Tile Style!

As a result of an assignment we were given a while back on the film course I'm doing, I've started taking relatively abstract pictures again, but this time my theme has been much closer to home.

In fact, it's actually at home, where I've been trying to frame the patterns and the, eh, beauty that is inherent in the ordinary, everyday things that are in all of our houses - if we just look!

Our hall floor is tiled in a diamond pattern, Argyle it might be called, and I'd always considered it solely to be the thing in itself i.e. a hall floor that exists to do exactly what it says on the tin.

That is until I looked at it a little more closely and decided that someday it might become more than just a floor - it might become something beyond itself, something that exists for a completely different purpose than what the tin says.

As the essence of a picture, perhaps!

So, lo and behold!

I'll put up a few more of these shots over the coming posts if that's alright with y'all.

More soon ...

Me tiles they shone like diamonds!

God's GIF - The Footie Action Card!

It's official, all the technological innovations that have occurred in the field of entertainment over the last forty-five years can be written off as completely and utterly pointless as nothing can or will ever compete with this game changer - the footie action card.

To those of you who have never experienced such wonder at first hand, I've made a little action card video video to show you just how much you have missed! Take a bow, you long-lost wonder and take a bow, too, you midfield maestro, Tony Green, Newcastle United.

More soon ...

'Just tilt the card and your favourite star 'comes to life''!

Smoking Ban!

Haven't seen this kinda whimsical wispiness since they brought in the smoking ban, way back in the day.

Right, that's it then, the end of my smokin' photos obsession. Well, for now at least!

Ach, tiocfaidh  ... no.

Níos mó luath ...

In am práinne, ná caith tabac!

Ten Things We Didn't Know Last Week(ish) - #5

Time, once more, to catch up on all those vitally important news stories and research findings that've eluded many of us in recent days and weeks - but for no more as I now reveal to you such critical nuggets as:

• the news that Adidas are set to launch a line of trainers made from plastic found in the ocean - another step towards its aim to end pollution. 
• the possibility that the memory of dementia patients could be repaired by injecting blood from the umbilical cords of human babies, which, experts say, restores brain function.
• the discovery that the mucus of a rare Indian breed of frog could provide the raw material for a powerful new class of drugs to combat the flu. 
• the advice that online daters shouldn't choose their own profile picture if they want to find romance as strangers are better at picking images that will draw prospective suitors.
• the finding from a study into email habits which shows that 'cc-ing' a manager is the best way to stop your co-workers from trusting you.
• new info which shows that LSD does indeed produce a 'higher' level of consciousness - but that this increased brain activity is 'different' rather than 'better'. Not so cosmic then! 
• the scary news that new computers will soon be able to delete your thoughts without your knowledge, which has ethicists calling for the creation of new human rights laws such as “the right to cognitive liberty” and “the right to mental integrity”.
• the sad news that Robert M. Pirsig, author of the autobiographical novel, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, died last week, aged 88 and ...
• that Erin Moran, who played Joanie Cunningham in the 1970/80s sitcom, Happy Days,  has also passed away. She was 56. R.I.P.
• the prediction that humans will need to colonise another planet within one hundred years to ensure our survival. This according to Professor Stephen Hawking.

Strange times we live in, indeed.

More soon ...

Most peculiar mama!