How does this work?

http://www.milaadesign.com/wizardy.html

I worked this out in mere seconds, of course.

This Year's Model

Felt the urge to take photos yesterday for the first time in months.

Framing somewhat off.

The cat with soft porn lighting.

And a zoom lens, also with soft porn lighting.

There you go.

Corporate Cultures

If you thought Japan was all the same, go work for an agency.

You see them all.

The banks, the breweries, the lycra sellers, the gravestone makers. The curers of our sicknesses, the exploiters of our vanities, the profiteers from our vices, the suppliers of our brands. House builders, gadget makers, copper miners, bond traders.

Conservative monoliths with dark, high-ceilinged buildings and funeral atmospheres. Fashionably white-furnitured IT startups whose bright modern trendiness masks incompetence, brilliance or more of the same. The ones who think they are cool and forward-thinking but aren't; the ones who are proud they aren't but are. The quiet, the hardworking, the incompetent, the naïve. The brash, the proud, the opportunistic, the exploiting. The self-appointed bearers of all burdens; those happily passing through.

Those you respect, those due a fall. The ones time passes by—no idea, no care. The ones who care a lot and still have no idea. The ones we need more than they need us. The ones that know. Those with patience beyond any call of duty, and sweetness to match. Those to crucify, or push off a wall.

The aloof, the anal, the abject, and the rude. The friendly ones, happy, happy. The quietly kind-hearted silently fixing our mistakes. Loud correctors of mistakes not made. The drunks, the socialites, the recluses and the whores. Mutes by day, hedonists by night.

I'm talking companies, not people. There are all kinds out there. At an agency, you don’t get sucked in to only one. You get to step inside, look around, then go home.

Howth Head Circuit: Sunsets, Old Walls and Cottages on Cliffsides

The sun sets over Dublin Bay, seen from the Howth side, on another low winter sky.

Another Howth sunset.

Before the sun went down.

Happy New Year folks. We've fixed our comment spam problem and normal service resumes.