§ September 5th, 2008
Show me things I don’t or won’t understand, things that will be strange to me. Beautiful things that make me want to be better and horrible things that that I can’t watch, things that make me want to be worse than I already am.
Show me your thoughts and my own, and show me your expression as you watch me compare the two.
Show me things so that I can think about them and associate them with other things.
Show me a pencil to write that down with.
Show me things that don’t make sense, that don’t exist but show them to me anyway because if I can think about it, it must be.
Show me how to fix parts of me that are broken, whether its my head, my heart or my knees.
Show me how to care less so I can care more for more important things.
Show me how to take my own amazing advice.
Show me the hybrid creation of the mixed DNA of Lord Voldemort, Miss Trunchbull and the Wicked witch of the West and let me keep it in a box.
Show me where more ends.
Show me how to be smart so I can use that smartness to convince other people of my own obvious intelligence.
Show me how to re-find places where I felt safe.
Show me how to forget the things that haunt me.
Show me a spider that actually wants to come and get me.
Show me why I just cant get over it.
Show me a montage of all my stupidest moments and make me watch it over and over… will I learn anything?
Show me why the one in a million is the one that sticks out, that seems so unfair to the other nine hundred and ninety nine thousand nine hundred and ninety nine!
Show me why I’m not left-handed, it seems like such a better way to live.
Show me a man that I can respect who will not disappoint me.
Show me the great wall of china.
Show me the money.
Show me child abuse so I can feel socially responsible for a few seconds, then show me the Sheila’s Wheels advertisement with the guy that dances and sings.
Show me a happy feminist or a diet coke break where the men ogle the women over a sip of fizzy evil at eleven thirty in the morning..
Show me motivation… or don’t.
Show me the Ghost who for two years stood by my bed and watched me sleep and show me why I sometimes think there is someone standing right behind me.
Show me how to dance.
Show me high seas and a low tide.
Show me why my brain thinks faster than my ability to write, so I subsequently forget more than a third of everything I think is important enough to make note of.
Show me what makes blue, blue, Bananas, bananas, Oil, oily and water wet.
Show me what it is that makes girls seem attractive to me.
Show me freshly washed and ironed bed linen and spend a half hour listening to me drone on about the many benefits of a well-made bed.
Show me a picture of myself looking at a picture of myself.
Show me how other people think so I can know what I’m doing wrong.
Show me a better TV channel than Cartoon network, and a better cartoon than Tom and Jerry.
Show me why after a bad accident most people when they get over the shock of what’s happened try and console you by telling you that you’re lucky really.
Show me why, when Superman was fighting Batman he didn’t just laser-beam him from like a mile away, surely that would have made sense.
Show me a way out.
Show me AlienlovesPredator.com …amazing.
Show me the idiot who told a generation full of easily led drug abusing manic depressives that its better to burn out than fade away… that’s right I said idiot.
Show me a glass half full that ever made a difference to anyone.
Show me the moment my innocence was wasted.
Show me the night sky if it will help me sleep, show me anything that will help me sleep.
Show me how to be me… even better, show me how to be you.
But finally and most importantly right now, show me how to write a file to disc on Windows fucking Vista!
By Lisa Walker, read out at The Summer Experiment gig last week. More on the gig next week.
§ September 5th, 2008
Here is Bar Pinxto in Temple Bar. My fella and I are quite partial to it.
It’s a sister establishment to The Port House on South William Street, which I think is my favourite of the two. Both serve very reasonable and delicious tapas. Yum!
However Bar Pinxto is better for groups and has recently opened a lovely outside bit with an entrance on Meeting House Square. Now, if only the rain would go away.
§ September 4th, 2008
This morning question came up due to a tweet yesterday from David Maybury about the EULA or terms and conditions when downloading Googles much hyped “Chrome” browser, which was released on Tuesday. Basically the wording in the EULA stated that,
11.1 You retain copyright and any other rights you already hold in Content which you submit, post or display on or through, the Services. By submitting, posting or displaying the content you give Google a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, and non-exclusive license to reproduce, adapt, modify, translate, publish, publicly perform, publicly display and distribute any Content which you submit, post or display on or through, the Services. This license is for the sole purpose of enabling Google to display, distribute and promote the Services and may be revoked for certain Services as defined in the Additional Terms of those Services.
This is also the case with Facebook and as I found out in todays answers not uncommon in other places aswell.
So my question was quite simply “Following on from the revelations in Google Chromes terms and conditions, should we be paying more attention to what we sign up to, Facebook for instance also own everything we put up even photos and can use them as they wish”
GrooveMachine was first up with a rather startled “Facebook does that? eek! whats happening to the web?” Faceman101 was also very quick to reply and obviously a bit shocked by the question “Whats in chromes t&c’s”
Davidmaybury was next in “MySpace tried it last year with uploaded music content but had to change the wording eventually” Faceman101 I think knew what answer was coming because as quick as his first tweet arrived he said “the best way to see how open to abuse you are on Facebook is to try and delete your account nothing is deleted”
I wanted to make sure to anyone outside of Ireland that in relation to Facebook what I was talking about was in Ireland, I know in the UK there was uproar over it and the wording was amended, but GrooveMachine went and checked the US Facebook EULA and tweeted “looks to be the same in the US t&c’s, good to know”
I knew at this point I had hit a nerve and was thrilled these companies should not be allowed do this, Elfinamsterdam joined in at this stage with “I think its naive to believe that if you put something in the public domain that it remains private property” this view was also backed up by question time veteran Topgold who said “You cede a certain amount of privacy once you start using the internet as your workspace and play area” both of which are very valid points, but forgetting about privacy, I want to retain the rights to things I may post up on my blog or Facebook or anything for that matter.
Chrismehigan decided to get his 2 cents out there “companies should be more careful about terms they push to consumers - lot of protection in Europe on this. Adobe ran into trouble with this recently and DID change the EULA to address consumer concerns, Facebook have a terrible policy and YouTube is also quite demanding I believe, for creative professionals it is very important. Strictly speaking they are creating derivative works of your items which they can then use - but it could be drafted better”
Elfinamsterdam added “I agree it SHOULD be the case that you own the intellectual property, but in reality, do you think taht is the case? when it resides on a server you do not control, and its in the public domain. When software exists to assist if someone wants to claim it as their own. I don’t agree that it should be this way, it just seems to be that we must see it this way to change it. I think we should say no, but I think we should understand that when you give a corporation access to your material really you relinquish your full control over it. Its not locked inside your head and it resides on that corps server. Its not utopia”
Icedcoffee was late to arrive and reiterated what David had said with “isn’t it the same with MySpace and music - they can do what they want with it?”
Topgold finished off the discussion with “A lot of people in my first year media writing place their faith in Bebo!”
This discussion I hope will continue, I feel we only touched the tip of the iceberg this morning. This afternoon it was revealed that Google have in fact amended their terms accordingly, obviously people power won out once again, which is a great thing.
Thanks again to everybody who took part in today’s discussion, these remember are views, and should be treated as such.
LINKS
Chrome EULA before the amend - http://url.ie/nze
MySpace EULA - http://url.ie/o0w
Adobe EULA issues - http://snipurl.com/3mu61
Topgolds take on Google Chromes EULA - http://url.ie/o15
Technorati Tags: digital rights, eula, facebook, google chrome, myspace, privacy, termas and conditions
§ September 4th, 2008
A little knowledge goes a long way. It better. I’ve read all these magazines and most of the books here but have I absorbed all of it? Hardly. I’ve since almost given up on buying photography magazines because they repeat the same old guff year in year out. Possibly with the exception of Black and White magazine which still holds my interest.
As I twittered earlier, I’m going to go back to shooting Jpeg again for a while unless the situation is more challenging. The Canon 40D produces 14MB RAW files but only 3MB Jpeg files. I have 285GB of space on an external drive (backed up to another identical drive) so space isn’t an issue, it’s the rate at which space is being used, often for photos that definitely don’t need the flexibility of RAW. Dumping those beauties to DVD is a right pain when each DVD will only store the equivalent of a few days prolific shooting. Bluray here we come!
I was going to post another Tour of Ireland photo today but these magazines are going up in the attic so the opportunity presented itself. Yes, that’s an issue of UNCUT. Spotted that down in Midleton last year. It had an article about Queen’s new tour. Still haven’t read it actually.
PS. Will has canceled the Pink for October event. Instead there’ll be a photowalk on September 20th. As luck would (not) have it, my wife has a driving lesson at 11am that morning. Must comment on Will’s post.
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§ September 4th, 2008
This Saturday the first Creative Camp Belfast takes place at Blick Shared Studios (beware, your browser may resize and ears exposed to annoying bell sounds).
CreativeCamp is a self-organised “unconference” - made up of open, participatory workshop-events where the participants are responsible for setting the agenda, deciding on topics and generating the content. CreativeCamp Belfast brings together technology and creative enthusiasts who want to make things happen with web, mobile, open source, new media, music and design.
The event is free to attend - food, drinks, projectors & wifi will all be made available. More information on the workshops, discussions, talks and portfolio presentations will emerge as people sign-up to take part.
So far 75 people have registered to attend and of those 18 people have promised talks. All of the planned talks sounds very interesting with topics such as music licensing and sustaining NI music scene, co-working, raising cash, micro-short filmmaking, future/current music industry models, etc.
Saturday 6th September
Blick Shared Studios
51 Malone Road, Belfast (map)
