saved by the peg

Yesterday my mac died, it wouldn't reboot no matter what I tried.
Lucky for me F heroically resuscitated it after spending all evening and the next morning rebooting it.
I was mightily relieved as I've a lot of work to do on my mac this week.

The saga of the long demise of my power book began over a year ago when the screen started behaving oddly and I was told it wasn't worth fixing.
I've been holding out since then and saving my pennies for a new one but a few weeks ago things took a turn for the worse when the screen finally gave up the ghost. Somehow it would only come into focus with my finger pushing onto the screen.
F saw this and promptly clipped a peg onto it. So obvious (to him) and such a brilliant solution.
However, my computer woes were not over when later in the afternoon I noticed smoke coming out of the adapter - not good.
Another evening spent by F who managed to rewire the plug.

My mac survives to live another day or hopefully just until I finish my photo editing and can leave it behind to quietly rest in peace while I'm in New Zealand..

concrete honey part II

Images from the roof of La Cité Radieuse in Marseille where artist Olivier Darné performed an hommage to the sun as it went down with cellist Didier Petit.
Afterwards there was a honey inspired aperitif and then screenings of films notably a film by Maurice Chaudière.

concrete honey part I

The artist in residence at Le Merlan cultural centre, Olivier Darné, set up a series of hives on the roof of the building, where bees produced honey from the surrounding estates of Le Merlan, in northern Marseille. He's called his project Miel Béton (Concrete Honey). The honey is in fact very pure, as the bees don't collect any pesticides etc in the city, compared to in the countryside.
His project culminated in an hommage to the sun with cellist maurice Chaudière on the roof of Le Corbusier's Cité Radieuse. This was followed by tasting of the honey and a series of films screened on the original concrete outdoor screen designed by Corbusier.
I'll put images of the evening at La Cité Radieuse up on the next post.
It was very good on toast for breakfast!