BBC London ATTACKS: "The Piccadilly line is 21.3 metres (70 feet) deep at this point. Recovery teams face intense heat of up to 60C, dust, fumes, vermin, asbestos and there were initially concerns that the tunnel might collapse."
Almost surreal. Even "closer" to home this time - a city and area I have visited many times over. Three bombs in one minute. Less than one hundred actually killed (so far) - seems almost insignificant compared to the 8000 in Srebrenica - but the sense of shock is magnifying it many times over.
Heatwave in Norway, actually went swimming today to cool down. Summer for real - and news almost unreal.
... phased out ...
Sunday, July 10
Wednesday, July 6
Chekhov's foreshadowing
Chekhov's gun: "If in the first act you have hung a pistol on the wall, then in the following one it should be fired. Otherwise don't put it there.'"
Simple formulation of a complex subject - the gentle art of foreshadowing, or nudging the reader in the direction you want the story to go - without blatantly stating it outright.
How to do it surely depends on both genre and cultural reference - a baseball bat in the US might indicate a playfull time with the kids - or a big fight with things spinning out of control - or a scary time with a(n imagined) burglar.
...and on that last note I hope the last period of silence due to too much sun and outdoor life will be redeemed, at least for a while ;)
Simple formulation of a complex subject - the gentle art of foreshadowing, or nudging the reader in the direction you want the story to go - without blatantly stating it outright.
How to do it surely depends on both genre and cultural reference - a baseball bat in the US might indicate a playfull time with the kids - or a big fight with things spinning out of control - or a scary time with a(n imagined) burglar.
...and on that last note I hope the last period of silence due to too much sun and outdoor life will be redeemed, at least for a while ;)
Rap in a hard place
Aljazeera : "rap is finding a new voice as a group of young Palestinians sing about the frustrations of life under occupation in the Gaza Strip"
Now that is a slightly different ballgame than bragging about bling bling and living large - when the bad stuff is all about Apache gunships turning your neighbour into a puddle - or your house to a pile of rubble, or your best friend strapping a large chunk of plastics to his body to blow up other youths at a disco or cafe.
Talk about 'keeping it real' ...? Belive it.
More about the other acts at dam3rap and also a note from Belle&Seb
Or for some picture 'from the ground' head over to Gaza (warning: STRONG images, dead/wounded)
Now that is a slightly different ballgame than bragging about bling bling and living large - when the bad stuff is all about Apache gunships turning your neighbour into a puddle - or your house to a pile of rubble, or your best friend strapping a large chunk of plastics to his body to blow up other youths at a disco or cafe.
Talk about 'keeping it real' ...? Belive it.
More about the other acts at dam3rap and also a note from Belle&Seb
Or for some picture 'from the ground' head over to Gaza (warning: STRONG images, dead/wounded)
Random bookseller
Random Family by Adrian Nicole LeBlanc seems like an interesting read (will take some time to have it shipped over here and make it to the top of the 'pile' - which hopefully will be slightly decreased over the next weeks as the overdue summer holiday sets in, having been already shortened by a week due to an urgent client project)
It was mentioned by Ã?sne - and it obviously brings up some of the same 'issues' - how should we live in the modern day - and as important - how do you tell an intimate story of someones life, love and despair without exploiting or embarrassing them?
How far can a journalist or an author go in putting thoughts and ideas into other peoples words, heads or actions? How do you tell the whole story - without knowing 'the whole truth and nothing but the truth'?
Can we really know or understand someone by spending time with them? By sharing meals and everyday moments? Do we even understand ourselves all the time...?
It was mentioned by Ã?sne - and it obviously brings up some of the same 'issues' - how should we live in the modern day - and as important - how do you tell an intimate story of someones life, love and despair without exploiting or embarrassing them?
How far can a journalist or an author go in putting thoughts and ideas into other peoples words, heads or actions? How do you tell the whole story - without knowing 'the whole truth and nothing but the truth'?
Can we really know or understand someone by spending time with them? By sharing meals and everyday moments? Do we even understand ourselves all the time...?
Lego 'open source'
Lego Moonbase: "Each module is connected to another by means of a properly aligned airlock corridor" - a neat concept for "remote collabortaion" or distributed building - of huge Lego constructions (no, not real moonbases - yet) for fairs and conventions. Some good fun shots of both bases and other space related sets.
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