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baleanoptera) wrote2007-02-09 08:11 pm
baleanoptera) wrote2007-02-09 08:11 pm
Most def!
So I’ve spent the day at a seminar on photography. From this I’ve learned two things.
1.When they key note speaker looks like the twin brother of Nathaniel Parker – aka Inspector Lynley among other things – and has a wonderful, honey voice it is extremely easy to get distracted. When he starts talking about the sensuality and the intimacy of photography this doubles.
2.Art Historical titles on books or lectures are sometimes bordering on the pompous and the absurd. Today I’ve listened to "The Death of the Death of the Photograph", "The Arbitrary Stillness of Surrendering to the Image" (no, I have no idea what that was about. At one point she talked about "the sharp intake of breath as we watch images, as a sign that time passes" Okay then... And "Sepulchre – the image in a new media age".
Fortunately the day also saw the arrival of The Wire season 3! And I’ll just add some more exclamation marks here: !!!!!! to properly highlight the occasion.
So far I’m two episodes in. I’m possibly already loving Bunny Colvin – who has just given his "paper bag for drugs" speech – and Stringer Bell with his chair meetings is beyond words.
"The chair don’t recognise your ass!" Hee. And the bit about Cheese and his dawg was absolutely wonderful.
In conclusion- if you don’t hear from me the next few days it’s because I’m hugging my The Wire dvd – or I’m silently pondering the question if it’s sane to watch Rome and The Wire at the same time.
1.When they key note speaker looks like the twin brother of Nathaniel Parker – aka Inspector Lynley among other things – and has a wonderful, honey voice it is extremely easy to get distracted. When he starts talking about the sensuality and the intimacy of photography this doubles.
2.Art Historical titles on books or lectures are sometimes bordering on the pompous and the absurd. Today I’ve listened to "The Death of the Death of the Photograph", "The Arbitrary Stillness of Surrendering to the Image" (no, I have no idea what that was about. At one point she talked about "the sharp intake of breath as we watch images, as a sign that time passes" Okay then... And "Sepulchre – the image in a new media age".
Fortunately the day also saw the arrival of The Wire season 3! And I’ll just add some more exclamation marks here: !!!!!! to properly highlight the occasion.
So far I’m two episodes in. I’m possibly already loving Bunny Colvin – who has just given his "paper bag for drugs" speech – and Stringer Bell with his chair meetings is beyond words.
"The chair don’t recognise your ass!" Hee. And the bit about Cheese and his dawg was absolutely wonderful.
In conclusion- if you don’t hear from me the next few days it’s because I’m hugging my The Wire dvd – or I’m silently pondering the question if it’s sane to watch Rome and The Wire at the same time.
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it's so great to see Rome not in all white.
yes - exactly! And I love how all the streets are narrow and dirty, and how they have graffiti on the walls and such. It feels like a live and true city.
And I completely agree that Pullo and Vorenus are one of the best buddy pairs ever, and I love that star scene!Hee!
And Octavian is so far very good and very interesting in S2, and there are a few new characters as well that are really good. So yay!