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Archive for October, 2008

Fine lookin’ woman..

Posted by countlazarus on October 19, 2008

Opening scene of Bonnie and Clyde, of course. Did anyone ever look better than this?..

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Quote of the day..

Posted by countlazarus on October 18, 2008

“There’s always been this need to give music labels, especially in England. If people want to call Walk On By easy listening then fine, call it that. But hold it up to the light and you see it’s not easy at all..”

Burt, in today’s Guardian..

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Quote of the day..

Posted by countlazarus on October 10, 2008

There are 10^11 stars in the galaxy. That used to be a huge number. But it’s only a hundred billion. It’s less than the national deficit! We used to call them astronomical numbers. Now we should call them economical numbers.
  - Richard Feynman

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When pictures live in pictures – pt2..

Posted by countlazarus on October 3, 2008

Couple of weeks ago I was blathering about a picture I took of a picture Jody took of Corinne taking a picture of me, and musing that the guy in the background might be looking at the same picture. Well, sure enough, turms out these guys had already beaten me to the punch..

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Tilt/paradigm/shift..

Posted by countlazarus on October 1, 2008

OK, Wes has escalated the tilt/shift thing. TS video! Of course it’s not really, it’s a series of TS still images, but still bloody impressive. By somebody called Keith Loutit, apparently..

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