Archive for October, 2005

aperture demo – at Mac Expo

Published October 28, 2005 Uncategorized Leave a Comment

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aperture
aperture,
originally uploaded by eyedropper.co.uk.

yeah, that’s right, he’s counting the gigs of RAM you’ll need on each finger if you want to run Aperture in any half decent way. It looked pretty good, but you’d really need a top notch desk top machine to get the benefit.

In all Mac Expo was rather good.. I was amazed at at how big an industry has sprung up providing iPod accessories. If you’ve got some white plastic and a Tandy electronics set, or a girl friend who can sew leather, you’re in business.

A lot of the store holders I spoke to said that what with it being half term, they’d been a lot of families through, one store had run out of freebies on the first day. That’s no bad thing I reckon. There did seem more retail type booths than simply trade ones this year.

Booth Babe count was extremely low, thankfully, though tosser with a radio mic speaking to two slightly interested people was high.

Sage Advice from Rhodri

Published October 26, 2005 Food Leave a Comment

Link: do you come here often? – herbie goes bananas.

Lambeth WWII bomb landings

Published October 26, 2005 Crystal Palace Leave a Comment

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Lambeth WWII bomb landings
Lambeth WWII bomb landings,
originally uploaded by eyedropper.co.uk.

From a VERY SMALL exhibition in Crystal Palace library. Looks a lot, but actually Croydon was the most bombed region of London.

Trafalgr & Flickr

Published October 21, 2005 BBC Leave a Comment

Link: BBC – bbc.co.uk homepage – Home of the BBC on the Internet.

Well just a few moments ago a link to Flickr went live on the BBC hompage, safely contained in the special ‘Trafalgar on the web’ box, lest there be any confusion. In the oil tankeresque direction of the BBC homepage, this perhaps represents a handbrake turn.

Crikey I remember when the was noise coming from other parts of the BBC about external links… “but..but.. you’re sending people away!” came the cry. As Martin talks about here, Radio 1 linked to a Flickr group for John Peel night and it worked well. Users seem much more au fait with technologies like these now. Mind you, if you saw some of the comments and questions in the BBC feedback document, you’d see there are plenty out there that arn’t.

Edwin Smith

Published October 17, 2005 Photography 1 Comment

An ostentatious avowal of honesty is the commonest prelude to an act of deception, and it cannot be reasonably doubted that he who first had need to claim that the camera could not lie concealed a well-worn retouching pencil behind his ear or beneath the folds of his generous tie

A fantastic opening line from a 1947 third edition of ‘All the Photo Tricks’ by Edwin Smith (great biog here, well worth a read) picked up at my old man’s auction house last spring and which I’ve been dipping into ever since.

Flowingly written, it’s the sort of British upper middle class boffin’s guide that had all but died out by the end if the 50s. I love the idea of hiding pencils in the folds of generous ties. Smith’s tips introduce themselves like dinner guests at some grand party. Take this example.

The activities of tone separation are not confined to any one room in photograph’s mansion, it has the run of the house and constitutes an alternative means of presenting any subject material.

Smith never really thought of himself as a photographer, he was an artist and an architect that just seemed to fall into the trade by chance. His equipment was 20 years out of date, yet he obtained some fantastic results. His choice of subject matter too, the English countryside or it’s churches, gives the impression of a gentle quiet man who saw photography as a means to record an environment around him that was soon to change for ever. This is perhaps born out on the final pages of the book.

The man who lives in his eyes is continually confronted with scenes and spectacles that compel his attention, or admiration, and demand an adequate reaction. To pass on without pause is impossible, and to continue after purely mental applause is unsatisfying, some real tribute must be paid.

no one writes guides like that anymore.

See more: V&A Exploring Photography – Edwin Smith.

Yay! We made the Sun’s ‘News in Briefs’

Published October 12, 2005 BBC , media Leave a Comment

Thanks ‘Becky 22 London’, I’ll pass your two points on to our complaints and feedback team.
box out becky

iPod / BBC gossip and gadgets

Published October 11, 2005 ipod Leave a Comment

BBC leaks info about the new iPod – Apple, launching a new video, here at the Beeb? and this, and more photoshopped stuff here… To good to be true…?!

There’s more rumours about a pink Madonna version like the U2 one.. Personally I’d like to see a Ronnie Barker version, a black nano pre loaded with all the classic video pieces and two pairs of gold glasses etched on the back… Actually I think comedy, particularly standup, would work rather well on an iPod, unlike Citizen Kane or Starwars. Close up shots of heads, the odd wide shot of the audience, after all most of the Oomph in standup comes through what’s said…

That said this is nice too. IPOD-Photo Stereoscope.

Buffalo…Tuxedo…Doctor Who…Wetlands

Published October 9, 2005 BBC , Design , Food , me , Television 1 Comment

I’m back, after a week off seeing family up north and researching a story about buffalo farming in the Peak District (more on that later as I’m working to get a publisher for it – some shots on Flickr) We also visited Chatsworth House, which if you’re ever in that neck of the woods is well worth a visit. It’s not a cheap day out, but you can see where every penny’s gone, and me niece moved the farm and the adventure play ground. The restaurant/cafe in particular offered up tasty options, even the kids choices were healthier than most of the standard battered something and chips.We came back from up North so I could attend the Association of Online Publishers annual awards. This saw me having to don a dinner suit and black tie which I thought made me look a little bit like a bouncer.. There was a lot of booing of us by the Guardian table, (come on then!). In the end we won two awards, one for the Podcasting trial from Radio & Music and One for News Interactive best consumer website.Doctorwho_homechoiceAlso upon my return I see Homechoice have got all the new Doctor Who’s on the C1 replay channel. They’ve also gone the extra mile for the ‘kids today’ and got five other stories feature other doctors from different years, and have put the whole lot into a snazzy DVD style interface. The featured episodes are:2005 – all the episodes | 1989 – The curse of Fenric – ep1-4 | 1985 – Timelash – ep 1-4 | 1984 – The caves of Androzani – ep1-4 | 1976 – The deadly assassin – ep1-4 | 1972 – The three Doctors – ep1-4I started watching ‘The Three Doctors’ .. it was hard going. Now working at the BBC means I’m working with some of the most hard core Who fans who’ll be able tell me if these are good episodes… I wonder if Homechoice consulted any Who Fans about which would be good ‘showcase’ episodes? Or maybe they just went for one’s that were four parters?To round off our little holiday and because the weather was nice today we decided to go to Richmond Park, only at the traffic lights somewhere in Putney we saw a sign for the London Wetland Centre and decided to give it a try. It was rather nice, thought there were lots of men lurking in hides and bushes with telescopes… Had lunch there too, not as good as Chatsworths,So back to work tomorrow

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