:: In a Small Dark Room ::

:: Thursday, November 10, 2005 ::

Green Girl
Originally uploaded by singingpixel.

From the "floraporn" group at flickr.com

There's some rather nice pix in there.

:: Mez 21:17 [+] ::
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Due to much clamour & wails of despair & loss from the thronging crowds of my distressed blogfans, <ahem>, I am just dropping this note in to say that this hiatus is just one of those gaps that strike blogdom. I have every intention of continuing — there is even some material I've been collecting in my blogpile for entries. "Life" tends to get in the way sometimes (& sleep & all that other stuff).

:: Mez 15:24 [+] ::
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Good News on Restoration of Hilton Memorial

UPDATE 2008
Even better news, on the 30th Anniversary, 13th February, 2008, they restored the plaque to a stele or pillar back on the footpath. With all my changes and troubles this year I haven't been on that part of George St, so I only saw it in December 2008 while I was doing Christmas shopping, without a camera. I'll try to put up a picture of it.


Hilton Memorial (IMG_3924a-crop)
Originally uploaded by Mezza.

Hilton Memorial (3924a-crop)

"To the memory of Alec Carter, Arthur Favell and Paul Burmistriw, two city council garbagemen and a 1st class police constable, who were killed here as a result of a bomb explosion on 13th February, 1978. Forever in our thoughts. Your workmates."

Hilton Memorial (3924a-crop480),
originally uploaded by Mezza.

Restored memorial plaque to the 3 dead in the Sydney Hilton Bombing, after major refurbishment of hotel.

"To the memory of Alec Carter, Arthur Favell and Paul Burmistriw, two city council garbagemen and a 1st class police constable, who were killed here as a result of a bomb explosion on 13th February, 1978. Forever in our thoughts. Your workmates."

Labels: anniversaries, Australia, history, memorials, pix, Sydney

:: Mez 21:35 [+] ::
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Yahoo's Kitten pictures search result (currently about 636,876).

Aussie Google's kitten image search result (currently about 339,000)

If you add up all the cat pictures, or maybe all the cute kittens and puppies and dogs and cats (other mammals?), would there be more pornography or them?

:: Mez 18:55 [+] ::
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flickrzen.blogspot.com - a collection of someone's favourite images from flickr.

"Flickrzen spotlights exceptional photographs, be that subject, technique or rarity, found on flickr"

:: Mez 02:49 [+] ::
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Catseyes at the Zoo
At the Zoo on Yahoo! News Photos: "A Siamese cat looks out at Arab Gulf tourists at Jordan Zoo near Amman July 13, 2005. Many Arab Gulf tourists visit Jordan during the peak of the summer season. REUTERS/Ali Jarekji"

Caged Eyes

The resigned gentleness of the leopard I saw in the cage was in sharp contrast to the fires of napalm, yet its orange fur and basic nature called it a great predator. One of the most disturbing stories I have read is With Folded Hands by Jack Williamson, about a race of androids that imprison humanity in a cocoon of safety and idleness. All the captive generations descended from the one leopard father have been resting with folded forepaws for too many years, their world stolen from them by human curiosity.

:: Mez 01:11 [+] ::
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Giancarlo Zema Design Group Innovative Semisubmerged Architecture Studio
In partnership with the SAS Ltd Semisubmerged Architecture Studio Head Office in London (UK) - www.sas-projects.com

:: Mez 03:03 [+] ::
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A female orb weaver spider wraps up a dragonfly in its web in Sopchoppy, Florida, USA. (The Sydney Morning Herald: Snapshot gallery)

:: Mez 16:27 [+] ::
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excellent
Originally uploaded by Doctor Swan.

Well, it's certainly quite good :)

I love Doctor Swan's photos of nature; beautifully composed and shot. His/Her vision is close to what I'd like to be able to do, so perhaps that's why I respond to it so strongly.

:: Mez 00:15 [+] ::
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shroud
Originally uploaded by Vanita (Grave photoset).

Buried my mother on Friday, 3rd June, 2005.

:: Mez 23:22 [+] ::
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Happy Furry Friday - prayer
Originally uploaded by Britta_585.

Two black velvet paws on textured cloth (with apologies to Dario Argento)

An Ennio Morricone~Dario Argento Trilogy
Morricone, Ennio
Price: $16.95
Audio CD
Product Description Includes music from: "The Bird with the Crystal Plumage", "The Cat O' Nine Tailes" [sic], "Four Flies on Grey Velvet" and an Interview between Dario Argento, the Maestro of Horror, and Claudio Fuinao about the trilogy.
16 Track total (Including Interview)
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New Hours: Monday-Friday 11-7, Saturday 10-6, Sunday 12-5
Phone: (212) 533-1572 Fax: (212) 673-1496 E-Mail: info@footlight.com

A Fistful of Dario
www.mediaroach.com/fistfulofdario
Welcome to A Fistful of Dario: The Dark Cinema of Dario Argento, my tribute/homage web page
Links page

Cinequest Tribute
www.cinequest.org/2000/guide/dario.html
Dario Argento: Master of the Macabre

Alan Jones
International Film Journalist
www.alanj.dircon.co.uk/Argento.htm
Dario Argento
(Alan reports all things Argento related on the darkdreams.org Dario website run by Nick Dawe)

Dario Argento: Master of Horror
www.houseofhorrors.com/argento.htm

Dario Argento: Master of the Macabre
www.giallo.dsl.pipex.com/main.html
Quentin Tarantino adores him. Clive Barker wants to be him. And John Carpenter directed 'Halloween' in homage to his work.

Master of Colors
www.argento.vervost.de

GoreZone
www.gorezone.net

Horror-Web
horror-web.com

Caged Eyes
The resigned gentleness of the leopard I saw in the cage was in sharp contrast to the fires of napalm, yet its orange fur and basic nature called it a great predator. One of the most disturbing stories I have read is With Folded Hands by Jack Williamson, about a race of androids that imprison humanity in a cocoon of safety and idleness. All the captive generations descended from the one leopard father have been resting with folded forepaws for too many years, their world stolen from them by human curiosity

:: Mez 02:05 [+] ::
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Lady Kira - a photoset on Flickr with a lovely black cat in it.

:: Mez 01:51 [+] ::
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was ist das?
Originally uploaded by Britta_585.

mmm ... can think of several possibilities

:: Mez 01:45 [+] ::
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Sorry, haven't been able to get into writing anything much except relating to the elbow-deep drifts of forms & legal documents that needed to be fixed up by this week or a large chunk of the house of cards laughingly known as my life will lose its insubstantial grip on reality, or at least a working facsimile of same.

Some forms still demand a typewriter. I was able to unearth my old Spanish manual (not Manuel) one. With working ribbon. Ha! Bureaucracy foiled again.

:: Mez 18:15 [+] ::
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HPIM0872.JPG
Originally uploaded by haiyan.

HPIM0872.JPG — one of those

:: Mez 21:55 [+] ::
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Still working on the method to not have lots of pictures on this home page. Dunno. It looks like most people DO have something like that.

I'm quite fond of the look of the layouts where you have a scrollable row or column of thumbnails, with another space on the page to display the full-size image of the thumbnail image you click on. Unfortunately they seem to depend on using frames. I really dislike HTML frames.

So, here's a portfolio of different moods, showing Sydney Town Hall and the World Square Tower that spoilt the original view of its outline against the sky from all along York Street. This is a sample preview of one.

:: Mez 05:16 [+] ::
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Shame that this has gone missing now.


P0002542
Originally uploaded by RickMacMerc.

NOT MINE
I'm still working out what this one is. Several possibilities. Kinda pretty, tho'.

:: Mez 13:48 [+] ::
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