Earlier this year, in the summer I did a project where I met some of the sweetest, most adorable kids I have ever seen. Here is a Flickr photo-set of some of these children. Click the photograph above to go the the slideshow.

Here is the link to the set if you’d like to forward it:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/samreth/sets/72157624791781738/

No snarky comments from me in this post. These kids quieted the icy inner cynic in me, if only for a while.

Also I got the Hackintosh AFP server up and running. The sarcasm will be back in the next post along with some thoughts and advice on the project.

Be good.

Ola! The first post in a longish time. I’ve been caught up with life (turning down the third employee position I’ve ever been offered, looking for freelance work, traveling to the sea, the hills, the desert) partly busy off my ass with work (which is a new phenomenon this year) and partly A.D.D. (which is par for the course for me) as evidenced by the fact that sometimes I forget that I’m reading a book in my bedroom and launch into another one in the loo.(But I digress) So here goes..

A few weeks back an extremely kind soul (who shall henceforth be referred to as ‘M’) lent me a Nikon D200 and I’ve been going nuts with it. Last month I took some photos on a shoot at a huge cotton mill in Himachal Pradesh for a film I directed for the Ministry of Textiles and more recently I went to the Pushkar fair for the first time ever and shot a ton more pictures. The sights and the people were (and I can’t say this forcefully enough) stunningly beautiful and I would have taken even more photographs but I made the huge eff up of not taking the charger for the camera. (sorry M!)

So, for your consideration, here are the links to ‘teh Flickr’. Pushkar Fair and Cotton Mills at Baddi, Himachal Pradesh. My Flickr account is soon going to go over 200 pictures so nowadays I’m greeted by a not-so-subtle UPGRADE TO FLICKR PRO banner upon login. So, gift me a Flickr Pro account please (and while I’m panhandling how about an EOS 5D Mark II and a few fast primes?)

Some people have said the pictures were ahem, ‘brilliant’ but I’m undecided about whether they were being extremely polite or just wanted to get into my pants. (I mean, like who wouldn’t?)

So. Since I don’t want this to become yet another boring blog that only has posts about promising to post more often, (Stop saying “TOO LATE!” aloud) I shall leave  you with this cute video of an adorable little French Bulldog puppy trying to right itself while I go think of something interesting to write about.

Recently posted photographs of my own (not so cute and frankly quite smelly) dogs are on ‘the Flickr’ here. Kindly amuse yourself. Those of you that aren’t dog people kindly fuck off already.

Please stand by. Normal programming shall resume shortly.

So, (I have to stop starting posting posts with that word) on a recent vacation in Goa that lasted nearly a month, I cycled around pretty little villages in North Goa like crazy (I also decided I would “Go For A Run” but that just ended with my thighs screaming “WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU DOING TO US?!“ at me and having to heave myself off the toilet the next morning by pulling my body up using the door handle because I was pretty much paralyzed from the waist down, but I digress…)

One of the  many joys of cycling around was being able to listen to music with earphones in and be reasonably confident that I wouldn’t get run over by a bus or an SUV tearing around a blind corner in the opposite direction. Other joys included blasting down a hillside, free-wheeling at 45 or so, silently whooshing past little old ladies on Honda Activas, while resisting the urge to yell “Outta my way Jesus Lover! Comin’ through!”

Ahhh Goa!

I also managed to borrow a reasonably decent camera from the same charitable people who lent me their house and took a few photographs which are on ‘the flickr’ here. Mostly old houses, abandoned and gone to seed, being slowly reclaimed by the undergrowth and some churches.

So, the song. Besides a ton of Goldfrapp and Tosca, this song by Groove Armada was playing in my ears a lot of the time and boy did it fit the setting. Its called At the River and is from the album Vertigo. If you want to hear Groove Armada’s best album though, SoundBoy Rock would be a better bet. Please ignore the video, which is a mash up of some footage including an Nvidia graphics demo from a few years back, when we would actually go out and buy a new graphics card and slot it into a desktop PC and then run the demo and ooh and ahhh (at the rendering not the chick, okay maybe a little bit at the chick)

Anyways, vacation over. Back to the mines. Same shit, different day. Repeat. Ad infinitum, ad nauseum .

Couldn’t resist. Click the pic for the source and How-to…