Defending Democracy.

[reddragdiva]

You know you've arrived as a photographic presence in the scene when women see you with the camera and LOUDLY DEMAND that you take photos of their breasts IMMEDIATELY. (cyberpunkgrrl and faerierhona. Who have a lot to be proud of, of course.)

Spitfire on tap. DRINKABLE BEER AT B-MOVIE AT LAST!

Saw everyone in the fucking world. Missed a lot too - e.g. daneel_olivaw, who was apparently standing next to me. I plead, er, stupid. marnameow and atommickbrane had a wild time even without the Pixies. sushidog MUST WEAR THAT OUTFIT OUT A LOT MORE.

zoo_music_girl brought her brother Kevin. He spoke with worrying (though endearing) enthusiasm about kitesurfing. This is like windsurfing, but with a kite instead of a sail. Much like Australians, Scots have too much damn time on their hands.

Dunno what's up with the Compact Flash card. Cross fingers - I did get some GREAT shots.

Getting smashed at B-Movie is not conducive to being bright, early or on time to save the world for democracy. So cyberneph and I dragged our sorry hungover arses out a while after one. Emerged from Leicester Square station just before 2pm and went down to Trafalgar Square to meet the march. It was lovely to walk down London streets that weren't full of cars. We got as far as Hyde Park Corner by four and decided that was enough democracy for one day.

I was so wishing I'd thought of taking a sign saying 'MAKE PUB NOT WAR'.

Made it to the Dev at last and hung out waiting for a nonexistent greap. Gave up, went to Resurrection and bought X-Mal Deutschland Fetisch (after only twenty years) and 7" singles by Portion Control ("Raise The Pulse") and Thomas Leer ("Heartbeat"), and never mind that I have nothing to play vinyl records on. Swung back by the Dev, saw moomintroll and Nicky, went to Super Bowl Noodle Bar for luvverly food (and the service wasn't crap this time either), waved at alixandrea through the window and nicked off to Soho to meet mr_flay at the Intrepid Fox. On a Saturday night, this place needs nuking at least as much as the rest of Soho. Ed says it's much better by day.

Using today's protest shots as a test set for netpbm. Which seems to be Da Bomb.

fun@diva:~/photos/030215 $ for i in *.JPG; do jpegtopnm $i -dct float | pnmscale 0.25 | pnmtopng > `basename $i .JPG`.png; done

This is Unix! I know this!

Scored my second Slashdot contribution. w00t.

cyberneph and I will be hitting Camden tomorrow, including the Dev at some point. See you there?

Comments

[ickle-yuki.livejournal.com]

Shame I couldn't make B Movie ... maybe I'll make it in May or June ... the way my finances are atm nothing other than whitby is remotely possible!

[mirukux.livejournal.com]

"Scored my second Slashdot contribution. w00t."

whee! i got one about a year ago about amigas =)

Cuneiform

[fascinet.livejournal.com]

Nice pictures, there. I hope it's not obvious: wtf.jpg is cuneiform. If I recall correctly, and I may not, it reads, "I forgot how to write in Sumerian."

[zoo-music-girl.livejournal.com]

He actually does his kite surfing on land, where it's called kite boarding. He's got this over sized skateboard with great big wheels apparently.

Have you ever felt the temperature of the North Sea? ;)

[reddragdiva]

Heh. Many years ago I went land-sailing on a salt pan near Kalgoorlie - a gold-mining town in the middle of the desert in Western Australia. The right combination of lots of money, lots of salt flats and too much time on their hands that Kevin would certainly do well introducing kiteboarding there ;-)

[feanelwa.livejournal.com]

You were at the Intrepid Fox?
I must have been in the same room at the same time and didn't recognise you!
However i think everyone was very dilute because it was so full *hyperventilates*. I may have been the small squashed blob on the floor.

[reddragdiva]

Seven-thirty, eightish? We were there for one drink then left 'cos it was horrible. We all considered decamping to another pub, but there are no Soho pubs with space on a Saturday night, and particularly when everyone is thirsty from having defended democracy all afternoon.

[feanelwa.livejournal.com]

Yep, then...and it was indeed horrible. Good gargoyle though.

[cyberpunkgrrl.livejournal.com]

We didn't ask for photos of our breasts, just a photo of us as good/evil...
Though I do think the picture was somewhat hi-jacked!
:)

[reddragdiva]

Gosh darn those breasts, you just can't trust them around a camera!

[cyberpunkgrrl.livejournal.com]

*looks innocent*

*grin*

[wintrmute.livejournal.com]

Would you mind if i tagged along to the pubbing tomorrow? I didn't get my weekend fix due to snoozing thru saturday nite.. Spent 5 hours shuffling thru london in this protest march thingy you might have heard about, and it rather wore me out. ;0

[reddragdiva]

Well, you could have, if you'd just shown up!

[wintrmute.livejournal.com]

*confused*
Weren't you talking about pubbing tomorrow? ie. Monday?

If i'd known it was tonight i would have already been there! :)

No worries...

[reddragdiva]

Well, you'll just have to read my mind better!

[atommickbrane.livejournal.com]

Hey, -t please!

Although, rar! Namecheck.

There was not enough Pixies.

[reddragdiva]

Fixed :-)

[daneel-olivaw.livejournal.com]

Missed a lot too - e.g. daneel_olivaw, who was apparently standing next to me.

Hey, you were a busy social-butterfly, and I was sufficiently quiet that marnameow seems to have forgotten my presence also (and I crashed at hers...). In the words of The Great Man (not) himself, "I'll be back."

[themadcatlady.livejournal.com]

Did you happen to get any pictures of excy in his school girl outfit? I really want to SEE THOSE! ;)