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rien (Fr) = nothing ~
info (En) = Knowledge derived from study, experience, or instruction.
Got up early again this morning to find the sun was shining down on me. So I donned my Vans, grabbed my bag and camera and jumped in the car. If I haven't mentioned it before, the "Wrekin" is a landmark where I live in Shropshire, England. It's a hill (Height: 400 m (1335 ft.)) which was occupied in the Iron age and is thought to have been a volcano many many years back. It's been the site of much of my mispent youth, by means of exploration and rambling as a boy, and later a location for partying en mass when outdoor parties were all the rage during the rave scene of the early to mid nineties. Nowadays, it's a site for solitude, contemplation and to enjoy the beautiful scenery of the surrounding landscape when the weather permits and you've got your breath back from the excruciating climb to it's summitt. I did quite a bit of photography, but not all of them came out so good. I also took heed of Jason's top...
Question of the week ..... For what may the reason be for http://slashdot.org/ making repeated entries in my refering logs? I've tried, but can't think why the host 'jurassic.cbs.umn.edu' would be making hit's on here on via slashdot! This is freaky tikki stuff! What are they doing? Developing some sort of robot which will utilise the data on slashdot's site for tech news/opinions or something? WTF?...
Had a cool day off from work and decided to get up bright and early and get into the groove of morning-sun lit photography. So I got up at 7:30am and drove over to an old haunt, Grinshill, Shropshire, for a jaunt and a ramble and took the new cam with me to get some photos on the card. I've put up a selection of the best on the gallery page for you to check out!...
I haven't read this many books in a row since I waded throught Jack Kerouac's books when I was in my late teens! Ian Fleming's James Bond collection of books is purely the bees knees! I'm currently half way through Diamonds are forever which is almost half way through the published collection of works. I might add, that listening to the original music Scores by John Barry is the best way to get into the whole flava in the proper Bond Style! It's the bizniz!...
So I got my new Fuji Finepix camera throught the post and I decided to go mookin about with it and take some snaps to see how well it performed. It is, as they say, the dog's bollocks! I've picked out the ones I like and uploaded them to the gallery for your viewing pleasure. Enjoy! http://www.rien.info/gallery/s304...
The question is, do I go right ahead and treat myself to the supreme Fujitsu FinePix s304 with a 128Mb memory card, or not? This baby has a 3 mega-pixel CCD, 6x optical zoom and an adapter for conversion lenses and 55mm filters (filters are the ballz!) ... plus some manual features (for the novice I am) to experiment with. I was out with a friend in Manchester yesterday, and he's just got one. I had a bit of a mess around with it and it was nice and easy to use, had a good weight and feel without being clunky, and looked proper good. I've been sniffin through the reviews on the net and it gets favourable reviews from all parties. I've checked some of the Olympus competitors and they just don't seem to be able to cut the mustard, with some pictorial distortion and discolouration on their parts. Non cool. I've been thinking of getting a decent digital camera for a while now and I've made out with this one. Damn, I think...
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Too much Fifties cinerama can't be a bad thing, can it? Woke up this morning 'n flicked (pun?) on the VCR to play the delight only known as Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. My oh my. How good can one woman look?? Elizabeth Taylor in her youth was undoubtably the epitomy of beauty, and certainly blows my hair back. To me, there really isn't anything quite so striking as the look of a dusky brunette. The look of Indian Asian women who are attractive are simply amazing .. But I'm moving from the point here. The film is superb. Simplistic, yet awe inspiring in a way which could move some people by the way that the Tennesee Williams play is directed straight to your weak spots. The Big Daddy was great, with a sprinkling of humour which almost had me on the floor! A thoroughly entertaining film t'was too. Vertigo, the Hitchcock thriller isn't a film I'd taken the time out to see. But after a friend sent me an MP3 of the Bernard...
I've blethered on before, about the fact that I go down to London at times. Staying with friends who are kind enough to leave an open invitation to sleep on their couch at a moments notice in order to escape the monotony of the common surroundings. Yesterday, three guys attempted to rob a security van outside a supermarket in Leytonstone, east London. There was a scuffle and one of the security guards pretty much blew one of the robbers head clean off. The robber died five hours later from his wounds (who wouldn't?). "Scuffles broke out and one of the Tesco security guards was shot in the leg. Other staff from the supermarket and a local hospital arrived as the struggles continued. One of the robbers was overcome and a gun fell to the floor. Police are investigating allegations that the wounded guard managed to reach the gun and shoot the robber in the back of the head." Go out robbing with a shotgun and you get what's comin' your way! But the fact is,...
Rippin' thru books like they're going out of style! Been getting into some of Ian Fleming's James Bond classics. In three day's I've read "Goldfinger", "Casino Royale" and I've just started "Live and let die". I won't bore you with my usual talk of the books being better than the films, but the Bond films are stuff of class and distinction. The books are of class, style and distinction and allow you to travel more into the emotional realms of the main character without all of the un-necessary Yankee bred exposions and lightening bolts shiznit. I've also been reading Toby Litt's book "Exposure". This is a contemporary book of short stories and so far I'm unimpressed, as I usually am with most contemporary literature. I feel, as of that with filmage, that the classics of the fifties and early sixties to be the most rewarding. More Fleming, followed by my first dose of Hemingway, which I feel will be my kinda thang after a lengthy discussion with a friend about his writings, earlier today....
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