HiddenEntries (A Wholly Owned Cynthia Publishing Company Subsidiary Blog)

All right, all right, ya’ ex-colonists! Take it easy! Your friendly fellow-humans from The Philippines are pretty much twice-over subjects: originally by Spain, then by the U.S. So that’s why we have a little more Western savvy (especially as regards Christianity & the English tongue) than other Far Easterners. Yet all that overlordship did not translate to an overstimulation of the gene pool, and your typical Pilipino fellow-human is going to be stuck on the short side of things.

Tchaikovsky & The Fireworks at The Amphitheater last night. Boom!

All right, all right, ya’ wild Olympics-viewers! Take it easy! We do not always stan John Williams; after all that music, those same themes of his keep popping-up in every score, and then our ears no longer take interest in the sounds. Besides, too much unnecessary & phony commissioning from broadcasters & other Big Cinema mucky-mucks. It becomes this way also for mopes like Hans Zimmer etc. For the classics, we stick with less-commerce-driven scorers like Korngold & B. Herrmann.

Home again. Nothing like it. Yahweh is merciful & Allahu Akbar!

Of course the star in the branding has — count ’em! — six points! Magen David! Goldstar >>>>>> Mogen David 20/20! MD 20/20! Mad Dog!

The sun here is something else. If you don’t start shooting just after dawn or just before sunset, even ISO 100 might start drifting into overexposure unless you narrow the aperture and speed-up the shutter; unreal. However, this ungodly incandescence came in handy for the telephoto close-ups we were pointing toward. Yes, we all know the superzoom is a parlor trick, a novelty, and not a serious picture-box; nonetheless, by jamming our back into a wall, bending the knees a little and widening the stance just past shoulder-width, bracing ourselves to bear the brunt of an imaginary onrushing water buffalo or just a yippy chihuahua even, we held this thing steady enough to fire-off a reasonably clear snap at 83x optical zoom, or a focal length of approx. 2000mm., with the sun giving us enough the needed exposure at that distance to keep the shutter fast enough for us to that to avoid pretty much any trace of blur, and without the added graininess of a higher-speed ISO. Allahu akbar!

At the intersection of Herzl & Rothschild, which could easily be considered the heart of Israel’s second-largest city.

Shalom from Israel now. After three days in Tel Aviv, on the fourth day we rose to make a day-trip to Jerusalem. TLV –> JLM. You know, destruction of temples, Crusades, 20th-century street-level combat: the most-contested of all contested places. And, as depicted in the snap shown in today’s lede, the site of a Messiah / Savior / Redeemer or just plain prophet or even mob-condemned criminal fulfilling his scriptural destiny. Who knows?

Stripping down to a bare-bones blogging sked for the next couple of weeks — catch-as-catch-can! Is that how they say it in your language; we are new to your country!

Friday!