Well I’m not very good with regular schedules, but here’s this moments epitaph.
Archive for July, 2006
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Sunday, July 30th, 2006Project: Composited Images
Sunday, July 30th, 2006
The above image (with zoomed detail below) was created with a script I wrote way back in 2003. I’ve just rediscovered it, and have been tinkering around with it a little. The script allows you to recreated composited images using coloured circles, randomly generated winding characters (as above), or your choice of text as a substitute for pixels in the image. I’m tempted to get some A0/A1 sized wall posters printed of some of these, as I really love the aesthetic, and think there can be some fantastic effects produced with the right choice of text + subject.
I’ll give access to the script if anyone has any immediate ideas they’d like to implement with it… Give me a yell.
Israeli bomb kills UN observers
Wednesday, July 26th, 2006
The BBC reports that four UN observers have been killed when their outpost was targetted by Israelly airforce.
UN Secretary General Kofi Annan said he was “shocked” at the “apparently deliberate targeting” of the post. Israel has expressed “deep regret”.
It seems that Israel has taken the kidnapping of it’s three soldiers as justification needed to start a full-scale regional offensive.
The targetting and wholesale bombing of Lebanese residential areas – first in southern Lebanon and now in Sidon, where refugees have been fleeing to – as an attack against Terrorism takes familiar rhetoric far past the absurd.
Events for Growing Older
Wednesday, July 19th, 2006The trip back from Melbourne – starting yesturday and ending just 30 minutes ago this morning – was incredibly long and epic.
The stage for my denouement was set in the small town of Tarcutta, coincidently almost exactly halfway between Melbourne and Sydney.
I waited, I thought, I read. I wondered and looked at the incredibly clear sky and saw the milkyway. Then I saw two falling stars, and in the early hours of this morning a brilliant rainbow arch.
I got an idea of the lives of truckies. I got an idea of their deaths. A hundred and twenty-three of them younger than myself killed in truck accidents over the years.
Sat by fires, got lashed with freezing winds. Rode for hours into the dawn.
Trite as it sounds: lost a dream but found a story.
Josh Personal: Bikey bikey ride ride…
Monday, July 10th, 2006
(Illustration image is from a night shoot with Tegan on Bridge St…)
Well this is the end of an incredibly long day. Today I got up at 4am and rode down from Paddington, Sydney to Central Melbourne. That’s about 900kms, which is roughly the entire length of britain tip-to-toe.
It all would have been great except for the freezing my ass off. It took about 12 hours in the end, having to stop 6 times for feeding, fuelling and hot cups of tea to help thaw out and brace for some more chill. Other than than eveything went pretty well. Riding into Melbourne was like riding into a different country – the difference in driving styles and road layouts really compound together, along with their hook-right-turn system which just makes it surreal!
Ironically at the same time as freezing, I also managed to get my face sunburned! :S
Anyway, Melbourne seems nice and interesting (and welcomingly different in a way), and I’ve got a few days of swish hotel to enjoy. 
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