How I love looking for photos (or Week 3)

Well thank yoooo for introducing me to the wonderful world of Flickr.

As you can see I couldn't choose which photo to upload into my blog, so I went with both.

Both these photos I have never seen before and were found on Flickr using the 'Tag' search function. Both follow my blog theme of fitting library learning in with my insatiable hobby of guitar effects.

While the photo of some posters guitar effects boxes is pretty obvious, the photo below is a rare concert pic of The Babys, taken in 1979 by ... and uploaded in Jan this year. There are also recent photos of John Waite, the ex-lead singer under the babys tag in Flickr of around the time I saw him in New York last August, but this photo, taken b4 they broke up in 1980, features lead guitarist Wally Stocker, who on there 5 studio albums has my favourite guitar tone and melodies of any guitarist ever, just in front of David Gilmour.

Will Learning 2.0 Fx me?

I've never created a blog before, so I'm already off and running into what life-long learning is all about, which in my funny way of looking at things is "keeping up with the youngsters".

I'm looking forward to getting to familiarise myself with sites I've never used before, Week 3 using Flickr will be a first for me, and from the questionaire we filled out in week 1 there's a few more I've never had much to do with to come!

I've read blogs and posted on them before though, in the broader sense. The site 'Gilmourish' has a blog each couple of weeks and I'm addicted to reading, and writing in questions and communicating, with the guitar guru Bjorn on that, and I've learned heaps about effects through him alone.

Distortion- I thought at least one of the blog examples in week 2 was more just a website, not much of a blog site at all, and I can see that the line can be a bit fuzzy at times if the site has information added regularly. A bit of Chorus can be added here as a few colleagues I've spoken to agree with me about that site.

Delay- Our library work PC's cannot link to sites like Youtube, GMail, facebook and myspace, so this caused and will continue to cause delays in doing those type of explorations, as we have to get time on the public internet computers, or I guess do it at home. Work's been good about it though, showing the clips via projection for group viewing, and supporting emails. But it took me 'til Friday to be able to start the blog because I couldn't do the joining GMail part until then. At least we can access blogspot, ie Learning 2.0 course and my blog, from our workstations. Boy that last bit of delay had heaps of distortion in it, delays can cause that though!!