while trolling through trendalicious, i found this neat page from the village of joy.
it describes life in north korea with some nice pics and interesting facts. it provides an insight that many people dispute. still, i wouldn’t mind going and checking it out myself. find the page here.
the boston globe has an interesting set of photos for this week’s big picture series. the theme is fiery festivals. the viking looking pictures come from scotland and a festival that has been a tradition for 130 years. the lower set is from spain and includes horse riders jumping through flames to pruify their souls. here’s the pick of the lot:
i missed out on the second section the other day due to circumstances well in my control. but here they are, the rest of the photos from the world of sport that i thought were pretty cool:
i was going to do some end of year lists but in the end, i hadn’t read enough new books, seen enough movies or watched enough television. one thing i do like doing however is sport. and looking at photos. i’ve basically given up on taking them. so, here are some of my favourite shots from this year. More to come tomorrow:
it’s been a long while between posts. so much has happened, with so little time to report. i don’t even know where to start. i could mention the marriage and dave coming over, the nights out in brisbane for photography and seeing plays. but then i’d have to balance that with rants about school and the shit i’m going through. instead, i’ll offer this photo as a visual distraction. it was taken on a night out at south bank. it’s called the wheel of brisbane.
brisbane copped a huge dust storm yesterday. the boston globe once again has come up trumps with an excellent series in their big picture feature. in brisvegas, it was reportedly the worst dust cloud in decades as an estimated 400 million tonnes of sediment north. with a bright yellow disc in the sky and an orange haze that lasted all day, it made things pretty difficult. i’m still finding dust inside…
bit of bad news from the weekend as i found out that the school i had done all my pre-service and first major contract in was burned to the ground in what police are describing as an arson attack. being the first weekend of the holidays, it hasn’t taken long for the local dickheads to make a mess. this comes on the heals of other local fires to other school and soccer clubs. there are a couple of photo galleries; a queensland times gallery and a much better, courier mail gallery.
sillstone state school was well over a hundred years old and was undergoing renovations to the building that was gutted. all of the class and students’ things were out of the building, which i guess would be a small saving grace. i had taught in the building as a relief teacher, teacher in every room in the building. each classroom was quite big and had a lot of character. i hope they get the people that did it.
while tooling around on trendalicious, i found an interesting piece about a place in india where bridges are grown naturally from trees. cherrapunji is one of the wettest places on earth, is in north-east india. the bridges are shaped by growing secondary roots along a hollowed out trunk of a tree placed across a river. some can be as long as a basketball court. some bridges are thought to be about 500 years old, as they get stronger as they grow older. another good blog features the bridges here.
i found a cool site while bumbling around and generally procrastinating. it’s a neat idea for flash and uses photos to create mosaics which can be zoomed in to find photos that match that part of the picture made up of a lot more photos. the photos seem to be stock footage but it’s a very neat idea and works really well. check it out.
i found an interesting set of photos depicting life in north korea. seems like a pretty basic/poor/difficult existence. the above shot is something that worries me a little. how much hate has been instilled into the people of the dprk? how much fear and xenophobia has been drilled into them. if something does happen and shit hits the fan, i have a feeling the people of north korea will fight until the last man is standing… and then keep fighting