http://www.electricpig.org Just another WordPress weblog Sat, 05 Jul 2008 23:00:41 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en After going to the Moriyama exhibition, I wanted to see how my T2 performed with some B&W film, so I bought some Fuji 1600. The shots are obviously quite grainy, but I like how they turned out. If anything, the grainyness adds something to them.  The first one below is ... http://www.electricpig.org/2008/07/04/a-bit-of-black-white/ Eri has a hidden talent for seeing shoes that she likes, trying them on and liking them, procrastinating about buying them and upon finally deciding to do so, discovering that they have sold out. She had a bad experience a few years ago with a pair of Miu Miu boots, and ... http://www.electricpig.org/2008/07/03/new-sneakers-for-the-missus/ One of the blogs I read everyday is by Zoriah, a photojournalist currently embedded with US forces in Iraq. He takes beautiful pictures in what, at the best of times, can be deemed difficult circumstances, and writes with admirable honesty about the situations he finds there. I highly recommend it ... http://www.electricpig.org/2008/07/02/embedding/ This weekend, Eri and I realised that about 3 separate exhibitions that we had meant to see for ages were all ending, and with an impending hangover on Sunday, Saturday was the only day we had free. So, five exhibitions in a day then... First up was the double Moriyama Daido ... http://www.electricpig.org/2008/06/30/exhibitionism/ Before leaving work yesterday, I turned on iTunes on my computer with the foolish expectation that when I got home it would be ready to play music right away, without me having to start it up (yes, I am that much of an anal retentive). The problem seems to have ... http://www.electricpig.org/2008/06/18/foolish-expectations/ I can't remember quite what I said to my Vice-Principal when he asked me if I was a fast runner, but whatever it was, it can't have been sufficient to persuade him of my complete sporting ineptitude, because when Sports Day rolled around again, my name was in the roster ... http://www.electricpig.org/2008/06/10/a-thoroughly-bad-idea/ Incident 1: On Tuesday evening, I had just finished a jog (stagger) round the local park and was walking down one of the little backstreets that leads from the park back to my house. Just up the road were three large crows, the type that can often be seen loitering ... http://www.electricpig.org/2008/05/29/omens/ Nice to see that the Japanese police are living up to their reputations as the most incompetent police in the 1st (ish) world. In what has to be the funniest piece of happy-news this year, Japanese police officers at Narita Airport planted half a bar of weed on some poor ... http://www.electricpig.org/2008/05/26/keystone-cops/ It started innocently enough. A father, sitting opposite me with his son. I'd noticed the man before on my commute - he was one of the regulars, transported to work in the bowels of the city every morning. Since April though, his young son, now of elementary school age, has ... http://www.electricpig.org/2008/05/23/things-that-annoy-me-no-3-sardined/ I've found myself favouriting less photos this month than the couple of month's previously. I'm not sure why - probably partly due to being busier at work than I would like. These are my favourites from April; I think my favourites are the "Riding the Skies" shot from "ezee" and ... http://www.electricpig.org/2008/05/22/flickr-favourites-april/