Every picture is a memory. Every time we press the shutter on the camera we are freezing a moment of history so we can preserve it forever. It sounds monumentous doesn't it, but it's not: Facebook will certainly tell you otherwise. I log on each day to see the myriad of photos that my so-called 'friends' vomit onto my homepage. Not only do people upload a sequence of the same picture - I have two of them so why not use them - but the other people in the picture will also post their versions of it. The result? Monster albums clogging up the internet providing the CIA with plenty of material should anyone need blackmailing in the future...


It is an age-old question, though. How do we make our holiday photos interesting to the general public? How do we step away from the necessity to have 'been there' to really appreciate someone else's pictures? And, while we're at it, how can we remove this insane fashion for de-tagging and portraying this hideously false image on Facebook? There is no hard and fast solution - no tried and tested method to solve this, but I think I may have hit upon a compromise.


May I invite you to read on...

Tuesday, 28 February 2012

Grom! For My Love!

One of the things I did to celebrate my birthday was going to see my friends in Padova. We had decided to go, see the city, get something to eat, then go out in the evening to a club, classily named as Fishmarket.

This we managed, and then some. But we also managed something else. Padova boasts something Verona does not: a Grom. Now Grom, despite having a disgusting-sounding name, is actually an ice cream parlour, making some of the best ice cream I have ever tasted. Ever.

We Grommed. Or rather we had some Grom ice cream and decided it could quite easily be made into a verb: if we can Google, we can most certainly Grom.

What then began was a Grom-athon: we substituted the word 'Grom' into films, books, songs, bands - you name it, we Grommed it. Think of 'Grom Against the Machine'; 'Grom with the Wind'; 'Gromsters Inc.'; Have I Grommed You Lately?'... I could go on, I have them written down somewhere...

Anyway in this vein, I can introduce the next picture:

You Know You Make Me Wanna Grom!
Padova, Italy, 2010
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Location: Padua, Italy

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