Category: Culture
Everything cultural that interests me: music, reading, science, arts in general, news, photography…
News and Indian Photos [en]
Back from Birmingham to see Aleika, Akirno, and the animals, I’m thinking hard about film scanners, photographs, prints and digital cameras.
My reading this evening brought me to these beautiful photographs of Gujurat and Rajasthan. My Indian photographs really pale in comparison.
Temple Grandin and McDonald's [en]
An article on her work with McDonald’s to make slaughterhouses more humane let me to the website of Temple Grandin. Read the second article on the egg industry, it’s very interesting too.
Dead Battery and Cold Snow [en]
When you wander around with a device which allows you to take photographs of everything you see, it gives you the opportunity to write posts about events such as this:
First time I have broken down with this car. Nothing serious, don’t worry Grandma 😉 — it stalled and wouldn’t start again. I just had to wait 30 minutes in the cold for the TCS to arrive.
(Let’s say that I posted this here on purpose just to show you all how lame it could become, OK?)
Orage sur le Léman [en]
De nouvelles photos balancées en vrac dans un répertoire. Vevey-Lausanne quand on s’arrête toutes les dix minutes pour prendre des photos, c’est long. La plupart d’entre elles ont été prises à l’aveugle (lumière d’orage + vent + cheveux trop longs), ce qui explique les lignes d’horizon parfois bien éloignées de l’horizontale.
Je vous garantis qu’elles ne sont pas toutes aussi bien que celle-ci.
More Dumped Photos [en]
More photos, with an Index of Dumped Photos for the galleries which are publicly available. Enjoy.
Épiphanie [en]
Images [en]
During this last couple of weeks, I have added to the photographs in the dump, and also to “offsite” photographs:
- my blogging spot
- Homeward Bound and Teambuilding for The Mirror Project (my contributions up to now were Dojo and Fat Ladies). Note also a special guest appearance in Two Stephs at Palais-Royal.
Liste e-mail francophone au sujet des troubles musculo-squelettiques (TMS/RSI) [en]
La liste de discussion francophone TMS-RSI vient de voir le jour. Si vous souffrez de TMS ou craignez que ce soit le cas, inscrivez-vous.
Pensez à diffuser cette information autour de vous, afin que les personnes susceptibles de bénéficier de cette liste aient une chance de la trouver. Merci d’avance. Merci pour elles.
The Lord of the Rings [en]
I have just finished reading The Lord of the Rings. If I remember correctly, this must be my fourth or fifth attempt to read the books. The furthest I have reached seems to be the very first pages of the third book, if my bookmark does not lie. My memory of those pages read many years ago has dimmed to near to nothingness.
I am one of the many people for whom the film saved the books. I had given up on reading them.
I am coming to the conclusion that The Lord of the Rings is not a book most enjoyed when first read. On the first reading, one is swamped with strange names and places, riddles and comments on the unfamiliar lore and history of Middle-earth. (Information overload, anyone?) The story unfolds slowly, too slowly, and one loses track of the complex plot and dozes off to sleep amidst poetic descriptions of beautiful land or fair deeds.
The Lord of the Rings seems written for those already familiar with a marvellously complex world Tolkien created. In any case, some familiarity with the world in question seems required to thoroughly enjoy the epic.
The film did not put me to sleep. They gave me a reasonably clear view of the plot, allowing me to dive into the books and enjoy the tale being told without feeling too lost. I am looking forward to reading the books again. But counting my previous attempts, it really took me hundreds of pages to learn to enjoy Tolkien.