| It's my mum's If I were to add up some stats she'd probably be my most dedicated reader. Which is impressive because I usually tell her the same stuff I post here in our daily conversations, most people would be more than bored by now. And she has an orchid collection, which I've tried to photograph multiple times. This is truly the first photo of those flowers I like. |
 (Zenit/redscale 100 combo.) ( +3 - and then it's the end of that roll ) |
When life gives you clementines... eat them. |
 (Lots of redish redscale. Zenit. Lomo redscale 100.) ( +2 - moi, j'ai vu la lumière ) |
In other news, I have a problem. Technically speaking, the layout on cerealjoe.livejournal.com and where-is-gali.net is the same. It's the same page, the one of w-i-g is just the embedded LJ page through JavaScript. So why is the font size different on w-i-g? The CSS is defined inside the LJ page, I checked it all works, when I change it the LJ page changes... and the w-i-g for all the fonts except the one of the main entries. Argh. It's rather frustrating. That font is twice as big as it should be. Or I maybe I should try other forms of embedding. Perl or PHP. But that's more set-up work. Boo. |
C'est le calme plat... c'est beau. I have a new morning thing that keeps things nice and calm in the morning, I listen to Alex Taylor's morning show on France Musiques. He has quite a soothing voice and you can't go wrong with his lovely accent... and apparently he's an English gentleman in his 50s and we all know that I have a thing for older English gentlemen And that is all I had to say. On to more calm... ( +2 - some more Zenit/redscale calmness ) * if you have no idea what "voice porn" is, you live in a sad world. It's when you could listen to someone read off the Yellow Pages and still be glued to the radio. It often happens to me when I listen to radio plays, the plot is often horrible but I can't stop listening because one of the actors just has that kind of a voice you can't stop listening to. |
 This monsoon season is bring my motivation levels to a whole new low. Petit Mistral! Faudrait revenir maintenant! |
 Roses are red. Apples are too. Violets are violet. They aren't blue. ... Atchao bonsoir! |
| Another little gem from the interwebs... "I'm from Sweden." "Oh cool, I studied Norwegian for a year once for no reason." Next time someone says they drank orange juice that morning, I'll be sure to mention that I quite like homemade apple pie. Now this was bound to happen sooner or later, the final photos from that particular roll of Diana Mini/redscale! It took four months to finish shooting and it only took two months to post.  ( +2 ) |
I used to say that the Diana Mini with 100 redscale and low light were not friend but it seems I hadn't found the right subject. It seems early morning low light works rather well. ( +3 - l'Arc pendant qu'on y est ) In other news, my mum contributed to the joke list: "Tu connais la blague du petit déjeuner?" "Non." "Et bah, pas de bol!" It runs in the family, we can't help it. In other other news, once again, mainly for the francophones, I kind of find this video quite hilarious. It took me a while to find something that became smaller after it was used and was not what the lady mentioned. I could only come up with things like toothpaste tube. In still other news, see what fashion designers in the 1930s thought people will wear in the year 2000. Ah, yes, indeed, that portable telephone at the end wasn't so off. |
I just discovered that some of my redscale Diana Mini shots from Canada are now making the rounds on Tumblr. I won't get into the whole debate about whether Tumblr is good or bad, I don't even know if I find it flattering or kind of sad. Sad because I know for certain that there were no comments on that post... and I'm like every emo person out there, I like to know when someone finds something I took interesting. In the end it's not like I'm losing money, I'm not making any from any of my shots in the first place. It just seems that sites like Tumblr could be bringing people together but they actually don't. People just find something they like and they post it there and make a virtual scrapbook that's like just cutting photos out of magazines and sticking them in a notebook... without ever going that extra step of letting the person who took the photo that they think that the work is worth a second glance. Tumblr is weird in the sense that the first time a photo is linked/posted there, the photographer is very properly credited, something I really like because I just hate seing a wonderful photo and wanting to see some of someone's work and there not even being a name for me to google. Then through some miracle the photo is reborn through Tumblr for a second round and then the credit goes *poof* and it's just a photo. There is an old photo of mine that I see pop up once in a while on food related Tumblrs, it's a plain shot of some ice cream and by now the link that used to be associated to my Flickr is long gone. It's still funny though seeing it, I guess those who post hundreds of photos per day can't remember all the stuff they've posted so doubles or triples are inevitable. All this talk because I was reminded of the redscales from Canada while going through these from Paris. I have wanted to take redscales of those red and green street crossing men ever since seeing one one the redscale box... here is how they turned out.  "Je traverse où je veux, quand je veux, I am Parisien." And the magic of ~*~Paris~*~ made it so that even with the foggy autumn light there is still something I quite like about how those came out. ( +2x2 - trees and dark statues ) On a completely unrelated note, I've had Polnareff's "Je suis un homme" stuck in my head for a while now. Et pourtant je suis une femme... |
For all the times I've complained about mistral and other high winds, boy, do I miss them right now! It's been rainy and foggy and just overall humid for over a week and it needs to stop. Of course it won't as the weather forecast predicts rain at least till the end of the week. Usually there is enough wind around here for the clouds to stay away and, if by some random chance, it rains a bit then the sun is back an hour later. It really wouldn't bother me so much if it weren't for the fact that I got used to being able to get some laundry done and have it dry by the end of the day. These days I'm desperately waiting for a windy day, heck, by now I'll even take a non-humid day! Time for my existential "I did not sign up for this when I moved back, dammit!" because I did not sign up for this when I moved back, dammit! Still, extra sunlight, even through the clouds, that counts for a lot. Remember the photos of the raindrops previously posted (here and here)? Here are some more raindrops caught on redscale with the Zenit.  ( +3 - more raindrops and then some sunshine ) |
Ta-da! (clicky click and stuff) Presenting the first not-so-finished-but-getting-there project of 2011! The film part is almost all done, the digital part still needs a bit more work. Music! Flowers! Confetti! Dammit. For music we have YT, for flowers... well see below, but no confetti. Oh well.  |
Finally I figured out that I'll never get my Flickr under control, so linking people there is useless. Linking people to tag pages here seems rather useless too... so now I have a tiny restrained place without all that silly tagging and all those flashy things everywhere. |
The city is changing... it's strange.  |
| (Marseille, not through a looking glass. Zenit. Redscale.) |
We drove down Rue de la République the other day, I hadn't been there in a long time. I actually can't remember when was the last time I made it anywhere further than the town hall area around Vieux Port. They put a Starbucks there. Yes. In Marseille. Next thing you know the'll want to open some fancy tourist trap bar instead of OM Café on the port. But really that whole street is just too clean now, there are all these fancy huge shops... almost the same stuff you find on Rue St. Fé and Rue de Rome, yet the feeling is different. I suppose not many tourists would find walking along Rue St. Fé all that pleasing but that whole clean feeling isn't Marseille! Heck, yes, I don't like how busy those streets are but I'll take them on any day rather than what Rue de la République seems to have become. For those who didn't follow the whole Rue de la République deal, it's an old street that ends right on the Vieux Port and for a long time it was in a shabby state because the buildings are old and "old families" lived there. Then one day some really rich foreigners (from Texas iirc) and banks came, bought up all the façades, cleaned them, made a "clean" street and of course many of the people who used to live there could no longer afford it. But hey, now Marseille has a clean street where tourists from cruise ships can go shopping. Woopeedoo. Note: the above paragraph is my point of view, believe it as you see fit. (there is even a Wiki article on that street, but it's only in French, alas) |
Finally got around to watching the DW Christmas Special. It was good but I still miss some of the simplicity that was there in the original series. I miss Five and Teagan looking a guy dressed in an alligator suit and screaming "oh my god, look at that horrible monster!" and Four and Sarah Jane being attacked by those robots that could shrink. And you can't forget the green slime and the weird underground maggots from Inferno, still the best Three episode ever even though I don't quite like Liz. I'm kind of looking forward to the next series though, I want to see Eleven ditch the bow tie and put on the cowboy hat! (or wait, is that a spoiler? Surely that can't be... can it? I'm so out of that fandom these days I don't even know what a real spoiler for DW is anymore) And in other news, yesterday lacked a bit of sunshine... hopefully there will some today. Till then there is this:  |
| (Sunshine, even during the autumn. Zenit. Redscale.) ( +4 - some sunshine, some flowers, some trees ) |
Argh. Interwebs. You bring out the worst in some people. Sometimes I just want to really print out what people leave as comments or rejection notices for moderated posts and make them reread and then ask, "if you were to tell this to me in person, would you still say that?" and I bet the answer would rarely be positive. Bah. But let's forget about this. Probably the mod of that community was also just having a bad day. So here are Panda, Baby and Maurice Georges. The coolest cow family in the world. There is also Meuh who is the auntie of the family and lives in Toulouse. Maurice Georges is named after Maurice from these ads and after Georges from these ads... how does it makes sense? It does in my head!  |
| (Happy family. December. Chinon CX. Kodak 200) And also let's have some experimental very low light shots from the redscale Zenit film! Three of them! ( +3 - kitchens and bathrooms ) |
Punaise, hier j'ai vu un de ces boulets sur la route! Alors moi je roule tranquillement sur la Gineste derrière deux voitures, on est à 85km/h (la limite est à 90) et il fait noir parce que là c'est 18h bien passées. Dans l'autre sens c'est une file continue de voitures, situation tout à fait normale. Et là je vois une voiture arriver derrière moi à toute vitesse et j'ai l'impression qu'elle me fait des appels de phare. Alors moi je regarde, non, ce n'est pas la police, ce n'est pas une ambulance et il n'y pas de plaque dans le genre "médecin/médicaments urgence" sur le pare-brise. Je continue ma route en me disant que j'ai dû croire que c'était un appel de phare mais en fait le gars était juste passé sur un nid de poule et ça a fait sauter la voiture. Et rebelote, un autre appel de phare... mais que j'ai vu seulement parce que ma voiture soudainement était plus éclairée, le gars me collait tellement que je ne voyais plus ses phares dans mon rétro. Bref, kézako? Franchement, ça roule bien (combien de fois j'ai été bloquée derrière un gars roulant à 70?), il doit bien voir qu'il y a des voitures devant moi et qu'en face c'est une file continue. A un moment donné il y a eu un petit break dans la file d'en face et le gars a essayé de doubler... ratage complet, c'est pas 100m qui vont te suffire mon petit. Puis deuxième break et il dépasse comme les gros bourrins dépassent sur la Gineste: tellement pas doué que j'ai du me rabattre un peu sur le côté ainsi que la voiture qui arrivait en face. Mais le gars devait être content, il m'avait dépassée. Sauf que là il était coincé derrière deux autres voitures et on était arrivé en zone 60km/h et c'est une zone de ligne blanche continue. Bref, en fin de compte le gars a eu beau coller à la voiture de devant et lui faire des appels de phare, on est arrivé en bas de la Gineste les uns derrière les autres. C'est fou ce que son petit caca nerveux lui a permis de gagner comme temps, non? Et petit rappel, les appels de phare sont tout à fait ok pendant la journée, mais quand il fait nuit ils ne faut en faire usage que quand il y en a vraiment besoin parce qu'ils sont considérés comme des éblouissements des autres usagers de la route... et donc verbalisables. (le texte ci-dessus a été tapé dans le train, mon voisin a bien dû se demander pourquoi je racontais cette histoire... ça lui apprendra à lire par dessus mon épaule!) (short English version: some people are really stupid on the road and think they'll get to places much faster if they drive 5km/h faster on a 2km stretch.) |
In other news, yesterday was Saint Lucy's Day and that means that the days are now getting longer! Actually in French there is a saying "A la Saint Luce, les jours croissent du saut d'une puce" (on Saint Lucy's Day the days get longer by a flea's jump, yep, that's a litteral translation but I quite like the image of the flea jump). Saint Lucy's Day --- sunshine --- summertime --- going back in time --- analog stuff --- redscale film from September's adventures! See how flawless my transitions are! |
 (Marseille. September. Diana Mini. Redscale 100.) [photos from La Fête du Vent, already covered in this post] ( +4x2 - the beach, Hôpital Caroline... and a tiny bit of Paris ) |
 Mes samedis. November. Zenit-E. Redscale 100. |
Ah. The little things in life. They do matter. And one of those thoughts that one randomly has in a food induced coma on Friday nights - the kid from Les Choristes turned out rather not bad looking. Still, he's a 90er... makes me feel like an old dirty aunt just thinking that. |
Ah, les temps sont durs, faut faire des économies partout. Mais bon, le train non-chauffé le matin alors qu'il fait 0°C dehors, je trouve que c'est un peu limite de la part de la SNCF. D'habitude on se croirait dans un four mais là on s'est amusé à regarder la buée quand on respirait. C'est pas très pratique pour lire non plus... mes gants ne sont pas l'outil idéal pour tourner les pages. Et puis c'est un de ces jours où je me dis que j'aurais mieux fait de rester au chaud, j'ai complètement zappé le fait que j'ai laissé mon déjeuner dans le frigo ce matin. Bah! C'est pas grave, il y a où acheter de bons trucs à manger par ici mais ce midi je devais manger de la purée de pomme de terre faite maison avec une sauce aux champignons aussi faite maison et des kiwis pour le dessert. Ca sera pour ce soir alors! |
In other news I will probably have two more films to scan tonight so I should get the redscale one posted. Here is one of the reasons I love the Diana family: you can have multiple exposures and advance the film as much or as little as you want. |
 (click to see a much larger version of that image)  Montréal. End of August 2010. Diana Mini. Redscale 100. ( +3x2 - more of the canal and some other things ) |
Thinking about two things at once is not good on a Monday morning. I just wrote down the date twice on a document where I had to put down the date and sign. I hadn't noticed it up until it was pointed out to me. Thank goodness there are times when someone rereads these things. In other news, I have a new hobby, when things are looking bleak I google "lever coucher du soleil marseille"... and then start counting the days till the 16th. That's the first day after the two shortest days of the year. I don't care that there are sites that say otherwise! I don't care that technically everyone thinks that the 21st is the shortest day. I just want sunshine. Yes, I'm Miss Cranky-Pants this morning. It's the rain. It's not monsoon season here but somehow I don't remember it being so rainy a few years back. Maybe in those two-and-a-half/five-if-you-count-everything years Marseille had become a tad idolised in my head? But honestly the rain and the cold these past few days kind of threw off some of my plans. I finally got my thirty rolls of film and I loaded up the new toy and then it was either -2C outside or it was raining. Perfect weather to test out a new camera. On another planet. Ah well. Then I thought I'd take it to work today and get some sunny shots around mid-day... raté, it might be warm and not raining but there are huge clouds stuck above us, can't even see the top of the Faron from the office. At least the train was on time this morning! Ah... let's think back to a time when there was sunshine... Québec!  ( +3 or +6, depends on how you count ) |
This is what I've been working on. For this one I think I'll post the scans in proper order instead of randomly.  (on the right you can see a Cool Globe that used to be all over Marseille) I always take one blank shot after I insert a new film... and then straight on to the proper shooting. I don't understand how people can respect the customary three blank shots. Don't they want happy accidents? ( +2 or 4, depends on how you count ) Have I already declared my love for the Diana Mini and redscale film? It is possibly the best combination in the world. |
It's A Photoswap was back again this year and I got to send my little film all the way to the UK. I chose my favourite kind of film for the Diana Mini, Lomo redscale 100. This film was developed and scanned by my Photoswap partner, Ashley..  I won't post all of the half-shots that came from that film because 36x2 is a lot... so here are half of them! No, that's not too many. Okie, it may be a tad too many but quand on aime, on ne compte pas! ( 17x2 more photos of Helsinki and my last days there this year ) And of course in exchange I got a film to develop! In the end the whole process took quite some time... and it only went to prove that in some things I'm a creature of habit and yes, I do miss the good old Fotoyks place.  I got to meet adorable animals (and some humans too)! ( 4x2 more photos from the UK ) |
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