February Ritual

February for me means my third time around participating in the Roll of 28 project, a photography community on LiveJournal. I haven't actually been on LiveJournal except for this group since June 2007, and since October I've been channeling my friends list through GoogleReader on my homepage ... so this is the only reason I have to visit LJ these days (I heard they were taken over by the Russian Mafia anyway ...?)

The basic idea here is to submit one picture every day throughout the month of February - so in reality last year became a roll of 29. Although I try not to dictate any kind of theme or pattern I do find myself straining for a variety of shots, composition, colours and subjects; this, I suppose, is the point, to get one out of their photographic comfort zone. And basically, to motivate regular snapping.

I think that projects like this have become increasingly common in the age of Flickr, with concepts like Project 365, or numerous individual works - for example my friend Euvie has been doing self-portraits for almost a year in her Euvie-A-Day series. I suppose this is my own little take on it, and look forward to the future and having a little snapshot of each year of my life, where I was, who I knew, etc ...


Speaking of Flickr, I keep all my Roll of 28 shots grouped under one set on my own page. Check it out in the month to come.

Fibonacci & Hacking gReader

Just a quick couple of items of interest, both taken from lj-friends page:

The Use of Fibonacci Sequence in Tool's Lateralus:


What a great way of explaining this usage to the common reader (like humble ol'd me's). It is a great song too, has a couple of my favorite Maynard lyrics contained within:
"Push the envelope, watch it bend" -> I love lyrics that riff on tired old cliches and put them in a new perspective.
"Overthinking, overanalyzing" -> Even in a song so meticulously constructed, Maynard and Tool can't resist a tongue-in-cheek roast of themselves; their humour is one thing that keeps consistently above the rest of the prog/metal crowd.
I remember hearing an interview with Danny Carey a few years back where he talked about 46 & 2 using the sequence, but can't remember much about that. I'll have to look it up when I have more time.

Thanks to Veleda for that, and to Apollo ("FrozenTruth" on lj) for supplying me with a link to this 3rd party app that translates LiveJournal friends entries (including friends-only posts) into your Google Reader. I searched for something like this back when I set my Reader up and came up empty handed. So I can now save myself the trips to lj's site (they are, after all, slightly proprietary, though not quite as evil as, say, Microsoft) yet keep up with the few friends who still post reading-worthy entries there.

reprise

It's been .... let's see, about 13 months since I last maintained and updated a blog online. Through the magic of the internet I'm sure I could hone that down to an exact date and time, but for now we'll leave it at that.

If you care to track it back, my livejournal account can be found here.

It's hard to say why I left my LJ to fester and rot back then, and even harder to say why I am interested in starting this new blog up now. Currently I'm going out of my skull with boredom (I took up running again today, if that says anything) in my hometown of Oakville, ON, near Toronto. I'm also waiting on a visa to visit and live in Berlin, Germany.

Essentially, my lack of other options for entertainment/communication led me to get this going but really does not give me any content of interest to write about. So hopefully I'll solve that in the near future, whether in Ottawa, Amsterdam or Berlin,

Or, who knows--> Something of interest might actually happen in Oaks!


(nah......)