It been a bit (2016 last C)

From the relative safety of the passenger seat in a 4-door sedan

[Via a rain-slicked window.]

2009 Recall

There's a phrase that sticky food makes you remember and slippery food makes you forget. Be that as it may, as far as 2009 is concerned, I'll have the plate of fresh, raw unagi. I kid, I kid.

Here's some things that happened that may tempt me toward some stickier fare that didn't make it to the blog and/or Flickr:

Also, I've uploaded a couple of mixes I put together for PRE and POST my band's last gig. They are about 80MB a piece .mp3 chunks.

2010, welcome!

Shakey Smiley Moon Shake

Monday's smiley sky featuring a crescent moon with input from Venus and Jupiter (info here) was pretty special.



Photographing this needed a low exposure and ideally a tripod. My tripod was my neighbours fence, so results varied. This picture documents not only the smiley face, but also the exact movements of my hands shaking at the time of photographing.



Some better pics are here.

In celebration of this rare celestial event and in relevance to my shaky camera work - music:

CAN - Moonshake [4.3MB mp3 file]

From 'Future Days' [Amazon].

Ap-p-pa-ri-tion

The inflatable duckling we bought for Iggy for his birthday is deflating. Slowly losing its helium-based life force it now hangs eerily upside-down from our ceiling.

When we first bought it, I kept going on about how it reminded me of one of my favourite photographic works by Harry Crosby - Apparition.


I like that it's funny, weird, atmospheric and a little spooky. Excuse the text bleeding through the image, that was the best scan I could manage. The scan is taken from 'In Transition - A Paris Anthology' [Amazon].

This morning I photographed the duckling in all of its upside down glory, flipped it and gave it a slight Apparition-ation.



OR THEREABOUTS.

Landscape with dog

My life... As a cloud

Yesterday someone had written "__________________________________" in the clouds.

Life after the...

Photographed on a light post, Balaclava.

Words of advice...

On a clock in Degraves Subway.

Political

And I never knew he was detained.

Predictive text ...

... never predicts enough. Taken from a detail of a real-estate billboard.

Don't panic unless you need to panic

And in that case, panic.

Dog monitor:

Misce stultitiam consiliis brevem:

Dulce est desipere in loco.
Etc.

Thought of the day

Posted anonymously, Balaclava train station.

Good thoughts, bad thoughts - Funkadelic [14.4MB mp3 file]

A bit of positivity-inducing funk-noodling goodness, from the 1974 Funkadelic album 'Standing On The Verge Of Getting It On'. The audio aspect of this post was inspired by watching episode 5 of the BBC documentary, 'Soul Deep'.

Flickrrrr

I finally got my act together with my Flickr account. You can now look at my photographs until your cheeks are stained with large, salty tears of boredom.

Here they are.

I'm a little concerned about Microsoft's potential bid to take over Yahoo - who have owned Flickr for a while now - (info here) and hope that Microsoft keeps it's hands off what is a great photographic community resource.

Close: a postscript

I also wanted to post this - I found it while looking through my library for Chuck Close pics. Taken in a nightclub in Japan.

Landscape with toaster

Various levels of detail of a Macro photograph I took of a square barcode off the packaging of our new toaster. In fact, it's a variety of barcode I haven't seen before. It's not a QR code, as it's missing the position and alignment points and isn't a regimented grid like the Semacode also is.
Either way, it's a beautiful thing. Data for computers to read that - when zoomed in - look like a map or an old engraving, each ink dot like a tiny brush-stroke penned by a machine that only a machine can fully appreciate.
Also the pattern on the left looks like a representation of the spirals of a spiral-bound notebook.

Expect to see the aforementioned QR codes all over Australia in the very near future for data-dumps onto your mobile.

The missed opportunist

A highly conceptual Jacob's Creek advertisement. Ads are so sophisticated these days - and referencing minimalism too.

Yesterday was the first day of the rest of your life

Photographed around an alley in Chinatown. Inspirational? Cautionary? Randomness? An art project perhaps? Intriguing.