There is a certain subtle elegance about monochrome (often referred to as black and white) images. Removing color changes the focus of the image to the subject matter, the tones, textures, shadows and highlights.
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As you should know – I love to drink “real” loose leaf tea.
If I was doing this properly I would be consistently using a timer to know when my tea is perfectly brewed. Never one to go for a “standard” item, I found this:
Rather than sand falling down through the hourglass the little beads float upwards – it’s quite mesmerising to watch.
I got it from my local tea shop Pekoetea.
This is one of the better review sites out there.
Not just a review of a single item – they pick a category and then select items in that category and then narrow down until they find a winner. They explain the process and their finding along the way.
It is a US based site so all of the links tend to go to Amazon.com but there have only been a couple of times I have not found what I have been looking for on the amazon.co.uk site.
Some examples of categories would be:
I’ve watched through some pretty awful programming tutorials. As a developer someday we may inevitably strive to create one of our own. To make it easy I’ve amassed 10 tips to create the best worst programming tutorials.
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For the last month or so I have allocated a “category” to each day and done my best to schedule in advance a post in that category.
I thought that I was getting more “Victor Meldrew” in my old age and getting annoyed by trivial daily occurrences. When it came to actually documenting them – I’m coming up dry. I’m obviously much more placid than I thought I was.
So – you may know me better than I know myself – what topic of posts would you like to see from me on a Friday going forwards?
