We’ve Got A Bone To Pick With You
The Royal Shakespeare Company is to stop using a real skull in Hamlet as it is "too distracting for the audience". The use of Polish pianist Andre Tchaikovsky's skull had been kept a carefully guarded secret but leading man David Tennant disclosed that the skull was real and had belonged to a Shakespeare fan, who left his skull to the RSC in 1982.
FOOTNOTE: Dying shame.
Showing posts with label Head start. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Head start. Show all posts
Sunday, December 07, 2008
Friday, October 03, 2008
Head Start
Maybe This Was Their First Screen Test
These shots were taken on the concourse at Flinders Street Station here in Melbourne on Wednesday evening. It’s school holidays here, so I met Mrs Authorblog and two of the Authorbloglets after work. We spent some time in the city on a beautiful, balmy spring evening before walking down to Flinders to catch a train home.
I had just walked through the ticket validating machine when my son nudged me and pointed to these four people wired up and wearing monitors on their heads. Naturally, I had to take the shot, so I told the rest of the family to carry on.
Now here was the dilemma. Should I walk up close and try and capture just one or two of them? Or should I try and take the broad view and get all four into one frame? I had to take into account the fact that this was rush hour and I would have commuters hurrying past me as I tried to compose the shot.
There was a train coming in less than two minutes, so I just followed my instincts and took a horizontal frame with all four of them in the shot. But only three of the screens were visible, so of course I had to take another shot - and I was lucky that the two commuters rushing past didn’t actually obscure my view.
Then, as I heard the train approaching, I fired off a couple more shots. Yes, I made the train. No, the rest of the family weren’t concerned. They’re used to me going walkabout with my camera.
I had just walked through the ticket validating machine when my son nudged me and pointed to these four people wired up and wearing monitors on their heads. Naturally, I had to take the shot, so I told the rest of the family to carry on.
Now here was the dilemma. Should I walk up close and try and capture just one or two of them? Or should I try and take the broad view and get all four into one frame? I had to take into account the fact that this was rush hour and I would have commuters hurrying past me as I tried to compose the shot.
There was a train coming in less than two minutes, so I just followed my instincts and took a horizontal frame with all four of them in the shot. But only three of the screens were visible, so of course I had to take another shot - and I was lucky that the two commuters rushing past didn’t actually obscure my view.
Then, as I heard the train approaching, I fired off a couple more shots. Yes, I made the train. No, the rest of the family weren’t concerned. They’re used to me going walkabout with my camera.
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