Of course it may not actually be a dinosaur but something else, but I feel like it’s a dinosaur, or at least something influenced by dinosaurs.
Anyway, this is a cool mural I saw a while ago. There’s one that I like a lot more near it but that one I won’t share yet. I still like this one; it’s just neat.
I hope you enjoy.
One listen for this one and I’m surprised I was able to churn out as much as I was able to here. I think it was a case of the right time to start for this particular song. I was thinking about what I was writing which wasn’t the best, but I was able to follow a path and not start questioning how I should say things and so I was able to move pretty quickly.
Could be better; could be tighter and a little less bland, but I think what I wrote works.
AV 0’s “16 bit e n g i n e” is from Dreamtime Reset.
I hope you enjoy.
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A beeping synth moves back and forth, letting itself bounce in space and move down and up. Soon something else bounces alongside with it and now there is a rhythm; There is a rhythm and there is a beat and it all seems to beginning of something dramatic; especially when something akin to strings comes in and flows and breathes through what is forming.
Mood is kept at the forefront as slowly more reveals itself. It is like a digital flower blooming and spreading and growing across things and the sounds transform and reveal different things. Shape is amorphous but distinct and it is as hard as it is smooth.
Soon all align and the sounds crest and glide over a landscape that doesn’t exist. It is as though nightfall, or daytime over valleys and fields of grass blown by winds, and the beat comes in proper and keeps things steady as something seems to rise and fall away.
A few things seem to fall away and the scene is metropolitan and all go about their usual business as something funky reveals itself in the electronic clarity before the bass-like synth returns. More synth plays specific notes and seems to be a pulse of sorts. It’s a decisive moment and it carries with confidence, but it suddenly stops.
Here something akin to piano whilst light ambient sounds hover in the background, and perhaps it really is night. Perhaps it is a pause for thought, but it doesn’t last long and soon the sounds resume their drive, and they are as they just were but with a little more of a sense of climax. There is addition that builds and fills the spaces and cracks where it can, but as it is filling and building once more it all suddenly pulls away, leaving a brief few notes that stop shortly after, almost as though they were late in realising, and the song ends.
This is just one of those sky shots.
I like how the contrast works here as it makes the thing kind of appear as though there’s a dip of sorts, or an indent.
This is my submission into Leanne Cole‘s “Monochrome Madness” for this week.
I suggest checking out Leanne’s photography, as well as checking out what other people submit.
A lot of what people are submitting will likely end up here.
I hope you enjoy.
Been riding my bike again as I miss riding my bike and I think I said this recently, but I’m saying it again as… well, that’s the way this bit of writing is starting and that is the main topic.
Actually the main topic is about how some drivers drive, but it’s related to cycling and so I’m starting this off by mentioning my being back on the bike in order to ride around on it and ride to places and all that stuff.
Anyway, I enjoy riding my bike, but what I don’t enjoy is how some people act around cyclists. Admittedly this is something I’ve crapped on about before and I probably never will stop crapping on about it as it remains something that I have to keep on dealing with, but, well, you know.
Anyway, I was riding my bike this morning as I wanted to ride my bike before work, and wouldn’t you know it, about to cross over to a footpath so I can go along a “detour” path that goes far away from the cycle path but that was fine as I wanted to take the detour path due to needing to get home before work started and a car comes in the opposite direction. It’s a curved bit of road but that’s fine, but they decide to cross over to middle of the road to take the corner, getting really close to me and the car behind me.
This is an easy curve to follow. There is plenty of space and the car was not long enough to justify drifting that far over, but it did for some reason. The car I drive is longer and wouldn’t need to take that curve moving out of the lane.
Maybe I’m overthinking this and this person, like a good few too many is just shit at driving.
Anyway, that’s all I have to say. I could go on about how aggressiveness to cyclists is seemingly a badge of honour in Sydney, but I think what I’ve said covers the whole thing well enough.
I just wonder as to why so many drivers willingly reveal how bad they are at driving when it comes to being around someone on a vehicle with two wheels. I don’t understand what motivates someone to get aggressive at someone else who is making use of a transport option that, where able to, more should. It’s much better for the environment and clears up a lot of road congestion. I imagine that, at the very least, taking more cars off the road would be beneficial to those who use their car as they don’t have to spend as much time in traffic.
Anyway, the way that cyclists are treated in Sydney is much better than it was five and even ten years ago, and that’s great. In many ways the attitude is still pretty shitty, but it’s improving and I hope it continues to improve because cycling is a great thing.
The time it took to write five-hundred words: 10:46:31
I think this would’ve been under ten minutes had I not decided to rewrite a bit of it toward the end. That aside, not a great work. Pretty rough, pretty stretched out.
Written at home.
Another Linckoln song I’m rambling about (the other two [thus far] are here and here).
I feel like I covered the whole thing well enough with the first paragraph and then I relaxed a bit and kind of lost my place. The second works well enough, but I feel the first is stronger when it comes to representing the song.
Linckoln’s “Pacific Rim” is from Dew.
I hope you enjoy.
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Upon a static something hollow rings out and slowly, as though rainfall through a wreckage memory and image fills out. Things are blurry, vague; they are merely a suggestion. Still, image comes forward, and perhaps there is a wreckage that contrasts against a lighter, more jubilant sound. Perhaps there is no wreckage, but the clashing of sounds and ideas remains.
Something lively emerges, though it remains behind something. It is not something that can be reached, but it can be watched as it slowly moves away. Something else has slowly plodded into view whilst the hollowed ringing upon a static slowly morphs, but that plodding eventually leaves and the ringing stretches out and eventually dissipates into the sound of rain, and that rain is heavy and it drowns out all, though it finds itself stopped at the song’s end.
Here’s another group of barnacles seen in the La Perouse area.
Much more heavily concentrated than the previous one I shared and I wonder if that has to do with these being over a less vertical surface and having access to wetter (on average) conditions.
I hope you enjoy.
I saw this on one of my recent coastal walks.
Found it interesting, hence my taking of the photo.
Not often I get to see erosion lead to something as clear as this.
It was nice and I hope to see it again soon.
This is my submission into the two hundred-and-twenty-sixth Lens-Artists Photo Challenge. The theme for this one is “Textures“.
The host of the Lens-Artists challenges cycles weekly between the following people:
Week 1 – Tina
Week 2 – Patti
Week 3 – Ann-Christine aka Leya
Week 4 – Amy
Week 5 – John Steiner
Week 6 – Sofia Alves
Week 7 – Anne Sandler
Week 8 – Guest host
This one is curated by Jude of Cornwall in Colors guest-curates. Tina curates the next one.
I recommend participating in the challenges. They’re open enough to allow for a fair bit of thinking about approach and closed enough to keep focus on meeting the theme of each one. If you don’t participate, you should still check out what others of the Lens-Artists community are submitting.
I hope you enjoy.
I’m fairly certain that this has to do with patches of water evaporating around the algae and salt getting concentrated as the water evaporates. Not completely certain, but fairly.
I think the combination of the salt and algae makes for an interesting image. The salt could be seen as a barrier around a body, or maybe this could all look like an island being inundated with wave action from most sides.
I hope you enjoy.
Another photo where I was trying to capture this bit of rock at a particular angle and I almost got there. Still, I like the result.
This almost looks like a large rock surrounded by relatively small organisms. It could pass for a diorama. Instead this is just a small bit of rock surrounded by periwinkles, which are relatively small.
I hope you enjoy.
Technically there are more, but the focus is on two here and it’s due to how they draw the eye to the far distance.
Just an easy photo. Nothing too special; it’s some Australian landscape that has been developed.
I hope you enjoy.
Stupidity Hole 