Products from a Former Life

Since it’s too late to think about shopping I thought that now would be a good time to mention a few items which have recently become available again. Three videos that I made for Cabaret Mechanical Theatre are now on DVD and a book that I co-authored has recently been reprinted. The book is about basic mechanisms and making things move - it’s available directly from CMT, or from amazon in the UK and now from Make:, the Make: Magazine people, in the USA. The DVDs are available from CMT as follows: Cabaret Mechanical Video, How to Make Automata and my favourite, Made in Stithians.

Delegate

I’ve finally started moving all my archived photos from CDs and DVDs onto an external hard disk. There are nearly 7 years worth of backups so it’s a somewhat daunting task (especially as I make at least two copies of everything). Fortunately a daughter who normally spends her time knitting and watching daytime TV is at hand. We’re about a third of the way through and assuming I will eventually abandon iView, I’ve started throwing the pictures into the Lightroom beta, hoping they don’t price it in a way that makes me have to consider Aperture.

Shop Window

Taking pictures of shop windows can be a lazy form of street photography but sometimes they’re hard to resist - apples.