Becoming a film buff, part XVII: Today I watched 'Bullitt', the Steve McQueen movie. No wonder that guy was the apex of cool back in the early 60s. The pursuit sequence is still plain amazing after 40 years — I think the only recent film featuring pursuits that managed to surpass Bullitt's spectacularity and adrenalin was 'Ronin'. And the rest of the movie is very good too. Very well directed, very inventive camera angles — they rarely do similar things nowdays, kids. ¶

Finally I bought myself that much-needed SLR camera. Even though I'm addicted to my pocket-sized digital camera, an SLR is a must for decent photography, as most digital shots end up looking as if they were taken on a crappy Lomo. Only with JPEG artifacts in it. So my choice went on the recentely released Minolta Dynax 5 (I think it's called Maxxum 5 in the US). I can't wait to start shooting with it! Now, if I only had enough dough to purchase developing equipment...¶