Createmas
by phill
The Christmas chaos
has finally passed, and thank goodness for that. The day itself wasn’t too taxing, but the overwhelming pressure leading up to it was pretty awful. I solemnly swear that next year I am going all online and ordering everything in November. That said, I did find some good presents from just randomly wandering/battering through the crowd-chocked mallways that I may not have online.
I got thoroughly spoiled yet again this year. Monopoly, a deperately needed rashy, a veritable cascade of Australian literature in the form of the Sleeper’s Almanac and a festive bundle of Harvest magazine (both of which I’m considering reviewing at some point), lots of home-made goodies, underwear, a vast variety of kitchen goods, and of course the thing of beauty that you see in the post picture up the top there. A LOMO Oktomat camera which I’m sorry to say, relatives, is definitely the best present this year. You’ll notice it has eight lenses. This is because it takes eight images onto a single photo sequentially over 2.5 seconds. Each printed photo plays out like a little movie. Below you can see a few of the attempts I’ve made so far. Most of them run clockwise from the bottom-left. Simple? Yes. Clunky? Very much so. Fun? Absolutely. This is going to be a very cool Summer.
Other than the big sigh of relief post-Christmas, not a whole lot has happened. The past two nights I’ve written two flash-fiction ideas up that I’ve had sitting in a file for quite some time now. You can read one about the evolution of RSS feeds here, and another about arbitrary annihilation here. They both run to roughly 700 words each, so perhaps have a go over breakfast or a tea break. I’m still cranking away at trying to finish a story for the next release of dotdotdash magazine. It’s taken on an unintentional* Kafkaesque bent, something which I hope doesn’t distract from what I think is an interesting take on the theme of ‘home’. Fingers crossed I get it done on time!
By the ache of my forearms I can tell you that Louise and I went wakeboarding on Monday. I’m enjoying it more and more, especially now that I’m past the ‘Oh fuck oh fuck I’m on the water oh fuck stay up shit fuck oh shit’ stage. Everyone can now get up really easily, and we’re getting across the wake faster and faster, so it’s only a matter of time until we try and get some jumps happening. Lou’s sister still holds the honourable title of the only person to actually do anything at all (a 360) on the board. I have plans though, horribly painful (for me) plans…
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*No, really, completely unintentional; I’ve never finished a Kafka story. Not out of dislike, just never have. I’ll remedy that one of these days, but for now I’ll have to put up with the slightly disconcerting feeling that I
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Am I the only one who thinks ‘spider’ when they look at that camera? It’s the 8 eyes. Creepy.
All in all sounds like a good xmas =]
Have a good New Year tonight x
Nope, not the only one, it creeps me out too.
Happy new year Monsieur English, missed you and Lou bigtime at Xmas. <3
Oooooh enjoy your Harvest collection!
I’m currently in the middle of issue 4. The midget story is freaking awesome :)