ROM photos

This was neat. Back at the beginning of November we went down to the ROM, where they've completely re-done the natural history galleries. I loved these when I was a kid, but the new displays wowed me with millions-years-old animals floating through the modern white and glass architecture. I ran around with my camera giddly trying to take decent non-flash shots with no tripod. Completely my happy place. Resultant photos are posted here.

As an extra fun epilogue, the free online tour guide Schmap selected the above photo for their ROM article. Thanks guys! Maybe this will give me some incentive to look up what that giant ancient turtle is. I was having way too much fun to stop and read the signs.

Flickr

This is a test post from , a fancy photo sharing thing.

(new favourite hobby: integrating all my websites)

Ok, our seats weren't this good but

NIN, Hamilton, Nov 14.

I haven't figured out how to get my own bad photos off my phone. Stupid Rogers won't let me email photos. Stupid Copps Coliseum won't let real cameras in.

Still, they were damn good seats.

Happy Halloween!

Old photos from the Paris Catacombs are now posted here.

It's so great to be back in a country that gets Halloween.

FishPorn is up!

I know, some of you have been waiting years for me to post hot fish photos. They're up now, baby! Check out

Gonads!

Man-on-salmon action!

Money shots!

For those more into horror, there's also lots of death and mutilation and deformities. Just in time for Halloween! You're welcome.

(Some animals were harmed during filming, but never for the express purpose of filming. Fish in these photos were either drugged or slaughtered according to industry standards.)

I've gone pro

Finally succumbed to a Flickr pro account, mainly because of my obsession with organizing and cataloging. Ooh, sets and collections and tagging, oh my. If you haven't seen my page yet, it's here.

Maybe I'll even post stuff that isn't pretty travel photos. Like people. I've been told my collections are boring because there isn't enough out-of-focus redeye grimacing. Fine, I guess I can do requests. I understand some people want to see drunken party pics. Too bad. You got em, you post em.

Here's a couple new uploads:

View from inside an old barge at the Forum Marinum in Turku.

22-Pistepirkko (possibly my favourite Finnish band - check them out!) at Ruisrock 2008.

Instant flower garden at Turku Cathedral

Drove down to Turku yesterday for a city fix, and was completely charmed by the instant garden that had sprung up in front of the Cathedral.

Turku Cathedral is one of my favorite churches in Finland. A typical lovely view from the front is this one that I took around the same time 2 years ago:

To my complete surprise, yesterday it looked like this:

Hundreds, thousands of potted Gerbera were arranged on the courtyard, and spread up the steps. A sea of pink and white and yellow and green. Magical. I took a bunch of photos:

I found out this was an environmental art installation called Gerbera's Dream by Kaisa Salmi, who I guess does these sort of installations sometimes. Here's the details:


So another dreamy thing - all those flowers were given away this morning to the people of Turku.

I put my photos from this show on this web album. It made me happy all day.

Do a back up! And I love del.icio.us despite not being able to remember where the dots go.

Having downscaled the Facebook usage somewhat, I really should be updating this more often. So.

Discovered yesterday that my photos from last year's Norway trip got lost in last fall's hard drive meltdown. So annoyed. I downloaded some back off my Flickr page, but it's only a few and they're not full size. Lesson: back up more frequently.

On a more amusing image-related topic, I finally caught up with 2005 and made myself a South Park icon:


And while we're being silly, I just managed to catch Cloverfield at its last theatre showing. (You're thinking: she doesn't need to link that; but yes, judging from the completely blank looks that everyone here gave me when I mentioned it, I do.) Really, it has to be seen huge, otherwise there's no point. So now I can stop desperately avoiding spoilers on that and move on to desperately avoiding spoilers from Battlestar Galactica (repeat above aside).

Started using del.icio.us about a week ago, and I'm completely hooked. Doesn't look like much, but it's so far the best tool I've used to track my surfing. Check out the new tag cloud on the sidebar. Probably an excellent research tool, but of course I'm also using it to track the trainwreck of a concept that is a Year Zero tv series.