Panchromatica

Talk about losing touch with reality...

US [judge] loses  54m trousers claim against a South Korean dry-cleaning firm which lost a pair of his trousers.

What did Shakespeare say?

"The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers."

Getting more and more an attractive proposition isn't it?

If you thought the Ministry of Funny Walks was ridiculous...

From BBC NEWS:

UK tourist visas are often denied to would-be visitors because they "plan a holiday for no particular purpose other than sightseeing", a report says.

Others were turned down because they had never previously taken any foreign travel or could not speak English.

I have tried hard to think of witty comments but really - sack the bloody lot of them...

parallel-a-me

parallel-a-me, originally uploaded by chutney bannister.

fun with fotos

links for 2007-06-19

• CoolTown Studios: Community vs money? Is it really that simple?
  From a study measuring happiness, increases in incomes produce large hedonic gains in developing countries, small variable gains in Europe, and negative gains in the U.S., while companionship "yields more happiness in individualistic societies (like the U
  (tags: Community happiness income companionship money)

10 ways to build a modern sense of community

From CoolTown Studios:

Local investment

• Support economic gardening where cities invest economic development dollars in growing their own companies vs stealing them from other cities.
• Invest in local lenders that care and know how to assist in the development of local businesses vs attracting only national lenders who have no ties to the local market.
• Establish programs to hire and train from within the community with the help of the beta community vs training local companies to rely on outside entities for talent.
• Identify the core beta community of conscious creatives in your
  region/city/neighborhood and draw on them for leadership, vision and
  talent vs hiring people from outside the community. Related to above.

Letter

Letter, originally uploaded by mseidman.

A stunning image - one of a series - by Michael Seidman.

There are a few people I have discovered on Flickr with the true artist's eye and Michael is very much one of them, taking photography into new areas using digital technology but all the while avoiding the pastiche and the faux oil paint. Look at his photostream to see many more gems like this one.

Art & Craft

It is probably clear from my posts, that I have more than a passing interest in photography, art and craft. Indeed, over the past three years that interest has developed into an attempt to if not make a living, to at least get some return on what I would be doing anyway. So here are links to where you can find my 'stuff' and with luck buy something.

Photography and digital art.

My primary site for this is Panchromatica Designs. I have a limit on the number of images I can upload to that site, so if you like what you see you should also look at my site on Flickr. In the nature of things, Flickr is less about 'finished' pieces of work and more about recording experiments, sharing images and community, but if you see anything there that you like, the please get in touch and I will give you a quote.

I also have an EBay shop. This is something of an experiment and depending on sales could end up as either the place where I sell a restricted set of images/print sizes or my main outlet.

Jewellery

Making jewellery is something of a new venture. Unlike photography, which has been in my life for something like 40 years, it is something I have only recently started doing. I am trying online sales, this time at Etsy. At the moment there is again some overlap with the prints and with EBay ( I think I have the pricing consistent!), but again this will I hope settle down.

This information will stay accessible via TyePad's Pages function. Look at the sidebar to the left and see the heading More Information. This (and other pages to come) will be listed there.

links for 2007-06-11

• Deltoid: Taking aim at Rachel Carson
  Great article setting out the truth behind the spate of attacks on Rachel Carson, including some interesting stuff about the tobacco industry and their efforts to discredit the WHO.
  (tags: environment health Science DDT Politics junkscience antiscience rachelcarson)

Ship at sea

Ship at sea - originally posted on Flickr.

This is likely to be one of my next set of notecards. See here and here for previous sets on Etsy.