They See Me Wheelin', Third Wheelin'

Ali and me sharing an intimate moment, but then Eve had to arrive...

Apologies for the bad composition of this photo, we rushed it and in my defense I was using the wrong lens, tripod and lighting setup (we needed candles!). And it was hard to keep a straight face...
More technically, I'm starting to hate color photography. Couple of reasons, but the main one is color profiling. I know my laptop is wrongly calibrated, so I'll pick up the spyder calibrator from photosoc tomorrow. Also, the profiles vary from Photoshop, Lightroom, Picasa and Blip. A real pain.

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Anyways, another great day for the books!
TEDx Warwick happened today and it was even better than last year's! Some brilliant performances and speeches, it only got better as it progressed. Standouts:

- Luke Bawazer gave a talk on genetically evolved technology, whereby new materials are produced via biological (DNA) means and then selected based on their properties. This is the future.
- Fabian Oefner, a swiss photographer who combines science and photography to produce mind-blowing high speed photos. He's done project very similar to my Bass Sculpture one last year, but on a much larger scale! Basically, expect some more of that soon! Check out some of his stuff here.
- Derek Paravancini (and his mentor Adam Ockerfeld). OH MY GOD! Highlight of the highlights, watching this virtuoso pianist. Derek has an incredible story, having been born 3 months and a half premature and blind. His performances were beautiful, I recommend seeing him if you ever get the chance, youtube doesn't do him justice in any way.
- Dickson Despommier, who talked about the new industry of vertical farming. The concept of urban farming is really interesting and seems very promising. His speech was particularly good, by showing various projects that are currently in place or being built, such as the Plantagon (god, I love that name).
- Bob Nameng, a man from Soweto, who had an interesting story about his life and work with underprivileged youths in South Africa. His story telling was brilliant and when he mentioned a couple of Bob Marley lines, that was it. One thing about music, when it hits you feel no pain.
- Ben Yeger, an former Israeli soldier, who had a very moving speech about dehumanization. If I recommend watching any of the speeches when they go online, I'd recommend his.
- Nikky Smedley, who talked passionately about her experiences teaching children. Oh yeah, she was also the actress who played Lala in the Teletubbies. Boom.
- Philip Craven, Paralympic Committee President, who rounded off the conference quite well, talking about the importance and role of sports in society.

Overall, TEDx was brilliant and if you still haven't been to one of the conferences, I recommend it. After that, Eve and me went to Ali's for some raclette! Hence the photo. Man that was some good food, the likes of which I don't eat enough here in the UK.

Took the bus back to Leam, picked up Stana and Lia at home and headed to Kelseeeeeeey's. Many nights spent there recently. Too many games of pool to count, and we headed to Robbin's Well after with Cooney as well for a couple more drinks.

These last couple of days have been very representative of what uni should be like, I gotta say. Big nights out mixed with university work mixed with chilling with friends mixed with educational conferences mixed with sport mixed with casual nights out mixed with etc etc, you get the point.

So much TL;DR...