Posts by Joe Wylie
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Capture: Two Tripods, One Night, in reply to JacksonP,
My moderate moderator self is hovering over the redaction button.
Wuss with only one s is pushing it.
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Capture: Two Tripods, One Night, in reply to Sofie Bribiesca,
Quite like this old shot from the Hood (in Kingsland)
O very nice.
Deserves bigger, or am I just greedy?
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Capture: Two Tripods, One Night, in reply to Steve Barnes,
I had a roll of Kodak Tri-X in there at the time.
Used to be my fave, you could push that bugger so far you could take pictures of black cats in dark rooms that weren't even there.
:o-]Seemingly miraculous stuff back in the day all right. It was reputed to be a recently ASA-boosted version of Tri-X 16mm reversal that got the ball rolling on Mother Theresa's rise to sainthood.
From Christopher Hitchens’s The Missionary Position:When Malcolm Muggeridge did his 1969 BBC documentary about Ma Teresa, one day they were taken to what MT called ‘the House of the Dying.’ It was badly lit, and the director was doubtful they could film inside, but they had just received some new film made by Kodak, and the cameraman, Ken Macmillan, a very distinguished cameraman, Hitchens says, known for his work on Kenneth Clark’s Civilization, said let’s try it, and they did. Then when they got back to London and were watching the rushes they were surprised when the shots came up: they could see every detail. And Macmillan said ‘That’s amazing, that’s extraordinary,’ and was about to go on to say ‘three cheers for Kodak’ but he didn’t get a chance to say that. Muggeridge, in Macmillan’s words (page 27), “sitting in the front row, spun round and said: ‘It’s divine light! It’s Mother Teresa. You’ll find that it’s divine light, old boy.’” In a few days journalists started calling him saying they’d heard he’d witnessed a miracle. That’s good, isn’t it? Kodak comes up with a new film that works brilliantly in bad light – and Muggeridge declares it’s divine light.
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Capture: Two Tripods, One Night, in reply to Jonathan Ganley,
I clicked the shutter, the mirror locked up, the shutter and meter refused to work, and it was all over for the F3 and me after 27 happy years.
Maybe it sensed the impending end of Ektachrome.
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Hard News: That page doesn't exist ..., in reply to Lilith __,
Aside from the question of disadvantaged people not having phone or internet access, who wouldn't prefer to be helped by an actual person?
After the September earthquake HNZ tenants in Avonside waited over two weeks, most without power, water and sewage, before any attempt at contact was made by their state landlord. Here's the delayed response.
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Ben Canales does interesting stuff exploiting the higher iso settings of newer DSLRs, with often breathtakingly stellar results. And sometimes not.
He's very generous with his tech know-how - if I had the gear I'd probably give it a go.
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Southerly: Village People, in reply to Lilith __,
WTF?? Didn't think we were quite in Dear Leader territory....
Presumably that's what art and design schools do these days - turn out people who are guaranteed to make the world safe for their event manager overlords.
Anyway, the convergence between Weta Workshop's let's-not-frighten-the-chooks industrial style and that of Pyonyang's Mansudae Art Studio is more than a touch creepy.
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Southerly: Village People, in reply to Kumara Republic,
"Designer Craig Pocock says the Botanic Gardens where the festival is being staged was a bit nervous about the political gnomes "
The merest whiff of controversy is enough to send those Botanic Gardens smurfs into rapid underwear-changing mode.
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Hard News: European Horror Stories, in reply to Robert Harvey,
And if it comes down to the foreign corporations, wouldn't this tend to alarm other European governments?
Maybe not if sufficient key figures in said governments secure their second pensions by advantaging said foreign corporations at the expense of their citizens. Present Government & international insurers, for example.
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Southerly: Village People, in reply to Sofie Bribiesca,
Like the Cheshire Cat, the smile is the last to go.
Thank you Gudrun GiselaThe Communicator of the Year is almost beyond parody these days. Despite his apparent role in the nobbling of ECAN and his supposedly being kept up to speed with the emergence of CERA, you really have to wonder if there's anything more substantial than focaccia between those once-telegenic ears.
Now that even cleanup hero Sam Johnson is telling it like it was, the Council are treating it as an exercise in damage control:
Council city environment general manager Jane Parfitt said she was surprised to learn of Johnson's comments.
"This is the first we've heard of Sam's issues ... We'll be getting in touch with Sam to discuss this.".Of course there'd be no such urgency if it were just another ratepaying red zone munter mouthing off.
