So this is a bit of a Book V Movie: FIGHT! post as much as a review of the book. Or whatever these things I write up are. Reviews seem much more…thoughtful, than what I do. Anyway. I went to see the movie Beautiful Creatures primarily because I like Emmy Rossum (whose part wasn’t large, but who chewed scenery when she had the chance). To my surprise and delight, I found the young man who played the lead quite charming, and unlike certain other films made from YA novels, I…
The Pinis have announced that their publication schedule has advanced more rapidly than they expected, so as of page 26, they’re ceasing the online teasers for the prologue to THE FINAL QUEST, and will be completing the story in print sometime later this year. On the one hand, yay for them! On the other, argh. Either way, here are the final two pages they’ve posted: Page 25 Page 26 * The whole shebang: Page One Page Two Page Three Page Four Page Five Page Six Page 7 Page 8 Page…
This was from last week’s wide-angle lens day. To our left, the Millennium Spire, not precisely affectionately known as “The Stiffy by the Liffey,” and to our right, the General Post Office, which, in 1916, during the Easter Rising, was the uprising’s headquarters. The pillars are full of bullet holes.
I haven’t been publishing photos on the weekends, but I always think of this one as a St Patrick’s Day kind of photo, so Happy St Patrick’s Day! (This also featured as the cover image for Chaz Brenchley (‘s novel LIGHT ERRANT, when he re-released it as an e-book through Book View Cafe. :))
This is what you do with a 10-20mm lens: Wide-angle lens, meant for maxiumum unflatteringly funnyness. :) (“Oh, he’s *tragic*!” Young Indiana said enthusiastically upon seeing this picture.) I actually have a shot I took with the wide angle lens that I like enough to put up as a Kitsnaps later, but I’ll flag it as “This is what it does” when I do. It’s kind of fun to use–it’s more intended for landscapes than people–and I have some hope of getting out into the country to use it at…