Picturegrid, designed by Kieran Delaney is the newest addition to the blog. This Wordpress plugin acts as a the front end for your Flickr profile, showing up to 500 of your most recent photographs.
The enlarged size of the images is one technical aspects of the plugin that I’m hoping to still to improve upon. Other then that, Picturegrid is up and running!!
Links:
Picturegrid
Kieran Delaney
News and rumors travel overseas at a slower rate than they should so, only recently, but with great joy I became aware that DriveTime, after a long break, is back in action again.
But episode Three.Five quickly confirmed all the rumors that the legendary program will shortly be coming to an end. What is still unclear is how many more episodes of DriveTime there will be and how the series will come to an end. During episode Three.Five, some parallels to the finale of Seinfeld were discussed for DriveTime’s final episode. Slim are the chances of DriveTime’s grand finale being taken abroad (such as Seinfeld’s final episode found them in Paris). With the new guest lineup and the mystery behind a returning guest, the final episode of DriveTime promises to be a thrill-ride of a conclusion.
Links:
DriveTime
Ravi Jain (artist site)
Ravi Jain (blog)
Today marked the 45th anniversary of the 1944 Warsaw Uprising. The attempt was to liberate the Polish capital from German control before the arrival of the Soviet army. A liberated Warsaw was to demonstrate sovereignty in order to withstand the Allied devision of Eastern Europe. The uprising was expected not to last longer then a week, lasted for 63 days with a quarter of million lives lost.
To coincide with the anniversary of the uprising the exhibition Miasto Feniksa – War*Saw Everything is on view at Krakowskie Przedmiescie 64 for all of August. The exhibition contains 28 photographs that are montages of images from the Warsaw Uprising with images taken from the same viewpoint of present day Warsaw. A thoughtful project, but I have to admit after seeing the exhibition the end result is somewhat poorly executed. Snowy streets from 1945 combined with heels and miniskirts form 2008 doesn’t really seem to fit well together.
The image above, of downtown Warsaw was originally taken between January 19th and 21st 1945. While in the background most of today’s postwar downtown cityscape.
Links:
+ Miasto Feniksa – War*Saw Everything (the exhibition)
+ Warsaw Uprising (an overview)
+ Palac Kultury (about the tallest building in the photograph)
During the last seven weeks I found myself bouncing from Poland to Canada and back again. And for the last seven(ty) minutes I’ve been battling with what delightful insights about the trip to post here. A couple of photos is a good start, but a helping hand from a friend only way to go:
“Canada is one of those places that you can never leave behind…yes, it may appear to be somewhat dull and ordinary to some, but to those who have experienced it, it’s so much more. I told myself that it was about seeing the sights and experiencing nature again, but if I was really honest with myself (and my parents) I’d say that it was 100% about seeing my beautiful and witty friend Monika. My best friend in the whole world for whom I’d cross over burning coals and swim across an ocean. If it wasn’t for the convenience of flying I actually would have swam across the Atlantic for this spectacular person…” |
Needless to say, it was great seeing Monika, friends and family. The seven week and seven city tour was amazing and flew by too quickly. For more photos can be found on: Flickr. Slowly but surely, I’ll be adding more images from the trip.
Now that things are settling back to normal here in Krakow, a couple of projects that will hopefully be done in the near future:
+ Michal Kowalczuk – Drawings
+ JK Fotografia
+ Budonis
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