the art of writing is discovering what you believe
Front-Page Congratulations to Al Gore on Apple.com:
“Al has put his heart and soul, and much of his life during the past several years, into alerting and educating us all on the climate crisis. We are bursting with pride for Al and this historic recognition of his global contributions.”
And the fact that he used Keynote, and by extension Apple hardware, is also a fine thing.
James Wolcott’s Blog: Calista Flockhart Confronts Cornholio: Wolcott’s Blog: vanityfair.com:
Rush Limbaugh and his fellow talk-radio troll dolls didn’t “pervert” conservatism–he didn’t lay siege to some maiden fair and debauch her virtue. Rush Limbaugh didn’t inject an “ideology of hate” into conservatism, he extracted the contemptuous, divisive animosity inherent in the Gingrich doctrine and sugared it up with comedy and his own personal saga for popular consumption. He, like Clarence Thomas, was just what the Republican overseers ordered. Rush Limbaugh is modern mainstream conservatism in all its bullying bluster, hypocrisy, jolly ignorance (global warming etc), slavish submission to military, corporate, and executive power, and slimeballing of political opponents. To believe otherwise is like putting your faith in those few remaining Republican moderates who always manage not to come through in the clutch, who put up a brief show of conscience or faint dissent before the inevitable capitulation. It’s a little late to suddenly look around and realize what sleazebags you’ve got on your team, especially since those sleazebags were there before you arrived.
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Something like this just begs to be used in some kind of dangerous activity.
Holga/Neopan 400/Rodinal 1:100 for 2 hours.
Marginal Revolution: MR Readers’ poll about Radiohead:
To all who complained of the MP3 quality: the band did that partially to save on bandwidth and partially in the hopes of keeping the album off of places like Oink, where 192 kbps is the minimum quality for torrents. That having been said, it’s almost certain that they had to mix and master the album differently for this purpose than they would for a lossless CD. Note how Thom’s vocals and Phil’s drums are so crisp compared to the guitar and bass in most of the songs. I’m looking forward to the discbox, so I can hear what I’m missing right now, and I’m sure as hell not going to complain about the quality of a product for which I chose the price.
So why 160? Why not 180 or even 191?
I expect the post-production stuff was geared toward this (I remember hearing the ZZ Top’s stuff in the 80s was mixed using car stereo speakers for the same reason). Wonder if the disc box goodies will be different? Are they really shipping vinyl?
Radiohead ‘In Rainbows’ – What price did you choose? | What price did you choose?:
Radiohead ‘In Rainbows’ – What price did you choose?
If you have pre-ordered or intend to order the download version of Radiohead’s new album In Rainbows and are curious to know what price others chose, take part in the survey.
And they’ll send you the results when the survey is done.
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Red Sweater Blog – I’ve Been Transmit’d:
I’m not anti-Linux, I just have other things to do
And the Nobel prize for literature goes to….Doris Lessing.
So what’s a good book of hers for someone who can put up anything if the writing is good (I recently read McCarthy’s Border Trilogy, though I am no fan of the Western).
Looks like the Golden Notebook is considered the strongest of her works: agree? Disagree?
Ansel Adams, that is. I used a red filter with this roll of film, to see if I could get some better separation in the sky’s tones. Earlier results look good. A 29 Red might be even more persuasive. This was made with a Holga on Ilford HP5+, souped in Rodinal 1:100 for 2 hours.
