I had a bit of an epiphany just now. I had a document with tables and formatting and hyperlinks in Microsoft Word and I uploaded it to Google Documents and it looked fine! I exported it as a PDF and it still looked fine! I had anticipated it would be chewed up and replaced with [...]
Archive for the 'Photography' Category
Mad dogs and marathon runners
23Apr07I must admit I had higher hopes for photographing the marathon. Ostensibly, it’s a gathering of eccentrics and mentalists who, in this case, were willing to train for months and then run 26 miles in temperatures that I was sweating in just by standing around St. James’ Park. The opportunities for photography should be great, [...]
The forthcoming album from Nine Inch Nails, Year Zero, is being promoted ahead of time by a fairly complex alternate reality game that describes a world in the near future wrecked by terrorist attacks and overbearing responses by the West in response. It talks of drugged water supplies, Orwellian surveillance, banned books and music and [...]
New Year Polaroids
07Jan07I didn’t take many photographs at New Year’s, but those I did take were on expired polaroid film. Expired polaroid film is much like normal polaroid film. You never have a clue how anything will come out and you have very little say in the settings of your photograph. There is, however, something wonderfully physical [...]
One of the most fun bits about the Carsten Höller installation at the Tate is watching the people. And hearing them. The screams of people taken unawares by what they thought was a gentle slide echo through the tunnels and rarely fail to raise a smile around the tunnels’ ends.
Illness, MSN and Giraffes
13Oct06A post in which I say things I usually reserve for Livejournal. I’ve been fairly poorly recently. Nothing disastrous, but niggly. I’ve had a rotten cold since last week and it found the time to migrate into some throat-swelling energy-sapping bastard virus that took me out of work the last two days. Sometimes I wonder [...]
