recently i helped out on the photography side of things for the Leither magazine. in this month’s issue you can see my snaps from the Leith Festival, a traditional / eclectic week of music, dance, arts and culture with its heart and soul in the east of edinburgh. photos here. felt like a successful event– the free food and drink resulting in what felt like longest hangover of my life was very much worth while. incredible group of passionate well-meaning folk running the festival which can only grow and grow. and i’m sticking around to see what happens, that week and the characters i encountered confirmed that leith is the place where i want to be, i’m staying-put in my current flat even planning a trip to ikea too. how sad.
So, the photos from Leith Festival are here and i’ve changed my email address too, add @gmail.com to callumalden. If you fancy any of those shots contact me or The Leither Magazine.
From the BBC’s “Planet Earth” Series… which is non-stop astounding- but this Hydroplaning technique used by Bottlenosed Dolphins is just jaw-dropping. The “Shallow Seas” eppisode in which this segment was a part of is really worth getting a hold of (start your bittorrent engines now).
I was thinking last night – I would pay to watch this on a big screen (if we had a TV I’d be paying to see it on a smaller one, gawd bless the Beeb) wouldn’t it be great if we could convince our local cinema to give a screening of Planet Earth (in HD of course)- or Blue Planet. I’m sure it has been done. Really great stuff.
[my dad has always had a great fear of hydroplaning cars... i've seen it happen- its well worth understanding, you drivers out there be warned, look out for dolphins too]
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Talked to Billy last night. Both he and Stephen are well, they’re in Montrrey, North-East Mexico. Staying with a friend-of-a-friend for free in a wee back-room for the next 2 months, or so.
Billy’s days involve learning spanish (”until my head hurts”) and looking for jobs, Knighter says Bill’s his bitch and does the food (mainly cookies & pasta, he hasn’t started cooking the good Mexican stuff). They are looking for jobs right now – although he didn’t really go into this. Billy’s also keeping a journal, he writes an entry every morning.
Stephen was pick-pocket-ed while in the taking a slash, someone nabbed his wallet out his back pocket. Lost two credit cards, driving license and some dinéro. So no knife fights or whatever that I had imagined. Apart from that wee incident everything is coo’ and all.
Check out Billy’s Flickr.
I just wrote this post, but one thing Wordpress is missing is an auto-save and (Mail.app stylee) update funtion.
Basil Pao takes all the photos for Michael Palin’s travel books. He’s really, really great. One of my favorite discoveries of today (another being the 23″ iMac above) was a couple of folders on Palin’s Travels – Michael’s homepage – 300MB of Desktop Backgrounds. You can also get to these individually by browsing the site’s photo sections and clicking under “Wallpaper” in the right hand column, but its messy. I used SiteCrawler (free to demo).
Go Here for a starter, then follow the folders through to a big list of images. Try: sah for sahara, then click photos and 1024 (size of your screen).
The photo above of a pretty tibetan lady with a cigar is one of my favorites. See the original page here. Mhhh, a thousand words.
As I said I’ve already written this within a line or two finished… I was nearly finished! If your a Mac user you’ll notice how easy it is to close Safari even if you have 20 tabs open with two keystrokes. This is fixed in Leopard, with a little Firefox styled dialogue box, I’m happy to report.
oh my.
thom yorke told me the ice age was comin’ and i couldn’t say no to his wonky little face… oh yea’ i did dance like a mudda-fukka’. well i danced like a thom yorke to be exact. photos on flickr.
to paraphrase the wonky-faced midget: “this is a song from when radio one had balls… not that there’s anything wrong with J-lo, i’m sure she means well”. women and children first.
