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Tutorial: Getting “The Grunge Look” in your photos

February 15, 2010

This is an article in response to a comment I received on my Golden Half camera review, in which a poster asked me “How do you get THAT picture quality?”
Henceforth known as “The Grunge Look”, featuring harsh grain, strong contrasts and vivid colours (where available), I’ll give you a rundown of what you need to [...]

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Bad Toast at Oxford Service Station on the M40

January 16, 2010

Particularly rubbish for a shocking rip-off price: £7.99 for “The Big One”. Includes disgusting scrambled egg, terrible sausages and squidgy bacon. Hash browns and beans were OK, but then what can go wrong when all you’re doing is heat up the contents of a can. “Overpriced Shit” sounds way too positive.
Verdict: no matter how desperate [...]

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Treeworshippers (Etch A Sketch)

January 8, 2010

I was going to call it “Sunworshippers” in hommage to the song by Mylo – but then I discovered that the “sun” didn’t actually look like a sun… so I turned it into a tree. Works much better.

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It’s my first Etch-A-Sketch Masterpiece in Decades!

January 5, 2010

We were passing through a service station in Beaconsfield very late yesterday and spent a spontaneous night at the Etap Hotel. It’s connected via a walkway to a 24hr neon world of McDonald’s, Starbuck’s and an Arcade featurung Outrun 2. It felt just like Vegas!
We discovered a Pocket Etch-A-Sketch at WH Smith, and [...]

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