Elena Kalis again

Elena Kalis photography. Lyrical fantasy. Many clearly Alice In Wonderland-inspired.




I've blogged Elena before.

Sadly the Flickr pics are pretty small, but TCGirl found this slide show.

Bart Millard holds a long note

Shadowplay

Cool low-light video made with the Panasonic GH1 and Zeiss and Canon lenses.

Shadowplay (Panasonic GH1 & Carl Zeiss 85mm F1.4 lens) from Andrew Reid on Vimeo.

Longshan's People - Taiwan - Panasonic GH1 from Andrew Reid on Vimeo.

Andrew is behind the video enthusiast site EOSHD, and I hope to get a mini-interview from him on that subject. (Heck, it seems like he lives close, Manchester, so maybe even on video.)

BTW, I like Vimeo. It has a nice, simple, good-looking interface, and always good content, no spam and crap.

One fine morning in Buenos Aires

[Thanks to Marcelo]

Record rainfall in Argentina in the past week. See the amazing aqua-train, video from yesterday. Hokey shite, I'm amazed it could keep going, seems like good engineering.

Movie slider

[Thanks to EOSHD]

A guy built a dirt-cheap movie "slider" ("camera dolly", Mike says it's called) for his Panasonic GH1 still/video camera. The resulting moving-camera vids look very nice. Not a long track, though.

"Girl in Green Blouse"

(It's not what you might think.)

Thermos designs (updated)

Update: Got mine today. So far, I really like it. Takes the stress out of drinking tea. There's nothing in the world so stressing as worrying if your tea will get cold before you finish it. (OK, maybe one or two things.)

And by the way, I tried with a cappuccino today, and unlike what I thought, it works fine, so long as I pre-heat it thoroughly.

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If Thermos products are as good as they look, I may have found a new product to over-buy.
See the designs below. This is exactly what I was talking about (but hadn't seen anywhere yet) regarding Apple products, especially laptops. I would love to have a laptop in Apple's simple aluminium design, but with a choice of a few designs like this. It doesn't have to be flowers and butterflies (though I like them), there could also be some MANLY options, like, uhm, a bull... or a skull... or a dagger and blood... I dunno.


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By the way, did you know designers are this cute?
Or that coffee drinkers are this heroic?

Gasolin'

Gasolin' was the "Worlds biggest band" in Scandinavia in the seventies. They had fans from age 3 to 103, and still have, even though they split up over 30 years ago.

Franz Beckerlee on guitar.


MP3 file of one of my faves: Good Time Charlie.

The one below was hot amongst my school pals back when, but it was a bit too rocky for me then. It was only as an adult that I came to appreciate hard rock.


They attempted to crack the US market, and did a couple songs in English...


This I'd not seen before: here they playing each other, in playback.


Gasolin' is so famous in Scandinavia that their first drummer, Bjørn Uglebjerg, is famous still today, even though he was replaced before their first LP came out! Here's a very early concert, before they started playing mainly in Danish.

Kitty jokes

Like Penny on The Big Bang Theory says, "who doesn't like LOL cats? They are cute and funny and they can't spell right, because they're, you know, cats."

Dyrehaven

I've updated a previous post, Dyrehaven, with a couple of pics. A bit funny.

Crack in a windshield

... So this is a flash photo of a crack in a windshield, yes? Wrong, to quote Joey, it's London, baby! More space pics here.

Church ceiling

[Thanks TCGirl]

Photo by Cynicole B.

And on quite the opposite end of the spectrum of tastefulness, TCG also found a short video of "the tightest pants ever".