Sunday, 28 April 2002

Digital Cameras About To Become Worthwhile. Here is the new digital camera chip that will make all the current generation of cameras obsolete shortly. This is why I have not bought a digital camera yet. A digital Leica rangefinder camera with a Foveon chip in it. Yum! 12:21:50 PM    Add a comment.

It Takes A German To Republish The Classics Cheap. I happily stumbled across a stack of discounted books at the local Angus & Robertson bookstore yesterday. $5 a book. Hardbound and printed on fine paper. Some of the best books ever written: Candide, by Voltaire. War and Peace Walden Dracula Frankenstein The Red Badge of Courage       The publisher is Könemann, from Köln, and they also have a superb list of German classics, published only in German however, and not available in Oz—all the greats I have been wanting to read for ages.       I have a soft spot for Voltaire. I used to stay in a little village just outside the town to where he was exiled for years—Ferney. The town is also known as Ferney-Voltaire in his honour. They have a fantastic street market there, wonderful food, so neat and clean, and fun. The English street markets are nasty things by comparison.       The town is about 15 minutes by car from Geneva, although in France. The CERN accelerator ring runs underneath the fields outside. Tim Berners-Lee invented the Web there. 12:04:51 PM    Add a comment.

I Wonder What Happened... ... to Andy Cohen, one of the three partners in Hamiltons Gallery, that shows photography in London, with Tim Jeffries? Andy was the one who seemed to do all the work whereas serial modelizer Tim provided the public face. I could never remember the other guy.       I don’t know anybody in the current staff list. I’ll send an email to find out where the rest of them are now. 10:53:56 AM    Add a comment.