look at Eitan being cute… …or Claire and Judith being cute…
Read More14Jun04 — 1
Wixon-mania
Yesterday evening my officemate Jo and her fiancé kindly shared their home, food and television with me for the England cock-up. I have mentioned my officemate Jo's brother Paul before. He is a bit of a “character” as we English say, though he himself is married to a foreigner (Japanese) with whom he has produced […]
Read More25May04 — 0
Not A Day For Hanging Out Laundry
[WARNING: big download] This is another long overdue one that I didn’t see at the time of the original news story. Boggle at a photo of Mount Etna erupting taken from the European Space Station. There are more at NASA’s photo pages. Scroll down this page, click “Has a Caption”, type “Etna” into the “Caption […]
Read More09May04 — 0
Do You Like My Lensbaby?
Maoi‘ll love this, a perversion of a perfectly good “real” camera.
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Still Lives
I like this and I like these too.
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Three-frame epics
Joey Comeau and Emily Horne run an eerie photo-based ‘Blog. Some of their entries in it are well worth checking out.
Read More27Jan04 — 0
Animal Magic
Some of these Photoshop images are as witty as they’re well executed.
Read More21Nov03 — 0
His Art Goes On
Ye gods: another late night in the lab. Now I am finally home I should share with you my one Web catch of the day. Alan Gilbert is a professional photographer in Baltimore who takes excellent photographs of very boring things. One of the oddest in his portfolio is an image of a model train […]
Read More07Nov03 — 0
Golden Girl
It’s proud Uncle Damian time now, so the rest of you can browse somewhere else to check out pictures of other Website owners’ cats. It was my niece Maisie‘s 1st birthday last month. I was at her birthday party and here are some photos I took with a second-hand lens that my brother-in-law Steve kindly […]
Read More23Jul03 — 2
Maoigraphs
Maoi introduced me to a couple of photography sites that make my anti-expensive-hardware attitudes look mild by comparison. The Holga is—as the young people would say—a complete munter of a camera, yet, in the right hands, takes pictures like these. Maoi herself owns a Colorsplash, which I referred to as looking like a travel iron. […]
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“Chirpy Cockney” Chris Butcher Revisited
Got a few nice B&W pics back from the lab today. So Chris’s page has been updated with a new one of him and here’s a cute portrait of Lynn and Chris I took when they visited Cambridge at the end of May.
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