Author: Kurt Weiske

Roxy Music album cover outtakes

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Here are some outtakes from Eric Boman’s shoot for the classic Roxy Music album Country Life, and the shoots for the covers of Stranded and For Your Pleasure. These are some of the most striking album covers of the glam-rock era, and there’s something weird and compelling about seeing them in this half-formed state.

Ready for her close up (via Kadrey, boingboing)

LC-A versus LC-A+

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After shooting several rolls of film through my LOMO LC-A, I wanted to compare it to my trusty ’91 LOMO LC-A.

Appearance?

The two cameras are almost identical. The LC-A+ is missing the diaphragm setting,  used to override the aperture and shutter settings for flash use. I don’t miss this much, as most of my photos are taken with available light. Over the years, I’ve bumped the diaphragm setting on my LC-A and ruined a batch of shots in daylight.

The LC-A+ has a threaded shutter release to accept a remote cable release.

The LC-A+ is missing framelines and focus icons in the viewfinder. Not a huge difference, but I do miss them when trying to compose a shot. If you follow the 10 rules of Lomography, this won’t be an issue.

Finish? The LC-A feels like a little tank. The LC-A+ feels a bit lighter, and the back flexes a tiny bit, but the difference is negligible.

Speed settings? The LC-A + supports 800 speed film.

Lens? Can’t tell the difference

Feel? LC-A+ feels better – smoother film advance, smoother shutter release. FIlm window is a huge plus.

A solution for “Unidentified Networks” in VMWare under Windows

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VMWare under Windows 7 and later create 2 network drivers — one for bridged networking and one for NAT. Windows can’t determine the workgroup state of these adapters, and refers to them as “unidentified network” when you hover over the network icon. There’s a simple registry hack to fix this:

1. Click Start, click Run, type regedit, and then click OK.
2. Click the follwoing subkey:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSetControlClass{4D36E972-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}
3. Browse through the 00xx subkeys until you find the REG_SZ VMNet subkey with a value of either “DosDevicesVMnet8” or “DosDevicesVMnet1” (default values)
4. On the Edit menu, point to New, and then click DWORD Value.
5. Type *NdisDeviceType, and then press Enter.
6. On the Edit menu, click Modify.
7. Type 1, and then click OK.
8. Exit Registry Editor. 9 Disable & re-enable the VMWare NICs
9. Log-out of your Windows account and log back in.
10. Done.

Google Posterity Post — serving non-WordPress content

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1. Create a PHP file in the themes directory with the name lomo.php

<?php
/*
Template Name: <lomo>
*/
?>

HTML GOES HERE

2. Create a new page, and select “lomo” as the page template template. Leave the content blank – all the content will be served by the template HTML.

3. Add HTTP redirect in root .htaccess like this:

REDIRECT 301 /lomo/index.html http://www.kataan.org/stub-name-of-page/