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zDallin aka Brett
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Why you are here
"Perceive the way of nature and no force of man can harm you. Do not meet a wave head on: avoid it. You do not have to stop force: it is easier to redirect it. Learn more ways to preserve rather than destroy. Avoid rather than check. Check rather than hurt. Hurt rather than maim. Maim rather than kill. For all life is precious nor can any be replaced."
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The vast majority of the stuff in this journal is friends-only. Don't ask why or I'll throw something at you.

Seriously, if you want to be added, just ask. I don't bite... much *crazy grin*
The way things were...
Back June 2008
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The Globe Theatre, Brisbane's only cult cinema

A piece I wrote that's proving to be ever more a prophecy of my life...
My Madness

Think. Feel. Know.
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Yeah okay, just one more
This was another one from the Baal Vs Angelspit concert at the Globe... I didn't upload it earlier because I was trying to get rid of the ISO grain. NeatImage works wonders for this, btw ;) I'm quite pleased with how this one came out though :)
 

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Yet more photography... this from the Roots, Rap & Reggae festival at the Globe last night.


I've kept the image sizes down for your viewing pleasure, but there are links to the bigger images in my dA gallery.

All up, I took about 300 shots over the two nights... I'm pretty pleased with that. Sure, 95% of them didn't come out, but that's just a matter of experience - the Globe lighting's pretty difficult at the best of times, and I'm still learning to use my flash properly (and my camera, for that matter *grins*) But it feels good to be putting the effort in for a change.

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What the voices are singing: Real Wise Yuppie/Born to be Mild - Snog (live @ the Hammersmith Odeon)

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Fun with strobe lighting

Ah, lighting at the Globe gives some weird effects *grins* This one was taken with a strobe light.

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What the voices are singing: Skinny Little Bitch - Angelspit

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More shots from the weekend so far...



Click any of the images for a larger version at my deviantART page.

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One of my best portraits to date

There's not many photos I take that I'm immediately happy with... this is one exception. Sure, it's not perfect, but it's good enough for me. For now.

EDIT: a 16-year old girl commented on my dA page saying that she (the lead singer) was the only one moving... I wonder whether it's wise to say that it was actually a guy *chuckles*

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HOMEWORK!?
Your mission, should you choose to accept it:

Okay, so I just finished watching American Beauty, and it's got me thinking.

Find something beautiful, and post it here. It can be a photo, a drawing, a piece of writing or poetry... anything.

And extra credit if you think outside what you would normally consider beautiful.

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Photos! (public post)
Because I've been slack, and a couple of people have been asking about them...

From the Abbey:


And something different:

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A real nerdy question... (public post)
Has anyone had much to do with Google Desktop?

Because of my involvement with the Globe I need to use the Google Calendar, and by far the easiest way to do that is using Google Desktop. All well and good, it seems like a pretty kick-ass program.

The second thing that comes to mind though is the potential security issues involved with the indexing it does, and doing a net search on it shows that there were security issues in the past... but that Google has supposedly fixed them. After that I haven't found any mention of problems, but that isn't to say they're not out there.

Does anyone know whether it's a real risk using it? I'm guessing it's not bad, otherwise there'd be recent articles all over the net on it, and I've switched on the "encrypt index" feature, but still...

Yeah I'm paranoid. *decides to take word documents off the index*

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