oh yeah im back from ten days in ireland. a fantastic time was had. picture uploading is ongoing here on flickr.

the live helsinki transport map that i mentioned last year got discussed in the guardian today.

also, i just saw this swiss train locator: swisstrains.ch.

(oh and the dublin one! [via])

i finally got around to uploading my camera obscura pictures from last august onto flickr. (set here)

taking the principles of camera obscura (small lens which projects an external view into an internal space upside down) and a sauna (a private place for sweating out the stress and getting a re energising feeling) and a boat (something that floats easily enough) all combined to provide an absolutely magical experience. having a sauna in the middle of helsinki city, the wind causing the sauna to move in töölönlahti (a bay) – the light refecting off the sea, the images from outside projected onto the walls, the scenery. fantastic.

some images from the artist (heidi lunabba) when it was in strömsö are here.

heading home to ireland on saturday for ten days. been a tough winter.

i got an email the other day from ebay congratulating me on my second year with the site. the reason i signed up for the site was to complain about someone out there (in italy) who took one of my images, downloaded a sigur rós concert from us for free – burnt some cds, printed some cd booklets (with my picture on the cover) and put a listing on ebay – “1000 limited edition copies of (random concert) on sale for 20euros each”. the email wasnt a nice reminder that there are people out there who just like to make very easy money off something that i/we do for nothing.