** COOL, MINIMAL PHOTOBLOG VIEW** (by the guy who invented Muxtapes)

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I take photographs because I'm too busy to blog, too lazy to write a diary and too left-footed to do much else.

I photograph bands. And unsuspecting strangers, and Wales. Sometimes I even photograph my own feet.

Tell me you didn't click on that last link.

DGJ.

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MY GEAR

Canon S95
Canon EOS 400D,
Nikon Coolpix P5100
Canon Powershot A610 and A620 (both sadly dead following two separate
no-refund E18 rip-offs),
Apple iPhone 5
Apple iPhone 4
Apple iPhone 3G (crap, obviously, but convenient)
Motorola RAZR V3 (lo-fi goodness)

And a Holga, should I ever manage to successfully load the film into it.



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ME, ELSEWHERE

GOOGLE PROFILE/DAVID JONES

BBC Radio 4 Producer/David Jones
BBC Collective editor/David Jones
BBC Movies/David Jones

Misanthropolis/Blog #1
Misanthropod/Blog #2

Friendfeed/dgjones

Flickr/dgjones

Facebook/DG Jones

Twitter/djones655321
www.last.fm/user/djones655321

LinkedIn/djones655321
Vimeo/ DG Jones

Del.icio.us/djones655321

YouTube/djones655321

Myspace/dgjones

Virb/dgjones
Librarything/djones655321

Wishlist/DG Jones

GMail/DG Jones

Technorati/djones655321

Any opinions I express on Flickr are my own and not those of my employer, the BBC.

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BROWSE ALL MY PHOTOS BY PERSON:

Abi, Amber, AmericanMatt, Aunty Barb, Baldrick, Becky, Ben Cox, Beth, Billy, Bryn, Byers, Carl Brown, Carmen, Cassie, Charlie, Charlotte, Claire, Dad, Daf, Danielle, Dave, David Thair, Ed, Emma, Farin, Fern, Gillian, Grandad, Hannah, Helen, Hirst, Jemma, Joseph, Kate, Lister, Louise, Lucy (Leddy), Lucy (Phillpotts), Lucy (Scholes), Maddy, Mason, Me, Meilyr, Mike, Miranda, Mum, Nairn, Nan, Nick, Paul (Rowland), Paul (Helen's boyfriend), Reid, Richard, Rowan, Robin, Steve (Hornby), Swygart, Tae, Tom, Uncle Phil




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"Just about everything has been photographed, or so it seems. This very insatiability of the photographing eye changes the terms of confinement in the cave, our world. In teaching us a new visual code, photographs alter and enlarge our notions of what is worth looking at and what we have a right to observe.They are a grammar and, even more importantly, an ethics of seeing. Finally, the most grandiose result of the photographic enterprise is to give us the sense that we can hold the whle world in our heads - as an anthology of images"

[Susan Sontag 1977 "In Plato's Cave", in On Photography Penguin, p.3]

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"People who film gigs on their phone aren't just doing it for the memories - they're doing it to present an image of themselves in cyberspace, where your personality is basically an enumeration of your tastes. You didn't just go to Glastonbury, you're 'the type of person who goes to Glastonbury'. To have a great cyber identity you have to record events and put them on your page. So your life in the real world is a way of gathering material for your online persona. In a way you're not really present at all."

[Wendy Fonarow 2008
Empire of Dirt: The Aesthetics and Rituals of British Indie Music ]