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76/365 # Tales of a scorched Earth
Today didn't go quite as well as I'd hoped, Joe and Ben have been . . . hard work. But we did manage to do some fun stuff.
It's Carnival Day in Weymouth today, basically an excuse for a good ol' fashioned piss-up. The misanthrope in me can't stand it so I always stay well away, but I did take the boys to watch the Red Arrows. Lydia phoned me from work at twenty to twelve to say that they were due on at midday so I had to make a mad dash to pick Ben up from nursery in time to see them!
Me and Joe watched some Tae Kwon Do on the Olympics (it was cool, I used to do Tae Kwon Do and got to green belt before I realised I was crap at fighting! Kinda lost interest after that), played out in the back garden, got the Monopoly board out but didn't actually play it and Joe helped me take this shot.
Me, Joe and Ben watched some Scooby Doo DVDs we got free in a cereal packet while we waited for Lydia to get home and . . . that's been our day! Hard work they may have been but it didn't stop having a lot of fun.
I had this idea for a photo when I was out in the back garden with Joe. There's a bit of the garden that looks really crap (I've used it before on days 6, 17, and 23) and I saw the stabilizers from Joe's bike lying there. As soon as I saw them I thought about the Sarah Conner dream sequence in Terminator, where she's outside that playpark, then the bomb goes off and everything's obliterated? And all that's left is like flaming swings? I thought of that, then remembered The Smashing Pumpkins had a song called Tales of a Scorched Earth from the album Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness. And that gave me the theme for this shot.
I'm not sure that there's enough . . . scorched-ness goin' on, nor is it particularly apocalyptic, but I do like the way Lightroom made it look like it was shot in a studio with expensive lighting! Not sure about the highlights Lightroom picked out in my hair either, it looks like I've got half a kilo of gel slapped on. Oh, and by the way it hurts lying on a floor covered in sharp bits of stone. Especially when you rest your head on one of said stones.
It's very dark but I like that, it makes you look for the detail -and you can view it large by following the link below which is probably the best way to view it.
Today's music is actually one song: Mercury by Bloc Party from their imminent third album Intimacy.
I've pre-ordered the album and digital download, which is being released tomorrow a month before the physical release. I'm really interested to hear where they go next musically, their first album was amazing, all angular guitar riffs and amazing drumming (seriously amazing - the drums turn most of the songs from good to great is how amazing), their second a bit more . . . polished, shall we say, but great nontheless with a lot of great tracks. If you're a Radiohead fan you might like these guys as you can hear the Radiohead influence on this album, particularly in some of the lead breaks.
They released a single in between the second and third albums called Flux which was very dance influenced and their current single Mercury is the same, so what the rest of the album sounds like is anyone's guess. I just hope they haven't dropped the guitars for good and turned into a bloody dance band - bleaurgh! If you're interested you can watch the videos for seven of their previous singles (including Mercury) by clicking here.
Uh . . . really doesn't look very apocalyptic at all large. But I look restful!
76/365 # Tales of a scorched Earth
Today didn't go quite as well as I'd hoped, Joe and Ben have been . . . hard work. But we did manage to do some fun stuff.
It's Carnival Day in Weymouth today, basically an excuse for a good ol' fashioned piss-up. The misanthrope in me can't stand it so I always stay well away, but I did take the boys to watch the Red Arrows. Lydia phoned me from work at twenty to twelve to say that they were due on at midday so I had to make a mad dash to pick Ben up from nursery in time to see them!
Me and Joe watched some Tae Kwon Do on the Olympics (it was cool, I used to do Tae Kwon Do and got to green belt before I realised I was crap at fighting! Kinda lost interest after that), played out in the back garden, got the Monopoly board out but didn't actually play it and Joe helped me take this shot.
Me, Joe and Ben watched some Scooby Doo DVDs we got free in a cereal packet while we waited for Lydia to get home and . . . that's been our day! Hard work they may have been but it didn't stop having a lot of fun.
I had this idea for a photo when I was out in the back garden with Joe. There's a bit of the garden that looks really crap (I've used it before on days 6, 17, and 23) and I saw the stabilizers from Joe's bike lying there. As soon as I saw them I thought about the Sarah Conner dream sequence in Terminator, where she's outside that playpark, then the bomb goes off and everything's obliterated? And all that's left is like flaming swings? I thought of that, then remembered The Smashing Pumpkins had a song called Tales of a Scorched Earth from the album Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness. And that gave me the theme for this shot.
I'm not sure that there's enough . . . scorched-ness goin' on, nor is it particularly apocalyptic, but I do like the way Lightroom made it look like it was shot in a studio with expensive lighting! Not sure about the highlights Lightroom picked out in my hair either, it looks like I've got half a kilo of gel slapped on. Oh, and by the way it hurts lying on a floor covered in sharp bits of stone. Especially when you rest your head on one of said stones.
It's very dark but I like that, it makes you look for the detail -and you can view it large by following the link below which is probably the best way to view it.
Today's music is actually one song: Mercury by Bloc Party from their imminent third album Intimacy.
I've pre-ordered the album and digital download, which is being released tomorrow a month before the physical release. I'm really interested to hear where they go next musically, their first album was amazing, all angular guitar riffs and amazing drumming (seriously amazing - the drums turn most of the songs from good to great is how amazing), their second a bit more . . . polished, shall we say, but great nontheless with a lot of great tracks. If you're a Radiohead fan you might like these guys as you can hear the Radiohead influence on this album, particularly in some of the lead breaks.
They released a single in between the second and third albums called Flux which was very dance influenced and their current single Mercury is the same, so what the rest of the album sounds like is anyone's guess. I just hope they haven't dropped the guitars for good and turned into a bloody dance band - bleaurgh! If you're interested you can watch the videos for seven of their previous singles (including Mercury) by clicking here.
Uh . . . really doesn't look very apocalyptic at all large. But I look restful!