I do love the way tabloids hype up stories. Take for instance the Suns coverage of Razorlight at Little Noise on Sunday.

The most serious man in rock became a laughing stock after getting stroppy about people chatting during the Mencap charity gig at the Union Chapel in Islington, north London, on Sunday.

I was there for the entirety of the show and I don’t remember him once moaning about people talking through the show. I don’t recall the drummer saying the comment to relax, but I was at the back, so it’s highly possible I didn’t hear it.

I also like the way the press relates to sound problems during the show. What makes me laugh is that no one knows that Razorlight didn’t show for the their sound check. They took on in ear monitors, which hadn’t been checked, and got a bad result because of it. It’s all well and good blaming the people behind the technical stuff, but you can only go so far before people won’t want to work with you.

Sunday has been the worst night so far. How comes The Killers, Stereophonics, Adele, Glasvegas, Cage the Elephant, Damien Rice and many more to come, can manage to produce a sound in that venue, yet Razorlight can’t? Oh yes. That’s right. Johnny Borrell.

There’s some funny photographs of photographers over at the following website.
I particularly liked the one that you can see to the left, featuring some rather inquisitive lemur’s and a camera that’s been placed on the floor. There are a few slightly not safe for work images, so be careful if you’re currently at work.

Last night saw the celebration by Canon of ten years of the Ixus range of compact cameras.
Whilst I wasn’t invited as a guest, I did have the luck of working on the event and getting to see all of the presentations.

The day consisted of a conference during the afternoon where photos taken by many top fashion photographers were exhibited. Each of these photos was later auctioned off and the proceeds given to the Red Cross.
The evening started with a presentation by many different people, including the chairman of the design museum, the Head of Canon Consumer Imaging Europe - Mogens Jensen, and the London fashion week president.

Throughout the presentation, guests were presented with different videos detailing the creation and rise to popularity of the Canon Ixus range. We got to meet the original designer of the very first model of the Ixus, Yasushi Shiotani and another designer of some Ixus models whose name escapes me.

Also to note was the mention of the new DIGIC III processor, which will be used in the newer models of the Ixus, soon to be released here in the UK and Europe. Interesting to note, no press release has been made in Europe (that I could find) detailing the existence of use of the DIGIC III processor!

Some of these new cameras were previewed in another area where all guests could try the cameras out and get prints from the photos that they took. I didn’t manage to get to this area during the evening, but I did see some of the cameras the day before and have to say they look pretty smart!
Most of the new Ixus range of cameras are made from titanium as opposed to the stainless steel that most are made from and have a higher pixel rating.

There were also two very special cameras displayed during the presentation. Two Canon Digital IXUS 850 IS encrusted with diamonds. This camera is due to be released some time in October. These two very limited edition versions were auctioned off with proceeds again going to the Red Cross.

All in all, I think it was a pretty successful day for Canon. Everyone seemed to be having fun, even the Nikon photographer who had to hire in Canon equipment because he wasn’t allowed to use his Nikon equipment!

I’ve been pulling some rather long hours recently and i’ve paid the price by getting ill.
Admittedly, that was at the end of last week, but i’ve been so busy i’ve not actually gotten rid of the entirety of my cold (or whatever illness it is!)

The past three days has been an interesting one. I found out today that it’s a press release for the new Canon Ixus range of cameras.
Maybe i’ll see if i can blag a free camera for all the blood and sweat i’ve released recently!