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This picture was a contribution to the Artwiculate word game on Twitter today. The Word of the Day was crass and that took my mind back to a certain punk rock group from my youth. (Turns out they’re still going – sort of.) A fellow Artwiculator from Japan had also tweeted about the death of punk and the death of samurais … that was enough. (With a bit of luck, the Japanese actually reads “Crass punk samurai”!) 
Well, that’s the way it goes. The experience was not as disturbing as I’d feared. I only had to leave the salon once, fighting nausea but I managed to return to see the rest of the film after visit to the loo. (And it may have been the steak tartar got up as hamburger that I ate just before visiting the cinema that was to blame.) On the other hand, the experience was not as exciting or as beautiful as I’d hoped. One scene of snowflakes falling around Lucy was nice – otherwise I didn’t feel the 3D experience added anything. Still, I should probably try out a made-for-3D film before dismissing a whole technology. I didn’t enjoy having to hold the extra glasses on my nose  (see picture). I obviously have a short nose. And I particularly didn’t like the subtitles hovering above the surface of the film – though perhaps that’s something one would get used to. After a month of snow, NOW we have winter. Snowing with a vengance and the thermometer hovering around zero.
I made this video last year for my Advent Calendar. The Word of the Day on Artwiculate today was pariah which reminded me of this painting on a roadside hoarding in Sofia, Bulgaria. Photo taken in September 2009.
“Why don’t you go out to the cottage?” Why not? The cottage is actually owned by my sister-in-law, but it’s been my wife’s family’s seaside retreat for decades. Mostly used in the summer, though I’ve had writing retreats there before when the snow has been piled high. Now it was cold and raw and rainy. I packed my (non-Internet connected) laptop, a change of clothes, my sleeping-bag, some food and set off. So that’s where I’ve been, with no Internet, no TV or radio, no other people. Just the sound of the sea breaking on the beach, the rain on the roof and the wind in the trees. Me, a computer, two electric heaters and a disturbingly large number of dead woodlice. The afternoon after I arrived and early on the morning of the second, I took the camera and went for a couple of walks in the rain. Otherwise I worked. Wrote about 3500 words, so I was pleased. The pictures were not terribly good. Not really enough light and the rain kept spotting the lense, but I think they’ll do at this resolution. I liked especially the blue light in earliest of the early morning pictures. I hope you do too! |
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