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I have found a great photography site by Brooks Ayola: blog.ayola.com If you want to see some professional portrait photography, you’ll find it there. Moreover you’ll have a chance to see how to deal with lighting and what equipment to use ’cause the author records all setups. Well, of course not everybody gets to use a studio, models and pro lighting, but still you’ll find there some really good tips. Just go there and test it

I have just seen “The Brothers Grimm”. It is rather a light movie, colourful, with some interesting special effects (although I did not like the artificially generated wolf). It is definitely not a movie for small children. There is plenty of, rather, abstractive and black humour. When you see the scene with a cat you will know exactly what I mean. I also found the film quite post-modern in an interesting way. Different tales criss-cross throughout the whole movie.
Well, maybe it is not a story that will have a serious influence on our lives but it made me laugh a few times and I guess it was not a waste of time.
If you want to know more about the movie, read reviews, goofs and all the stuff go to IMDB.

Yesterday we went out with our friends. First we saw a movie, then we had a couple of drinks in a restaurant. I do not have much time for leisure these days so it was a great occasion to talk with mates, to see how they’re doing and all the stuff. We had fun and I was laughing all the time. Well, everything seemed to be perfect but… We left the car a few steps from the restaurant. When we were approaching it I noticed a guy standing strangely by our car. Guess what! He was having a few moments of relief while pissing on the car!!! I could not believe it. He was messing up the car in the city centre and with people walking around. I sad: “Hey dude, what are you doing?” He looked surprised, especially when it turned out it was my car, but did not stop! He mumbled something about being sorry and that it was an emergency. My girlfriend was really pissed off but what could I do?! Maybe I should have hit him or, I don’t know, pissed on him??!! The guy left with a girl repeating he was sorry. Well, praise the Lord he did not shit on the hood!

Damn mornings! I hate getting up early! I have noticed a sort of regularity. The more I sleep, the more sleep I need!? It is horrible. When I have to wake up really early I am uncouncious later the whole day. I just wander aimlessly trying to find a place and time to have some sleep. Even if I manage to lie down somewhere a while, there is always something disturbing. It is, after all, a middle of the day. You know, a telephone call, an unexpected visit or work. So again I get up and try to solve the problem quickly so I could go back to bed. Certainly I cannot deal with it effectively ’cause I am not able to think normally, to focus etc. I envy people who need only a few hours of sleep a day. Sometimes even 8 hours is not enough for me! I tried coffee but it somehow washed out magnesium out of me so much that I had visit a cardiologist ’cause my heart started beating irregularly! For the time being I try to get through the week and have some good sleep at weekends.

I wish I could join the conference. It would be rather hard for me to go to San Fransico for a couple of days. Nevertheless I wanted to say I support everything concerning open source publishing. Good Luck!

The weather is grey. The light is rather cold, wan and weak. It has been raining all day. Some single souls walking in the streets with umbrellas. Car lights reflected in puddles. I am not sad, just a bit slower and more melancholic than normally. I’m trying to inhale this moisture. Rain always cleans up the atmosphere. I’m walking and watching wet world. When I get home, I’ll be observing rain drops on window glass. Maybe I will take some shots of water dropping on my balcony or I will lie in bed and read a book in the warmness and softness of my duvet . I wish I had a fireplace I like such lazy and melancholic days as this one. I can stay at home and have no remorse for the world outside. Well, but not too long!

Last warm days and last chance to feast eyes on the impressive beauty of autumn painting her magnificent views with fallen leaves, trees and sun. Battle between summer and winter is going to take just a couple of days more and finally winter depression will attack. Short days. Dark afternoons and “special” clothes which make you move like a big, fat creature, who is always looking only for a place to sleep. I usually do not wake up with the sun, as some say. I guess on Sundays I will have a great opportunity to wake up at a sunset or not to see a single sunbeam at all. Each year I try to find a sollution, a way of defeating this horrible sickness brought by winter. This year I’ll do enything to take a few days off and go somewhere with friends. I haven’t had winter holiday for years!

Fog came to the city yesterday night. It was so dense that I could not see a lamppost standing 20 metres before me. I thought the conditions might be interesting for taking some shots. I took a camera and went to nearest construction site. Some people were still working there casting long shadows. Everything looks so unreal in fog. Even normal things, shapes we see everyday look different, fantastic or mysterious. Before I managed to install the tripod workers disappeared and I had to focus on the landscape with no people. Fortunately there was this digger that looked like a big frozen dragon or a hand of some kind of a giant getting out of his cave. I took a few shots in the artificial, yellow lighting of street lampposts. Fog is magical!!

I have just moved into a different district and now I spend most of my free time in traffic jams. That gives me an opportunity to think. It’s not that I don’t think in other situations. I can spend many lazy hours thinking about anything I’d like without having to leave the car. I feel safe, almost like home but with no presence of other house creatures - brothers, mothers, dogs etc. I guess that many drivers have not noticed this great opportunity which was given to them as a sophisticated gift of modern civilisation. Most of them spend time in traffic jams deeply exploring their nostrils, swearing at other drivers and talking on the phone. Why take the underground, train or tram while we can broaden our horizons stuck in long lines of comfortable, modern machines?! People do not leave your cars at home. Let’s spend our lifes in cars!

I saw her in the lobby of the hotel. Just standing and looking around as if she was waiting for someone, who had already been late. She was wearing a black skirt and white shirt, a typical company uniform. Straith dark hair, not too long, neatly combed. “Why are you staring at her like this?! There’s nothing special about that girl”, I thought. But there was something for sure! After a while I realised that I might look odd standing like that and watching. “A damn pervert”, one could have thought, but I couldn’t stop. I hid behind one of the lobby columns and kept beholding, which in fact was even more strange and suspicious. Finally a man came to her and they left. I experienced again the feeling of missing something I had never had, something important. Well maybe next time I’ll find the strenght to do something about it.