This was a useful read for me - and I suspect might help others:
Malta in early autumn 2000. While the clothes certainly date it, the complete absence of phones is quite remarkable. Just a film camera and a chunky video camera.
More lockdown creativity: This is the most unusual version of Tubular Bells I’ve come across - but it all comes together in the end!
My daughter just uttered the phrase: “No. You are NOT selling my precious Shakespeare books!”
BRB - exploding with pride.
Politics can either be a parlour game of ideological point-scoring or it can be the business of meaningful change. To be the latter our politicians must avoid the temptations of descending deeper into the culture wars.
Gaming through the eyes of privilege
20 years ago I was quite involved with the tabletop gaming world, and the fringes of the SFF world, as an author. Hit Amazon or Wikipedia and you can see the tracks of my time there.
For me it was a good escape and a creatively rewarding outlet in a tricky period of my life.
It’s becoming increasingly clear that for many others it was a community where they opened themselves to harassment and abuse just by their very presence. And that should never have been acceptable.
Many people, including a few I worked with, have been accused of harassment and assault. There was a wave a few years back. And now there’s been a second round of exposures.
The fact that it was such a positive place for me, and such a negative one for people less white, straight and male than me, is a pretty good example of exactly how privilege works.
Wow. Olympus is selling off its camera division.
I first got serious about photography with a Trip 35, and my first SLRs were all OMs. End of an era, although the business will continue under new owners.