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Filmspotting

Once

Once, twice. Lloydy and I hit up some of the locations from the film Once. It’s a good flick, a Fox Searchlight film no less and it’s got a kick-arse soundtrack. We had a...

 

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W_nderings

Stuff I found on the internet

Flotsam & Jetsam

Bits and pieces from my past projects wash up here

Watercolour Whisky

In which I paint and review single malt Scotch whiskies

Filmspotting

Recreating shots from some of my favourite films

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“I saw a star explode and send out the building blocks of the Universe. Other stars, other planets and eventually other life. A supernova! Creation itself! I was there. I wanted to see it and be part of the moment. And you know how I perceived one of the most glorious events in the universe? With these ridiculous gelatinous orbs in my skull! With eyes designed to perceive only a tiny fraction of the EM spectrum. With ears designed only to hear vibrations in the air. I don’t want to be human. I want to see gamma rays, I want to hear X-rays, and I want to smell dark matter. Do you see the absurdity of what I am? I can’t even express these things properly, because I have to—I have to conceptualize complex ideas in this stupid, limiting spoken language, but I know I want to reach out with something other than these prehensile paws, and feel the solar wind of a supernova flowing over me. I’m a machine, and I can know much more."
- Brother Cavill, Battlestar Galactica