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Saturday, August 30, 2008
Tuesday, August 26, 2008
Saturday, August 23, 2008
i was on my own (and not delusional about anything or anyone).
i found some stray photos that had been saved in some obscure folder on an SD card from that there trip to London a few weeks back, bunged them together and uploaded them etc etc. chronologically out of order but posted at an appropriate time, with an appropriate title (original title was 'Route: Any Permitted' but i thought that wasn't subtle enough).
Friday, August 22, 2008
TREES_LO
.diagnostic. d. d. de. de. agnostic. deagnostic test through operaMini/Flickr 'blog this' feature on pda/thingymajig
move along. this is a test. nothing to see hear. 'xcept the photo. which personally i really like.
that is all.
move along. this is a test. nothing to see hear. 'xcept the photo. which personally i really like.
that is all.
Thursday, August 21, 2008
A bit of thursday morning.
I was quite 'squiffy' when I went to bed last night, hung over and forgot to shave this morning. Havn't had a proper mid week celebration with The Rev Dino, now Lord Bishop Ott3r, for months it seems.
We stood on the steps by the front door for most of the evening smoking fags and chatting to people, old, new and some inbetween, as the band was the equivalent to having molten candy floss poured over your face. Just my opinion, others seemed to be enjoying the one-note whine that spanned various songs and beats.
With the ups and downs of the last few weeks, it was refreshing to identify that there are other pebbles on the beach (so to speak). I went to bed with a smile on my face.
Monday, August 18, 2008
rock, paper, scissors.
An interim Rule/Game Of Life.
Its a terribly dramatic thing (and slighlty obscure thing) to say; but there is something wrong with how i approach the game of Rock, Paper, Scissors. I don't understand how everyone else gets more wins than loses.
just thought i'd share that.
Its a terribly dramatic thing (and slighlty obscure thing) to say; but there is something wrong with how i approach the game of Rock, Paper, Scissors. I don't understand how everyone else gets more wins than loses.
just thought i'd share that.
Friday, August 15, 2008
in transit.
... "oh, stop being such a victim", is what i wanted to shout. Wouldn't have made any difference though, as the entire conversation was being conducted by text.
Thursday, August 14, 2008
urinal
i have switched my phone/camera/pda/thingymajig to greyscale and i'm going to do an exploratory series of single shot (gasp!) photos. I realise that it doesn't sound that exciting, but actually it is to me, it's the difference between scanning and recording my own peripheral vision in a wide angle montage to focusing-in to a single point, a single surface. i'd like to compare it to the difference between, say, Virtual Reality (remember that?) and a hand held Nintendo DS games console... I drifted off to sleep last night visualising the whats, hows and why's of it all, quite excited like i say.
the photos will be rubbish (initially), but that's not the point - i need to diversify. expand the fortpolio...
btw, MIND anoTHEr GAP.
too much time
ah, hello.
i'd just like to say i'm very pleased with how this montage came out.
the guy on the left seemed to have something on his mind that would either make or break him. i hope it made him.
i'd just like to say i'm very pleased with how this montage came out.
the guy on the left seemed to have something on his mind that would either make or break him. i hope it made him.
Tuesday, August 12, 2008
depart: 1223hrs YRK - arr: MLTN 1247hrs
Click! [initiating standard blog technique AKA 'biting lip']
another weekend away, this time moo and i went over to see my mother's new place in Pickering. All good. Hopefully my mother will stay where she is for longer than 6 months, this will have been the 8th time she has moved in the last 4 years- we didn't even get to see the last place...
It is a beautiful area and one i've never really explored, been through it loads of times on the way to Scarborough or Bridlington, so was good to wander about.
Spent Monday at Monk Park Farm a brilliant 'hands on' petting farm. i fed a llama. And then i fed it again. they have really lovely faces (and they know it), a bit like a camel, a bit like a giraffe, a bit like a horse. I took loads of photos (as i do) but lost them all on a corrupted SD Card. which was slightly annoying. My mum and Moo seemed to really enjoy the time together, now that they live closer they'll be able to see more of each other.
the few photos/pics that weren't lost have been uploaded to Flickr... standard stuff - getting quite bored of the way i put the montages and stuff together, am now looking for a new technique... hmm . thats for another blog entry i think.
your milage may vary.
another weekend away, this time moo and i went over to see my mother's new place in Pickering. All good. Hopefully my mother will stay where she is for longer than 6 months, this will have been the 8th time she has moved in the last 4 years- we didn't even get to see the last place...
It is a beautiful area and one i've never really explored, been through it loads of times on the way to Scarborough or Bridlington, so was good to wander about.
Spent Monday at Monk Park Farm a brilliant 'hands on' petting farm. i fed a llama. And then i fed it again. they have really lovely faces (and they know it), a bit like a camel, a bit like a giraffe, a bit like a horse. I took loads of photos (as i do) but lost them all on a corrupted SD Card. which was slightly annoying. My mum and Moo seemed to really enjoy the time together, now that they live closer they'll be able to see more of each other.
the few photos/pics that weren't lost have been uploaded to Flickr... standard stuff - getting quite bored of the way i put the montages and stuff together, am now looking for a new technique... hmm . thats for another blog entry i think.
your milage may vary.
Wednesday, August 06, 2008
Tuesday, August 05, 2008
London Report
Some of you will already have followed my micro-blogs from That There London this weekend as they appeared on Twitter, but here is the complete set. i had a brilliant time and have now confused myself with what it is i want to do next with my life. London felt full of opportunities, potential and beautiful people... i think i've already mentioned that the photos and images are now uploaded to flickr.
Friday continued...
watching the sun set over the appropriately named East Midlands.
Friday continued...
watching the sun set over the appropriately named East Midlands.
Sunday, August 03, 2008
london eye
complete highlightes from Saturday's Monkey-Vapourtrail-MarkNicholson_Safari now uploaded to flickr. Will update further with text later on the return journey, when i'll be in the mindset to reflect...
Saturday, August 02, 2008
Field report. 1343hrs london.
Friday, August 01, 2008
Travelling backwards, the early evening sun, heavy with long shadows, is on my left.
paint_monkey
i'm sitting in a railway station, gotta ticket for my destination. about 2 hours ago
paint_monkey
the linenesque cargo pants i bought for 3GBP are too new and feel wrong. about 1 hour ago
weaseljem @paint_monkey
have a really good trip x x
about 1 hour ago
vapour_trail
Preparing VapourTrail Towers for the PaintMonkey's arrival.
31 minutes ago
paint_monkey
the small commuter transport has successfully * with the larger, faster transport. i've a window/table seat. T minus 2min til liftoff.
9 minutes ago
paint_monkey
* previous microblog missing the past tense of the borrowed french word rendezvous. rendezvoused? no. rendezvu'd? no. anyway met connection.
7 minutes ago
paint_monkey
iPod drowning out sounds of various languages and states of children's mania. i'm travelling alone on a train! i forgot how much i love this
less than 5 seconds ago
[addendum]
I've never been a train spotter, the numbers and names aren't something that keeps me awake at night. I do love trains though, or in the very least I love a good train journey, especially alone. With no responsibilities or obligations to another, I can lose myself in my sketchbook, passively observing the other passengers, or a good book (i'm reading Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy again) or, like now, just satisfy my inane desire to write and, thanks to the miracles of modern technology, publish the nonsense that comes to my mind whilst listening to Josh Ritter on the iPod nano that WJ (the squeeze formally known as tankGirl) has lent me.
It's not that I dislike or pro-actively avoid travelling companions, I don't and enjoy those moments too, it's just that over the years i've come to prefer travelling alone, if given the opportunity to go anywhere at all. Its sends a breeze through my soul and centres me.
Signal says "Go!"
I have been looking forward to this trip since it was arranged a couple of weeks ago but today i've had all the (minor) anxieties associated with leaving my home for a while. I have over-fed the fish and over-watered my plants, i've been checking the train times and tickets every 20 minutes, packing and then repacking the same few items of clothing, adding and taking away things that I won't need if I take them but will need if I don't... I used to be able to pack with my eyes closed, I could just look at the contents of my packed suitcase and/or trunk and identify what was missing, but since I moved to Knaresborough 8 and a half years ago, i've hardly been anywhere. I have, it seems, inverted the habits of my nomadic and 'pack the kids off to boarding school' parents and the restlessness of my own youth. I need more practice at going away, clearly.
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