Boards of Canada-Dayvan Cowboy

As if the song is not incredible in itself (It's a heartbreaking piece of beauty) but this video is pretty amazing too. We have two outstanding figures, or pioneers here. Joseph Kittinger, the true first man in space. He takes a balloon to the edge of earth's atmosphere, then jumps. Trivia, the video is exactly the same length as Kittinger's freefall. And the surfer is Laird Hamilton, a serious legend of big wave riding. Enough said. Whatever, inspiring people.

High rise

Ok, some more initial attempts at spontaneous image capture. The sort of thing that most people walk past but fail to actually see. The first image has been played with a little, giving it a kind of semi-lomo type thing. I need a better camera, that said a 3mp camera phone does give them a grainy quality i like. It'll do until i get a lomo camera.

"I'm 'avin' that!!!!"

Mmmmm, the last thing i want to watch before i die??????

Fake Lomo

Until i finally get around to getting a real lomo camera, this is my alternative. It's a little more composed than i like but sometimes the image requires this. As long as i remain completely untrained, it's going to look real maybe. A criteria for this, it's images people see every day, but don't really see as such. Anyway....... (Anyway being a catch all phrase for make your own mind up).

Initial image experiments

I've been wanting to have some fun with capturing some images for a while now, so why i wasted time not doing so is way beyond me. Anyway, i have a criteria. 1-The sharp lines of post-war architecture, especially high rise and aesthetically sparse structures. 2-Set against a particularly beautiful sky, seems to stir some weird and very early memory i can't quite grasp. 3-I take these images with absolutely no photography training, or indeed any idea whatsoever of the technical aspects of photography. This can only lead to authenticity, what i see is what i see, in fact using unprofessional equipment (camera phone, cheap digital camera) has allusions to the only truly artistically valid form of photography (Lomography, google it, you'll be impressed). Anyway, here's one of the results of my first attempt. I like it anyway. Click on the picture for full size.

The Brain Jonestown Massacre, too good for this world.

The english language just isn't sufficient to describe quite how much i love this band. Much criticism is aimed at Anton Newcombe but he's a serious genius. And i'm right in this, i will not be persuaded. Anybody who tries to disagree is wrong. This is an objective statement, and a couple of pieces of evidence to support...........






Now my problem here is that it's one of a few BJM songs being set free by Anton, yet no real recordings as yet, though rumours of 2 more new albums are still going around. Never enough Anton in my record collection. Here's another beautiful one.

Finally i find out what it actually is

Agar jelly. It's been really bugging me, when i've been nowhere near an internet connection or anyone who knew what i was talking about. Thankyou, now go about your business.........

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agar