April 29th, 2007
I had already uploaded most of the better photographs from my London trip to flickr. I’ve narrowed down the selection even more and uploaded the best of the best to my photography page (that is, via deviantphoto.eu):
http://jonathan.beaton.name/photo/
I determine which photos to upload here by first finding all the ones of merit, and then removing all the clichéd and uncreative ones. I do the same for the ones I upload to flickr, apart from the second screening process. So the ones on my site are the ones I think are particularly good, whereas the ones on flickr are just valuable memories that may or may not have artistic merit.
April 14th, 2007
GOING TO LONDON FOR 4 DAYS!
April 11th, 2007
The brain must have a sort of “cache” like a computer has – a bunch of thoughts, memories, images, lingering in our subconscious that we can quickly access.
Example: I’ve seen my cat in the corner of my eye about 15 times now, looked around and discovered that it’s just 3 socks arranged in a vaguely cat-like shape.
April 7th, 2007
The Dutch office at college was moving floors, so they were cleaning out the old office. They had loads of books and stuff that they didn’t want to keep, and so I took a load of books home with me in a big blue Swedish Mail sack that was lying around.
Amongst the books was a book called “De Verhalenreus” (“the story giant”, literally translated) – a big beautiful book of fairytales. It’s about 40 years old and the cover is falling off, but the illustrations are beautiful. I scanned a few pages and uploaded them to a set on FlickR.
Click here to see the entire set.
April 6th, 2007
Perhaps the worst thing about religion is that it indoctrinates people into thinking that they are the most important or central thing in the universe and, as a result, they don’t appreciate the world or existence in the fullest way possible.
April 4th, 2007
I spent 7 hours in the library today. It didn’t seem like such a long time. I was well rested and I was researching my favourite subject – film.
Products of this session:
-Desire for a laptop & pen-scanner (to quickly record blocks of text that I need from books, without having to write it down or photocopy it).
-Distaste for idiots who don’t know how to turn the sound off on their laptops. Particularly this one girl, whose laptop was emitting a constant stream of beeps and whoops and chimes.
-Plenty of notes taken.
Most of the time, I greatly appreciate that the library’s right wall is completely made of glass, enabling one to look out over the peaceful college grounds after having one’s head stuck in a book for a while. But today, I felt it was a design flaw. The sun was shining beautifully outside, and the college grounds were absolutely heaving with college students who had clearly finished early and began having an unofficial gathering on the lawn. There were frisbees, beers, football, etc all being enjoyed. It looked like a rock concert or St Stephen’s Green in the height of summer, or something. Needless to say, it put a strain on my concentration and made me feel like I was being punished. Not that I wanted to join them.
