Photo Hunt; Public

Cottesloe Beach, one of Perth’s favourite ocean frontages, is home to the Perth version of “Sculpture by the Sea”. A chance for the creative to showcase their work in a public place to an appreciative public who often would not visit a gallery. Bottom right are some of the volunteer lifesavers in their red and [...]

Computational Rephotography Opens Time Portals Into a World War II Ghost Dimension

Russian photographer Sergey Larenkov took some old photographs from World War II and combined them with new perspective-matching photos. The result are a series of time portals that help us contextualise the war into our current reality. The technique is very simple, but clever and effective, giving eerie results like the one above. That’s the [...]

Book Review; The Secret Supper

I found “The Secret Supper” on a remainder table in a shopping mall. Translated into English from Javier Sierra’s Spanish by Alberto Manguel it was published by Pocket Books in 2004. (380 pp) Milan, 1497: Leonardo is completing his Last Supper. There is no Holy Grail or Eucharist Bread in the painting, the artist has [...]

BBC Quiz of the Week

A quiet week which included a trip to the beach and a bit of rearranging of my furniture and stuff. Lots of black bagging. Azahar won the hat last week with a 1/7. This week’s Quiz only seemed hard as I was  able to score 5/7.  I would have had a perfect score if there [...]

Homophonophobic

Ok, we all know just how good the Spell-Check Gods can be. Just don’t trust them. They are as deceptive as that old Serpent in the Garden of Eden. They also encourage that slothful laziness which leads to words loosing there plaice. I read a lot of posts. I also read the comments. Some of [...]

Sky Watch Friday

On Tuesday I posted a couple of images I was lucky enough to take from my window. I saved the one I thought best to share on Sky Watch. A Fish Eye lens can be so good!

Pollution

Faith and Science

Artwork

There was a large book publishing company which finally updated to the 21st century. They computerised. They computerised their accounts. They computerised their typesetting. They computerised their payroll. Then they set out to computerise their art department. Here they ran into problems. It was a decision of middle management that all art-work be in the [...]

Seashell

I went to the beach yesterday. Found some interesting angles for sunshiny shots. Unfortunately it was very overcast and showery. It will be sunshiny another day. As I was leaving, I spotted this.

A Loser

The local track racing and betting in the local town of Manor has recently fallen upon hard times. It is easy to understand how people might fail to see the foolishness of betting on the ponies, but that shouldn’t be the case with some people. Recently, I saw some real cowgirls at the racetrack, and [...]

Lollies for Grown-Ups

Looked Out My Window Today

No, I didn’t go overboard. Not that I couldn’t have. After all, some people do go a little bit overboard when they see a double rainbow.

Tuesday Tune

Outraged Bureaucracy

The whole world has now heard of those Afghan war pages which have been published by Wilileaks. Predictably the leaks have been condemned as no Government likes to have its shoulder looked over. The reaction has been one of outrage that the pages, all 90,000 odd thousand of them, were not only published on Wikileaks [...]