Saturday 20 August 2011

Allah is the Greatest (in reality-enhancing HDR)

The Petronas Twin Towers. Two neck-breaking erections formed of five sections that represent the five pillars of Islam. At its base of course there are all the usual suspects: Gucci, Prada, Loewe, Louis Vouiton, etc. side by side with KFC and Pizza Hut... And to top it all, none of them close for Ramadan, the ungrateful bastards.

That the world has gone mad is old news, but this global euphoria of advertising madness at a such scales stirs up my guts which, in protest, squeeze an acrid gastric juice up my throat and to my brain, causing dizziness and nausea, then panic, then itchiness and finally choking laughter.

Why do you need reality when you have HDR? Here are my first three dips into this wonderful alien world:



Monday 18 July 2011

The era of the meta-impressionists

Carpe Kodak Diem

It is not about having fun. It is not about enjoying a great moment. It is not about having an amazing experience. It is not about an exciting life. It is not about getting an impression anymore... at least not on oneself! It is about capturing that impression in some device that will allow show it to the world. It is about how much fun everybody thinks one is having. What a great moment someone shares with friends and family. What an amazing experience it WAS.

It is a disease. Living the moment seems not good enough anymore unless a good bulk of social network relatives, friends and followers acknowledge what a great moment it was. Memories do not really count unless there is recorded proof of them... Taking a pictures or recording a video for sharing, tagging, commenting and liking those favourite moments IS the experience, not whatever is on those images... that is just the excuse.

Photos: Foo Fighters' leader Dave Grohl leaves the stage at the Roundhouse in London, on one of the iTunes Festival 2011 gigs, and runs all the way to the backbar, to perform a guitar solo. Who in their right mind would not think of capturing that unexpected moment on their mobile phone cameras? (Source: YouTube, with all the footage being taken it was dead easy to find several!)

Friday 6 May 2011

The Battle of Algiers - Secret Cinema

Great night at Secret Cinema yesterday and loved the movie. I left with a smile on my face...

...but then I realised my friend was a French spy... and I felt somewhat bitter

...but then I thought of the people happily dancing in the disco, moments before their limbs were torn apart from their bodies... and I felt somewhat bitter

...but then I imagined a gigantic soft and juicy nipple made out of caramel and strawberry syrup... and my life was sweet again: my conscience was clear, I slept like a baby and this morning I woke up with an erection.

The world is a dark slimy mass of suffering and despair and I wake up with a smile and an erection!!

Innocent Smoothies: The Attack of the Evil Snacks



http://www.youtube.com/innocentdrinksltd

Tuesday 15 March 2011

Fantasy

The screams filled the room. They filled the air she breathed. They filled her life.

She opened her eyes and looked down at her baby, enjoying the moment. She always wanted to be needed and now her baby was again longing for her attention. She was needed and the world had a warm tint of ochre that felt like the last ray of sun in summer.

She always loved sunsets.

But it was dark already. The day was gone and, once again, her baby needed to sleep.

She switched on the spinning lamp and started singing the soft tune of the only lullaby she knew, and the baby's lament became immediately softer. She stood up where he could see her. The tune became a story, and she became the characters, her hands were the dragons and princes, the princesses and the castles of her lullaby. Their stories were flying around the room gently soothing the baby's cry. It did not take long before it mitigated. She could feel his eyes fixed on her, dreaming already of that far away land. It was the sweetest of lullabies, she thought, and wondered for a moment how would she know. She never heard any other before. She realised then how she lost track of the story for a moment, but her baby was finally asleep. So she tenderly kissed his forehead and left the room quietly.

The shapes of dragons and princes, of princesses and castles kept moving from the spinning lamp, filling the room, filling the air that she breathed and filling her life. In the cradle, with a cold blue tone that was already turning into a soft black, laid a tiny corpse.