Neural misfires from a northern brain

In the knowledge that I’m going to die one day, I’m walking away from yet another internet argument. I really don’t want to be lying on my deathbed thinking “yeah, I really highlighted that person’s logical fallacy in that forum that no-one remembers back in ‘11.”

Life’s too short.

Late night notebook

Being awake late at night is a bit like being drunk, for me. It gives me license to think big, silly thoughts without any consequences. I tweeted this a few days ago, in a fit of earlymorning brainjuicing:

2am. Can’t sleep. Thoughts and hopes and fragile dreams run through my brain. I shall do the impossible, for I am mighty.

Anyway, thoughts running through my head tonight:

• Heavily styled couple shoots. Not a new idea, but could be interesting to try both in the studio and on location. Imagine if your wedding / anniversary / whatever invites had pictures of you shot like movie stars.
• Dancers. Always wanted to photograph dancers. Everyone does ballerinas in grotty locations, though. What about street performers in the Royal Opera House?
• Gods. Gods, gods, and more gods. Dark and light; British gods.
• What would the Rapture look like on film (dry ice in empty shoes aside)?
• What do people dream of when they’re working behind the till in Wilkinsons or Matalan? More juxtaposition of dreams and reality.

Random thought at 05:50

Clarity in photographs is easy. Deliberate unclarity, hiding or partially-suggesting things in an image, is hard.

(I don’t necessarily know what that means or if it even means anything, by the way. Coherence is hanging by a thread here; it’s 05:50 and I haven’t slept).

Three things

That I have discovered tonight:

1. I really like Scrivener
2. The idea of posting a story to the web is still nerve-wracking (give me time; maybe tomorrow).
3. Rich-text HTML editors are okay most of the time but when they suck they really suck