Ruth started with an entry on the most depressing song she knows: Mad World by Gary Jules (actually, by Tears for Fears… it’s a remake). I heard the Gary Jules version while watching Donnie Darko. The movie and the song go hand in hand. Qinyi goes for Gloomy Sunday. But this is my pick. It’s [...]
Month: April, 2004
photographic memory
been going through all my photos to see what i can use in my portfolio. i’ve almost forgotten some people, places and events in the photos. yet some others are permanently etched in my mind – no need for photos. it’s quite a task on one level, just ploughing through all them. for example, i [...]
five basic photography principles
read this on offstone and found it interesting… it’s instructional, inspirational, comforting and humbling all at once. 5 Basic Photography Principles 1. Photographers are not primarily interested in photographs. They have a focused energy and enthusiasm which is directed at an outside, physically present, other. They bring to this subject an exaggerated sense of curiosity, [...]
girls of central mall
i’ve been ill most of the past week and also busy with photography, so i haven’t had time to write in my blog. actually, i probably did have the time but wasn’t in the mood to write. despite being ill, it was a good week. i managed to meet up with joy and felicia, who [...]
false dawn
a poem i read on a forum i frequent: “False Dawn” `merdeka’, they said, pointed the way for all to a new dawn of a better life and a rosy future. on this all the party manifestoes concurred, only on the road to be taken they differed – for the anglicised-democrats, consult and negotiate; the [...]
