Neural misfires from a northern brain

Garbage - I Hate Love; so far my favourite song from Not Your...

Thu, 17 May 2012 08:19:26 +0100

Garbage - I Hate Love; so far my favourite song from Not Your Kind Of People.

K’s Choice - Until I’m Fine Another one from the...

Wed, 16 May 2012 15:43:16 +0100

K’s Choice - Until I’m Fine

Another one from the sad, slow songs for today collection.

The Lumineers - Slow it Down It’s a slow, sad music kind...

Wed, 16 May 2012 14:28:43 +0100

The Lumineers - Slow it Down

It’s a slow, sad music kind of day for me today. Figured I’d share it with you.

Wash the night from my bones / turn to face the day / feel a piece of my soul / gently drift away

Wed, 16 May 2012 09:23:01 +0100

Wash the night from my bones / turn to face the day / feel a piece of my soul / gently drift away

Photo

Tue, 15 May 2012 12:56:03 +0100

"I feel really lucky,“although I hate that word — ‘lucky. It cheapens a lot of hard work. Living in..."

Fri, 11 May 2012 04:32:41 +0100

““I feel really lucky,“although I hate that word — ‘lucky. It cheapens a lot of hard work. Living in Brooklyn in an apartment without any heat and paying for dinner at the bodega with dimes — I don’t think I felt myself lucky back then. Doing plays for 50 bucks and trying to be true to myself as an “artist and turning down commercials where they wanted a leprechaun. Saying I was lucky negates the hard work I put in and spits on that guy who’s freezing his ass off back in Brooklyn. So I won’t say I’m lucky.”

- Peter Dinklage (via mollycrabapple)

"The Path to wisdom does, in fact, begin with a single step. Where people go wrong is in ignoring all..."

Wed, 02 May 2012 01:20:16 +0100

“The Path to wisdom does, in fact, begin with a single step.
Where people go wrong is in ignoring all the thousands of other steps that come after it. They make the single step of deciding to become one with the universe, and for some reason forget to take the next logical step of living for seventy years on a mountain and a daily bowl of rice and yak-butter tea that would give it any kind of meaning. While evidence says that the road to Hell is paved with good intentions, they’re probably all on first steps.”

- Terry Pratchett, Hogfather (via liquidnight)

"I spy with my little eye The sun shining brightly, clouds rolling by The last days of winter now..."

Tue, 01 May 2012 16:07:22 +0100

“I spy with my little eye
The sun shining brightly, clouds rolling by
The last days of winter now seem so far away
And everything is green where it used to be grey”

"Tell us a joke: Your life has meaning. Tell us a secret: Your life has meaning."

Sat, 28 Apr 2012 10:03:09 +0100

“Tell us a joke: Your life has meaning.
Tell us a secret: Your life has meaning.”

- Joss Whedon in The Guardian

new-aesthetic: “The Descriptive Camera works a lot like a...

Wed, 25 Apr 2012 15:01:43 +0100

new-aesthetic:

“The Descriptive Camera works a lot like a regular camera—point it at subject and press the shutter button to capture the scene. However, instead of producing an image, this prototype outputs a text description of the scene.”

Descriptive Camera, via Tom T

(Uses Mechanical Turk to create human descriptions of photographs.)

Observe this image. My dear friend Kat, shot in 2007, at a...

Tue, 24 Apr 2012 07:57:00 +0100

Observe this image. My dear friend Kat, shot in 2007, at a company event.

Nothing groundbreaking, as photographs go, but I think this image illustrates something that I think I’ve lost as I’ve become more technically proficient as a photographer: the ability to play.

Here I was, beer in hand, shooting a full-band karaoke jam on a Friday night. Just played around with long shutter speeds for the hell of it.

I’m just starting to learn to play again, and it’s tough going… but I’m enjoying it.

Image: Kat Kinnie in Motion on Flickr.

Artists, musicians, photographers...

Thu, 19 Apr 2012 12:36:35 +0100

Answers in a comment or reply, please: Is there a word for the way you automatically start disliking your own work a few days after it’s finished, even if you loved it when you created it?

Demographic of One: What is some advice you can give to an aspiring young artist?

Tue, 17 Apr 2012 21:31:20 +0100

Demographic of One: What is some advice you can give to an aspiring young artist?:

mollycrabapple:

Work hard, make friends, don’t give up.

A bit more: be incredibly opportunistic and on the hunt for places that can use your art. Be hard on yourself. Shun all the woo woo vagueness that people tell artists: “fulfilling your dreams”, “nurturing your creativity”, the whole lot of that. It…

"if I can’t shoot what I love and how I see, what’s the point."

Fri, 06 Apr 2012 21:03:43 +0100

“if I can’t shoot what I love and how I see, what’s the point.”

- Melissa Rodwell

Wise words, after my own heart at the moment.

Sometimes the mind doesn’t speak all that clearly.

Tue, 03 Apr 2012 10:21:44 +0100

Sometimes the mind doesn’t speak all that clearly.

The Smart Artist (via Chase Jarvis)

Fri, 23 Mar 2012 22:56:25 +0000

The Smart Artist (via Chase Jarvis)

Today is a good day.

Wed, 21 Mar 2012 14:15:49 +0000

Today is a good day.

This is what I meant to post earlier. Turns out that the...

Thu, 15 Mar 2012 10:00:36 +0000

This is what I meant to post earlier. Turns out that the StumbleUpon iPad app is a bit dumb.

momentofellis: Transmetropolitan Disco. Artist gaktikol.

Wed, 14 Mar 2012 17:15:49 +0000

momentofellis:

Transmetropolitan Disco. Artist gaktikol.

Late night braindump about #Lancaster music scene projects. If...

Sat, 10 Mar 2012 01:36:58 +0000

Late night braindump about #Lancaster music scene projects. If you look closely, you can see a (very poor) pencil sketch of Spider Jerusalem on the other side of the page. (Taken with instagram)