Weekend video 1

 

Picture me amazed!

 

Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield has spent the past five months as the commander of Expedition 35 aboard the International Space Station. While in space, he's made sandwiches, washed his hands, and wrung water from a wet towel. But on Sunday afternoon, Hadfield provided the internet with his most amazing video yet: a cover of David Bowie's 1969 classic, Space Oddity.

Gut... besser... Bayern München!

With apologies for adapting the motto of Paulanerr Beer!

Och aye!

Saul Bass

 

from The Independent...
"American graphic designer and filmmaker, Saul Bass, has been given a video Google Doodle to mark what would have been his 93rd birthday."

Good news!

Happy...

...because I finally found the charger for my Sony Cybershot. It was consorting with that pesky crowd of dust-bunnies which congregate together with all the cables under the storage unit beside my desk. This means that as in previous years I shall be able to document not only tomorrow's annual neighbourhood flea market fun but also the Stroke Urban Art show which promises to be as exciting as ever.

Happy...

...because in spite of what appeared for a long time to be insuperable financial handicaps it has turned out that Jessi can, in fact, fly off to spend a couple of weeks with her boyfriend in Washington DC before heading back to Maastricht to finish writing her bachelor's thesis.

Happy...

Promise kept!

I may have very few readers... given the infrequency of my posts of late I hardly deserve your loyalty... but when I make a promise I prefer to keep it.

The photo on the right I posted on the 14th of April, lamenting the absence of leaves on the trees. My promise was to update with a new shot whenever the dormant buds finally explode with new foliage.

And it took only a fortnight! But on Sunday I discovered that my ancient Sony DSC-P8 (how proud I was of it when I bought it at Marina Mall in Abu Dhabi back in 2003 when it was brand new) needed re-charging. Alas, I was unable to find the charger unit which is no doubt in a 'safe place' somewhere in my tiny flat.

All of this explains the improvised visual at the top, illustrating the good news that spring has indeed arrived!

What better present could an eighty-year-old have than a new project to launch. David has had the opportunity to interpret with his photographs a very special text...

"The Songe de Poliphile , published in 1546, is the adaptation by Jean Martin of the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili of Francesco Colonna, published in Venice in 1499. Divided into two books, this work tells the search of Poliphile which is looking for his beloved Polia in a landscape of antique ruins, palaces and temples."

Twenty years

That laptop at the top was my very first one!

Mid-April

At the tram stop around the corner, yesterday afternoon. blue sky, bright sunshine and temperatures approaching the 20 degree mark. Quite a contrast with the freeze we have had to endure during what the meteorologists claim have been the first weeks of spring

I intend to take other photos from the same vantage point to document the speed with which those bare tree branches win their foliage.