pipe and book
That's me in what's becoming a customary pose of an evening: shisha pipe in the window, a can of alcohol-free beer, and a good book (though often a BBC Radio 4 podcast instead), and my bird ID book. It's not so bad.
C41: It's the New Black (& White)
Colour. There's that cliche in movies or TV when someone falls in love, or smokes pot for the first time, and everything goes from monochrome to colour. The Wizard of Oz moment. B&W's fine, it's just time to move on. Which makes discovering these formulae really very fortuitous. I've got some of those chemicals for B&W developing anyway. C41 developing, playing around in a sink full of warm water is the sort of innocent fun you don't get much in adulthood. Thanks to this guy , in this Flickr DIY Color Group thread for passing on the craic. I've been trying to get that on and off for years. My mate cliffdotmac flickrmailed me tonight and said he was giving up on film, because of the expense. Which is fair enough, if you've shelled out for a DSLR and its all-singing-and-dancing lenses, I can see how film would feel like and extra expense. But if you haven't done that, if your biggest expense has been a few hundred quid a ...
That's one impressive shisha pipe. But come on, honestly, don't you miss differentiation, SMART targets and doing schemes of work?
ReplyDeleteHe he. I was puzzling out next week's lessons this morning, knowing it'd be a good week, and even a bit of a laugh, and seriously bullshit free.
ReplyDeleteBullshit free. Oh those halycon days of yore...
ReplyDeleteLast time I had fun, I was told it was incidental to the linguistic aim as stated in my lesson plan.
I just smiled.