http://www.normalityrelief.com give yourself a relief from normal Mon, 08 Mar 2010 22:34:43 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Or rather, Sea of Glass by Sean Vicary. It won't pay your bills, do your grocery shopping, or improve your physique, but it just may give you a smile, which outta help with those other things. Sea of Glass from Sean Vicary on Vimeo. http://www.normalityrelief.com/shells-gone-wild/ About two days ago my dad told me he recently had seen the movie 9. I'd never heard of it. I don't keep up with modern life. So I've rented it, & now I'm watching it. This is what's going through my head. CAUTION: SPOILERS AHEAD. DO NOT ... http://www.normalityrelief.com/time-for-some-live-blogging-goodness/ [caption id="attachment_222" align="alignright" width="300" caption="CreativeTechs>>Training"][/caption] For anyone out there even remotely interested in photography, Photoshop, and/or web design, there's this ultra-hip Seattle-based organization called CreativeTechs. Their primary focus is offering Mac support for small-to-mid sized companies, but that's not why I'm posting about them today (although I have every reason to ... http://www.normalityrelief.com/creativetechs-training-goodness/ The headline says it all. While I do like this theme a great deal, it's far more suited for a site with multiple content streams, rather than one with a single ... occasional ... content stream. Check back soonish! http://www.normalityrelief.com/new-site-coming-soon/ It's worth mentioning something I've heard a great deal about & truthfully have long known, at least logically: photography's tough. Bear in mind, when I refer to photography here I'm referring to all that the term encompasses: organizing, sorting, tagging, captioning, copyrighting, retouching, processing, to say nothing of actually taking ... http://www.normalityrelief.com/whats-it-take/ I came across a highly intriguing site last night: TheCircumference.org. The about section does a good job of describing, um ... what they're all about (clever page name that), but one line above the rest does significant justice to what I feel is the site's general intentions: The Circumference ... http://www.normalityrelief.com/the-circumference/ [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="500" caption="Copyright .trevor - All rights reserved"][/caption] A wonderfully soft, soothing photo of the classic Chinese game Go. Seeing this makes me want to brew some tea & sit on the floor for a quiet afternoon with a close friend or two. Like today’s photo? Tell the photographer! That’s ... http://www.normalityrelief.com/photo-of-the-day-20090922/ I keep a close tab on the name normalityrelief, because to date, no one else I'm aware of uses this name. Anywhere. On the entire internet. Kinda proud about that. Especially given that a google search turns up 17,200 hits. I'm just all over the place! Even so, I still was ... http://www.normalityrelief.com/extra-credit/ I baked bread for the first time in years yesterday. Years! It was whole wheat. I'm so proud. But pride aside, I have a pretty major complaint. I used quick-rising yeast. When all was finished & the kitchen smelled appropriately delightful, the loaf failed to rise. Failed. Miserably. The thing was ... http://www.normalityrelief.com/bloody-false-advertising/ Copyright countto3 - All rights reserved A wonderful example of one of the best things photography is used for: showing off our world in ways we typically do not or cannot see. Beautiful! Like today’s photo? Tell the photographer! That’s one thing that always keeps us going! http://www.normalityrelief.com/photo-of-the-day-20090824/