Have been taking photos with a camera phone and people tell me that I should tidy them up. Not quite sure what they intend me to do, so here are some experiments with filters.
I selected the telegraph pole and most of the power lines, inverted the selection, and applied a filter.
What do you think?
In order below, the filters I used are: lens blur, stained glass, sumi-e, and watercolor. The first one was to clear up the background, and the others were experiments.
Recently, it seems, zombies have been popular, both in fiction and non-fiction. And it is interesting to see where the two converge.
I’ve just finished Patient Zero by Jonathan Maberry. A well paced book centred around a secret task force setup to intercept h-itech terrorists, who’s new bio-weapon is the zombie. Worth reading.
And where academia imitates fiction, scholars at the University of Ottawa and Carleton University have written a paper on how best to deal with zombie outbreaks. As an example of how best to deal with epidemics, like swine flu, using real world mathematics and modelling, they tried to project the best way to survive a zombie attack. Strike had and fast apparently is the only successful method. All others resulted in uncontrolled outbreak.
While the creditors of the ABC Learning childcare centres have complained about administrator keeping the undead business going after 10 months. Administrators are trying to extend this, and landlords want the business wound up, as the only creditors likely to receive money are the banks. And I suppose they would like to be able to let their locations out to people that will actually pay them.
And as an inspiration for my latest sketch, I’ve seen too many people walking around wearing ‘Abercrombie and Finch’ t-shirts. What if you crossed out the first few letters with a big ‘Z’. ‘Zombie and Finch’.
I saw this package of diced beef in the local Coles supermarket. No label stuck to it to indicate price or, more importantly, no used by date.
Had intended to mention it to staff as I went though the checkout, but it slipped my mind at the time.
Do you think I should email them the photo?
Would someone actually do something about it if I did?
As it turns out, there are not email addresses listed on the Coles site. Just a feedback form. So, I’ll just submit them the URL for my blog entry. 
A row of student surveyors stood outside University of Technology, Sydney’s building 2 this morning as I went in for my lecture this morning. There has been quite a few groups of students standing round with this tripod things. I suppose it is the time in semester when surveyors got let loose on the work to practice their skills.
Probe logger \ noun:
The alien who’s job it is to record details about mind probes installed in abductees.
A view from Anzac Bride across to the Sydney Harbour Bridge. Taken as a bus carried me over the bridge to Balmain.
I think it is quite good for a short taken with a camera phone as the bus hurled along, but I would have liked something better on me to take the phone.
As you can see from the cash register on the tobacco counter.
(Coles, World Square)
A mild mannered PC sitting reading a book at one of the bus stops behind the Queen Victoria Building.
Competition poster on the notice board at in Darling Street Balmain.
Take a photo in the Leichhardt local government area between 3 and 9 of August, and upload it to the ‘Keeping It Local: Leichhardt 2009‘ flickr group by 12 August to enter the competition.
So you still have a day to go out and take photos
Rows of witches hats line both sides of the road outside UTS Building 10 on a cold winter morning. Marking for the a stray plane to come into land? No, so someone can come and work on the power poles according to the guy standing nearby in the reflective vest.
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