a crank’s progress

film question: your experiences/insights? - f295: The Art of Lensless Imaging:
Yep. This is the golden age of BandW, in some ways. Sure, paper suppliers are dropping like flies and we’ve lost two film manufacturers in the past couple years (AgfaFoto and Konica-Minolta, via different routes), but I can *still* buy more different [...]

I still can’t believe these scams actually work. This is so unbelievable as a legal document, it boggles the mind.

I’m tempted to play along with this clown and see what happens, but not enough.

self-portrait with truck

Originally uploaded by pdb206.

Accidental double-exposure on two different cameras.
The smaller person — me — with the umbrella was taken behind my house on my cigar-box camera. I somehow neglected to flip the film holder before dropping it into a camera loaned to [...]

Ghostly Geese/Green Lake/Seattle

Originally uploaded by pdb206.

1 minute exposure on the north shore of Green Lake. The timeless look of this is aided by the disappearance of the skyline: the Space Needle has been washed out completely. Cropping might help, but I kinda like the framing [...]

Shorter Brig. Gen. Kevin Ryan (ret’d) writes in the Christian Science Monitor:
While in Moscow as US Defense attaché from 2001 to 2003, I received several calls from Russians with a remarkable and unexpected request. They wanted to join the United States Army.
I often think of those phone calls now as I consider the efforts our [...]

One dead, five injured in downtown shooting:
There’s been a shooting downtown at the Jewish Federation Building. [King 5's coverage, complete with video]
My house overlooks a large synagogue and a construction project that will become the home of a jewish Community Center and a Hebrew school, in addition to the facilities already in place. Do [...]

I tried Delicious Library tonight, finding yet another use for my new camcorder.
It’s as cool as you may have heard (I realize I may be the very last person to try it, so I’m not sure why I’m writing this) and tempting to put to full use. Given how many things are already claiming my [...]

Devil Titty:
They’re almost inevitably prudes who believe our bodies are to be secreted away lest Jesus weep, but if the Almighty had a problem with women getting their tits out in public, then he would have put our nipples on our thumbs.

I read some of the quotes on this when the story came out a [...]

DSC_2541
Originally uploaded by HRNewYork.
Took me a second to get this. Note the original poster’s nom de Flickr.

OpenDarwin Shutting Down:
OpenDarwin Shutting Down
OpenDarwin was originally created with the goal of providing a development environment for building and developing Mac OS X sources as well as developing a standalone Darwin OS derivative. OpenDarwin was meant to be a development community and a proving ground for fixes and features for Mac OS X and Darwin, [...]