Excellent start to the cinematic year. HERETIC last week with an absolute scene-stealing performance by Hugh Grant (third act doesn’t quite stick the landing but worth watching) then NOSFERATU this evening and WE LIVE IN TIME Monday.
Could I get added to the starter pack too? Great idea to start this list!
Iguazu Falls, Argentina. See also: opening your inbox after a long holiday.
Notifications started blowing up the last two weeks when Family Law Twitter departed en masse from the other place. Still wading through my work inbox after a two week break but will get around to all those follow-backs.
Atomic batteries to power, turbines to speed and all that.
A man walking off into the dark abyss of Jersey beach with a trail of fire trailing behind him.
Definitely trying to be in the moment during the thrilling denouement to the annual Jersey family law conference but then I wouldn’t have caught this image with my now humble iPhone 12P.
#photography #iphone
Reading an article about how flight delays are the new normal but smugly thinking ‘What’s an hour? Just price it in’ then finding the last Sunday flight delayed sufficiently enough to deposit you back into the apocalypse and having to describe your coffee as ‘jet fuel only’ for the rest of the day.
Colourful beachside huts.
Overturned boats.
Reflections in the water.
Seagull in flight as the ways come crashing in.
No better prompt to get back to it than some #leica #photography on the Q3.
Faversham to Whitstable, 10.6 mile route.
Here’s @rhystaylor32.bsky.social in the @frjournal.bsky.social testing the Remarkable 2 (probably time for an update…) financialremediesjournal.com/content/tech...
Everyone can relax, there will be sloe gin again this Christmas time (or 2025, depending how long it gets rested). Quietly amazed to find ripe sloes out today (definitely the earliest I’ve ever seen them) and enough for a good bottle.
Finally got around to watching DOUBLE INDEMNITY at the weekend and my, what a film. Barbara Stanwyck shows up in her first frame and Fred MacMurray is immediately in way over his head and just doesn’t stand a chance. Wonderful stuff.
Marvel Superheroes with the 4Mb RAM cart. Be still my beating heart.
Success stories of re-engaging here: photography, fountain pens, coffee. Top of the flops: a comment on the state of online discourse about a popular sci-fi film franchise, complete with knowing reference to the second of those. Must try harder.
This podcast needs a health warning - almost got hit by a truck this morning laughing at a sentient lemon. Not sure what was funnier, its voice or just the thought of its lines being written in ALL CAPS in the script.
Fairly sure there’s no ink my TWSBI Diamond 580 cannot handle (music nib to boot), no need to baby it at all. Love it.
BlueSky has such a positive vibe, I thought it might even escape the Alien/Aliens/entire franchise debate in light of the release of ROMULUS this weekend but no, it’s there, coming out of the goddamn walls!
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(Great writing, essential reading, so pleased it’s here on Bluesky)
Over Haddon near Bakewell.
The sunsets on BlueSky are really quite lovely. A token effort from Over Haddon near Bakewell and shot on an iPhone 12P for my sins.
Feel I’d already be able to interrogate a suspect with Ice-T at least (shout at the perp until you realise this week’s special guest star had a hand in it somewhere).
‘Skip intro’ on an episode of Law & Order: SVU? Grow up, Netflix. NEVER.
A colourful street scene in Manosque, Provence.
The market, Forcalquier, Provence.
Local space invader, Forcalquier.
Friday morning #streetphotography #leica #q3
(June 2024)
My much better half swears by Kuhn Rikon mills.
Came for the fountain pens, stayed for the Kids In The Hall reference.
Two double espressos before 7.45am never fails. In the cup this morning: Rave Coffee’s Colombia Potosi No.246.
Regrets with that Q3, you will have none. What a camera. Very happy to convince you over the line.
Right then! In line with an attempt at renewed engagement: Ocho, Herradura or Don Julio. All easy to find (apparently) and “have very nice flavour profiles” (citation: friend owns his own bar, his special power is improvised cocktail-making).
Right, out into the heat to forage for food. Currently obsessed with the TO LIVE & DIE IN L.A. soundtrack so entirely appropriate for the weather even if the environs of Clapham don’t have quite the same epic feel.
Very happy to be included, solicitor here. What a great idea and and a good prompt to get posting again.
Major cinematic oversights corrected this weekend. BRIEF ENCOUNTER followed by FIVE EASY PIECES. Found the latter utterly fascinating as a character study, Nicholson is magnetic in every scene and I am always here for a last, lingering shot.
Nearly 28 years old and it’s absurd how fresh Endtroducing still sounds (and very excited to finally have it on vinyl). There are few first sequences better than Best Foot Forward into Building Steam with a Grain of Salt.
View from the top of Predigtsthul. Leica 28mm fixed prime lens. The detail on the image is utterly insane and I’m fairly convinced that social media won’t do it justice.
Finally, the automatic update from Calibri to Aptos as the default Microsoft font. Neither is particularly inspiring but better the devil you know.
