86 posts tagged “mosh”
This is for Mosh and because I thinks it's brilliant (thanks to Dan for pointing it out)
Thanks to Mosh for pointing this out (although goodness knows why he did it 'busy' freelancer that he is) but if you Google 'bats in bras' my post of a few days ago is the third item in the list. If my mother understood what the internet is she might be proud.
I ask because I was at a Nissan press 'do' with Mosh last night at the Tate Modern and he was the entertainment. Also on the bill were a troop of street dancers doing incredible things with skipping ropes and the sort of stuff that, when I was growing up, gangs of teenage boys would try to do on a pieces of cardboard in Somerfield's car park.
It made me feel old (I'm not sure whether that's the reaction Nissan was hoping for, I presume I'm supposed to find the young and hip approach to branding aspirational).
Anyway it was a complete contrast to the press do I took Mosh to where the industry I write about chose the Royal Academy Summer exhibition, champagne and er, well the art was the entertainment.
*Apparently he is twice UK beat box champion and here's a clip from when he was on a BBC talent show:
Mosh has stolen (borrowed) my lappy for a press trip so I only have my humble dilberry to post on at home for the next couple of days.
He is threatening to sabotage my blog, facebook, flickr etc as all my settings are saved on the stolen (borrowed) lappy. So ignore anything out of character...
But the good news is my brand spanking new MacBook is on order and should arrive next week. Hurray.
Once again Adam gave me my computer shopping list and much to Mosh's amusement until I get it home to play with all I know is it is the middle one in the range with the bigger hard drive (insert pun here).
Mosh is buying my old lappy off me so hopefully I'll never be left with just the dilberry ever again...
Edit: Ha! Have just changed my password so all's safe and well for the time being...
I wanted a drink, that's my excuse. It's a Friday night, Mosh is out in the suburbs somewhere on a boozy night with the boys and I wanted a drink. What is a girl to do?
Sex and the City at the cinema.
Yes, yes I know, I'm surprised too, I wouldn't entertain the TV series in my front room. Even more so that I quite enjoyed it, despite an ending so predictable a five-year-old could have written it. Mind you the large glass of Sancerre probably helped.
(A rousing huzzah to the Clappy Piccie House for letting you take a proper drink in a proper glass into the screen)
Room in Athen's hotel had a frosted bathroom door* so I just couldn't resist...
*Note to hotel designers: Frosted glass in the bathroom door is quirky for about first five minutes you are in the room. The frosting only mildly distorts the person behind it and you don't really need to see someone scratching their arse or doing whatever it is that people generally like to do behind the privacy of the bathroom door. Secondly when you put the bathroom light on to go for a piss in the middle of the night you might as well have just switched all the room lights on, which is great for your room mate who was fast asleep.
It wasn't all old stuff on holiday, there is an abundance of graffiti and while most of it isn't going to get Banksy worried there were some interesting pieces...
Well that's how quickly this holiday feels like it is going. I'm here in Ancient Olympia, well actually its a modern hotel near Ancient Olympia but it's close enough, and I've finally given in to the lure of the internet (it's free here!).
I'll keep this short because Mosh is bound to come tapping on my shoulder soon. Initial observations: Greek people are very friendly and completely bonkers on the roads. Double white lines are merely a guidance to masculinity when driving rather than an indicator that it is unsafe to overtake.
There has been a bit of a petrol crisis - a strike meant that virtually all petrol stations ran dry which caused a bit of alarm for a couple of days when you are depending on the car to get around. It has been a real eye-opener as to what could realistically happen in years to come.
Greek Orthodox monostaries like to depict gory scenes of how saints earnt their sainthoods on the walls and put in words what they couldn't draw.
The toilets in nunneries are a lot cleaner than those in monasteries.
I swear I saw Scarlett Johansson with her mum looking around the Sanctuary of Apollo in Delphi.
And I'll leave it at that for now.
Will be pictures to come when I get back in just over a week (non of Scarlett unfortunately) - bought a 2 gagillabite memory card so I'm snap, snap, snapping away....
Been planning to upgrade my digital compact for a while. Mosh bought me the little Pentax Optio SV about four years ago and it's been brilliant but technology has moved on and, most importantly, so have shutter speeds.
My only real gripes about the SV were the terrible shutter lag which made taking shots of moving objects very tricky if nigh on impossible and the small viewing screen which made it difficult to see the picture, particularly in bright weather.
Anyway Mosh hinted that he might get me a new one for my birthday which would be just in time for our holiday. As I'm familiar with the Pentax and have all the batteries and memory cards that go with it, it made sense to get another, so now I have a shiny new Optio A40.
Haven't really had a chance to play with it much yet as it's only a few days old but I am already impressed with the improvement in the shutter speed and have discovered one or two new little functions that the old model didn't have for example the soft flash:
With full-on flash (left) and soft flash (right) which I think gives the subject a more natural look.
The A40 also has a staggering 12 mega pixel capacity which is way more than I need but nice to have for those one off detailed shots. I remember when Mosh got me the older model which is 5 MP and he said then that was way more than I needed. Technology doesn't half move fast.
So we are off to Greece at the crack of sparrow tomorrow. All the guide books say how photogenic Greece is so I'm hoping to put my new toy through it's paces and you never know I may actually have learnt how to use one or two more functions on it by the end of the fortnight (or Mosh will have worked them out for me, hopefully)
In pictures, sort of:
And back home to open my pressies which were particularly fab this year, most notable being a new digital camera which is a much better version of the one I've already got from Mosh and some headphones to replace the ones I lost in Cuba and a beautiful silver bangle from my friend Chris with a quote from my favourite Shakespearean play on it.
Also got a massive haul of my favourite brand of plain chocolate which should probably last me weeks but probably won't...
