As always on this night, we of Around the Grid bring you our joint wishes for the future, as voiced by Bing Crosby and David Bowie —
From Conan, Jem, Diana, Morgan and myself, may the day of peace eternal come to this troubled world for us, for you … for us all. And remember that all of us — every son and daughter of the Divine, however you see the Divine — are the parents and nurturers of that peace. It is up to us to bring it, somehow.
That certain night
The night we met
There was magic abroad in the air
There were angels dining at the Ritz
And a nightingale sang in Berkeley Square
Read the rest of this entry »This is the night mail crossing the Border,
Bringing the cheque and the postal order,
Letters for the rich, letters for the poor,
The shop at the corner, the girl next door.
Pulling up Beattock, a steady climb:
The gradient’s against her, but she’s on time.
Note: lots of graphics beyond the break, but worth it
Nights in white satin
Never reaching the end
Letters I’ve written
Never meaning to send Read the rest of this entry »
Here are some photo tips from Strawberry Singh, which I discovered today on New World Notes — thanks, Ham! Even old hands can learn new things, and I discovered some goodies about WindLight and Firestorm I didn’t know about.
Be prepared for maybe a minute of dead air at the beginning as Berry is getting things set up; don’t touch your dial, as she’ll come in soon. Additionally, be prepared for a photobombing visitor in the background close to the end — a rather “EEEwwww”-worthy Hallowe’en clown (grin).
Sundown all around
Walking through the summer’s end
Waves crash
Baby don’t look back
I won’t walk away again
Oooooh, baby, anywhere you go
We are bound together
I begin, baby, where you end
Some things are forever
Circle in the sand, ’round and ’round
Neverending love is what we’ve found
And you complete the heart of me
Our love is all we need
Circle in the sand, circle in the sand
— “Circle In the Sand” by Ellen Shipley and Rick Nowels; performed by Belinda Carlisle
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Photographed at The Trace region
Back to the Olympic theme as the fortnight of the London 2012 Games winds down. Here’s the teaser commercial the BBC was running before the Games began; I was lucky when the Beeb’s embed code wouldn’t work in WordPress, because it forced me to search it up on YouTube, and find a full-length version.
The great thing about this, besides the sheer spectacular beauty of the entire concept, is that it’s all done in the box as a machinima. There isn’t a live frame in it anywhere! It wasn’t filmed in Second Life; I’d love it even more if it had been. The idea, of course, is that the whole of London, and even England, is the backdrop for the Games. You have fishing trawlers laying down lane floats for swimming; boxers in a ring at a cargo port; runners racing down an East End street (with the finish line in front of a shop with the sign Photo Finish); a gymnast doing floor exercises on a pedestrian bridge in the City; an athlete using the south-shore beaches as her sand pit for the long jump…. And all around in the background, you see the upper edges of the Olympic Stadium, showing that the whole country is watching. Take a look at this thing — you’ll get the idea.
The BBC liked this so much that they use still and partially animated concept frames at the bottom of each of their Olympic Web pages. If you want to see them (a few of them pop up only rarely), run off to their site and go to the bottom of each page.
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