And

Thanks, but I still don't know what that is!

Congrats mr winner, and everyone else.

Thanks for the votes people.

So - is anyone ever going to let us in on what the black square was? Or is it going to remain a mystery forever?

1. Rumblecat (9)

2. King Antonius (3)

3. Nicky (16)

Some brilliant entries this month, well done guys

Any chance we can get the voting done asap, as it's easter it's gives us more time to get out there and get shooting...

This, please. I have new lens and want to play.

Just picked up a 35mm prime for my D60, down to £169 at jessops too. Which is pretty good.

Hopefully will get to give it a good run out over easter.

I have the original Star wars trilogy on VHS and the extra muppets version on DVD.

I haven't owned a vcr for about 5 years but can't quite bring myself to bin them

errr its just a black square??

It's not. But it's not far off.

I don't get it. Is it a dog again?

because I blatently won't take anything else this month, even though every competition I think about something I could do, and I really do want to start entering this again, and because dogs CAN look up

Now that is a picture of a dog, and what a fine looking dog she is too, is she yours?

Not hugely happy with this so might change it. But as i forgot to submit last month's...

Am loving this, melancholy hill and empire ants are the standouts for me. it's not quite as good as demon days, but then very very few things are,

7

5

12

Good stuff,

Got tickets for the screamadelica gigs in november, should be good if Primal Scream the band turn up rather than Primal Scream's Drunken Pogues tribute act.

list

Fuck it, forgot screamadelica and 2nd toughest.

arses.

I blame George "epic cunt" Lamb. He's like the bastard offspring of steve wright and hale & pace. Having him on in the morning has tarnished the start to my weekends.

Well, I finished the game, then did the zombie dlc, then started playthrough 2.

When I downloaded this I took my character back to playthrough 1 and warped to this dlc.

Result, 6 levels between me and the enemies, it's a joke, thinking of binning it off and just running through playthrough 2 as quick as and then trying it. Or (much more likely) not bothering and finishing off Mass effect 2.

I'm currently playing with a lvl 42 siren. I havent seen an enemy in the dlc greater than lvl 36. Played it for about an hour and a half, and just blitzed through it, an unstoppable killing machine mowing down everything i see, with no need for tactics, guile or even getting out of the way of their bullets.

I also didn't see a single gun worth picking up due to the huge discrepancy in levels.

And as a final fuck you, as I was a way higher level than the game I was getting 3 xp per kill, and basically nothing for missions. They were all trivial, so I maybe moved 1/3rd of the way to my next level.

Kind of makes the whole endeavour pointless and dull.

So in short, no challenge, no loot, no levelling up = no fun.

Poor, very poor, very disappointing.

Quick question, does anyone know whether you can still play online with folks if you don't have all dlc? I've got Ned and have this queued but skipped the underdome one as it looked a bt weak, will this prevent me playing with people who did get the underdome?

That was extraordinarily difficult and i'm already thinking of other albums that maybe should be on the list.

For what it's worth:

01 – Massive attack - Blue lines

02 - Spiritualised - Ladies and gentlemen we are floating in space

03 - Massive attack - Mezzanine

04 - DJ Shadow - Entroducing

05 - The Stone Roses - The Second Coming

06 – Radiohead - The Bends

07 - Teenage Fanclub - Bandwagonesque

08 – Leftfield - Leftism

09 – Portishead - Roseland NYC

10 - Chemical Brothers - Exit planet Dust

11 – Ride - Going Blank again

12 - Beastie Boys - ILL communication

13 – Faithless - Reverence

14 – Air - Moon Safari

15 – Blur - Parklife

16 – Verve - A Northern Soul

17 - Massive attack - Protection

18 - Happy Mondays - Pills Thrills and Belly aches

19 - Neds Atomic dustbin - Godfodder

20 – Unkle - Psyence Fiction

01 – Massive attack - Blue lines

02 - Spiritualised - Ladies and gentlemen we are floating in space

03 - Massive attack -Mezzanine

04 - DJ Shadow - Entroducing

05 - The Stone Roses - The Second Coming

06 – Radiohead - The Bends

07 - Teenage Fanclub - Bandwagonesque

08 – Leftfield - Leftism

09 – Portishead - Roseland NYC

10 - Chemical Brothers - Exit planet Dust

11 – Ride - Going Blank again

12 - Beastie Boys - ILL communication

13 – Faithless - Reverence

14 – Air - Moon Safari

15 – Blur - Parklife

16 – Verve - A Northern Soul

17 - Massive attack - Protection

18 - Happy Mondays - Pills Thrills and Belly aches

19 - Neds Atomic dustbin - Godfodder

20 – Unkle - Psyence Fiction

They looks fine to me.

And I was so tempted to Photoshop this into an Odelay! cover:

Be my guest

leave sRGB well alone - it makes the colours dull and flat - the difference between it and Adobe 1998 is quite apparent. if you open an sRGB file in Photoshop and change it to Adobe 1998 you will see what i mean.

but it is no good just switching to one of the included profiles - if you are serious you'll need to buy something like ColorMunki to calibrate your screen so it gives the best output in relation to your surroundings - ambient light, artificial light etc. of course, the best thing to do is to calibrate and work in complete darkness but only freaks do that.

i have my MacBook (and external monitor) set to Adobe 1998 variants, spent about an hour on each getting the colours right. you can use OSX's built-in calibration tool (open System Prefs., then Displays, then Colour, Calibrate...) as a stop gap. it doesn't create a 'proper' profile as it doesn't measure anything like a hardware add-on would but it will help you understand the calibration process.

in our office we Munki our screens about once a month because of the change in light levels throughout the year. calibration is essential if you print your work - you want what appears on the screen to be as close as possible to what is put onto paper. whereas doing work for screen poses problems because everyone has their monitor set up differently, plus various browsers (and OS's) display colours in their own unique way.

I'd previously done the apple calibration steps but am now on Adobe 1998, looks pretty good, will stick with that for a while. Cheers

This is a pretty good (and not too technical) read: Chris Marquardt

He did a podcast on it too: Link

Thank's I'll take a look.

Hi

Been reading the enormous book of photography my wife bought me for giftmas and it recommends you set your monitor to an industry standard calibrated setting.

Just wondering what you guys use?

I've an imac 20 inch and was using the imac calibrated setting, but it recommends either sRGB or Adobe 1998, the SRGB is very similar in appearance to the calibrated mac, but the Adobe one looks quite different.

Also, have I fucked up my photo's? they look good (to me) on my mac, but does this translate to the web?

Here's my flickr stream, http://www.flickr.com/photos/24274413@N06/ , do the colours look ok? or overdone?

Thanks

Aperture 3. Anyone got it yet? Worth getting? or no?

Uploaded a quick vid to youtube to show you:

(Probably best to watch it on there as you can view it in 720p)

Awesome thanks, i'll check it out when i get home

Manchester. It's an average house spider, about the size of 10p coin. They're ugly fuckers up close.

Edit: WTF, I've just noticed it's got 10 legs.

The front two are teeth... I say you take off an nuke the site from orbit, it's the only way to be sure.

I made my first attempt of a "Mini Planet" today:

Amazing, how?

1. Rumblecat 12

2. Popesmokesdope 13

3. McMond 11

Some great shots this month, and i've already failed one of my new year resolutions as I don't think i've managed to turn my camera on this month.