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The track begins with violoinist Zack Kline playing a ragged descending line that slips in and out of double stops, fading and swelling in a way that's half-sleepy, half-mournful. When bassist Nick Gaudette falls in behind him with bowed bass, the floor of the tune rises up to meet that lonely melody and a kind of tentative balance is reached. What's arresting, then, is how pianist Mike Vasich enters the tune, a hair after the music seems to ask him to, with two tiny, hesitant chords. It complicates and colors that balance between the violin and the bass, and it would be easy enough for the piano to come in and take over much more sonic space--I've heard it happen before all too often. But that sensitivity to maintaining an imperfect balance, or maybe a perfect imbalance, is what gives the Orange Mighty Trio's music its uniquely plangent character.
They call their music "bluegrassical"--and "Orange Line" certainly fits that description--but there's something more at work here than that catchy sobriquet would imply. The album's construction around the theme of travel (other song titles include "Off Ramp," "Northbound," and "Interchange") ties it inevitably to the Phillip Glass/Kronos Quartet collaboration Different Trains and if anything, the group is more closely related to the avant-garde tradition than the classical one. The folk aspects of their music seem more Appalachain than bluegrass, particularly without the driving rhythm of acoustic flatpicking or the plinky insistence of banjo.
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- Animation Studio: Wang Film Productions, Cuckoo's Nest
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- Cartoon Characters: Stanley Ipkiss/The Mask, Lieutenant Kellaway, Milo, Pepe, Baby Forthwright, Doyle, Lars, Mrs. Francis Forthwright, Mrs. Peenman, Pretorius, Mayor Tilton, Peggy Brandt, Charlie Schumaker, Chet Bozzack.
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- First Aired on November 11, 1995.
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Los Angeles, Feb 19 : Singer-rapper Pharrell Williams will release his new album "G I R L" on March 3.
This will be his first album with recording label Columbia Records.
"When Columbia Records presented me with the opportunity to make an album, three things came to mind. One was the sense of overwhelming honour that I felt when I realised that they were interested in partnering with me on the album that I had always dreamt of making," Williams said in a statement.
"Two, it would have to feel festive and urgent. And three, I instantly knew it would be called 'G I R L'. I hope you like it," he added.


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A warrant, issued by the Loudon County General Sessions Court in September, accuses Edward Underwood, Jr, 61, of raping a child younger than 13 years old. An investigation by Loudon County's Sheriff's Office and U.S. Marshals in Knoxville developed information that led them to believe Underwood fled the state.
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text: I am not a low carber, however, I do try to moderate the amount of carbs I eat and buy low Gi food where possible. The whole topic confuses me so very much, there are people who swear by it and practically jump on me when I say I do not low carb! But, for instance on this very site, there are instances of the downside of low carbing and its negative impact on your body ie. featured on this week's newsletter under where it is written that - however, it is also written that . As one of the 'slimmer diabetics' this is makes sense as I am slim and am a T2, but it then seems to me that most of the low carbing information seems to be aiming at weight loss or control, and since I do not have issues with either of these, I am really not sure where I should be standing on the subject of low carbing. Also, many of the foods our bodies seem to need naturally contain carbs, and as the above mentioned feature states - and then goes on to say that cutting down on carbs can be a good idea in some instances but never completely! So can someone please tell me why so many people are advocating low carbing? Also, not wishing to appear too dumb here - what foods are considered to be starchy carbohydrates, would this be bread, porridge, potatoes, bananas etc? Then what foods are non starchy carbohydrates - aside of the obvious sweet bars etc? Yes, I have posed many questions in one post I know, but I really want to get to grips with the best diet possible, and I know that many people are going to say that I have to eat and test my sugars after eating to see which foods work and which don't for me personally, and I agree that makes sense, but an inkling of where to start would be nice - or do I just try my normal diet ie I eat porridge for breakfast, I have tried alternatives but I get so hungry so quickly after anything else that I feel I need porridge with fruit each day. Also, why do I feel so guilty at not low carbing and yet, instinctively I feel it is not going to be the right thing to do, it gives me the sense of depriving my body of much needed food it just does not seem natural to me! If anyone can get their head around all of the above, or even any of it I would much appreciate it. I think the confusion I feel is outlined in this post! Also, as a 'slim' T2 I realise that most of my fat is around my stomach and I know this probably the cause of my diabetes but I cannot lose any more weight (hovering between 8. 6 and 8.9 at 5'5" in height, as I would look skeletal in all areas but my tummy :roll: Many thanks for anyone having the patience to plough through this long-winded post but I am really :?


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The Aces victory leaves them tied with the River Cats for first place in the PCL's Pacific Northern Division with four games left in the season-ending series. Both teams are 78-62 heading into Friday's 7:05 p.m. matchup.
On Thursday, Daric Barton smashed two home runs and knocked in three Cats runs, while Nick Buss doubled twice, scored a run and had an RBI. Billy Burns added two hits, including a double, and tallied once.
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ANAHEIM (AP) — Howie Kendrick drove in Albert Pujols with a sacrifice fly in the 10th inning, and the Los Angeles Angels opened a two-game lead atop the major league standings with a 4-3 victory Thursday night over the Oakland Athletics, who finished the game under protest over a ninth-inning obstruction call.
Josh Hamilton had a 10th-inning single as the Angels won the opener in a four-game series between the AL West clubs who hold the majors' two best records.
Oakland protested the game after Erick Aybar hit a short chopper up the first-base line to open the ninth. He ran into Dan Otero as the pitcher fielded it and bumped into first baseman Brandon Moss.
Home plate umpire Greg Gibson immediately awarded first base to Aybar, prompting a lengthy argument from A's manager Bob Melvin. The Angels then loaded the bases with one out, but Kole Calhoun popped up and Mike Trout grounded to third against Cook.
Giants pitcher sets record in win
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Yusmeiro Petit set a major league record when he retired his 46th batter in a row, and the San Francisco Giants beat the Colorado Rockies 4-1 on Thursday for their third straight win.
Petit (4-3) got the first eight Colorado hitters, establishing the mark by striking out Charlie Culberson. That broke Mark Buehrle's record of 45 straight with the Chicago White Sox in 2009.
Petit's streak covered eight games, six of them in relief. He also surpassed Jim Barr's NL record of 41 in a row with the Giants in 1972.
The announced sellout crowd of 41,017 at AT&T Park gave Petit a standing ovation after he fanned Culberson. The string ended two pitches later when the next batter, Rockies starter Jordan Lyles, doubled to left field. Charlie Blackmon followed with a single to drive in Colorado's only run.
49ers offense explodes in preseason finale
HOUSTON (AP) — Rookie linebacker Chris Borland returned an interception 34 yards for a touchdown and third-string quarterback Josh Johnson threw three TD passes as the San Francisco 49ers defeated the Houston Texans, 40-13, in their preseason finale.
Borland, a third-round draft pick out of Wisconsin, has been trying to move into the rotation to help fill the void left by All-Pro NaVorro Bowman, who's expected to miss half the season with a left knee injury.
Blaine Gabbert played the first half and went 4-for-11 for 60 yards, then Johnson took over.
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OAKLAND (AP) — Rookie Derek Carr threw three touchdown passes to make a case he should be Oakland's starting quarterback, and the Raiders wrapped up the preseason with a 41-31 victory Thursday night over the Seattle Seahawks.
Carr was almost perfect in the start in place of Matt Schaub, completing 11-of-13 passes for 143 yards, and led Oakland (2-2) to four touchdowns in four drives.
Schaub was anointed the starter after being acquired in an offseason trade from Houston. Coach Dennis Allen hasn't deviated from that plan even as Schaub struggled in the preseason before resting this game with a sore throwing elbow.
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F3Q09 Earnings Call
November 16, 2009 4:30 pm ET
Gar Jackson – Vice President of Investor Relations
Gary H. Schoenfeld – Chief Executive Officer
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Gar Jackson
Thank you. Good afternoon and welcome to the Pacific Sunwear of California conference call announcing the company's fiscal third quarter financial results. This is Gar Jackson, Vice President of Investor Relations. This call is being recorded and the playback will be available starting today approximately two hours after the call through midnight on November 23, 2009. It can be accessed at 800-642-1687 or 706-645-9291, pass code 38667329. The call will also be archived on the PacSun website at www.pacsun.com through midnight on March 11, 2010.
Your speakers today are Gary Schoenfeld, Chief Executive Officer and Mike Henry, Chief Financial Officer. Today's call will be limited to one hour and questions will be limited to one per participant.
Before I turn the call over to Gary, I'd like to note that statements and discussions during today's call will contain forward-looking information including forecasts of future financial performance and statements about our future prospects and proposed developments or business strategies. Actual results could differ materially from those projected or reflected in our forward-looking statements and reported results should not be considered an indication of future performance. The potential risks and uncertainties that could cause the company's business and financial results to differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements are included in the company's Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended January 30, 2009, and in subsequent filings with the SEC, as well as in the earnings press release included as an exhibit to the Form 8-K that we furnished to the SEC today. These documents can also be found in the Investor Relations section on our corporate website at pacsun.com.
All information discussed on the call is as of today, November 16, 2009. Pacific Sunwear does not intend and undertakes no duty to update this information to reflect future events or circumstances.
This call, the webcast and its replay are the property of Pacific Sunwear. It is not for rebroadcast or use by any other party without the prior written consent of Pacific Sunwear.
With that said, I will now turn the call over to Gary.
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Thank you. Good afternoon, everybody and thank you for joining us. It's been a little over four months since I took over as CEO and as a turnaround situation I knew there would be a number of issues we would need to tackle simultaneously and would like to give you an update as to how we are proceeding against our key strategic initiatives and then I will speak briefly about current business trends, after which Mike will give more detail on our Q3 results and Q4 outlook.
We are attacking our business with four essential priorities. First is people and culture -- the question was asked of me on my first call in August, was I going to make any changes to the leadership team. For obvious reasons, that was not something I could speak to publicly at that time, yet affecting a transformation in leadership, accountability, teamwork, and an absolute commitment to wow our customers every day are among my highest priorities.
In terms of leadership, we have five key positions that we are looking to fill with great talent and experience -- a GMM to drive our juniors business, a head of stores to lead our team of 11,000 store managers and brand reps who touch our customers every day, a Chief Marketing Officer that can help reconnect our customers with PacSun and our brands, an SVP of Operations and a Vice President of Merchandise Planning and Allocation.
I am quite excited about the caliber of candidates that share our vision for reestablishing PacSun as the leader in the teen market and look forward to hopefully announcing some key additions to our team as we go into the early part of next year. And yet at the same time, I can assure you we are not waiting to fill these key positions in order to affect change.
From a teamwork perspective, our team broadly defined has to include all functions here at headquarters, our field team across all 50 states, our more than 200 associates in our distribution center in Kansas, as well as each of the key brands that we work with and all of our key suppliers in Asia and other parts of the world. Each person and each function has to recognize its inter-dependencies and we have huge potential if we can truly collaborate, which I am quite confident this team is embracing.
Second is product -- historically Pac's strength -- PacSun's strengths have been pretty narrowly in tees, fleece, swim, and footwear and to a certain degree PacSun has always had a denim business. I think it's fair to say that fashion has only more recently become a focal point and with somewhat mixed results so far but certainly something that we feel like we can be a major player in as we go forward.
With respect to t-shirts, it's simply a category that we have to lead and I know that we can. As it relates to footwear, I spoke last time on the importance of branded footwear and I am pleased to say we will be rolling out to 300 stores by Spring for young men's and 200 stores for juniors.
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text: Posted 5 Nov 2011 Just saw where Cleveland is going to let Hillis walk at the end of the year. Should the Panthers take a look at him? I think we should, a fullback like him would be a nice compliment to our run game! What do y'all think? I think you should stop making stupid posts. He is NOT a fullbakc and this is NOT Madden. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites


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Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judaea in the days of Herod the king, behold, there came wise men from the east to Jerusalem,
Saying, Where is he that is born King of the Jews? for we have seen his star in the east, and are come to worship him.
When Herod the king had heard these things, he was troubled, and all Jerusalem with him.
And when he had gathered all the chief priests and scribes of the people together, he demanded of them where Christ should be born.
And they said unto him, In Bethlehem of Judaea: for thus it is written by the prophet, princes of Juda: for out of thee shall come a Governor, that shall rule my people Israel.
Then Herod, when he had privily called the wise men, enquired of them diligently what time the star appeared.
And he sent them to Bethlehem, and said, Go and search diligently for the young child; and when ye have found him, bring me word again, that I may come and worship him also.
When they had heard the king, they departed; and, lo, the star, which they saw in the east, went before them, till it came and stood over where the young child was.
When they saw the star, they rejoiced with exceeding great joy.
And when they were come into the house, they saw the young child with Mary his mother, and fell down, and worshipped him: and when they had opened their treasures, they presented unto him gifts; gold, and frankincense, and myrrh.
And being warned of God in a dream that they should not return to Herod, they departed into their own country another way.
-- From the Gospel according to Matthew
I understand they make little replicas of us now, not idols to worship, you understand, like the old household gods, but just little ornaments. To hang on trees, or maybe put on their lawns. It's quite a comedown for a high priest of Zoroaster, He Who Thus Spake, but it's fitting enough in its own curious way. Ours was only a bit part in their curious story to begin with, and every day that passes here amidst the soaring towers and hanging gardens of the great palace, so far away from the humble land where it all happened, I feel a little smaller myself. As if I had missed something of significance in those mean surroundings, unlikely as it would seem, my friend, for I am a careful observer, I assure you. Everyone at court will attest to it. No one makes a better first-hand report or judicious audit.
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Only 49 truly alive followers remain loyal to Rom. This meager band must fight for survival as The Order is focused on their total annihilation. Misunderstood and despised, their journey will be one of desperation against a new, more intensely evil Order. As the hand of this evil is raised to strike and destroy them they must rely on their faith in the abiding power of love to overcome all and lead them to sovereignty.
SOVEREIGN wonderfully continues the new testament allegory that was introduced in FORBIDDEN and continued in MORTAL.
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TOSCA LEE is the New York Times bestselling author of Demon: A Memoir, Havah: The Story of Eve, Iscariot and the Books of Mortals series with New York Times bestseller Ted Dekker. She is best known for haunting prose and humanizing portraits of maligned characters. A former international business consultant and lifelong adventure traveler, she makes her home in the Midwest.
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Patricia JamesCaliforniaAge: 55-65Gender: female5 Stars Out Of 5Here they go again.September 6, 2014Patricia JamesCaliforniaAge: 55-65Gender: femaleQuality: 5Value: 5Meets Expectations: 5Ted Dekker is one of my favorite authors. I sometimes explain his style as a Christian Stephen King. Paring him with Tosca Lee you know that you are in for a treat. You can pull for your favorite character, but they don't always win and you can't always figure out what will happen, who is good, who is bad, will bad become good, will good become bad. Another series in the style of the Circle series.
RadioladyToronto, OntarioAge: 45-54Gender: female5 Stars Out Of 5July 21, 2013RadioladyToronto, OntarioAge: 45-54Gender: femaleQuality: 5Value: 5Meets Expectations: 5In the world of Sovereigns, Immortals, and Dark Bloods, only one group can survive. Pitted against each other, a Sovereign alchemist creates a virus that will wipe out the Immortals and Dark Bloods. Two Sovereign leaders set out to warn the heads of the other groups of their demise, if they do not become Sovereign themselves. Dekker and Lee take you at a breakneck pace into a complex and intelligent allegory of life and death, love and hate, and the cost of both. While the plot is complicated and twisted, you never lose your way and question the validity of a character. They weave a story that is intellectually challenging, while not losing spiritual depth. Remarkable and fascinating, with those moments of "gasp."
JGPLPrattville,ALAge: 55-65Gender: male5 Stars Out Of 5Outstanding wrapup of the triologyJuly 20, 2013JGPLPrattville,ALAge: 55-65Gender: maleQuality: 5Value: 5Meets Expectations: 5This book was an outstanding wrapup to the Mortals triology. The plot kept you guessing until the very end and there was also the teaser at the end of the blood vial being hidden, which left some more mystery....................
Christianfictionaddiction4 Stars Out Of 5Provides a rich adventureJune 22, 2013ChristianfictionaddictionQuality: 4Value: 4Meets Expectations: 4Ted Dekker and Tosca Lee have again combined their tremendous writing talent in "Sovereign", the third installment of "The Book of Mortals" series. As with the first two books, the scenes are vividly drawn, the writing is crisp, and the words flow smoothly, sweeping you up into the power of the story. From the start, the scenes explode with action, and I was immediately gripped by the opening chapters as good clashes with evil. My favourite character in this story is easily that of Jordin, who wrestles with doubt and whether she's making the right choices, but ultimately has a powerful encounter that opens her eyes to truth and to love. All of the characters are very well-developed, and I enjoyed the twists that are written into the story, where nothing is black and white, and even the villains invoke sympathy. The authors have created a book and an entire series that has so many parallels to the Christian walk and what Jesus accomplished through his death and through the abundant life he offers us. As such, the book can be read purely for entertainment value, or you can ponder the deeper truths woven into the story. I did find that the book dragged a bit for me in the middle, but by the end I was glued to the pages to see how everything would resolve. I closed the pages thinking about the strength of my own faith in Jesus and how fully I've allowed his truth to bring freedom into every part of my life. Any book that has me mulling over issues of faith while providing an absorbing ride is definitely worth reading!
Sovereign provides a rich adventure, and readers who have enjoyed the first two books in the series are certain to be pleased with this addition. I strongly recommend this book and award it 4 out of 5 stars.
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14mm ƒ/2.8 vs. 18mm ƒ/2 | Fuji vs. Fuji
Given the compact size, light weight, and faster aperture, I'd say the FUJINON XF 18mm ƒ/2 was made with street photographers in mind, more so than landscape fans. The creamier bokeh also suggests it could be useful for wife-angle portraiture. In some way, the FUJINON XF 18mm ƒ/2's characterisitcs remind me of the old Nikkor 85mm ƒ/1,4 AF-D; optimized for centre sharpness and soft backgrounds. The FUJINON XF 14mm ƒ/2.8 is stellar, and a must-have for Fuji landscapers. While bigger than the 18mm, it's still relatively small and lightweight. It also provides excellent handling and super sharp images. It currently its own spot in my Billingham.
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Fujifilm Fujinon XF 14mm F2.8
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An unfair comparison? The Fuji X-E2 vs the Sony A7r | Tom Grill
On the face of it, the idea of comparing the results from a smaller APS-C 16mp sensor to those from a larger full frame 36mp sensor is a completely lopsided affair, and something I did not intentionally set out to do it. Quite by accident, while testing the Sony A7r for another blog review I intend to post later this week, I discovered that some images taken by the lower 24mp Leica M 240 were really quite close in quality to the A7r, and this started me wondering about how much of an improvement a high resolution camera like the A7r would be over something like the Fuji X series. So, just for the fun of it, I set up a comparative situation to see how close I could come to the full frame image quality of the Sony A7r while using the smaller sensor of the Fuji X-E2…..
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Summary The X-E1 and GX7 might appear to occupy a similar retro, look-a-Leica market position. But each provides a very different operating experience and is likely to appeal to a different user group. My advice — Try before you buy. If you really like one of these cameras you might hate the other. My pick ? There is no way the X-E1, (or the improved X-E2) or GX7 will tempt me away from my GH3, even though they have slightly (GX7) or substantially (X-E1/2) better high ISO picture quality. Performance, ergonomics and the user experience all favour the GH3. By the way, the latest rumor I am reading about the Fuji X-Cams is that the next model will have a hump top, DSLR style shape. I guess Fuji wants to be in all the key market slots. It will be interesting to see if they stay with the "Old tech" control system or go with the flow and use a Mode Dial and Control Wheel interface……
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While the X-A1 review and viewpoint from my cousin is just about done and my X-E2 and 24mm in the works, I got my hands on an old X100. I wanted to test it out and compare it to my X100S, as I only came into the Fuji world just after the X100S was released. I found these 4 guys walking on a dirt road, and they were kind enough to let me take the shots. I took only the X100 for this trip to force my self to use it. I had loaded the latest, and from what I have heard, the last firmware version 2.0. I can tell you, the camera is still very impressive. The few things I missed was the Q-button, but I was able to assign the RAW-button to allow me to choose from the 3 custom settings. The biggest issue I had, was the AF-button on the left. First my muscle-memory kept going to the right-side button where it is for the X100S, but over time one starts to adapt and it all started working nicely. Until I pick up my X100S again, I am confused all over again. During my early tests around the house, OVF was useless at focusing for about 90% of the time, so I had it in EVF permanently. I also found that just about all the images appear a little soft around the eyes, but that said I done very limited testing…..
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X-E1 vs. X-E2 | Fuji vx. Fuji
In this post I'll address what I see as the major differences between Fuji's X-E1 and newly released body update, the X-E2. The refreshing thing about how Fuji is operating these days is all their recent X-Series cameras (aside from the X-A1) share the same APS-C "X-Trans CMOS" sensor so picture quality is nearly identical across all the bodies with the possible exception of the X-E2 with its Lens Modulation Optimizer (more on that later). Removing picture quality from the equation makes doing a head to head comparison much easier. But there are still some notable differences. Let's take a look.
Fuji touts the X-E2 as having the "World's fastest AF speed of 0.08 sec." It's certainly quicker than the X-E1, but in good light, the X-E1 still holds its own remarkably well. For the benchmark lover, there's a video demonstrating the difference in AF speed on YouTube. I question the second test a little bit as the X-E1 looks to have started much further out of focus that the X-E2, but there's no question that the X-E2 is quicker to lock focus. Where I notice a huge difference is lowlight situations. With the AF on both cameras set to the centre point, the X-E2 locks focus much faster, and on things that the X-E1 refuses to focus on at all. If you're a night-time street shooter, the X-E2 should be at the top of your list…..
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X100S vs. 23mm ƒ/1.4 | Fuji vs. Fuji
This comparison is between the Fuji X100S, which is a fixed 23mm ƒ/2 lens, and the newly released FUJINON XF 23mm ƒ/1.4.
Test specs
All images aside from the light spheres were made using a tripod, and mechanical shutter release. They are Fine quality JPEGs shot at ISO 200, straight from camera. Dynamic Range set to 100. Film Simulation is Provia. White Balance set manually to 5000K. All other settings were set to default.
Sharpness and Bokeh
First up, an outdoor close-focus sharpness and bokeh comparison. The items of interest here how the X100S's ƒ/2 lens stacks up against the 23/1.4 at ƒ/2, and how much of a difference ƒ/1.4 on the 23mm makes in out of focus rendering. I've chosen a rather bland subject matter, but I hope it illustrates the characteristics of the bokeh of each lens in a situation that pushes the dynamic range to the limit…..
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Fujifilm Fujinon XF 23mm F1.4
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The Fujifilm X100S from an Olympus micro 4/3 user perspective | ATMTX
I just got back from a business trip to California where I shot the Fujifilm X100S for several days. I realized that borrowlenses.com was close to SFO (San Francisco International Airport) and I was able to pop into their facility to borrow the X100S before they closed. A nice option which saved the shipping and handling costs. So here is a report on the camera after using it in San Francisco for 4 days, from a perspective of a Olympus micro 4/3 user. There is a lot of interest and even hype about the X100S and the interchangeable lens Fuji X cameras lately. I've observed this from a distance, researching and playing with them at Precision Camera here in Austin. I've got some great results with the small Fuji XF1 that I bought recently so my curiosity for the larger Fuji's was piqued. As you may also recall, the X100S is the only remaining camera on my watch list…..
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The Fujifilml X-Pro 1 VS the big-ass SLR | Ohm-Image
I'm a Fujifilm X-Pro 1 user. I'm also a Canon P and Olympus Trip 35 user. The Olumpus really is small. The Canon is about the same size as the Fujifilm. The mantra of today' Fujifilm supporter is a rather sloppy orgy SLR hate. Why? The hump. And the size. Perhaps the crowd haven't used an SLR camera before. The Fujifilm X-Pro 1 happens to be the same size as my Nikon FE, an SLR camera- in fact, an SLR camera that was never considered small. Yes, the mounting flanges are quite different. And yes the FE humps a bit. But the FE's shoulder height is lower than the X-Pro 1's even with buttons sprigging from the top. Minus the mounting flange, the body is also thinner. And again, the FE was never considered a small SLR camera. So what do Fujifilm fans mean when they think 'SLR'? The above image illustrates exactly what is conjured up in their forgetful brains. Today's digital SLRs are massive. Even Nikon's smallest D3000 is bigger than the FE and X-Pro 1. The D800 is the FE's modern analogue in terms of equivalent target market, build quality among other things. The trend started after Japanese makers started putting electronics into every nook and cranny they could……
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FujiFilm vs Sony A7(r) | Frank Doorhof
Ok, now this is a blogpost that I never planned on writing till I got a question about it. Let me start off by saying that I love the Fujifilm cameras A LOT, I own a X-E1 and in my opinion it is/was one of the best cameras for street Photography, and the X-trans sensor is just awesome. Now there is a price difference between the Fujifilm X-E1 and the Sony A7r I'm now testing but I thought let's just look at the X-E1 vs the A7r and see what happens. In this blogpost you will read my personal opinion. When doing camera comparisons it's of course always important to look at price, and let's be honest the Sony is a lot more expensive, but….. is it worth it? …..
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Fuji xf 18-55mm vs Fuji xf 14mm | Régis Lessent
Yesterday, I had the chance to try both the 18-55mm zoom and the 14mm prime. Therefore I thought it might be interesting to publish some pictures to show the difference, in term of field of view, between 18 and 14 mm. In my opinion, those little 4mm make quite a big difference. I like very much the extra dramatic effect the 14mm produces. I warn you, I wasn't there to make a comparision between the lenses. It's just afterwards, looking at the pictures I took, I realized I took nearly the same shots with the two lenses. Therefore, I wasn't exactly on the same spot when I took the different pictures. Anyway, I think it still gives a good idea of the two field of view. On the technical side, I was surprised how the AF of the 18-55 felt so different from the 14mm or the 35mm I own. I would say it's less « brutal » and less noisy. You don't feel the lenses moving while the AF is working like it does on my 35mm. The 18-55 is also slightly heavier than the two others. To end, I'd like to thanks the Wshop in Woluwe (for belgian readers) who lent me the lenses. I think it's great they let you borrow the lenses for a couple of hours for free. As well, it's the only shop I know in Belgium where you can rent the Fuji lenses. Great to choose wisely the lens that suits you the best…….
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Mad Travellers
Posted by cathannabel in Literature, Michel Butor, Refugees, The City, W G Sebald on July 4, 2015
(adapted from a paper given at 'There & Back Again', a postgraduate conference at the University of Nottingham, organised by the Landscape, Space, Place Research Group. The title is taken from Iain Hacking's fascinating study of the fugueur phenomenon)
The idea of wandering, of travelling without constraints, without a humdrum practical purpose, is perennially appealing to most of us, even if, for most of us, the drawbacks come to mind pretty speedily if we start to entertain the notion. Some do it anyway – seize the moment when the obstacles are not insuperable – but generally it's something to enjoy vicariously, or to indulge in short bursts, taking time out of a holiday schedule to just have a stroll around foreign streets.
Throughout myth and literature there are many wanderers who cross seas, continents and centuries. For some it's a pastime, a means of avoiding commitments or encumbrance:
I'm the type of guy that likes to roam around
I'm never in one place, I roam from town to town
And when I find myself fallin' for some girl
I hop right into that car of mine and ride around the world (Dion, The Wanderer, 1961)
Everyday in the week I'm in a different city
If I stay too long people try to pull me down
Hendrix suggests that the prejudices of the cities in which he finds himself push him to leave, as well as, like Dion, that if he does sometimes feel his heart 'kinda gettin' hot' for some woman, he moves on before he gets caught. For some, wandering is a subversive practice (not using the city streets in the prescribed way), for others it's a compulsion, even a curse.
The flâneur is one of those archetypal wanderers. This classic definition is by Baudelaire, writing in 1863 in his 'Le Peintre de la vie moderne'.
The crowd is his element, as the air is that of birds and water of fishes. His passion and his profession are to become one flesh with the crowd. For the perfect flâneur, for the passionate spectator, it is an immense joy to set up house in the heart of the multitude, amid the ebb and flow of movement, in the midst of the fugitive and the infinite. To be away from home and yet to feel oneself everywhere at home; to see the world, to be at the centre of the world, and yet to remain hidden from the world—impartial natures which the tongue can but clumsily define. The spectator is a prince who everywhere rejoices in his incognito. The lover of life makes the whole world his family, just like the lover of the fair sex who builds up his family from all the beautiful women that he has ever found, or that are or are not—to be found; or the lover of pictures who lives in a magical society of dreams painted on canvas. Thus the lover of universal life enters into the crowd as though it were an immense reservoir of electrical energy. Or we might liken him to a mirror as vast as the crowd itself; or to a kaleidoscope gifted with consciousness, responding to each one of its movements and reproducing the multiplicity of life and the flickering grace of all the elements of life.
He – and I use the masculine pronoun entirely deliberately – is 'observateur, flâneur, philosophe, appelez-le comme vous voudrez'.
He is a perfect stroller, a passionate spectator, an erudite wanderer. He walks the streets, probably alone, with no map or itinerary, with the confidence that comes from being male, well-educated and wealthy. His milieu is the city, and quintessentially Paris. One might think that the boulevards and arcades of Haussmann's Paris lent themselves to strolling so much better than the labyrinthine streets of the old city, but it was that old city that defined the flâneur, allowing (in Edmund White's words) 'a passive surrender to the aleatory flux of the innumerable and surprising streets'.
The flâneur is a prototype detective, his apparent indolence masking intense watchfulness. This recalls Edgar Allen Poe's story, 'The Man of the Crowd' (which was translated by Baudelaire), in which a man recovering from illness sits in a London coffee shop, watching the passers-by, and engaging in Holmesian deductions about their occupation and character. His attention is drawn by an old man who he is unable to read, and he feels compelled by insatiable curiosity to follow him, for a night and a day, as the man moves unceasingly through the city: he is the man of the crowd – not only hiding within it, but unable to exist outside it.
Walter Benjamin in his 1935 study of Baudelaire suggests that Baudelaire identifies the old man as a flâneur. This must be a misreading on Benjamin's part, since the old man is as manic as the flâneur is composed. The flâneur may 'set up house' in the heart of the crowd, becoming part of 'the ebb and flow of movement', but he remains separate, above the mass. He is, like Baudelaire and Benjamin, at the same time engaged with and alienated by the city.
Poe's story does give us a flâneur, however, in the person of the narrator, who can and does choose to abandon his pursuit, stepping aside to resume his life, and a different kind of wanderer, in the person of the man of the crowd. Steven Fink argues persuasively that the man of the crowd is the mythological figure of the Wandering Jew, condemned to wander endlessly as punishment for a terrible crime. (He has a number of counterparts, including, amongst others, Cain, the Flying Dutchman, and the Ancient Mariner.) Certainly this description by Benjamin's contemporary, Siegfried Krakauer, is remarkably close to Poe's description of the old man:
'there arose confusedly and paradoxically within my mind, the ideas of vast mental power, of caution, of penuriousness, of avarice, of coolness, of malice, of bloodthirstiness, of triumph, of merriment, of excessive terror, of intense – of supreme despair … How wild a history … is written within that bosom!'. (Edgar Allen Poe, 'The Man of the Crowd')
Imagine [his face] to be many faces, each reflecting one of the periods which he traversed and all of them combining into ever new patterns as he restlessly and vainly tries on his wanderings to reconstruct out of the times that shaped him the one time he is doomed to incarnate. It is a terrible face, 'assembled from the many faces of the dead'. (Siegfried Krakauer – History, the Last Things Before the Last (OUP, 1969))
If the man of the crowd is no flâneur, he does bear a stronger resemblance to the fugueur, a lesser-known (and shorter-lived) phenomenon which emerged in the 1880s. Bordeaux medical student Philippe Tissié and neurologist Jean-Martin Charcot at the Salpêtrière hospital in Paris documented a number of cases of men undertaking strange and unexpected trips, in states of obscured consciousness. They were subject to hallucinations, and often dominated by ideas of persecution. Their conduct during the episode appeared normal, but they were unconscious of what they were doing, and had no memory of it afterwards – in a state of dissociative fugue. A fugue state is defined as involving selective memory loss, the inability to recall specific – perhaps traumatic – events. This may be accompanied by wandering and travelling, in an attempt to recover memory/identity, or perhaps in a flight from it – the etymological paradox of flight/pursuit.
The fugueur is quite distinct from the flâneur whose journeying is deliberately aimless and random, an end in itself. His itinerary may defy linear logic but nonetheless is purposeful, even if that purpose can be discovered only retrospectively. The flâneur, in his fine clothes, walked the streets as if he owned them because, wealthy and well-educated, he could. The fugueur, in his state of obscured consciousness, was likely to be mistaken, instead, for a vagrant. Albert Dadas, 'patient zero' in the mini-epidemic of 'mad travelling', was repeatedly arrested for vagabondage. The fugueurs were generally of more modest means than the flâneurs – tradesmen, craftsmen or clerks – and their travels took them much further afield. If someone spoke of a city or a country Albert was seized by the need to go there, and did so, often then finding himself in difficulties due to lack of funds.
One of Charcot's patients was a young Hungarian Jew named Klein, who was 'constantly driven by an irresistible need to change his surroundings, to travel, without being able to settle down anywhere'. This particular patient prompted a link with the then prevailing view that Jews were more prone than other races to various forms of neurasthenia and that this particular manifestation was 'in the character of their race'. Thus the Wandering Jew was, according to Henri Meige's thesis, 'only a sort of prototype of neurotic Israelites journeying throughout the world'. Even at the time it was pointed out, fairly acerbically, that if the Jews had a tendency to move from place to place, this was in generally externally rather than internally driven, as persecution and prejudice made it necessary to leave one home in search of another.
Charcot's diagnosis, and his use of the term 'hystero-epilepsy' in particular, fell out of favour, largely due to the failure to identify a common cause that would account for a collection of rather disparate individual cases. In the twentieth century the two types of wanderer seem often to merge, as trauma and exile create a more melancholy and more driven wanderer. One can trace a line from Baudelaire's flâneur to the Surrealists, via Walter Benjamin's description of flânerie as a dream state in which 'The city as a mnemonic for the lonely walker [: it] conjures up more than his childhood and youth, more than its own history', to Guy Debord's dérive as subversive practice, and on to today's psychogeographers. Rather than being a disaffected and detached observer, the flâneur in the late 20th and 21st century may be in flight from memory, from identity, at home nowhere, an exile who feels no connection, or only a highly problematic one, to homeland or origins.
Michel Butor's 1956 novel, L'Emploi du temps is set in a northern English industrial city, called Bleston but clearly inspired by Manchester, where Butor had worked a few years earlier. It takes the form of a diary kept by his protagonist, Jacques Revel, in the city for a one-year placement. We know nothing of Revel's life before his arrival in Bleston, or of what he will do after he leaves. He speaks of his year there as a prison sentence – he is unable to leave the city during that period, and compelled to leave it on a specific date. He is certainly not at home in Bleston, but he seems entirely rootless, without any connection elsewhere. In his restless wanderings through the streets, he seems to be searching – mostly fruitlessly – for lodgings, for someone whose name he does not know who he met on an earlier walk, for the elusive countryside. But ultimately his quest is to master the city by walking its streets, grasping the reality which seems to be changing around him as he walks – it is a phantasmagorical city, whose heavily polluted atmosphere creates a narcotic dream-like state, distorting his perceptions and leaving him disorientated.
Butor's novel had a significant influence on W G Sebald, who came to Manchester about 15 years later. Sebald read L'Emploi du temps when he first arrived, and it inspired a poem, 'Bleston: A Mancunian Cantical', as well as having a wider impact on his work.
In Sebald's novels, the narrator (who may or may not be, to some extent, Sebald) invariably begins by describing a journey. He is precise about when, and where, although the layering of timeframes and locations means that we can lose these certainties as the narrative progresses, but frequently the 'why' is obscure, not just to the reader but to the narrator himself. The narrator and the various protagonists are rarely, if ever, 'at home'. They are often in transit or in provisional, interim spaces such as waiting rooms, railway stations, and transport cafes. Their journeys often induce episodes of near paralysis, physical or mental, and they end inconclusively, often with a sense that the quest will continue after the final page.
But if the Sebaldian narrator is a contemporary example of the melancholy flâneur, Jacques Austerlitz connects us directly with the fugueur, and with wandering as a response to trauma and loss. As a child, Austerlitz arrived in England on the Kindertransport, where his foster parents gave him a new life, and a new name, telling him nothing of his past, or the fate of his parents, until, as a sixth former, he learns that he is not Dafydd Elias.
For many years he avoids any topic or image which might shed light on or raise questions about his origins. But, increasingly isolated, and with his life 'clouded by unrelieved despair', tormented by insomnia, he undertakes nocturnal wanderings through London, alone, outwards into the suburbs, and then back at dawn with the commuters into the city. These excursions begin to trigger hallucinations, visions from the past, for example, the impression that 'the noises of the city were dying down around me and the traffic was flowing silently down the street, or as if someone had plucked me by the sleeve. And I would hear people behind my back speaking in a foreign tongue …'. He is irresistibly drawn to Liverpool Street Station, a place full of ghosts, built as it is on the remains of Bedlam hospital, and, in the disused Ladies' Waiting Room, encounters the ghosts of his foster parents and the small boy he once was.
Thus his obsessive wanderings appear to have had a sub-conscious purpose, taking him back to the point of rupture between one life and another. He embarks upon a new phase of wandering, driven by the need to find his home and his parents. Overhearing a radio documentary about the Kindertransport, and the reference to a ship named The Prague, like Albert Dadas, the original fugueur: 'the mere mention of the city's name in the present context was enough to convince me that I would have to go there'.
Austerlitz's quest remains incomplete at the end of the novel. In the course of his wanderings he has, he believes, discovered his former home in Prague and traced his mother to Teresienstadt and his father to the Gurs concentration camp in France in 1942. Beyond that he knows only that his mother 'was sent east' in 1944. He does not know where, when, or even whether they died.
His quest, and his confrontation with the losses that defined his life, leads to 'several fainting fits … temporary but complete loss of memory, a condition described in psychiatric textbooks … as hysterical epilepsy'. He is taken, significantly, to the Salpêtrière, where Charcot established this diagnosis almost a century earlier. This diagnosis would only be included in psychiatric textbooks as a historical footnote – an example of Sebald's dense or layered time – we know precisely where we are, but the 'when' is not so straightforward.
Thus we've come full circle. And I want to make another tentative, perhaps fanciful connection. Sebald invites us to make all sorts of links with the name Austerlitz – the battle, the Parisian railway station, even Fred Astaire. And there's always the echo of another name, the likely final destination of both of his parents, unspoken here except in a reference to the Auschowitz Springs near Marienbad. One more then – Ahasuerus, the name often given to the mythological Wandering Jew.
Baudelaire's description of the flâneur – 'être hors de chez soi, et pourtant se sentir partout chez soi (away from home and yet at home everywhere)' has echoed through the twentieth century and into our own, accumulating more and more melancholy baggage. That this phrase has darker undertones than Baudelaire will have intended is brought home by a speech made by Hitler in 1933, in which he described the Jewish people, the 'small, rootless international clique', as 'the people who are at home both nowhere and everywhere'.
In our time then, rather than someone at ease wherever he finds himself, we are likely to think of the refugee and the exile, adapting without putting down roots, unable to return but unable fully to belong, always sub-consciously ready to move on or even keeping a bag permanently packed, just in case. For the original flâneur this characteristic was an affectation, a chosen detachment and rootlessness. For the fugueur, driven by trauma or crisis of identity, it is a curse, to have to wander, and never to find answers, or find home.
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Butor at Belle Vue
Posted by cathannabel in Events, Michel Butor on March 8, 2014
The long history of Belle Vue Gardens in Manchester is being celebrated this month, and it seems timely to note its appearance, under the name of Pleasance Gardens, in Michel Butor's Manchester-inspired 1956 novel L'Emploi du temps (Passing Time).
Butor's view of Manchester (Bleston in the novel) was, it must be admitted, largely negative. He loathed the climate, and the food, and seems to have been deeply unhappy in the city, where he arrived to take up the post of lecteur in the French department at the University in 1952.
He seems to have taken to Belle Vue, however. Pleasance Gardens, along with the various peripatetic fairs which rotated around the periphery of the city, on the areas of waste land, represent a mobile and open element in a closed, even carceral city, and a window on different kinds of community than those indigenous to Bleston. The narrator sees the friends he knows in a different light in these places, which may be in Bleston but are not fully part of it and don't share its malaise.
Pleasance Gardens appears on the frontispiece map, in the bottom left-hand corner, its shape not dissimilar to that of the real Belle Vue. Butor took from the real city of Manchester the geography and architecture that interested him and that fitted with his narrative preoccupations, and ignored or altered the rest. The descriptions include a great deal of precision and detail – however, the historians of Belle Vue will have to judge where the fictional version departs from its model.
He describes the entrance to the Gardens:
The monumental entrance-gates whose two square towers, adorned with grimy stucco, are crowned … with two enormous yellow half-moons fixed to lightning conductors, and are joined by two iron rods bearing an inscription in red-painted letters beaded with electric bulbs then gleaming softly pink: 'Pleasance Gardens'.
The big folding door which is armoured as if to protect a safe, and only opens on great occasions and for important processions, whereas we, the daily crowd, have to make our way in by one of the six wicket-gates on the right (those on the left are for the way out) with their turnstiles and ticket collectors'
The earthenware topped table which displayed, on a larger scale and in greater detail, with fresh colours and crude lettering, that green quarter circle with its apex pointing towards the town centre…
The tickets themselves are described in detail:
the slip of grey cardboard covered with printed lettering: On one side in tall capitals PLEASANCE GARDENS, and then in smaller letters: Valid for one visitor, Sunday, December 2nd. And on the other side: REMEMBER that this garden is intended for recreation, not for disorderly behaviour; please keep your dignity in all circumstances'
On this winter visit:
There was scarcely anybody in the big, cheap restaurants or in the billiard-rooms; avenues, all round, bore black and white arrows directing one to the bear-pit, the stadium, the switch-back, the aviaries, the exit and the monkey-house.
We walked in silence past roundabouts with metal aeroplanes and wooden horses, … and past the station for the miniature railway where three children sat shivering in an open truck waiting to start; and past the lake, which was empty because its concrete bottom was being cleaned'.
Posters everywhere echoed: 'Come back for the New Year, come and see the fireworks'.
A later visit, in summer, followed one of the fires that feature so frequently in the novel. Belle Vue was devastated by fire in 1958, and whether this account was inspired by a real event I do not know – it may well be that whilst Manchester was plagued by an unusually large number of arson attacks over the period that Butor was there, he extrapolated from that to a fire at Pleasance Gardens, purely for narrative purposes.
In the open air cafe that is set up there in summer in the middle of the zoological section, among the wolves' and foxes' cages and the ragged-winged cranes' enclosure, the duck-ponds and the seals' basins with their white-painted concrete islands. I could see, above the stationary booths of this mammoth fairground, eerily outlined in the faint luminous haze, the tops of the calcined posts of the Scenic Railway, with a few beams still fixed to them like gibbets or like the branch-stumps that project from the peeled trunks of trees struck by lightning; and I listened to the noise of the demolition-workers' axes'
If Butor generally warmed to the Gardens, his portrayal of the animals in the Zoo is less enthusiastic – he speaks of the cries of the animals and birds mingling with the noise of demolition, of melancholy zebras and wretched wild beasts, and of their howls during the firework display. Perhaps their imprisonment chimed uncomfortably with his own sense of being trapped in the city.
From La Banlieue de l'Aube à l'Aurore (The Suburbs from Dawn to Daybreak) by Michel Butor with Translation by Jeffrey Gross
Posted by cathannabel in Literature, Michel Butor on September 15, 2013
From La Banlieue de l'Aube à l'Aurore (The Suburbs from Dawn to Daybreak) by Michel Butor with Translation by Jeffrey Gross
From Gwarlingo, a translation of a Butor poem, with a link to a whole collection of them. A wonderful find – especially as so little of Butor's work is available in English.
Summer Voyages – La Modification
Posted by cathannabel in Michel Butor on August 2, 2013
Great piece about La Modification in the Guardian's books blog.
Michel BUTOR; l'espace entre 2 villes
Posted by cathannabel in Michel Butor, The City on April 25, 2013
Ajoutez votre grain de sel personnel… (facultatif)
LES LIGNES DU MONDE - géographie & littérature(s)
On n'est pas le même partout. L'équilibre entre 2 villes ; deux pôles ; et ce qui les relie : un fil de la vierge léger léger : le trajet en train. Il y a longtemps que cette vieille édition rose de 1994 (achetée sur conseil : "tu aimes le train, c'est un roman à lire dans le train, d'autant que tu prends souvent cette ligne" (fut un temps avec arrêt à Firenze, ville non mentionnée il me semble dans le roman)) passe d'étagère en étagère. Donc près de 20 ans après – laissé mûrir le livre, commencé une fois à l'époque, prêté plusieurs fois depuis – la litanie des gares, l'aller pour Rome.
car s'il est maintenant certain que vous n'aimez véritablement Cécile que dans la mesure où elle est pour vous le visage de Rome, sa voix et son invitation, que vous ne l'aimez pas sans Rome et…
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The Original Modern
Posted by cathannabel in Michel Butor, The City, W G Sebald on April 3, 2013
cities@manchester on Manchester, the original shock city
by Brian Rosa, PhD candidate in Geography
Manchester is a city of superlatives: it was the prototypical "shock city" of the Industrial Revolution, Friedrich Engels and Karl Marx's model for everything that was abhorrent in the industrial capitalist city, and one of the birthplaces of the labor and women's suffrage movements. In its heyday, Manchester was depicted in literature of Engels, Alexis de Toqueville and later the paintings of L.S. Lowry, as an uninterrupted, chaotic anti-landscape of chimneys and smoke, strewn across a featureless topography. Its unprecedented configuration invoked equal parts awe and dread, moral panic, and tempestuous visions of the future. In 1833, Toqueville described the crowded conditions, poorly constructed housing, hulking factories, and environmental degradation of Manchester: "From the foul drain the great stream of human industry flows out to fertilize the whole world. From this filthy sewer pure gold flows. Here humanity attains its most complete…
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Michel Butor – interview in Telerama
Posted by cathannabel in Michel Butor on March 16, 2013
Michel Butor – interview in Telerama
Butor on music, silence, and Twitter


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fixed gear not fixie! makin us all look bad!! :backpedal:
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fixed gear not fixie! makin us all look bad!! :backpedal:
WAAAY to many stickers, not the cool kind. I dont like the red and gold, Mcdonalds! Take a better photo, then we can see everything, and say everything we dont like! haha but it looks pretty good.
^whoa maybe two years ago! for tarcky wheelies and keos i guess but still
mtx33's are pretty much the go to rims for fgfs 26 or 29er. h+son todestriebs are sick, halo makes some good rims, sadio...
here's my two fixed whips, have a geared bike as well, im new and this forum is crazy active! its rad jus sayin wassup if anyones in seattle hit me up lets ride! :beer:
Ive always used a Milwaukee cog and lockring on all my bikes, fixed freestyle and regular fixed, never slipped, stripped, or even made a noise even left hand drive. made in the Wisconsin by riders...
TOTAL bump here please dont spam me sorry. I registered and this is my first post after years of lurking and using the site.
I was the old moderator on TrickTrack right before it died. I messaged...