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...

Monday, 19 March 2012

Trenta Tre Trentini

My radio involvement was going nicely. I was properly established as part of the team and we were actually making some headway with the student body. Our plans were gradually getting more and more elaborate and after a version of CSI, a remake of the original Star Wars films, it only made sense that now we go for three Top Gear-inspired races across Bella Italia.

The first race pitted a lift against my legs and a flight of stairs; the second saw a three-way spat across Verona - who would win out of a runner, a bike, and a bus? The third race was going to have to be something special - it was going to have to take us outside the medieval walls of the city, but where?


We chose Trento because it took one hour on the train and one hour in the car - I genuinely didn't know who was going to win. I was on the train with one co-presenter, and the other had some merry men to deal with in the form of some other Erasmus students.

We raced. If you want to know who won, watch the video. But after all that, we were in Trento, an hour out of Verona and to be honest once we'd wandered round for a while, we all got bored. The only solution to our problems was first, to Grom, second to jump...

The Victory Jump
Trento, Italy, 2010

...and third, to go home.

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