Gabriel de Kadt » Existence

**Kirk Shelton, skate_freak_superstar

admin — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 22:23:18 +0000

I love dafont.com. Looking for a missing font and finding that on the home page. For some things there’s Mastercard.

If that’s not enough to whet your wotsit – have a look at these classy artefacts:

Go on…

Enter

Of British expats, French electronics shops, Spanish newspapers and Canadian photographers.

admin — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 21:06:11 +0000

As a British expat in Spain I have always found Spanish newspapers hard going. Not so much due to my lack of vocabulary as the dense and repetetive style of many of the supposed better newspaper’s I’ve read. Maybe this is down to bad luck (OK add frustration of the real limits of my Spanish vocabulary) but I’m not a great fan of excessive commentary.

Anyway – I’ve found a newspaper here that I like to read. It’ll do wonders for my vocabulary. And it’s free. And it’s lovely to look at (seeing as I’m in that game).

Given away outside the FNAC (the best consumer electronics and media shops in Spain) in La Cañada, is a stand with ADN. I don’t visit La Cañada too often and ADN isn’t always there – but it is a very well crafted Berliner. The Edition I get is Malaga-centric, but with a good national and international coverage.The penultimate edition I grabbed (the November 19 edition) was full of very strong photography. The cover image was ZP (The man Zapatero) in a black suit giving a thumbs-up salute against a black background. An almost awkward composition gave half the frame to that plain background. His face well lit but half covered by the raised hand. Striking, perhaps twisted, composition very apt for politician’s portrait. On p.2 ADN reserves half a page for La fotographía. There, an arresting photo of a Canadian infantryman in Afganistan. Piercing blue eyes looking out from a heavily bearded face. Looking out of the page and straight through me. Licenced by Reuters, Finnbar O’Reilly the photographer. A bloody good one too.

A brief hiatus

admin — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 20:28:29 +0000

OK, over a year.

Lets get the content rolling along now. Old website & blog died a death due to the need for my Mac and Rapidweaver from where it was organised. Working over there without a internet connection during the week made it all a bit stale and awkward. Now – hopefully things will be as they shoud. Now running on WordPress as should always have been. Any plans to craft my own theme are on hold, maybe in time. Whilst I had liked the Sqibble theme with (lots of gadgets, feeds and fun) on a the prototype site its development is patchy and basic text ain’t so pretty. I quickly found this nice clean and very usable theme as used by this lovely young lady, via the wordpress.com front page.

Forgive the shoddyness along the way. I do. I’m very forgiving.

Oh yes content – was to be a little thing about flickr and geotagging – but What with all the excitement I leave it for another day.

An the slow process of migrating my gdekadt.com content should plod along too.

A first viewing

admin — Thu, 22 Sep 2005 19:00:57 +0000