December Street

Posted By Mark on Jan 7, 2012

An album of street photos taken during December; some black and white, some colour, some in Chichester, some in Portsmouth. It's hard to believe but I'm almost, very nearly, not quite, just about caught up with going through photos taken in the last seven weeks or so now. That US holiday and the Christmas period really put a dent in my uploading and processing schedule. In album December Street (51 photos) Google+: View post on...

Top Ten TV Sci-Fi Theme Tunes

Posted By Mark on Jan 5, 2012

Everyone loves a good top ten list. Or even a top ten list. There was a thread on Google+ amongst my circles recently that asked people what their favourite TV theme music of all time was and while I pondered my ponderings on the subject I realised – not terribly surprisingly, as it happens – that a lot of TV shows that I liked were of the science fiction genre. There were some that weren’t – and they’ll be good fodder for another update at some point – but there were enough that caused me to consider picking just my top ten favourite sci-fi TV show theme tunes and showcasing them to you in the form of videos. So here they are. #10: Star Trek Enterprise Now wait! I know, I know! There are a lot of people who don’t like this theme song. Actually, that needs some italicising: there are a lot of people who don’t like this theme song. I didn’t like it at first either. But it grew on me. It spoke to me. Think of it as a sentient fungus and what could be more science fiction than sentient fungus? Time-travelling sentient fungus, that’s what! But we’ll have to do without the temporal abilities for this music has none. Alternatively, if you want – if you really, really want – just consider this: I picked Dr Ruth Leavitt as my Hottest Sci-Fi Babe Ever; what were you expecting? #9: Mystery Science Theater 3000 Mystery Science Theater 3000 (or MST3K if you prefer) was a stranger to these British shores until the SyFy (then Sci-Fi) channel brought it across via the power of satellite broadcasting. Subsequently, it’s with Mike at the helm of the Satellite of Love and Pearl in control of choosing the awful movies that they would have to watch that I first became attached to this fantastic show and that’s why I’ve picked the intro music from season eight as one of my choices here. I’ve since gone on to watch nearly every episode from the early broadcasts on local American TV channel KTMA right through to its poignant conclusion; I grew to like Dr Forrester too, and TV’s Frank, but I could never associate with Joel. I just never really bought into the whole hippy janitor backstory. Hippy janitors! #8: Babylon 5 A good science fiction series with a well-defined story arc (the cycle of good versus evil in the universe set to the backdrop of security chief Michael Garibaldi’s receding hairline), good actors and actresses (and Mira Furlan), good cultures (especially the Centauri and their enormous appendages), occasionally ropey graphics rendering...

Woman In The Window

Posted By Mark on Jan 4, 2012

I've not done one of these theme posts in a while. For #WindowWednesday curated by +Jason Kowing, +Simon Kitcher, and +Jules Hunter. I don't normally get this close to people in café fronts but on this occasion the woman pictured was so engrossed with her reading that I took the chance. Google+: View post on...

Alone With His Thoughts

Posted By Mark on Jan 3, 2012

This was taken in December and this man – according to my photographer colleague – was someone who didn't like being photographed, getting quite angry on one such occasion. I had never seen him before and I would normally leave well enough alone but as everyone hustled and bustled around him eager to get shopping done (it was a couple of weeks before Christmas) and as he sat perfectly still on this bench with his hand across his mouth almost in mid-cough but apparently in mid-thought it was too good a shot to miss in my opinion and I took a single snap. Google+: View post on...

The Last Crusade

Posted By Mark on Jan 2, 2012