Bye world.
too many choices!
Started officially packing today. I enjoy the last minute rush, i get things done more efficiently that way.
2 weeks till lift off
I’ve been looking around for winter clothing for my extended stay close to the artic circle. I’ve heard that there’s very little sunlight during winter in Norway. I hope the night activities are awesome or i’d just die of boredom. Oh yes, winter clothing. Winter clothing is expensive. yup. that’s what i wanted to say. It’s expensive!
The Norwegian orientation schedule is out. I see the word “Party” four times in 5 days. I should survive then.
2 weeks till lift off, 2 weeks of work left = no time to pack.
Today’s photo is taken at Raffles Hotel. The chefs are whipping up dishes for the customers in the outdoor restaurant. Fresh seafood lie in the ice near them.
in the sane
The Singapore arcade (Game shops) scene isn’t very big, neither is it very good. The only thing you’ll see at those arcades are outdated racing games, cheesy pick-up-toy machines for the “cutesy people” and random dancing games.
In Japan however, the same scene is out of whack. Touch screen games are the in things right now and customers sit at the gaming stations for hours on end buying play cards and strategizing battles. Wars are waged and princesses are saved multitudes of times a day.
Photograph: This was taken in Japan in Akihabara, the electric city. The entire six floor building was a SEGA arcade filled to the brim of the latest technologies in gaming.
break
enough of gear talk and tech chases. the best way to better images is by going out to take some pictures.
3 more weeks before i leave for london. i need to start packing all my stuff and prepare 6 months worth of items to keep me alive. i can’t wait to smell the crisp air of the unknown, the intangible excitement in every corner and of course experience the sights with great company.
sometimes i’m too hard on myself.
New additions
My 40.5 metal hood finally arrived from the states. Damned these filter sizes. Bloody difficult to get. My hexar is more or less complete! Just need a filter. Apparently Vic says she thinks my blog is boring because it’s about photography and it’s not as interesting as the different girls in Cai’s life. She looks at a picture and goes “oh another picture”. merde de la varche.
Anyway, look at the new arrival in the family! Nikon 35 Ti. Sweet camera. Thanks to Keith for parting with it.
Gorgeous Titanium body. The lens is supposed to be really sharp.
Innards, spanking!
and OMG look at that awesome cool-ass dial on the top! The left hand side is the rangefinder meter and the right hand side is the aperture. You’ll never ever find such craftmanship in another camera.
and this is where all good things are made 
enraptured.
we think
the heart is a muscle
of sinew and flesh
and that we imagine
to beat
somehow
the most fluid red.
but we ignore
the architecture
of this
fine insidious
organ
to paint it plain
in 2 curved lines.
because the grandest
flaw is not
to dream of darkest deeds,
or make
the black murder of men,
but deny that
this machine
of godly complexity
cannot be written
or wrought in substance,
in lieu of its death;
when it can finally
be laid exposed;
there it is
in that
cage of bones,
the poisoned pound
that powers
every evil.
as much as i wished i had the depth to write this, i know i’m not capable of such beautiful and striking words. This was written by feryl.
Alan Fleisher: Time Exposures
Yesterday I was part of Alain Fleisher’s opening exhibition, “Alain Fleisher: Time Exposures”.
Alain Fleischer: Time Exposures takes you on a journey into the multi-faceted world of renowned photographer, Alain Fleischer. Treading between the realms of dreams and reality, Fleischer’s stunning photographic works reveal the artist as an incredible creator of images.
His opening performance was an astounding effort to develop a print that’s about roughly 3m x 4m in a cathedral, in front of an audience. On top of that, a video projecter was used in place of a standard enlarger. Instead of flashing an image, a video was played. If you think about it, it could be one of the biggest prints done outside of a darkroom.
I helped in developing the print, which meant filling up trash bins full of developer, stop bath and fixer. TRASH BINS! The photographic paper was mounted on the wall and we had to “paint” the chemicals onto the print using wooden sticks with rollers (like the ones painters use to paint houses)
The final product. I’m standing next to a creepy woman on the far right.
I will post more pictures later, i’m out for dinner!
my way home is through you
Today’s photograph is about wood! How exciting!
Norway is about 1 month away. I can almost smell the northern scents of summer. I can’t wait to leave all this behind. Eurotrip is, after all, supposed to be the best time of your life. We’ve more or less planned out our pre-school trip. Exciting.
I won’t miss home.
be square
Ilford HP5+
Sometimes square is good.
