Am posting photos instead of getting round to writing something. Am well aware of own rubbishness. The quest to rectify said rubbishness continues.
Today’s theme is black and white. All of these are fairly old.
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Over two months since my last post. Shame on me.
I have an excuse though, which is that I’ve had a lot going on. It’s always a rubbish excuse, but this time it’s actually true, I swear.
Midway is no more, our studio closed down, I became unemployed, I lived with my brother in Northampton for a while, signed on at the job centre for the first time, interviewed at a few places then ended up landing a job at People Can Fly / Epic Poland… so I’ve left the UK and I live in Warsaw now.
It’s quite bonkers, when I think back to what I assumed could be my next step three months ago. I’m learning Polish, going out a lot and generally having a jolly good time. Which is good.
More on Warsaw later, because there’s a lot to it and I’m lazy. For now, all I have for you is love, rainbows and photography.
Here’s the photography:
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Watching this delicious skate video (directed by Spike Jonze and Ty Evans) recently inspired me to head out and take some skate photos.
There was an idea that I’d been meaning to rip off for some time, from an old PS1 skating game called Thrasher: Skate and Destroy. The loading screens showed multiple, rapidly-taken photos of a single trick, from the same angle, composed into a single image. I remembered it looking cool, and realised that I knew how to do it myself, and had everything I needed (a camera that can take fairly fast continuous shots, a tripod and Photoshop). So I had no excuse not to.
I went to the local skatepark (Exhibition Park, Newcastle) the next weekend, and had a go. The weather was surprisingly great for it, and I’m chuffed with the results:
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At first I wasn’t sure how it was going to go, as I literally just turned up, watched people do their stuff for a while, then set my camera up and started taking photos. I could’ve ended up being murdered by a horde of hooded teenagers with hard things in their hands, but thankfully they weren’t the type.
After people cottoned on, a particular group of them were really up for getting involved and doing tricks for the camera, and soon enough we were chatting about things and setting up decent shots and so on. Along with the post-processing / Photoshopping session that ensued once I was back home, it was a really satisfying day’s “work”. Would like to do something similar but more ambitious sometime.
Some photos to fill the void – first from the Chinese New Year celebrations on Stowell Street (Newcastle Chinatown):
And then a few from the closing party of the Maker Faire last weekend, full of 8-bit, circuit-bent chiptuney goodness:
(Slightly grumpy-looking DJ, who made up for it by playing some Kraftwerk)
The design snob in me isn’t particularly happy with Apple’s recent trend of using two colours (black and silver, white and silver) on their stuff. Single colours suit the simple design much better, in my opinion.
So. Combine my pedantic taste for minimalism with nerdy touchtyping abilities and a cheap can of white spraypaint, and you end up with my keyboard – possibly the most pretentious keyboard in existence.
Now I can sleep at night.
That’s the Fliqlo screensaver mimicking a flip clock on my monitor – it’s lovely.
