Cheap Coffee of the Week – DUNKIN DONUTS ORIGINAL BLEND
When it comes to cheap coffee, Dunkin Donuts is the proverbial 800-pound gorilla in the room. They’re making a play for America’s coffee pot and want to be a competitor to Starbucks in made-to-go coffee.
At $6.00 for a 12 oz bag at my local Target store, however, DD enters the cheap coffee realm. While they can’t compete with Starbucks and Peets’ grocery store offerings, DD is the Best Cheap Coffee Ever. By comparison with canned coffees, it’s much smoother, more sophisticated, and a wonderful morning blend. Not much of a hint of Robusta beans in the mix.
Even using a Melitta cone filter, boiling hot water, and making single cups (the best way to extract the most of your coffee’s flavor and minimize waste, IMO) I went through this bag in a little over a week and a half.
My rating? Four cups.
Posted on January 2nd, 2010 in blog | No Comments »
Hipstamatic, make your iPhone plastic!
Hipstamatic is an iPhone app that gives your photos a film/plastic camera feel. While there are many other holganizers and lomo-fiers available for iPhones, this is the first application I’ve fallen in love with. At $1.99, I couldn’t pass it up!
From their press materials:
Digital photography never looked so analog. The Hipstamatic for iPhone is an application that brings back the look, feel, unpredictable beauty, and fun of plastic toy cameras of the past. The application keeps the the quirks of shooting old school but gives you the ability to swap lenses, film, and flash settings all with the swipe of a finger.
Posted on December 30th, 2009 in iphoneography | No Comments »
Danger
Posted on December 23rd, 2009 in journal | No Comments »
Weathered Aqua
Posted on December 20th, 2009 in journal | No Comments »
Cheap Coffee of the Week — CHASE AND SANBORN SPECIAL ROAST
This was another can’t-pass-it-up deal – $2.99 for 10.5 ounces at Walgreens. It’s a decent, medium-bold blend. I find myself making an afternoon cup on weekends. Normally, I never drink coffee on weekends after my morning cuppa.
Posted on December 13th, 2009 in blog | No Comments »
Homebrew Kodachrome
This DIY Kodachrome machine (the “Filminator”) was created to produce more film stock after the company discontinued productions. Michael, the creator, notes, “Plastic and goop go in one end, and camera film comes out the other end. This is not a trivial undertaking.”
[ DIY film via boingboing ]
Posted on December 8th, 2009 in film | No Comments »
Polished
Posted on December 5th, 2009 in digital, journal | No Comments »
Cheap Coffee of the Week — FOLGERS CLASSIC ROAST
Folgers was on sale for $4.99/10.5 ounce can at Safeway. It’s nowhere near as smooth as Yuban Original, but rich with nuances of formica counters, leatherette and chrome stools, heavy diner mugs, pies in refrigerated cases and waitresses named Vera.
The can went surprisingly fast. I’d buy another can, but I’m playing the coffee field and don’t want to limit myself to one cheap coffee.
Posted on November 29th, 2009 in blog | No Comments »
Fun with a Vivitar PN2011 “panoramic” camera
I went out shooting with a Vivitar PN2011, a 35mm panoramic plastic camera. This is probably my favorite plastic camera to date, but I don’t know why. I think it’s big enough, the lens is wide enough, it feels sturdy enough and it’s got a lens cover to protect that $1.00 piece of plastic. They’re cheap and plentiful, too.
Posted on November 25th, 2009 in art, film | No Comments »
Leaf a la Jazz
Chromatic aberration? Pincushin distortion? Vignetting? Must be a Jazz Jelly!
Shot with generic 200 ISO $.99 store film.
Posted on November 19th, 2009 in art, film | No Comments »
My First Leica…
“My First Leica!…”
I’ve heard people raving about Leica glass for years, and I’ve wanted a Leica M series rangefinder for as long as I’ve been serious about photography. Leica quality comes at a premium price, though, and I could never justify the cost.
Until now.
Posted on November 17th, 2009 in journal | 1 Comment »
Bell and Howell, more Plastic Camera fun.
More plastic fun with a Bell and Howell $1.99 junk store camera.
Posted on November 16th, 2009 in art, film | No Comments »
Lomography is…
Lomography is… from Sofya Suhova on Vimeo.
Posted on November 5th, 2009 in blog | No Comments »
Cheap Coffee of the Week — ARCHER FARMS ITALIAN ROAST
Decent coffee? AT TARGET? Cheap. $6.79/12 oz bag. Ground or whole bean. Italian, French, Columbian and Guatemalan blends. Surprisingly smooth, not the freshest beans in the bag, but buzzworthy.
Worth a look.
Target sometimes has small bags of coffee for $1 and online $1 off coupons. Doesn’t get much cheaper than FREE.
Posted on November 2nd, 2009 in blog | 2 Comments »
What Every Aspiring Photographer Should Know
Here’s a wonderful bit of advice for aspiring photographers from Cheryl Jacobs Nicolai at PhotoDino.
What Every Aspiring Photographer Should Know
These are my thoughts, nothing more and nothing less.
I get asked all the time, during workshops, in e-mails, in private messages, what words of wisdom I would give to a new and aspiring photographer. Here’s my answer.
- Style is a voice, not a prop or an action. If you can buy it, borrow it, download it, or steal it, it is not a style. Don’t look outward for your style; look inward.
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Posted on October 27th, 2009 in film, journal | No Comments »
Disjointed, two.
Posted on October 26th, 2009 in journal | No Comments »
Airplane Graveyard, courtesy of LiveJournal
Livejournal user alexdoomer2009 took this wonderful series of photos as an abandoned military airplane scrapyard, somewhere in the Eastern Bloc. I loved his pictures so much I wanted to share them here. All pictures are the property of
“Alex Doomer”
His original Livejournal post: http://community.livejournal.com/abandonedplaces/1928500.html
More of his photos: http://www.liveinternet.ru/users/alexdoomer007
Posted on September 9th, 2009 in art, journal | No Comments »
Driving home
Posted on September 4th, 2009 in digital, journal | No Comments »
SOVIET UNION
Another forgotten photo – not quite sure where this was.
Posted on August 28th, 2009 in art, film, journal, lomo | No Comments »
The Big M Show, Lucky JuJu Gallery, 9/4/09
You are all invited to the opening of The Big M: Classic Cars Under the Stars show in Alameda on Friday September 4th from 7-10pm.
Joe Reifer, Mike Hows and I will be displaying some of our Big M imagery at the Lucky JuJu pinball Gallery. Discount prints and signed copies of my book will also be available at the opening, so make sure you drop by and say hello!
Lucky JuJu Gallery
713 Santa Clara Ave
Alameda, CA 94501
Press release HERE.
Image info:
“Twin-Boom Rocket”
1959 Oldsmobile, at Big M Auto Dismantlers in Williams, California. Visit the set page for more information.
Night, 120 second exposure. Full moon, natural and red-gelled flashlight.
[via flickr ]
Posted on August 25th, 2009 in art | 1 Comment »
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