Every day I walk past Rozzo & Sons fish wholesalers. It’s a furnace of nasty smells on Ninth Ave. By the time I’m going to work they’ve been up for hours and the street has been reduced to a sea of boxes, melting ice and fishy water. There are two things I love about it.… Continue reading Thursday Morning Epiphany
BASEd in Kuala Lumpur
I went to Kuala Lumpur in 2006 and shot this photo from the top of the KL Tower: Here’s what it looked like the other day:
Timestamps in Django
I’ve recently been playing around with the Django web framework (all non-techies should stop reading this at once). Here’s a little snippet of code that’s useful if you want to add a timestamp to a model you’re creating: from datetime import datetime class My_Model(models.Model): date_created = models.DateTimeField() date_modified = models.DateTimeField() def save(self): if self.date_created ==… Continue reading Timestamps in Django
Media Backstory
So I went away for the weekend and someone in my neighbourhood was murdered. However, before you panic, you can rest as the suspect is in custody. In fact, he’s being interviewed right now. This is the scene outside Precinct 10: You can’t tell from this photo, but there are in fact six tv vans… Continue reading Media Backstory
Visualizing Girl Talk
No, this post is not going to have anything to do with girls. Rather, it’s about Gregg Gillis a.k.a. Girl Talk. His latest album, Feed The Animals, is a sampling assault. Each song jumps from sample to sample at an amazingly frantic rate; it’s been on my iPod for weeks now and I can’t get… Continue reading Visualizing Girl Talk