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I have been experimenting with cyanotypes.

The cyanotype process predates photography and is a kind of sun print, using simple chemistry to sensitize paper and the sun’s UV radiation to expose the image. The prints are made as contact prints.

This took 2+ hours to expose in my kitchen windowbox, propped at a 45° angle: light in October at the 47th parallel not so strong.

Continue reading “primitive photography”

Some noise from a day or two ago. GarageBand 3 is a lot better behaved with slower hardware: multitracking is possible.

• I think they really do want the world to end
  how else to explain such a cavalier attitude toward basic statecraft? They didn’t even have to make the arrangements, just enforce them.
  (tags: worstpresidentever)
• Beauty is in the Processing-Time of the Beholder
  easy on the eyes, indeed: more than a kernel of truth in that saying apparently.
  (tags: culture beauty evolution)
• Marine For Life – Email from Iraq
  what it’s really like
  (tags: Iraq)
• Large Format Lens Kits
  a good reference, it seems
  (tags: photography)

• some faith-based thoughts on the upcoming midterm elections
  Have you voted because you love those people or feel charity toward them, or have you voted because you wanted to slap someone else back?
  (tags: politics values)

• True Blue (cyanotype)
  upcoming experiments with this
  (tags: photography outboardbrain)
• Love and hate: back on the Mac
  Chad reminds us that all computers/operating systems suck: pick the one that sucks less.
  (tags: Apple)

• Whiskey Bar: The Way of the Whigs
  Billmon displays his encyclopedic knowledge of American history once more: the demise of the Whigs, the birth of Lincoln’s GOP, and what it might mean for today’s two parties.
  (tags: democrats politics Whigs Lincoln)
• PlantAmnesty: Tree Biology Pop Quiz
  I failed: how did you do?
  (tags: trees plantamnesty)
• Al Gore, John McCain, Bill Clinton, Bob Dole, George H.W. Bush, Ronald Reagan, Fritz Mondale, Jimmy Carter, Gerald Ford, Richard Nixon, George McGovern, Hubert Humphrey, Barry Goldwater, or Dwight Eisenhower Would Have Prevented 9/11?
  As I look at the public information that has dribbled out over the last few years, I increasingly think that the answer is Yes.
  (tags: 9/11 politics iraq osamabinforgotten)

• The Editors have a plan
  “Basically a party of criminals and pedophiles.” That’s the national campaign, right there. No one is too stupid to understand this.
  (tags: politics)
• The US Torture Bill as C code: debug this, please
  common programming error (= vs ==) as political policy
  (tags: politics values terra)
• Chiseling another line in my Articles of Damnation: Top Ten Reasons Religion is Like Pornography
  we ought to regard religion like we do other human foibles: regulate it, curb it’s excesses, shame those who overindulge, and for jebus’ sake, stop treating it like some exalted, privileged, glorious endeavor. Any idiot can be religious, after all, and ma
  (tags: politics culture religion)
• noted without comment
  Bush: “Democrats shouldn’t be trusted to run Congress.”
  Invisible subhead: “Because they’ll impeach my sorry ass.”
  (tags: politics worstpresidentever)
• The Mahablog » Moment of Truth?
  a full run down of what the kleptocrats knew and when they knew it.
  (tags: 9/11 security politics osamabinforgotten worstpresidentever)
• Blackbeltjones/Work: » Wikipedipocalypse
  The silicon-virus combined with climate-change-server-meltdown means that the internet is going to be switched off tomorrow. What 5 things are you going to print out?
  (tags: memes internet apocalypse culture survival lists)

it’s worth noting:

it’s worth noting that the behavior of the Republican leadership is not representative of the people who voted for them.

There’s nothing wrong with voting your values, and these people claim to represent them.

You trusted them, and they lied.

Perhaps it’s worth asking yourself if maybe they’re also lying to you about what kind of people the Democrats are.