Avengers has eaten my brain.

EATEN MY BRAIN.

I need to stop looking at posts on Tumblr. And watching videos on YouTube. And reading fanfic.

I won't.

I saw it a second time though this weekend!

I watched a film called Knowing tonight. (Spoilers below.)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0448011/

It was really intriguing, with this rather strange girl 50 years ago who wrote a load of numbers and they got put in the school's time capsule. Fast forward 50 years, and a boy gets given her envelope to open and finds these. The dad is intrigued and eventually realises that they are dates of disasters, the number of people killed and the location.

Lots of stuff is happening, I'm finding it quite tense and wanting to know how they're going to stop this last major disaster.

And then it turned absolutely rubbish for the conclusion!!!

The son and some other girl get saved by glowy aliens and taken to a new planet to start again.

Everyone else dies.

OMG, such a terrible end to what had seemed like such a promising film. *shakes head*

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Compare these with last year.

01) The Mists of Avalon (Book 1: Mistress of Magic) - Marion Zimmer Bradley
02) Temeraire - Naomi Novik
03) The Mists of Avalon (Book 2: The High Queen) - Marion Zimmer Bradley
04) The Lunatic Cafe - Laurell K Hamilton
05) Deadly Decisions - Kathy Reichs
06) Throne of Jade - Naomi Novik
07) The Mists of Avalon (Book 3: The King Stag) - Marion Zimmer Bradley
08) Black Powder War - Naomi Novik
09) The Mists of Avalon (Book 4: The Prisoner In The Oak) - Marion Zimmer Bradley

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Yet again, a rather poor number of books. And I imagine 2012 will be pretty bad too as I have to study in the first half of the year, which I always find cuts into my reading time.

Tonight at photography club, we had the finals for our digital competitions. This is where every photo that has won a seal (in the digital competitions!) are judged (in their classes) again for the best overall photo. I got 3 seals this year, and all were for digital photos.

And out of... 25 photos maybe? (possibly more) in the primary class, the judge held back 8 photos that were his favourites, to pick from. AND... I didn't win.

But - out of the 8 photos, two of them were mine! And he made really good comments about both of them too, so that makes me happy. It's a shame not to have won overall of course, but being selected as a top photo (twice!) is pretty nice at least.

The photos were:

and


He said that the Crossing Roundabouts one was different to what you usually see in clubs, and that I'm developing my own style. Heh.

GIP.

Because there are some new NCIS photos out of Mark Harmon and Michael Weatherly and they are just adorable.

And I also find it really hard to delete any of my icons when I want to make room for a new one!

mercscilla posted this video in her LJ, so I just had to share.

It may be long, but it's brilliantly done! Almost looks like the whole town got involved!!

See an article in the Daily Mail about it here.

Sorry, another couple of videos...

This guy is brilliant to watch... and some beautiful scenery to boot!


A may zing. Timelapsed photos made into video:

Timelapse - The City Limits from Dominic on Vimeo.

... it's people's reactions that are making me laugh more too!

Geeks FTW!


This one is brilliant!!


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There are loads more videos by these guys:
http://www.youtube.com/user/ImprovEverywhere

The amazingness of CSI zooming & enhancing technology...

http://www.makemymood.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/csizoom.jpg

Oh alasse_fae!

I did what you asked and made some bike icons at last. Go take a look here.

It's been ages since I've made any icons or graphics. It's quite nice to do so again.

I had a cool multicoloured pepper for dinner this week.

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/randomness

They've changed how they do the compeition evenings at the club this year - instead of a judge going through and giving each photo comments and then keeping some aside for the end and picking their favourites for a seal, this year the judges are to go through commenting on each photo and giving them scores out of 10. Then seals are awarded in order of points, with the judge having to pick if there are too many with the same score.

Tonight, one of my photos got 10 out of 10! Whoot. And got me my second club seal :D

*is proud*

This one, btw:



*dances*

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Those are some scary figures! I have posted a lot of comments! lol

01) PS. I Love You - Cecelia Ahern
02) The Bonesetter's Daughter - Amy Tan
03) Eagle Strike - Anthony Horowitz
04) Guilty Pleasures - Laurell K Hamilton
05) Cold Mountain - Charles Frazier
06) The Laughing Corpse - Laurell K Hamilton
07) Death Du Jour - Kathy Reichs
08) The Eyre Affair - Jasper Fforde
09) Lost in A Good Book - Jasper Fforde
10) The Brightonomicon - Robert Rankin
11) The Well of Lost Plots - Jasper Fforde
12) Rabbit Proof Fence - Doris Pilkinton
13) Circus of the Damned - Laurell K Hamilton
14) Something Rotten - Jasper Fforde

Eugh, my reading speed got terrible for the second half of the year. Mostly coz of having to spend my free time revising. Rubbish!

I'm currently 200 pages into a 1009 page book... me thinks it may take a while to read it! lol

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The good thing about my photography club is that you can get tips on how to improve a photo.

This, for example, is a photo I submitted in the last digital competition (and plan to resubmit to the next one, as you can enter the same image twice).

 
The original image vs the improved one following feedback.

 

I swear I never notice too bright areas in my own photos - but I must remember to try to keep an eye on that in future.

Opinions on the one on the right? Does it look okay (the submission deadline is Monday, but I'll submit mine by Sunday evening)?

Ha ha, just seen this on TV...

At my photography club we have a meeting once a month that is either a print or a digital competition where members enter photos into their category (primary, intermediate, advanced) and they all get judged and the best photos (well, the judge's favourites) get picked and awarded a club seal. (You need... I think it's 12 or something! seals to move up a level.)

This week, we had a print competition. I already had some photos printed from the club exhibition that we had in the shopping centre the other week... Did I mention we had that? I had a few photos on display to the general public for the week which was kind of cool!

Anyway, I had some photos already printed so thought I'd enter a couple and see if anything happened.

And I got my very first club seal! For this image:



This was from the evening the club were invited to go to West Quay, the big shopping mall in Southampton, at the end of the day just before it closed and then for a couple of hours after the public had left.

( I never showed any of the photos, so here are the good ones... )

And evidence that I indeed had photos on display:


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Someone has made a "movie trailer" for SG-1...



How good is that! Made me laugh. I want to go watch it now ;)
(I should actually bring my SG-1 DVDs down to Soton sometime actually!)