Did you know, that every second, 500 hours of YouTube video are watched? I didn’t this morning, but I do now, thanks to the time I’ve spent today with a some Google employees. I don’t think they were aware that I’m such a Google fan boy. Maybe by the time they said “OK, Who’s heard of Project Loon” and I… Read more →
Drawn by the some’uts ‘appening in Grassington rumors (Grassington Festival), we set Fathers Day Outing coordinates for upper Wharfedale in The Yorkshire Dales yesterday. Grassington is one of my favorite places. Even though it gets hammered with tourists with the rest of them, it never seems to sell out, or worse, have that air of ‘us and them’ that so… Read more →
Having 4 kids is brilliant on Father’s day. The bigger 3 started me off with breakfast in bed – a classic Dutch breakfast (ham n cheese and egg on toast), a cup of perfectly made Yorkshire Tea and a big glass of orange juice. I’ve also had 4 hand made chocolates and a handmade card given to me. The icing… Read more →
Timings of tonight have dictated that my blog of the day/ 365 is short. You be the judge of sweet. Its 23:20, my phone battery has died and I’m out. Option 1: go home and blog, Option 2: borrow friends phone, download WordPress and blog from hither. 2 (clearly) So! …we’ve been out. We won a meal in a raffle… Read more →
Jaygo’s got his friend round for a sleepover, Sophie is at a sleepover. Tea (as pictured) is DIY Pizza, the movie is National Treasure. It’s been a fun day – working from home (as per yesterday also). For one of the first times this year, I’ve got no real content to cover other than – it’s the weekend, it’s Fathers… Read more →
Earlier this week, Apple hosted their big flagship show – WWDC – where they typically reveal the latest earth shattering, world changing products they’ve had up their secret sleeves – like the iPhone, the iPad, the Mac Book Air, etc. etc. etc. This year, they revealed the latest Mac Pro (pictured above) – the Mac computer designed for the desk… Read more →
CLICK HERE for the annotated version. [only works on desktop 'puters] A few years ago, I spotted a group on flickr called “What’s in your bag?”. The idea is, you take the contents of your bag, spread it out and take a photo of it all, preferably followed by the meticulous annotation using the flickr note tool. I first did… Read more →
I picked up a hitch hiker this morning. It’s something I do. Having hitched myself for years as a youth (before National Express and Megabus priced it out of the market) I now pay back the good karma when ever possible. I’ve hitched up and down the country and all over Europe. I’ve talked people out of killing themselves (by… Read more →
So Google have released a new version of their native, out the box keyboard for their nexus devices. The sentence above was written on my nexus phone using it, this sentence is written using my nexus tablet using it. And this sentence (and from this point forward) is being typed using a good ol’ mechanical keyboard. (ahh, that’s better). The… Read more →
I’ve been my son Felix’s personal chauffeur today, which has opened up opportunities left, right and center for adventure. I picked him up from a sleepover he was at last night then, a drop off & pick up combo at a gig he was doing. The downtime I had allowed me to go a walk and find my 300th Geocache…. Read more →
Further to my recent posts about my new photography obsession – The Brenizer Method – I’m now at the stage where I feel I’m getting somewhere. This was one of three shoots I did this afternoon -= the others =- meh, but this one.. yea… I’m quite happy with it. I messed up a bit (you’ll notice where I’ve patched… Read more →
Big thanks to Simon J who lent me his prime lense. This lense, thanks to it’s fast apateur and human eye perspective qualities. I popped out this morning and shot around 200+ stills with it – 20 or 30 of which are displayed above as a composit, using the Brenizer method I discribed a couple of days ago. I’m quite… Read more →
In the intimate climbs of Spiegeltent earlier this evening, Eirene and I had front row n center, for a talk by a Punk Rock elder statesman, John Robb. He talked about his (first hand experience) take on the roots of Punk Rock. The birth of the culture prior to the taxonomy. He described the force and energy, the message and… Read more →
This evening, I’ve been mostly experimenting with a photographic technique I’d read about called The Brenizer Method, named after the awesome portrait photographer, Ryan Brenizer. Unlike the LOMO analogue alchemy I’ve been dabbling with of late, these images require heavy duty digital processing. For the above image, I took a bunch of high res digital photos (about 20+) and overlapped each… Read more →
For the past couple of years around this time of year, an incredibly ‘Harrogate’ corner of Harrogate – nestling behind the Crown Hotel in Crescent Gardens, has been enhanced, for two weeks only (as part of the Harrogate International Festivals) by the presence of a Spiegeltent. This structure almost feels like it was specifically designed for purpose, with Kursaal esque… Read more →
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