Will Knott

It’s all my fault, and I’ve seen the carnage its created. She’s pinned them!

Grannymar has found a way to mark her toyboys. I don’t know if she’s done her own pinning ceremony or not. And I’m the cause.

I know she got Darragh, Darren, Anthony and recently Rowan has admitted his pining. She’s got a badge.

And she know how to use it to good effect.

I got them for her.

But lets step back. Back to May and the ToeJam photographs of May. I grabbed this shot…

and it got me thinking.

You can see “King” Damien’s “Fluffy” badge and Lexia’s pink “geek” badge (all that’s missing is Midge’s “Filthy” one). In Ireland at least, these badges are medals of honour. Social objects, not something to be sold, but something to be shared or given away to help make and bind social relationships. Awards for serving the social network of the Irish blog-sphere. Membership cards that the wearer has entry in to this world. That makes the blog awards the equivalent of a dame or knighthood, and the monthly awards something like an knavehood. (Oh to be a knave and a scoundrel)

So I wanted to help people in Ireland start blogging, or at least get interested in the Irish blogging world.

The other part of this was guilt. Since I started my course my blog writing has, well, collapsed. Time is more pressing (just as well I suppose) and ideas are being applied elsewhere (and not on to Twitter like everyone else). Pictures have filled up the breech, but I feel that I’m missing something.

So the badge… when the idea formed, I thought; “What should my badge be?”

Well that fizzled out.

So the question formed; “Who would get a lot of fun with a badge?” and my thoughts turned North.

A few chats and emails later, and an order to 50pbadges winged its way (after a redirect) to her awaiting floor (well, she was out at the time).

I’m interested to see how this will play out. How many (other) gentlemen of dubious qualities will try to attract the attention of the one and only Grannymar. And how much fun is she having making these ‘boys’ happy?

Oh, as for why? It seemed like a good idea at the time.

take care,
Will Knott

I love (or at least heart) lamp.

I don’t get the reference, but I’m happy to join in.

But, unlike others I’m not going to take it too far.

take care,
Will Knott

I borrowed RedMum’s purchase and decided to dress up the graffiti (by Maser)

A lot of the ToeJam photographers were entranced by the T-Shirt stand, but I don’t think any of them (based on their comments about the stand) asked the people running it if they were online.

Turtlehead has been “touching cloth” (which sounds slightly seedy) since 2006. And they do sell their wears online. Given that I’m a size tent, I might have to order my coverage that way.

take care,
Will Knott

The unmanned Phoenix space probe is sending back pictures from Mars

And this is a picture from the ToeJam meet (only 2 more posts like this to go). I called it ground control.

Another ground control in NASA is very happy at the moment.
Take care,
Will

Another shot from the ToeJam meetup. I love the contrast between the stand-keeper and the customers.

I suppose I spotted the shaved heads since I’ve been shaving mine for a while. The first time was a shock.

The reason was a bigger shock.

What the hirsute don’t realise is that the slow loss of hair isn’t always that obvious. I was busy tending to my locks, and combing them over, not realising that the thickness wasn’t there. Just one day with wet hair, comb in place in front of the mirror, arranging the strands when it hit me. I had the dreaded comb-over (patent pending).

After work it was a quick trip to the barber for a head shave, and its been getting shorter ever since. The funny thing is, I do have hair on the top of my head, so if I let it grow out a little, it looks more like my hairstyle is a lifestyle choice rather than nature presenting me with fewer than preferred options.

And since nature did it, I have a lot of hats. Warm ones for cold days, and light sunburn-preventing ones for hot days.

And I might go down the wig route, but only if I can have a different one every day.

Well, it fun, isn’t it?

take care,
Will Knott

As this pops up, I’ll probably be on my way back from 3D Camp, or encamped in a crowd of rugby supporters (how bad) watching Munster do its thing.

This is another ToeJam shot (oddly I’m still sieving through the shots from the walk part of the photowalk), and I just liked the combination…

If you look behind these two gentlemen (responsible for the hat sale) you’ll see a gap in the wall. I went back there to discover a wonderland of discarded items. And the remains of a small fire, possibly to make more room in the wonderland (well hinterland actually).

And in the remains of the fore, were the cards and the king crisps packet. Almost a pity they weren’t the came suit. Still, a pair of kings isn’t that bad a hand.

take care,
Will Knott

Phil’s group photo of the ToeJam photowalk photobloggers is responsible for the picture below.

It’s a reflection of the group while the poor guy tried to herd us cats in to a line. And cat herding is hard. The pair in the shot are Alexia and MacAWilliams.

take care,
Will

I’m knackered. Even my vision is blurred

This is the effect from travelling halfway across the country to meet a bunch of photobloggers for a photowalk. Or in this case, it began with a trip to the ToeJam car boot sale at the back of the George Bernard Shaw pub in Portabello.

Which means that I’m now the proud owner of more books, a CD, the “best of” Mongrel collection and a new laptop. Actually an old heavy laptop which drove me to do silly things. It was going for €10, and at the moment it’s hard disc is getting a little TCL (via Spinrite) to make sure that it’s working.  If anything interesting shows up, I’ll blog it.

I will admit to a little camera envy. Mines small enough to fit in my (admittedly big) hands. Rather than the large lensed creatures the others were using. However something that fits in the pocket attracts a lot less attention.

It was nice meeting some semi-familiar faces like Red Mum, Gingerpixel and Alexia, as well as new faces such as Davy Mc Donald, Caitriona, Iced Coffee, Nathalie Marquez Courtney and Eoghan Casey, and the other Eoin. But it was great (and a little weird) to meet some folk I know because I’ve been following their photos and websites for ideas, namely Darren Greene and McAWilliams.

Later on in the proceedings Debz showed up. So next time, how about something food related for the photomeet?

The results of out endavours will be appearing on our blogs, but keep an eye of the Flickr pool and the Pix.ie tags.

take care,
Will Knott