http://www.sachawheeler.com shrapnel from mid-life Wed, 07 May 2008 22:43:28 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I had this odd footage, and found an odd song to match. It's King Crimson, Radio I. http://www.sachawheeler.com/2008/05/07/skateboarding-to-king-crimson-radio-i/ Skating in Hyde Park to Black Sabbath's Paranoid. http://www.sachawheeler.com/2008/05/07/black-sabbath-paranoid/ Wherever you are, happy cinco de mayo. http://www.sachawheeler.com/2008/05/05/feliz-cinco-de-mayo/ It approaches. If you want to get me something, I want one of these: http://www.sachawheeler.com/2008/05/04/39th-birthday-ducati-single/ Riding my Vespa to work, listening to Ufomammut, Smoke. update: Apologies for the awful rendering in the 1st release. I did it again and it's much better. Not like having to sit through 9 mins of it isn't bad enough, the pixels were making my eyes bleed.   http://www.sachawheeler.com/2008/04/26/riding-through-london-to-ufomammut-smoke/ shardcore quite rightly rejected my earlier (terrible) painting, so I did another, but have managed to insult him (not my intention). Here's the video... The music is Tool - Right In Two And here's the finished painting.   http://www.sachawheeler.com/2008/04/26/mass-portraiture-exhibit-second-attempt/ Coolest thing I've seen in a while. May try something like this myself... Time Twister on ShredOrDie.com http://www.sachawheeler.com/2008/04/25/time-twister/ I don't paint. That said, I've done a painting for shardcore's MASS exhibition in Brighton. Here's mine and Diana's in progress. Remember, I can't paint :) This is it so far. update: I've been rejected by that fascist (that's unfair...) shardcore for not following the rules! But it was fun to do and there's more ... http://www.sachawheeler.com/2008/04/19/mass-portraiture-exhibition/ RIP G4 Originally uploaded by SachaWheeler My lovely G4 died and has been replaced with a sticker-less macbook pro. I'm thinking of putting this old buddy on the wall. http://www.sachawheeler.com/2008/04/19/rip-g4/ risking being boring, the weather here is mad. http://www.sachawheeler.com/2008/04/15/weather-again/ I was never before sure why T.S.Eliot had something against April, but this morning my plans to skateboard were scuppered by the bloody weather, and it all became clear. The music is Frank Zappa - Don't Eat The Yellow Snow. http://www.sachawheeler.com/2008/04/06/april-is-the-cruelest-month/ At last the British weather turned, and I was able to go for a much needed skate around Hyde Park on my skateboard. The music is Black Sally, by Human Instinct. This is also my 1st video podcast. :) http://www.sachawheeler.com/2008/04/02/1st-skate-of-the-year/ Feeling a bit jet-lagged from the clocks moving forwards, but it feels like the year has jumped forwards (which it needed to do) by 2 months. Soon I might even get on my skateboard. http://www.sachawheeler.com/2008/03/31/spring-at-long-bloody-last/ Just when I think Christians couldn't get any more bat-shit-crazy, I stumble across this most excellent website. Christian Domestic Discipline (which, incidentally, is a fantastic name for an indie band) is described as: A domestic discipline marriage is one in which one partner in the marriage is given authority over the other ... http://www.sachawheeler.com/2008/03/30/crazy-christians/ sometimes I need to be reminded how things scale (from here where the future US debt based on their current policies is estimated to be $53 trillion) A million seconds is 12 days. A billion seconds is 32 years. A trillion seconds is 32,000 years. And 53 trillion seconds? 1.7 million ... http://www.sachawheeler.com/2008/03/29/big-numbers/