Stalking Venus

I’m constantly impressed by the simple excellence of the photographs offered up at Tokyo Times. Many of them are taken with nothing more sophisticated than an iPhone, showing the man’s true talent.

The site/blog/phlog is run by Lee Chapman, an English dude in Japan. His use of light, shadow and subject are excellent, and I often catch myself thinking how the hell did he manage to get that pic?

Here are some samples, but please go visit the site. It’s fantastic.

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Got this from a Facebook friend. Thanks Anita! Über cute!

These two… er… things are named Wenlock and Mandeville, and they are the two official mascots for the London Olympics in 2012.

Thank God, the Mayans and Roland Emmerich we’ll all be dead by then!

The story goes that some steel worker was putting the final beam in place for the Olympic stadium, when some molten metal fell to the ground. He took it home and formed it into these two freakazoids.

So, not only is he a shitty builder, a thief and on psychoactive drugs, but we now all have to watch these two little bastards do all the marketing for the next Olympics. It’s like the Teletubbies all over again.

Fantastic.

Still, if you think that’s bad, you should see the official Olympic logo.

I guess the pink blobs are supposed to look like the numbers “2012″, and the Olympic Rings are the eyes of this strange creature-like mess. It has some white offset between the pink foreground elements and the baby blue background, so it doesn’t completely ruin your eyesight. But tell me, in all honesty, considering the state of the world in general…

Should this logo and those mascots have cost a total of £800,000.00 to create?

I mean, seriously, someone needs to be put up against the wall and have a bullet put through their skull for this.

Preferably several someones.

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I’m trying to pipe the picture from my MacBook Pro 17 ” to my Panasonic Viera 50″ television, because I do most of everything in my lounge.

I’m a stay-home dad, writer and photographer, and my coffee table is pretty much where I do all my work, so I was wondering if there wasn’t some way I could hook up a keyboard and use my TV as my main screen. Why? Because it’s fucking huge, that’s why. Oh, and because I’m a bit of an IT geek and thought it’d be fun to try.

The basic idea is that I can do my close-up work like writing and photo editing on my MacBook screen, but leave a web browser window open permanently on the TV so I can do my research and surf porn from there.

The output from my Mac is HDMI, and the input on the TV is DVI, so I have a straightforward HDMI to DVI cable plugged in between the two.

So far, so good.

Getting the resolution right is pretty straightforward. Once the cable is plugged in and the TV is switched on, the Mac automatically detects the full 1920 x 1080 pixel HD display. Woo! But…

There’s a flicker. Not much of a flicker, but for someone like me (pedantic, obsessive, neurotic and easily irritated, but also cool and kinda sexy) it’s enough of a flicker to make it unusable. I go do all the basic IT stuff, and see that the maximum output for the TV display is 60hz. The TV itself has a 600hz sub drive so, like what the hell, dude, right? That image should be as steady as a master surgeon’s hands over Angelina Jolie’s tits.

So, does anyone know why this is? I’ve Googled and Wikipediophiled, but can’t find a single bit of information (that I can understand) as to why my MacBook LCD running at 60hz should look steadier than my Plasma running at 60hz.

Answers in the comments please (or alternatively on the Wikipedia discussion page).

There could be a story behind this photo, folks. In fact there could be a great one. Only I’m guessing there’s just one word behind it. Can you guess what it is kids?

That’s right. Alcohol.

It just goes to show that it can really impair your judgement.

Why else would she be wearing mustard yellow?

Okay, there’s a chance that some of you ended up here by trying to go to AustralianDad.com. Don’t panic. Normal reality will reassert itself in approximately… Oh fuck it, I have no idea. Nothing ever seems normal to me.

Fact is that I, Tim, am the same guy that runs the Australian Dad website, which – for very complicated reasons – had to be temporarily taken offline. It’ll probably be back sometime, but in the meantime, you’ve found yourself at StalkingVenus.com, my personal blog, and general forum for trying to get big corporates to give me free stuff by writing the occasional semi-sycophantic reviews about their products.

Welcome then.

P.S. If you are a huge corporate who wants semi-sycophantic reviews published on a high-traffic personal blog, then please get in touch with me by clicking this. As you can see, I do great film, game and, er, other reviews.

Okay, sorry. That was totally lame. But it’s my first post here in half a year or so, so I figured it may as well be about something totally stupid. Just another wise crack in other words. Man, this is cracking me up.

Test post using WordPress app for iPhone.

LOL, this is great. Very cleverly done, and true on a number of levels.