My first snowflake photos. I told you I went bananas with the camera yesterday. Loved it. I feel happiest in nasty weather. I can't explain it, but the sun makes me grouchy. Today it was cool but sunny, but I kept wishing someone would flip on the dimmer switch...
You ought to mosey over to see the post kees has up on her blog with a couple youtube links to video of a pair of superb Mexican guitarists she saw perform in London last week - great stuff!
Thomas Dolby will be in Dallas next week and I'm thinking it over very carefully - The Flat Earth and Aliens Ate My Buick and Retrospectacle have all been albums in heavy rotation for me at one time or another. He's written and produced lots of music you never knew he was involved in, like keyboards in Foreigner's Urgent and Waiting for a Girl like You and too much other stuff to name.
He founded Headspace which would become Beatnik in the early 90s which was a high tech company that worked on developing polyphonic ringtone stuff. Anyway, in a world where so many people realize enormous, outrageous success and popularity at a very young age, only to ride out the rest of their lives on the pitifully downhill slide, Thomas certainly hasn't rested on his laurels.
Good for him. I think I won't be able to resist the temptation to go. But I'm not taking him any jewelry. I promise.
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I love the snow too, all the rainy bad weather. Learned to love that stuff as a kid in England and Missouri. Wish it would blizzard here every once and a while. I'll be playin' in front of the fire place this weekend. Use your own judgment on the bad-hair-day 80s techno pop drivel. To each their own baby.
Actually, I'm a huge hypocrite. There was some of that stuff that I loved. Pet shop Boys, Tears For Fears (The Seeds of Love just killed me. Not a bad song on that one). Huge. A guilty pleasure. I hate the idea that they're just pushing buttons on a keyboard instead of really playing the drums. Eh. But they laid the groundwork for folks like Coldplay, so there you go.
Maybe you have the corrolary to SAD:Seasonal Affective Disorder. Or it's a holdover from another life when you lived/died in the desert and now you hated too much sun. For more rationalization, mail me $.25.
What fantastic pictures. I have never seen someone take such good pictures of snowflakes. The detail is amazing.
Wow, those are amazing!!!
fathairybastard - I'm in accord on the blizzard thing - I'd love to get snowed in for about a week every so often. Oh, but I just thought of something - if you get snowed in, you still have to take the dog out for a pooping... brrrrrr! Well, I could fight through that, so long as I had enough firewood!
You know, most of the techno stuff involves brilliant keyboardists, so it's not entirely sterile, musically speaking. Oh, and I loved New Order and Joy Division, and they used lots of tecno stuff. Yeah, Tears for Fears was good. Loved "Mad World" and I loved that guy's remake of that song in DOnnie Darko - brilliant.
hollyb - Yeah, maybe so - we've just got to come up with a catchy name for it. Check's in the mail, babe!
turboslut - golly - thanks so much! I had fun taking them. I'm hopeful to do better next time. I grabbed a velvet jacket and ran out in the back with the camera and took a picture of the velvet draped over my left hand and used the auto focus feature. They turned out even better than I thought they would. If you click on the image, you can see even more detail. Isn't it amazing how some of them look like they were popped out of a little mold?
attila the mom - Thanks! They were fun to do, and I hope to do some more. GOing to the store soon to buy a piece of denser velvet so the snowflakes show up even more. The thing about velvet is because of the raw ends of the threads, the velvet absorbs light rather than reflecting it, which will make whatever is on it stand out in more relief. Coolness! Glad to see you again - my computer died this summer and I lost all my old links in my favorites settings, and I just found you last night. Love the avatar, babe!
I don't like anything about winter. I tend to get a bit depressed as the days get shorter and the nights get longer. And the coldness. Don't like the coldness. I have a very narrow comfort zone. Something like 70 deg F to 80 deg F.
And those are neat snowflake photos. But are you sure they're snowflakes? Did you see the cartoon on mineself's blog?
wow, I can not believe those photos ... I wish we had MORE snow ;)
I was wondering who to blame for those ringtones.
Hold on, back the post up. It snowed in Dallas? Does it happen, like... more often than every 100 years? No wonder it's already December and I'm still thinking maybe we need the fire. It's supposed to be summer here!
I honestly thought that perhaps you had branched out into snowflake jewelry - those are amazingly detailed! I guess when you get 7 tons of it every winter, you stop taking the time to look at the details.
Lovely photography.
And thanks again for the great link - not only did I giggle over the Chad VanGaalen interviews (trading cds for food) but also got to see the great Bastards of Young video again. I got lost in the site for hours!
My in-laws are going insane. First they were bitching because it was too cold... now they're bitching there's no snow here yet...
27 days and a wake up, til they go home:)
myron - sorry you don't like it - I know most people prefer the sun... I'll check out mineself & see if I need to revise my assertion that these are snowflakes.
kim - yeah! That Canon Rebel XT is really surprising me - tickled!
fuzzbox - oh, honey - you're a ray of sunshine!
meg - we'll get a snow every other year or so, more often we get ice storms, meg, usually at least one serious stay home for a couple days ice storm every few years, and probably every 5 or 6 years, we'll have enough accumulated snow to build snowmen. All I know is tonight is our second fire in the fireplace this week - it's would have been the third, but I wasn't in that room enough to build one last night!
barbara - Yeah, it's easy to take for granted - when you see tons of macro, it's easy to forget the micro - I'm pleased with my little camera, to say the least. Glad you liked it.
I'm also glad you liked that link - I thought there was a lot of great music there - I had no idea MTV2 had anything to do with music, REAL music, music _I_ would deign to listen to. Wonders never cease...
maven - oh my goodness -they're staying with you THAT long? You deserve a medal. Seriously.
Thomas Dolby... Isn't he the guy who did the song, "Blinded Me With Science?"
I am SO with you on that - I hate hot sunny weather, it makes me such a miserable old curmudgeon. I love autumn and winter. And those snowflake pics are ACE. Ice is so beautiful.
Thomas Dolby keeps popping up all over the place recently. A man with many fingers in many different pies.
And thanks for the link!
I haven't seen real snow in a while. Those are some great pictures by the way.
I want your camera ... now!
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