Jul - 15th

Driving then and now

Posted at 7:01 am | Filed Under blog

I went for a drive on my lunch hour today in my multi-airbag, ABS-equipped, V-6 sedan, and the song “Red Barchetta” came on the radio. It made me think of old convertibles. I drove a Fiat 850 Spyder in high school – it had a wooden dashboard, chrome rear-view mirrors, that super UV-proof thick vinyl […]

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May - 23rd

Strapping Young Lad

Posted at 4:47 am | Filed Under blog

… Went to go see a killer band — Strapping Young Lad — last night at The Pound, a little metal club out in Dogpatch/Hunter’s Point/Bayview/whatever it’s called nowadays. I haven’t been to a clubin years…Lots of metal twenty-somethings, a mosh pit, a surprising amount of thirty-somethings, and lots of blonde hair. It was an […]

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May - 15th

Jazz Cameras

Posted at 2:58 pm | Filed Under journal

I bought another Jazz 101 today, and I thought about how fun my toy camera phase last summer was. I’d just discovered www.lomo.org and rediscovered photography after a long dormant period. Most of the pictures I took that summer were taken with a $30 Ebay Olympus XA 2, a Jazz Jelly, Jazz 101, or Lomo […]

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Mar - 15th

What’s wrong with Lomography?

Posted at 11:56 pm | Filed Under journal

Here’s two interesting pages regarding Lomos and why some people don’t like “Lomography” — http://home.planet.nl/~ucklomp/lomography/index.htm and http://homepage.mac.com/mattdenton/photo/cameras/olympus_xa.html I have to agree with them – I love the Lomo LC-A, but I dislike lomography – it seems way too marketed and commercial. People carried pocket cameras with them a long time before the Lomographic Society decided to pretend that […]

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