There are various reasons why I haven't been around much on LJ for the last half-year, but the most important reason is that I have been terribly busy at work. A three-year project had its deadline in December, and I had some tough months trying to meet that deadline, and I am very relieved now that I did ( Read more... )

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I'm taking a break from Wheel of Time at the moment and reading Lighthousekeeping by Jeanette Winterson instead. Beautiful, beautiful book. I haven't read much by Winterson before; I started reading Oranges are not the only fruit at one point but gave up, as it didn't really seize my attention then. But I love Lighthousekeeping from almost the ( Read more... )

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Today I want to highlight a technique I've been working on that involves putting two images together to make a diptych. The idea, as I see it, is to put two photos together in such a way that the resulting picture is greater than the sum of its parts.

The question then becomes, what type of images work well together? The way I see it, there is a ( Read more... )

During the last year I've developed a strong liking for peppermint herbal infusions and teas. The other day I visited Le Palais des Thés, an originally French chain of stores that opened in Norway a couple of years ago, to see if I could find something to assuage my peppermint craving and hopefully find a new favourite to replace the Tazo ( Read more... )