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[Jun. 20th, 2009|11:53 pm] |
I just heard the most depressing thing ever on a preview video for Assassin's Creed II.
"You're going to get a lot of really cool toys because your best buddy is Leonardo da Vinci. You know, the guy from The Da Vinci Code?" |
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[Jun. 15th, 2009|07:57 pm] |
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It's that time you've all been waiting for!*
Fox cub photo spam!
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[May. 20th, 2009|07:26 pm] |
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It's all been a bit cute today. I was sitting at the computer and something went thunk into my window. I looked down to see this little guy...
...looking more than a little stunned on the windowsill. Can I hear an 'aww'? A baby bluetit, about the length of my little finger, way tinier than the great tits I was photographing yesterday. He was very very still and I was torn between worrying and taking photos ^^; So I compromised and stayed a good distance away and took photos :P I didn't want to scare off its parents, which were nearby, and I didn't want to startle it in case it went plummeting off the window ledge! :S
After 5 minutes or so it seemed to pull itself together, stood up properly and started twittering a little. One of its parents answered and it fluttered off to a nearby tree and got fed :) I should have known better than to be worried, baby birds are made of rubber!
I've been getting some lovely clear shots of the fox on the roof recently too, although I haven't seen any cubs since the last time :/
He/She just sits and scratches aaalll daaay looong. I wonder if this is one of our fox family, driven out of the den by the cubs ;) |
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[May. 17th, 2009|10:23 pm] |
Saw Star Trek today. Loved it :D It wouldn't have been my first choice of movie but Ana really wanted to go so I thought I'd give it a try! I'd seen enough of the early tv series as a kid to get most of the references, and it was pretty darn funny in places :D
Next up is Coraline, I've never seen a proper 3D movie! |
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[May. 8th, 2009|08:59 pm] |
I have listened to the new Green Day album and proclaim it to be good, possibly rising to great on re-listenings.
I would have listened to it legitimately on Rhapsody or VH1/MTV, but no, that's not for you, non-Americans. So there you go. MTV encourages piracy.
I also watched Bolt last night, having been putting it off for ages thinking it would be the usual mass-produced Disney 3D schmaltzy rubbish. But it wasn't, it really wasn't. It looked fantastic (techy geeky bit coming: great animation, really technically well done with acting almost up to the standard of their old 2D stuff, and the fur. Oh gods the fur. A fantastic render job in general, actually, from the slight translucence of Bolt's ears in harsh sunlight, to the scenery that looked photo-real whilst still being just slightly cartoony. Really well lit too. I know that's a random comment to make but it's something I've been struggling with recently with my renders so I notice it a lot), and I giggled all the way through. Fantastic characters, some great voice acting, and a plot that was like The Truman Show meets Homeward Bound. Just like Meet the Robinsons, it never got much publicity in this country. I don't get that at all. Crap like Surf's Up gets plastered all over the place while good films like this just drift under the radar :/
Er, what else. This is turning into a review post. But I wanted to mention a few of the books I've been reading lately.
Actually, is anyone else on GoodReads? I've started using it recently to keep track of what I read. I could use some friends on there :) Yeah, there's a lot of Chinese and Japanese themed books on my list ^^; I'm running out of them :S
But anyway, out of those I really wanted to recommend The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman, which is a really sweet, absorbing re-telling of the Jungle Book, and The Gargoyle by Andrew Davidson, which is half a very strange book about a burn victim and a (questionably) schizophrenic woman, and half a collection of love stories spanning centuries. Takes a bit of patience to get into, but both definitely worth picking up.
Need moooooooaar reading material :S Problem is most of the books I want to read aren't in the library ¬_¬ And I can't currently afford to buy books at the rate I consume them! |
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[Mar. 23rd, 2009|06:35 pm] |
A few of the photos from the farm.
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Ranting aside, little curly tail!!
And fluffy donkey ears. This donkey was pretty, see the picture of it with eyeliner.
Sheep and Canary Wharf. Is this not weird.
Sheep with dreadlocks are awesome.
I spent a while in the stables snapping while my mum and her friend were shovelling manure.
Down by St Katherine Docks. I think this got lighter as a jpeg O_o
This amused me far more than it should have. |
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[Mar. 5th, 2009|11:11 pm] |
Some of my shots from yesterday, fiddled with to hell and back. The rest are also on Flickr, as per usual :)
Fake tilt shift for... not much win ¬_¬
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[Mar. 2nd, 2009|03:19 pm] |
Our poor ole foxes are riddled with mange. They've always been constantly a-scratching, presumably fleas, but they're right into fur-loss territory now. Mr fox has it the worst:
 
Mainly around the tail, but you can see some patches on his legs that're scratched raw too.
Mrs Fox actually seems relatively okay, here she is in the sun looking about as blissed-out as possible:
They do like rolling around on the grass in the sunshine. My mum got this lovely example of the dead-fox-pose a while back.
Haha, isn't she cute. I do sometimes get the impression that they're deigning to let me take their photos, presumably because they know that once I have, I'll leave them alone :P
She's scratching a lot but seems relatively okay, but there's another one, not sure which yet, that has a huge saddle-like bald patch across its shoulders and looks quite rough. Poor itchy foxes!
[edit] Just to complete the family set, here's the little female, looking cute. Glad to see it's not her that I saw missing all the fur on the back.
I also learnt today that no matter how quietly you tiptoe up the garden, trying not to wake a sleeping fox, it's all completely pointless when you have a garden full of easily-startled woodpigeons. |
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[Feb. 3rd, 2009|07:48 pm] |
I had such a nice morning today. The sun was out and making the snow look beautiful, but also melting it at a surprising speed, so I threw some clothes on and went for a walk round the park. Which was an odd experience in itself, everything looked so different covered in white. I've been walking in the place all my life but there were moments when it took me a while to work out where I was XD But it was good fun, it's been ages since I just went exploring with my camera.
I've uploaded a ton of photos to Flickr, but here are a few of my favourites.
Why do snow photos look better in black and white?
Was out for a couple of hours, but by 2 the slush was definitely starting to replace the snow. I was beyond exhausted when I got back, should have stuck to the paths instead of wading through! |
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[Dec. 11th, 2008|01:29 am] |
What the hell is that on the roof opposite...?
...it's a heron!
Not your usual rooftop bird, that's for sure.
Although not that surprising, really. One flies by every evening on its way back from the stream near us. It's pretty amazing when something so huge flies past your window. But it's often mobbed on the way by crows, parakeets etc. No danger to them, of course, but they tend to associate anything larger than them with birds of prey. He'd obviously decided to stop for a rest, and was chased away again pretty quickly.
The speed at which I switched the camera over to my long lens when I saw this was pretty impressive though ;) |
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[Dec. 10th, 2008|03:49 pm] |
My prints from DeviantArt came today. I thought I'd do a quick write-up, in case anyone else was considering buying from them. They shipped very fast - the next day, but in future I'd pay the few dollars extra for priority mail, because they then took 2 weeks to get here. I've had enough things go AWOL in the post to start getting itchy after about a week.
I got three 4x6 prints by chop-stix because I wanted something colourful to go in the frames I've had lying around.
They look cute, haven't quite decided which wall to stick em on yet :) I probably wouldn't buy prints this size again though, because the quality wasn't all that hot. They're quite soft - edges that should be sharp are a little blurry. The colours are lovely though, just a little duller than the original. I also got this, which was the softest of them all.
My other two were big 12 x 18 inch ones by Erwin Madrid, whose art I worship.
Winter Sky, which is absolutely beautiful, it looks like a painting. A teensy bit dull, again, but I'm prepared to accept that could be down to my monitor brightness (which is actually quite low ¬_¬)
And Venice Bridge, which I loved the colours of, he captured the light and colours of Venice perfectly, it really does look like that. The print, however, does not. The colours are completely different to the original image, the yellows... aren't. They're green and dull and unpleasant, as are the borwns of the buildings behind. It's not a bright and sunny print at all, it's green-blue and just not pretty. I've written to them to complain, not sure what sort of response I'll get :/
Both the large prints are also a tiny bit pixelated when you look up close. Only a little bit, which makes me think that the original image was probably slightly smaller than the print size I ordered.
So would I buy prints from DeviantArt again... I'm not entirely sure :/ I'll wait and see what they do about the dodgy colours on the Venice one, but I'm a little dissapointed with the small prints and very dissapointed with one of the large ones, which isn't a good score :/
Also, Rainbow Drops.
Lots of them. Well... originally. |
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[Nov. 20th, 2008|05:32 pm] |
Today I discovered that if you hang around the expensive skincare aisles in Boots, people give you big freebie bags of samples O_O
I have short hair again, woo! Shorter than last time, sort of cheek-length. Why am I bothering to describe it, there'll be plenty of photos after graduation tomorrow :P I demurred from getting it really short when my mother pointed out I'd look like her ¬_¬
Mass-producing, robot-controlled, assembly-line factory videos are awesome, full stop. Therefore, this is pretty interesting! |
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