Dustin Farrell – Landscapes: Volume One

So it’s Monday morning, a week seems like a year sitting where we are right now. Just think what you can do with a year, well a bloke named Justin Farrell did just that. the he promptly picked up his Canon 5D and started documenting  what most of us wish we could watch pass by. We must warn you, this is kind of inspiring: Get out of your office chair, kind of inspiring. It would be rude to leave out Farrell’s word.For the boffins that need to know; Every clip is a RAW image sequence (5616 x 3744) that I rendered out as a 1080P 23.976fps Quick Time movie. The motion control is achieved using servo motors. ”A year’s compilation of my time lapse work. All shot on the Canon 5D2 and processed in Adobe After Effects. The majority of the shots are in my beautiful home state of Arizona. Goblin Valley State Park and Natural Bridges National Monument in Utah also make an appearance. M★S CHECK THE VIDEO :  HERE

READ A BOOK! Adam Mansbach

Childrens books, hmmm . . .  The problem with this genre  is the audience, without which it would be an admirable, even honorable calling. So lets imagine they don’t exist, lets imagine writing a childrens book that only the most lowbrow or hippest parents would ever read to a child. And hey presto, it’s been done already. Go the F**k to Sleep by Adam Mansbach with illustrations by Ricardo Cortes is an <R> 18+ childrens book. Mansbach is surprisingly - not – a professor of fiction at Rutgers University. His previous scribblings include Angry Black White Boy and The End of the Jews - for which he won the California Book Award for fiction in 2008. If you’ve read any of my rants, you’ll know that I despise children, they’re a necessary evil, a little like botox. Unfortunately they exist and any opportunity to take the upper-hand is grabbed with glee. Mansbach has created a wonderfilled thing in Go the F**k to Sleep, he’s allowed the childless among us to grin at the antics of breeders, for this I thank him. Oh the book. buy it, read, stick it on a coffee table. There’s also an outstanding Audio Book, read by a man who’s voice was made to cuss, Samuel L. Jackson D★D READ MORE

READ A BOOK! Mark Mazower: Dark Continent

I would normally churn through a book in a day, not skimming but reading. Mazower’s Dark Continent took 3 days and I’m now on my 3rd round, simply, I LOVE THIS BOOK. The premise is one that I’ve always found arduous to put into words: Our now perspective of history has little to do with the events that took place, the events that created what we now call history. Mazower invites current day Europeans to come to embrace the latest governing ethos - The European Union - to come alive in their continent . Nations subscribing to it, distinct in language, religion, law, and historical experience, have little to guide them in their adventure into the unknown except the previous collective experiments with which, in this century, the continent has been hounded near to death. In todays Europe this is more relevant than ever before.  Dark Continent provides an alternative history of the twentieth century, one in which the triumph of democracy was anything but a forgone conclusion and fascism and communism provided rival political solutions that battled and sometimes triumphed in an effort to determine the course the continent would take. Mark Mazower strips away myths that have comforted us since World War II, revealing Europe as an entity constantly engaged in a bloody project of self-invention.  Here is a history not of inevitable victories and forward marches, but of narrow squeaks and unexpected twists, where townships boast a bronze of Mussolini on horseback one moment, only to melt it down and recast it as a pair of noble partisans the next.  Unflinching, intelligent, Dark Continent provides a provocative vision of Europe’s past, present, and future!  M★C READ MORE

The Leica V-Lux 2 Review aka Leica Gal and Guy Got Married.

This post was supposed to be a review of Leica’s new wiz bang compact, the Leica V-Lux 2. Unfortunately our Leica guy is on holidays and we’re yet to handle the beast. Instead we dug deep and pulled a gem from the great orifice! via theleicaguy.com The Leica Guy (Matthew B. Harrison) and The Leica Lady (Emily Therese) were married in a small ceremony in central Massachusetts on July 31st, 2011. The wedding consisted of a brief ceremony performed by the couple’s close friend and was followed by a lovely Sunday brunch attended by close friends and family. The couple could not have asked for better weather or a better turnout. It truly was a beautiful celebration of their love. The night before, at the rehearsal dinner, The Leica Guy was presented with his groom’s cake: a replica of a black paint Leica M9 mounted with a f/.95 Noctilux. This amazing cake was baked by Dianne Rockwell, The Cake Lady, for just this special occasion. It was such an amazing cake, that it was truly a shame to have to cut it up and serve it. Though, it was the best tasting Leica, either the bride or groom had ever had. We are so taken by this, very cool! Oh, checkout the wedding ring, it’s ubercool M★C  Read More and Checkout Pix

Thanks For The Color: Margaret Olley

“I’ve always loved men. Always loved men. But I’ve been one of those people who have never really wanted to be owned. Love becomes another thing. It becomes a bigger thing than a sexual drive. I must say, I think I’ve put all my energies and everything into painting. That is really my love. Painting has consumed my whole life”

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24 June 1923 – 26 July 2011

Thanks For The Color: Margaret Olley

“I’ve always loved men. Always loved men. But I’ve been one of those people who have never really wanted to be owned. Love becomes another thing. It becomes a bigger thing than a sexual drive. I must say, I think I’ve put all my energies and everything into painting. That is really my love. Painting has consumed my whole life”

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24 June 1923 – 26 July 2011