Will Knott

OK, they are traffic cameras and not robots. But the 10 year old in me can dream.

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A wise woman pointed out that it is perfectly reasonable to talk predictions for the year ahead up to and including 31 January! Well I’m going to type about resolutions.

Yes its a bit late to talk about new year resolutions, but here goes.

Get in to fights again

I ended up dropping out of Capoeira in 2008. A mixture of class clashes and commuting.  Now I can start again, probably from scratch. Of course, if that fails I may be asking for a different kind of trouble. In short, I need to do something which involves a bit of movement.

In camera

I got caught up in an interesting discussion about “what makes a photoblog” om Twitter, well lots. I play with photography, but I think its time I moved up to a better camera. I’m not going D-SLR this year, but I have my eye on something and I want my wallet to match. On a related note, I need to go to more events. Since I’m sort of bi-locational at the moment, when the weather gets brighter things might get interesting.

More sleep

An idea stolen off Phil IcedCoffee; I just need to get to bed earlier. As if that all.

Re: cycling

It’s usually better to keep old resolutions than to make new ones. — Chloe Sevigny. I’ve copied this quote off Tim Ferris‘ resolutions.  And I’ve copied this resolution from last year. This year I think I’m a commutable distance to work, but without showering facilities things could get sticky. Still given the Mad Cow traffic holdups, cycling to the office may not be a bad idea. The only reason I’m delaying this one is making sure I can do it, and timing a weekend run first.

Change the decor

Now that I’m the master of my own domain, it almost been a year since I moved in. Its time to redecorate a little. I had planned to use the Carrington theme with pallet swaps and image swaps (its the one Joe Scanlon is using) but I recently stumbled across a theme on Smashing Magazine which is almost perfect. Things may look a little odd here over the next few weeks.

I had also planned on trying out the Google Friend Connect here too, but I’m not so sure now.

Write more fiction. Read more fiction.

I more or less stopped reading fiction when my studies restarted. With the exception of one Cory Doctorow (which I inhaled in one weekend), the Pseudopod short story horror podcast and the NSFW Tales fomthe MU novel experiment in blog form,  I’ve not read anything for a while. To that end I’ve finally started reading “The Idiot” by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (for historical reasons) and a few others thanks to the DailyLit. I’ll take suggested reads from their list please.

The spippets feel too small for me, but I’ll live.

As for writing. When I took part in the Blogmas Christmas Carol, I liked it.

it had been years since I last wrote fiction, and I’d like to start again. A few short stories may appear here. I also have an idea for a very free form group fiction blog. Ask if you’re interested.

Well, thats it. I can see the cycling waning again this year, and I don’t know if I can find an accessable Capoeira group, but the others are managable.

What do you think?

Will Knott

I meant it, always

take care,

Will Knott

It’s amazing what reaches out of the dark.

The funny thing is, these photos were all taken in brilliant sunshine. You see, while the other Doneraile Walkers were content to stay on the sunlit path, I was entranced by the path less trodden (or at least unpaved) running next to it.

The thing about cameras is; they aren’t as good as the human eye. They can’t focus as well, and they can’t see in the dark (infra red photography aside). Shadows look deeper than they really are. The flash goes off in well lit places.
So that semi-lit path above, appears to be really, really dark.

So the flash gives results it really shouldn’t.

And things look

a little odd.

take care in the dark,
and always try the path less taken; you’ll never know what you’ll see.
Will Knott

As you may have noticed, I’ve been playing around with photo-blogging recently, so then I heard about “The Assignment” competition run by Canon I thought I’d give it a shot.

Actually two. At first I entered with this portrait, but I was warned that using it could mean that my photo is used for advertising (and I don’t think she would like it). So I deleted that and re-entered with this macro shot.

Tell me what you think, and feel more than free to vote for me.

take care,
Will Knott