A Smoking Spider, the Dangerous Ms M, Vic Levino, and some random guy.

Throwing some old photos up.

I just like this shot because she turned into Venom with a devil grin out of smoke.


Kendall as Ms M. (There's a Mr M as well, which I'll get to. I think I might rename them when I do a proper shoot, since the test shots worked fairly well for limited resources.)


Taken by Caspian while he was testing the lighting. One day, I will have to make sure my glasses aren't sliding down my nose and cutting off my eyes.


Yeah, just some random guy waiting around at last year's nuit blanche.

When I was your age, computers were called books!

Forgive the Princess Bride paraphrase.

As some of you know, my mom is an artist. One of her media is book binding. One day, she took a workshop on re-purposed art, right around the time some old computers at her lab were being discarded.

The result has been a recurring theme of circuit board books, each hand bound with some piece of circuitry.

(And wow is photographing art hard.)





The first two are both Japanese bound watercolour paper, with a motherboard as the front cover.



The one on the right is Japanese binding again, and I don't know the name of the other style. (It may just be "Western".) The Western has a single small circuit as a decoration, while the Japanese binding again has a large circuit board almost as the entire cover. I do believe that circuit is hand stitched, if that's an appropriate turn of phrase.





This last one is bound in a texture that almost looks like bark, decorated with buttons, and tucked into its own case which I believe is a re-purposed disk mount.

And the Morrighan's servants watch on to claim the fallen

A cat fight set to the music from Predator. Note the hooded crows goading them on/waiting for a victor.

If you have nothing to hide, why not let us see?

It's interesting that this favourite line of the security state is in some way the core principle behind Wikileaks, according to Julian Assange.

Those essays are summarized here by
zungzungu and it boils down to Assange trying to make the conspiratorial bent of governments more difficult by making secrecy harder to maintain. Ultimately, Assange argues that "in a world where leaking is easy, secretive or unjust systems are nonlinearly hit relative to open, just systems". Therefore, make leaking easy and you promote open, just systems.

Meanwhile, the US news media has gone batshit over wikileaks, basically arguing the point that the news media exists to serve the government. As both Greenwald in that previous link and Digby here marvel, on the BBC we actually got to see an editor for the New York Times explain how he cleared all the Wikileak memos he published with the government, while a former diplomat argued for more transparency.

Simon Jenkins sums it up with an adage that was still being taught in journalism school when I got my degree, The job of the media is not to protect the powerful from embarrassment.