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Pattern: Vincent and Amy Pond - Doctor Who Scarf
Pattern By: Tamara Moots
Yarn: Malabrigo Rios Sock Yarn - Boticelli Red
The highlight of my week was sitting in front of the radio on a Sunday morning, listening to Shadoe Stevens and Casey Kasem's Top 40 Countdowns, ensuring that I recorded every single song played over the course of their show.
I'd consequently spend days writing down the singles, as above, and typing/printing out full charts on a dot matrix printer. I had books of these stupid things at home, adorned with the little lick-and-stick album covers from the Columbia House Record Club, beside my own little write-ups of each album... all for myself. I clearly had nothing better to do as a 13-year-old. DIY at its finest, my friends.
By the way, I have a secret spot in my heart for every single one of these songs. Come on, admit you loved 1989, too.
My guitar stuff as of October 2008. My idea was to have a clearout but I keep amassing more almost by accident.
L-R: Martin 000-15A, 1989/90 Squier Telecaster with Fender Wide Range pickup, 1973/4 Fender Telecaster Deluxe, 1977ish Univox Hi-Flier Phase III, 1960-something Hound Dog Taylor-style 4 pickup broom from hell, mid-70s 'lawsuit' Antoria SG with John Birch pickup, 1993 ish Fender Jaguar MIJ with stupid humbucker at the bridge, early 70s Commodore ES335 copy, the 'electrabanjo' - a 4 string Harmony banjo on loan from Phil that I added a weird "wah-wah" microphone to, Musima acoustic with bridge jacked up with 2P pieces for slide. In the front are a nice mahogany Ukulele together with a Flying V uke.
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In the realm of Geekdom, I believe that I have one of the more peculiar obsessions. I enjoy getting up early in the morning, say 05:00, and looking out at the sky. If it looks very black over town, that is a promising portent. If it looks orangish, that means that there are low clouds over the peninsula and the sunrise will probably be a flop.. I go and fire up the computer and start the day's work. At 05:30, I have another look. If I can see any colour, I make my preparations for the morning's quest for The Quintessential Sequential Sunrise.
The preparations consist of the following, which must be performed in less than ten minutes: (1) get Canon G-11 and attach to cheap tripod, (2) pick the appropriate selection of neutral density and polarising filters from the filter box (3) retrieve a Fanta Orange soda from the bar fridge and slip it into a cozy, (4) grab a folding chair from the overflowing junk room, (5) check to make sure that I have my pants on, (6) stumble outside in the dark with no light (don't want to ruin my night vision), (7) sit down and wait for the action to begin. It's not that much different from going to a footie game, except for the part about pants. I'm sure that it's quite acceptable to show up at a footie game sans pants.
And, this why all the fuss. Yeah, baby, this is what I'm talkin' about: That's the moon up there in the corner. It was so dark at 05:41 that I couldn't see the controls on the camera; I had to work by feel. Fortunately, I have great hands. The shot above was a fifteen second exposure. This long exposure time has the effect of turning the water into a mirror. The town lights are very bright in comparison to the sky.
Four minutes later and I have moved to what it becoming my favourite spot. I like the way the trees frame the sky. This is still at fifteen seconds, so the water of the harbour is as shiny as mercury.
At -6:02 the sky is getting much brighter. This is when it gets fast and furious. I now have less than a ten minute window to catch the best of the sunrise: The sun is still well below the horizon, but it is beginning to light up the clouds much brighter. Note that you can barely see the lights of town. The sky is probably several hundred times brighter than it was a few minutes ago.
At 06:06 the sun's light is being broken up into beams shining between clouds near the visible horizon. This accounts for the radiating pattern of light and dark: This is only four minutes after the previous shot. We are now nearing the end of the show.
Two minutes later, at 06:08, the display it pretty much over: The colours will fade quickly now as the sunrise moves into its second phase when the shiny orb pops above the horizon.
What follows is simultaneously less visually interesting and more difficult for the photographer. As the sun rises, the saturation of the colours will become more washed out by the intensity of the light and the contrast ratio of the brightness surrounding the sun compared to the rest of the scene will overwhelm nealy any camera that an individual human can afford.
I suppose the very rich might be able to afford such cameras, but I'm sure that they have more profitable things to do with their time. Anyway, they would simply hire someone like to to do it for them.
If there are any of the very rich out there reading this (seems unlikely to me), keep in mind that I'm very serious about my art and I work cheap.
If I've hooked you on sequential sunrises, you can see more of mine here, here, and here.
That should keep you occupied until the next time the boss comes around to see what you're up to.
These costumes were so cool! The Old School Cyberman was particularly impressive, and this woman is rocking the shiny jumpsuit. Seen at Gallifrey One, 2010.
Next time you go to a Convention, be sure to thank the women who go to these things for not only GOING to these things, but for bringing two dimensional characters to life. It's certainly better than standing next to a sweaty guy in a parka. In July.
And yes, there WAS "speed dating" at the Con. Just another way for Geekdom to perpetuate the species. How successful it was? I leave that to the experts. I don't think the manufacturers of "Dungeons and Dragons" have much to worry about, though.
I try not to succumb to work-related geekery, but I couldn't resist the way the sunshine played with the acoustic insulation foam in the #4 Bucharest Studio this morning...
Everybody's doin' it:
a. Type your answer to each of the questions below into Flickr Search.
b. Using only the first page, pick an image.
c. Copy and paste each of the URLs for the images into fd's mosaic maker).
The Questions:
1. What is your first name?
2. What is your favorite food?
3. What high school did you go to?
4. What is your favorite color?
5. Who is your celebrity crush?
6. Favorite drink?
7. Dream vacation?
8. Favorite dessert?
9. What you want to be when you grow up?
10. What do you love most in life?
11. One Word to describe you.
12. Your flickr name.
For some reason the links to the pictures didn't show up! Aak. I'm going to attempt to resolve that...ahh here we go:
1. totoro army vegan cupcakes., 2. De Aanleggen '08, 3. of autumn and berries, 4. Nant Ffrancon and Glyder Fawr, Wales, 5. Untitled, 6. naked portafilter, 7. HDR - Boat at Vernazza - Barche a Vernazza, 8. time for something sweet!!, 9. Ci sei dentro, 10. Joy, 11. FGR: Gettin freaky with the geeky., 12. Aquarium Flower Bud
Adding all the Minifigures to this model was heaps of fun.
Luckily LEGO® have just started to make printed 1 x 1 bricks with a popcorn design, so designer and builder Mark Curnow used a tonne of them in this model!
We decided that the best choice for the iPad would be The LEGO Movie, so it made sense for the model to feature the LEGO movie premiere, filled with characters from the movie as well as other LEGO® themes and characters. Mark also tried to add as many references to LEGO® geekdom and Hollywood as he could – see how many characters can you find!
Taking Mark 75 hours to build, the theatre uses 25,427 LEGO® pieces
(View Large Size) So I warned you that my venture into geekdom was going to get thick. Here Sonja (standing) and Dahlia Blu (falling) battle it out with light sabers in an alley.
I was supposed to have a third model for this scenario shoot, but she canceled early in the morning. I won't mention any names. Ahem...
Strobist Info: SB600 (Lightsphere attached) to camera left in Commander Mode.
The battle continues. Stay tuned!
Cheers!
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