Click above to see some landscape pics from my recent holiday in Foamia where I visited the famous pink mountains.
Archive for May, 2008
Eight civilians have been killed in an air strike by US military helicopters north of Baghdad, Iraqi police say.
Two children were among those who died in the attack on Wednesday evening near the town of Baiji, the police said.
A local man, Ghafil Rashed, told Reuters that his brother and son had been killed in the [...]
When I first got the Mattel Synsonic, I went mental.
Finally, I could act-out all my Kraftwerk fantasies and pretend I was Wolfgang or Karl, tippy-tapping away on my ubercool drum synth pads.
There was a kick, snare and two tom pads. They weren’t up to Simmons drum standards but for what was essentially a novelty toy, [...]
I’ve just come back from seeing Iron Man at the new Cinema De Lux at the Westfield Centre. This isn’t a proper review of the film but rather a review of the whole experience…
Well, the new cinema is certainly swanky central. Everything is impeccably clean, scrubbed and gleaming. The staff are all well-groomed, well-spoken and [...]
Click the above pic to see some sunny shots from the start of last week, when it was briefly gorgeously sunny.
I hope the summer makes another appearance before autumn comes calling!
A newly published letter reveals that Albert Einstein viewed religion and religious works as “childish,” and “primitive works.”
In the letter, dated January 3 1954, he wrote: “The word god is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weakness, the Bible a collection of honourable, but still primitive legends which are nevertheless [...]
Whooo! On Saturday night I was lucky enough to see The Mystery Jets live at The Royal!
Supporting were Esser who managed to surmount a lack of soundchecking and played a fun, bouncy set. They remind me of A Certain Ratio channelled through LCD Soundsystem.
Click the pic above for more shots of Esser.
And then the [...]
More blurry Lensbaby macros after you click the pic!