Monthly Archive for April, 2008

Moving pictures

Published
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blogmywiki
on April 11, 2008
in internet and photography
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The new video feature on Flickr has - predictably - caused a small storm with thousands of users joining a group calling for video to be removed from the site; these are Flickr purists who think the site should just be about the majesty of the still image.

But Flickr’s video is no YouTube - you’re limited to 90 seconds for one thing, which really does make it a forum for small movies that are probably - in effect - animated still images. Like Martin Parr’s BBC film of people’s houses. You’re unlikely to find TV shows or movies in 90 second chunks.

Pleasingly, a group calling itself ‘We Say No to Photos on Flickr‘ has now sprung up to mock the video refuseniks.

Diana verdict

Published
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blogmywiki
on April 7, 2008
in grief, music and nostalgia
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I think Half Man Half Biscuit were ahead of their time with the highly amusing couplet:

James Dean was just a careless driver
And Marilyn Monroe was just a slag

Great Un-taken Photographs, again

Published
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blogmywiki
on April 3, 2008
in photography
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NUMBER UMPTEEN IN AN OCCASIONAL SERIES.

Another ‘damn, if only I’d remembered my camera’ moment this morning. On the train, sitting in front of me, diagonally across the aisle, her back to me. She is copying a speech out of a book of audition pieces into a little blue notebook. Her handwriting is of the variety that looks like it should have circles or hearts for dots on the letter ‘i’s and ‘j’s - but doesn’t. Her long blonde hair is flowing over her pale, long coat. She is wearing pinstripe trousers and leopard-skin pumps. You cannot see her face at all.