Lust

I want this perhaps a little too much....

Lust List

Three things for a Tuesday,

The Book,

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

This is possibly the most astonishing book I have ever read, or ever will read. It concerns the ‘Locked in’ fate of Mr. Bauby the then editor in chief of the French ‘elle’ its beautifully written given that Bauby composed each paragraph and sentence perfectly in his mind before painstakingly blinking out each letter. Not a single word seems out of place, nor can it afford too.

The sad tale of Bauby will stay with me not least because the authors stroke then subsequent condition looms large as my greatest fear (well perhaps second after going blind, and spiders) but the haunting last words ‘I’ll be off now..’

The Film,

Waltz with Bashir

An incredibly animated story of a solider trying to remember what he did during war.

The Item,

Areaware Alarm Dock

 This is perhaps the coolest thing I have ever seem, I really, really want.





Hacher quelqu’un menu comme chair à pâté

this post has no name, or an app a day keeps luddites away

This post has no name, although that’s mainly due too me being cheap and running open office at home, forgetting to save as a .doc and having accessibility problems on this machine.

Anyway, you’ll see the intended post soon enough, a serial it shall be too. But this really needs a new post and this is it tada!. Okay so that’s a messy sentence.

I need to really post at least once a week, but I have been so busy doing, well nothing tbh, looking for a job takes time and is incredibly frustrating.

One thing I have been meaning to talk about for a while now is apps, I have an iPhone and with that come applications. Usually I hate trying to draft up review articles, mainly because I’m nice and rather easily pleased, but plunging into the murky world of the app store can be confusing and overwhelming due to the sheer quantity that’s out there (several trillion billion thousand, true story) so I thought I would help you out by suggesting a few I like,

Instagram

 

Instagram is a nifty little camera app that allows you to see your and your friends photo’s as they stream. This has to be my favourite photo-sharing app and according to its user info, 7 million agree.

You can upload your pics to bookface et al with a few taps but in all honesty the built in news feed works best. Coupled with a slightly rehashed ‘like’ feedback on each pic it allows you too talk and comment on each picture. Perhaps its main selling point is the filters included allowing you to edit new and old photo into something much nicer.

The popular page is a good way to find other users you like and too nab inspiration, as with all photo platforms your going to find a lot of crap among the goodness but there is some genuine talent in there.

Come find me @stephen_green 

Hipstamatic

Hipstamatic is a very, very nicely done camera app and although I have started using Instagram more, it is in some ways far better. Although you have to pay for this one, and there’s a lot of inapp stuff too, it is pretty good quality software. Unlike Instagram you choose from a variety of films and lenses before shooting making for a more realistic app and a plethora of customising opportunities and scope for playing around, extending the life of this app nicely. You also get a cool onscreen camera complete with viewfinder (while cool, this can be annoying when trying to get a shot, luckily you can disable it).

Synthetic Corp, the makers, is also pretty generous when it comes to bringing out special edition freepaks once in a while.

More to follow,