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(Bad) Timing is Everything
As some of you noticed, I kinda stuffed-up my latest photo project thing. This time it was just a case of bad timing. A few days into it, I fell rather ill - like, stay-in-bed-eating-only-soup ill - and therefore missed a few days worth of photos. Then, I got busy preparing for and then going back to uni. By the time everything settled back down I was so far behind on the photos I just gave up.
At least, that’s my excuse.
The thing is, I’m still very interested in taking as many photos as I can. The problem is that I hate my camera and I don’t always have the time (or I’m just lazy). So, I may very well try to reboot the project (again), or I might try some other approach in the future. I’m not sure yet, so stay tuned.
And Werewolf Hunter on Trial
I’ve just returned from a weekend in Melbourne, and while I didn’t get many photos of the city, I couldn’t resist taking this shot of a newspaper headline:
I don’t know much about the story, and to be honest I don’t really care. What I love about it though is that the headline could be about a vampire who was killing people and is now in prison, or it could be about a person who kills vampires (aka, a “slayer”) and is now in prison. Either way, that’s fantastic.
Here we go again
I’m trying a sort of photo project again. Yes, I know my last two attempts failed. I don’t care. I laugh in the face of history!
This one is very much like last time - I’m trying to take at least one photo per day, every day, for as long as I can. I’m also writing a post to accompany each photo, which you can find by clicking the photo and heading over to it’s Flickr page. These posts might explain why I took that shot, or they might just be something I felt like saying.
I’ve set up a special page for these photos so that they don’t clutter up the front page. Just click the Photo-a-Day link up top to see the latest shots. You can also see the whole lot here, or you can check out the rejects for each day here.
I think your Cylon wants my Wookie
Hello World.
This last weekend, I attended the Supanova “Popular Culture Convention” in Sydney. Basically, an all-out geekapalooza. Below are some photos of the event.
Click each photo once for sarcastic yet witty commentary.
In all seriousness, it was actually a bunch of fun. I went to a couple of very interesting seminars on writing, and Naomi spent so much money on comic-books and related paraphernalia that she could barely stand under the weight of it all.
Highlights included:
- Watching Naomi squirm when Nicholas Brendon (of Buffy the Vampire Slayer) sat down next to me during Nicki Clyne’s Sunday Q&A.
- Watching the same Nick Brendon then proceed to make a fool himself during said Q&A by asking incomprehensible questions of Nicki Clyne (Battlestar Galactica), and having her (jokingly) ask him to leave.
- Sam J. Jones (the original Flash Gordon) mispronouncing the word “boom”.
- Learning of the existence of William Shatner’s Tek World.
- The girl in the Cat-Woman costume.
Some of you may be wont to point out that I have no right to make fun of Supanova or its attendees, seeing as I myself was one of them (for two days, even!). In reality, it’s just a bit of fun. I had a great time, and I’m just pointing out some of the absurdity of it all. Also, I didn’t get dressed up.
#5 - 22 February, 2007
#5 - 22 February, 2007, originally uploaded by ‘Orrible Cabbage.
I’ve just finished reading what is quite possibly one of the best books I’ve ever read. It’s a graphic novel by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons called Watchmen. This is a shot of part of it’s cover.
If you’ve never read it, I’d highly suggest picking up a copy (and no, it’s not a “comic book”, despite the pictures). It was on TIME Magazine’s “100 best English-language novels” list for 2005, and has earned much critical praise for re-inventing it’s medium.
If the name Alan Moore is familiar, he wrote the original graphic novels of “The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen” and “V for Vendetta”, but had nothing to do with the films.
#4 - 21 February, 2007
Today was boring. Nothing happened. Move along.
#3 - 20 February, 2007
I went to UTS orientation day today, and I’m none the wiser as to what will be going on when I start on Tuesday, nor where I’ll need to be.
It was probably the single most boring and completely useless information day I’ve ever attended. I had previously - perhaps naively - assumed that some form of information should be communicated at a self-described “information day”. Instead, I was subjected to several elderly individuals dressed in academic robes delivering terminally long speeches, followed by a rather bizarre and frankly condescending performance by an Aboriginal dance group (”Do you know what this instrument is called? That’s right, a didgeridoo! Let’s say it all together… didgeridoo!”).
I did, however, learn never to trust the “Peer Networkers”. They’re evil, lying, orange-shirted ambassadors of Beelzebub.
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