Rubens Blog
Rubens Blog
Ruben Hillier
Hi I am Ruben Hillier. My handle, since back in the day, is tregeagle. My pronouns are he/him.
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It was trivial to lookup the areas that Gurdjieff's wrote about in, "Travels With Remarkable Men". I used an ai to convert the locations to gpx files and plot out a series of arbitrary journeys to those areas that used to fascinate me as...
The astonishing temperatures over January came to an end a in a few moments after the arrival of this cloud of dust. Fat ice cold rain drops followed as the clouds flickered and rumbled. We had about 40 minutes of sparse cooling rain...
As I already posted, I bought a camera . I enjoy the process of consciously composing pictures and my NEX-5R is lots of fun. I recently discovered that there is a market for lens converters . I bought a Canon 50mm lens from a lovely chap...
The sky was getting ready to storm as I took this. The tide rushing out, sand swirling in the deep-blue fast-running water. We are taking a Christmas break in my old home, Sawtell. I went for a walk along Boambee creek to Trapdoors, what...
Lily, Cosmo and Davo. Perhaps they could form a band?. I read somewhere that Lily Allen had released a new album. I remembered liking her trashy pop back in Thailand when I was doing the Muay Thai with Ev. I went poking around the...
I took the doorbell camera off to recharge in revenge it took this extremely unflattering picture of my man boobs, I blurred out my face in sheer embarrassment. From this picture alone you will be able to see that I am a man who likes...
Sony NEX-5R A few months ago I bought myself a 12 year old camera. The Sony NEX-5R was surprisingly cheap until I realised the menus were locked into Japanese only. A compact camera with a large-sensor. One of the early Sony E-Mount...
A magical moment as the Straddie ferry leaves the mist behind and heads into the sunrise A trip to Straddie The only space left on the morning ferry was the 6am run. Zaida and JB were game. A storm the night before had left pre-dawn...
At the Vulture/Boundary st crossing in West End in Brisbane This morning while JB was writing cards to his kids, I walked over to Bent Books. The sign read, "Open 10ish to 4ish". It was 10ish and raining so obviously they were closed. I...
A flower erupts out of one of the cacti we saved from Alan's yard. In the middle of winter last year our poor neighbour Alan was killed when his house burnt down . We still think of Alan and that awful night. During the height of our...
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I recently went to the local at gallery with my visiting Ma & JB. I've been in Broken Hill for five years and had never been. My first year or so was written off by the great pandemic panic and it only just re-occurred to me that a...
In which I inhale 185 years of vintage lead dust It's been a busy couple of months in our household. we've been fixing up the partially collapsed room. During the renovations we settled on calling it a pantry. We are also trying to...
A trike bike I snapped in Thailand Back in 2008 I had been using Twitter for a while and thought it was pretty cool that you could text an update and have it appear on the web. A friend of mine set up a StatusNet server which was really...
a selfie before the neurotoxicity set in I'm pulling down an old sagging ceiling this morning. I have to pause between each couple of planks. The dust is such a fine haze I can barely see across the little enclosed room. ... Permalink