I recently had a photo-shoot at the Hotel Pelirocco with the Tight Lip team. The photographs were taken by Sam Collins and will be used to illustrate a magazine project I participated in (details to follow). The image chosen to go with my bio was this one:
But my favourite was the one below. There's something magical about the shadows in black-and-white photographs. Thanks, Sam!
I've recently been reading the Runner's Handbook. It's a good source of background information and I'm learning a lot from it. One thing I've learned is that through running I reduce my risk of dying from heart disease. I'm pleased about this – I doubt heart attacks are much fun. What the book doesn't seem to focus on is the implication of reducing my risk of heart disease.
Thing is, I'm almost certainly still going to die; which means I'm now more likely to die of something other than heart disease. I had a look on wikipedia and found their List of Causes of Death by Rate. To summarise:
So, to alter the advice in the runner's handbook, I've not decreased my chance of dying of heart disease so much as significantly improved my chances of dying from disease or cancer. Thanks, healthy lifestyle!
I've been meaning to post this photo for a while (I took it back on the 16th). It's from an event where Jake Spicer did a live painting of Rosy Carrick at Art@TaylorMade. I've seen lots of paintings but not much painting. I arrived in time to see Jake make his first marks and loved watching how Jake picked out which lines from the real world he was would use. Jake said that he can't look at a person without mapping out their face for a portrait or planning the shading.
