So I have finally succumbed and just after I got back from my two weeks in Poland, Simon dragged me kicking and screaming (not really but let's say I was reluctant) to exchange my old, wobbly and unreliable mobile into a smart iPhone.
The whole operation was relatively painless (lady sorting my mess out was Polish too), though reminded me strangely about these scenes in a Hollywood movies where a savage is being washed for the very first time by servants but actually likes his/hers new, fresh self before parading in front of the lady fo the mansion.
I have survived 3 generations of Apple's invention but the whole point really was about not surrending into this particular lifestyle where people are stalking each other on Face Book, are obliged to reply to a stranger's email the moment they received it and instead of having a nice chat while they have a relaxing afternoon in the restaurant, they obsessively check their emails under the table or even worse - put their dinky mobile devices on the table straight away after sitting down to their meal with their girlfriends. Who do exactly the same anyway so nobody really minds all that rudeness.
However on the other hand when I watch my children so fearlessly dipping into the technology, being as old as Face Book themselves and not knowing the times before its invention, pros started to overwhelm the cons and here we are. I got the white one. Let the games begin.
I might even now get on Face Book, who knows.
P.S. Actually the picture was taken with Simon's iPhone. In black btw.
P.S.2 A quick message to all the people whe were trying to get in touch on my mobile throughout last several days - my sincere apollogies, the old one died on my last day in Poland and I was not ready with the new phone until this afternoon.
Friday, 11 November 2011
Wednesday, 2 November 2011
The Zombie Boy no longer
I can only assume that lots of people wonder (me included) how Rick Genest looks like under all these elaborate embellishments. Here is the answer thanks to Dermablend concealer. So? Well, he looks like...Michael Ackerman.
http://www.rickgenest.com/index.php/home/item/78-go-beyond-the-cover.html
Lots of love, still from Poland where tatoos are considered a taboo and for serial offenders only but where airpilots are the best in the world ( long live and fly captain Tadeusz Wrona!).
http://www.rickgenest.com/index.php/home/item/78-go-beyond-the-cover.html
Lots of love, still from Poland where tatoos are considered a taboo and for serial offenders only but where airpilots are the best in the world ( long live and fly captain Tadeusz Wrona!).
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Tuesday, 25 October 2011
The commentary is the most important
After visiting my friends in Krakow I have picked up this gem:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8r5VMkZFC-Y
Agata Bozynska and her real voice as an off commentary - unfortunately only for Poles...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8r5VMkZFC-Y
Agata Bozynska and her real voice as an off commentary - unfortunately only for Poles...
Friday, 7 October 2011
Ceremonials
New Florence +The Machine album is coming out on 31st of October. Will it bring me in the goosebumps as her first achievement?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbTdezXhgBE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbTdezXhgBE
Tuesday, 20 September 2011
Link love
The first one is a link to a virtual tour of the Neues Museum in Berlin (I was threatening that I would finally come to Berlin just for several days of meeting my friends finally and doing a serious museum inspiration tour, the same would be for London, but with a different Monika!):
http://www.neues-museum.de/nm/index.html?r=vestibuel
The other is to a very weird blog that I came accross my research for my eyesight project:
http://artofmourning.com/miniatures.html
I was particularly into these little pins with eye miniatures, there has to be a picture in there for my project!
http://www.neues-museum.de/nm/index.html?r=vestibuel
The other is to a very weird blog that I came accross my research for my eyesight project:
http://artofmourning.com/miniatures.html
I was particularly into these little pins with eye miniatures, there has to be a picture in there for my project!
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Fascinating work of other people
Thursday, 8 September 2011
Bridges Walk
Yesterday we invited Monica to visit with us a venue where we will be working soon (and thus some reconnaissance was necessary).
One thing led to another and we ended up walking almost 10 miles towards South Queensferry from the Dalmeny estete, in a mixture of lashing rain and sunshine peeking through the clouds. The walk ended with a meal in the famous Hawes Inn (it is featured in novel 'Kidnapped' by Robert Louis Stevenson) just by the Forth Rail Bridge. The pies were on a small side I thought, but after several hours of intense walking (and talking, it is always good to have deep conversations about meaning of life with longknown friends) this kind of food was very welcomed. We demolished some profiteroles, apple crumble and pecan pie too. We have returned home on a completely empty Edinburgh bus and we slept like babies.
Can you imagine that someone tried to saw off the bronze horse that stands in front of the Dalmeny House?! I though that these kind of things happen only in my homeland...
One thing led to another and we ended up walking almost 10 miles towards South Queensferry from the Dalmeny estete, in a mixture of lashing rain and sunshine peeking through the clouds. The walk ended with a meal in the famous Hawes Inn (it is featured in novel 'Kidnapped' by Robert Louis Stevenson) just by the Forth Rail Bridge. The pies were on a small side I thought, but after several hours of intense walking (and talking, it is always good to have deep conversations about meaning of life with longknown friends) this kind of food was very welcomed. We demolished some profiteroles, apple crumble and pecan pie too. We have returned home on a completely empty Edinburgh bus and we slept like babies.
Can you imagine that someone tried to saw off the bronze horse that stands in front of the Dalmeny House?! I though that these kind of things happen only in my homeland...
Tuesday, 6 September 2011
Indian Summer
The autumnal mood is officially on in Edinburgh and after the coldest summer in last two decades (with temperatures averaging +12 degrees...) we have entered the period of so called Indian Summer. The images to illustrate it come from a birthday party of our friend Michelle that actually happened a while ago but that setting sun view from a kitchen window perfectly illustrate the feeling of an end of summer.
Monica is back with us from her visit up in the North of Scotland and Sky (and she summed her experience with stating that she would be happy to move there tomorrow if she could!) so watch this space for some new images as we will be doing some more visiting!
Monica is back with us from her visit up in the North of Scotland and Sky (and she summed her experience with stating that she would be happy to move there tomorrow if she could!) so watch this space for some new images as we will be doing some more visiting!
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