me

welcome to my website
it's an online diary, updated daily,
normally with photos ....

On the 9th of november 2000, I got a new watch.
I like to think i'm a collector of watches.
It's a Casio WQV-1 and it takes digital pictures.
It can store 100, 120x120 pixel, 16 greyscale images.
This web site is an archive of all the pictures I've taken with it.
Well, the ones I haven't deleted or overwritten.
Over the months, the diary part of the site has become more important.

on new year's eve 2001, i collected a new watch.
the wqv-10 is a watch camera, like the wqv-1.
but, it takes colour photos on a colour screen.
so, i've given the site a spring clean.

after 2 months of colour watch pics, i've reverted to black and white.
the wqv-10 would only let me take 2 pictures, before shutting itself down.
it may be a fault. i might contact casio. but i did order it from abroad.

i'm back in colour again. woohoo. i bought a very cheap digital camera.
a l'espion. same resolution as the colour watch camera, only £40.

well, the l'espion proved to be cheap, but it started to be glitchy.
not reliable at all. so, i joined the blink bandwagon ( about 20 people at work have one now ).
£40, better resolution, more reliable, better build quality, just better all round.
i'd buy one, if i were you. i am me and i bought 2 !

well, i sent the wqv-10 to casio's uk repair centre, it has a worldwide
guarantee after all. and now, july, i have it back and it seems to be fine.
i'm happier with this than the blink ( which will now be the webcam ).

i started to get glitches with the watch camera, it would reset itself to 12:00 on jan 01.
i now use a snap camera, the successor to the blink camera.
we'll have to see how long this lasts....

the snap camera didn't last that long, a couple of weeks, was it ?
i lost all 50 photos from my london trip and 30 on a following day.
that was the last straw, i bought a fuji slimshot camera for £80.
lee's had one for months, much better than the blink / snap.
after a little glitchy start, i'm very impressed.

the slim shot camera proved to be very good.
but in june it went doolally. shame. it's provided good service.
back to the trusty bw camera watch.
until i get a phone upgrade .....

lee to the rescue
he bought a fuji slimshot months before me, but hasn't used it much
well, we've done a swap, my usb bluetooth thingy for his camera
a very good deal
the best thing - no dirt on the lens

i switched to a logitech camera, this one had a cover over the lens
it went to new zealand with me, performed well. until i dropped it, this sent the exposures off.
i bought another one as soon as i got back.

a few months later, i was struck with gadget lust
a new sony digital camera, small and well featured, the U50
very very nice. not a novelty camera, like the previous ones
this one is a proper camera made smaller
i'm very happy with it

the U50 lasted 2 years and 9000 photos, until finally stopping
it didn't slowly fail, it just stopped, which is good, i think
finding a replacement was something i'd been thinking about for months
there's just nothing like it on the market anymore
i found a great deal on a sanyo xacti E6. 6 megapixel, 3x optical zoom, large screen, etc... £120
i'd seen this model about 8 months prior and thought how nice it was and how it might be a successor ...
it's a very good little camera.


things i like....

music
film
art
books

music

brian eno - my life in the bush of ghosts, music for airports, thursday afternoon
biosphere - substrata, shenzou
julien neto - le fumeur de ciel
marsen jules - herbstlaub
harold budd - the plateaux of mirror
roger eno - voices, between tides
susumu yokota - grinning cat, the boy and the tree, laputa, sakura
hans joachim roedelius - geshenks des augenblicks, aquarello
max richter - the blue notebooks, songs from before
lemon jelly - ky, lost horizons
cornelius - fantasma, point, remixes
plone - for beginner piano
air - moon safari, premier symptomes, talkie walkie
amon tobin - permutations, out from out where
unkle - never never land, edit music for a film
david holmes - let's get killed, ocean's eleven, this film's crap let's slash the seats
death in vegas - the contino sessions, satan's circus, scorpio rising
primal scream - vanishing point, xtrnmtr
chemical brothers - exit planet dust, dig your own hole, surrender
alpha - come from heaven
goldfrapp - felt mountain
add n to (x) - avant hard
sigur ros - agaetis byrjun, ( )
the album leaf - in a safe place
skyray - tranquilliser
royksopp - melody am
radiohead - ok computer, amnesiac, kid a
cinematic orchestra - motion, remixes
chris bowden - time capsule
bohren and der club of gore - midnight hotel, black earth
simon haram - alone, frame
the hope blister - smile's ok, underarms
this mortal coil - it'll end in tears, filigree and shadow, blood
mercury rev - deserter's songs, all is dream
manic street preachers - lifeblood, everything must go, this is my truth tell me yours
wilco - summerteeth, yankee hotel foxtrot, a ghost is born
godspeed you black emperor - lift your skinny fists like antennas to heaven, f# a# (infinity)
labradford - mi media naranja, e luxo so
philip glass - glassworks, passages, koyaanisqatsi, the hours, powaqqatsi
gavin bryars - cello concerto
erik satie - gymnopiedies
igor stravinsky - firebird suite, rites of spring
sergei prokofiev - 5th symphony, 3rd piano concerto, violin concerto
camille saint saen - 2nd piano concerto
peter tchaikovsky - violin concerto, piano concerto, 4th symphony
j.s. bach - brandenburg concertos
the beatles - revolver, white album, love
frank zappa - we're only in it for the money, hot rats
captain beefheart - trout mask replica
led zeppelin - 4
vangelis - mask, l'apocalypse des animaux
john williams - war of the worlds, star wars
roque banos - the machinist
bernard herrmann - vertigo
james newton howard - unbreakable

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films

2001: a space odyssey
vertigo
magnolia
dr. strangelove
koyaanisqatsi
the shining
sin city
seven
fight club
videodrome
the spy who loved me
licensed to kill
tron
star trek: the motion picture
american beauty
12 angry men
black narcissus
a brief encounter
the ladykillers
solaris
stalker

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art

richard long
andy goldsworthy
gustav klimt
takashi murakami
cartier bresson
elliot erwitt
martin parr
araki
robert capa
tadao ando
shigeru ban
waro kishi

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books

cream
jimmy corrigan
ed, the happy clown
sin city
10 x 10
40 architects under 40
the art of looking sideways
inferno
superdutch
digital diaries
lifestyle
faces
the stainless steel rat series

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