One of my favorite films. I had a hell of a time finding it on DVD.
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One of my favorite films. I had a hell of a time finding it on DVD.
Bus Station I liked the look of this bus station in Jacksonville Beach. Leica R4, Silberra Color 160, ECN-2 development. #BelieveInFilm
We had a wonderful weekend in upstate New York attending Dromfest, a tiny indie rock festival. Today’s earworm on Current Earworm has a story about that. I was going to post this song last week but didn’t get around to it. It’s better for the wait. currentearworm.com/videos/magaz...
Always different, Always the same. I made a book. While I was doing my long series of photos of raindrops, a few people suggested I should do a book of them. So I did. None of these photos have ever appeared online. They were all shot last December […] [Original post on pixelfed.thereisnocat.com]
I’m skeptical, but if Trump is near death, I hope he’s getting the best possible care from RFK Jr himself.
RAID has different configuration levels. Some mirror. Some stripe across multiple discs. Some do some combination of the two. If you pick the wrong config level, you won’t get the protection you think you’re getting.
Glad I didn’t pay that bill DHL sent me for my ONDU Eikans a month after they delivered them to me.
I’m at a rock festival this weekend in upstate New York, hanging with friends I rarely get to see. See y’all next week. Have a good holiday weekend.
What @stuartpstevens.bsky.social says here:
COVID shot scheduled for next Friday with the new version. Want to get it before they make it illegal.
Check my feed; I’ve posted three shots on Tri-X that I made this week.
BRIX Tap House & Bar. Made out of brix. Seen in Jacksonville Beach. Leica R4, Silberra Color 160, ECN-2 development. #BelieveInFilm
Raindrop Another raindrop from February. Nikon F3HP, Kosmo Foto Agent Shadow, Rodinal 1:50. #BelieveInFilm
75 Ocean Avenue This is across the street from Bevacqua’s Deli that I posted a couple of days ago. Smartflex 3445, Smartnon 178mm lens at f/22, Kodak Tri-X TXP, Rodinal 1:50. This has the vignetting I see on all the shots from my first pack through […] [Original post on pixelfed.thereisnocat.com]
I’m angry that you have to be scared. 🤬
Ruin a book by adding “Tom Clancy’s” to the title “Tom Clancy’s A Confederacy of Dunces”
Yes.
I miss this guy. It would have been his 84th birthday today. He died at 68, almost 16 years ago. This would have been taken at Halloween sometime around 1967 or thereabouts.
No worse than my Graflex RB Super D, probably a bit lighter in fact. It’s not going to fit in my jacket pocket, but compared to most 4x5 cameras, it’s pretty reasonable. Only one I have that would be significantly lighter is my Wanderlust Travelwide. That’s significantly less capable than this.
I left because the place is two miles from my house, I’ve been photographing it for 15 years, and I’ve never seen him before. With luck, I’ll ever see him again.
Camera came Monday of this week, so I’ve had it for four whole days. I did get the lens, because f/2.5 lenses for 4x5 are or exactly common. I also got the Instax back. I need to play with it more; I’ve only put one Grafmatic pack through it so far. I think the lens may be optimized for portraits.
I remember her telling me about you after you had met but before you’d gone public. She was so smitten…. Congratulations!
Raindrop Another one from February’s batch. Nikon F3HP, Kosmo Foto Agent Shadow, Rodinal 1:50. #BelieveInFilm
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Shoal Harbor I was accosted shortly after taking this shot by an angry old white guy telling me, a person standing in the middle of a public street, that photography wasn’t allowed. What? The guy claimed that because the brewery across the street […] [Original post on pixelfed.thereisnocat.com]
as a former resident of Oakland & with family currently living in NYC, this is beyond alarming: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/o...
If I die of COVID, throw my ashes in the face of the current occupant of the White House.
The Night of the Long Needles
The fire sale at the end of the empire www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
Black spaces of the Great Depression: scenes of African American life in the 1930s feat Walker Evans & Marion Post Wolcott www.theguardian.com/artanddesign... #photography
This is an important story, and another insight into an America that’s going off the deep end, by @jessebunch.bsky.social www.inquirer.com/crime/villan...
Ghost is another one that offers a hosted option or self-hosting. It seems oriented toward people who blog as a business, but if you were considering Substack, it’s a great alternative.
Depends on whether you want a hosted site or are comfortable separating hosting from platform choice. I would probably avoid WordPress.com because of the recent flakiness of its owner, but WordPress hosted elsewhere or on a separate host that you pay for could work.
Finally feel like I’m making some progress with this Identidem MRF build I’ve been trying to do for months. Replaced some of the modules and now I’ve got one of the two displays lighting up. I think I need to replace the other display, and then maybe it’ll work.
As one of your customers in the U.S., I find it equally disturbing. I like being able to buy stuff from friends in other countries.
Palm Tree Seen from the parking lot at the park just south of Marineland, Florida. Hasselblad 500cm, FPP Color 125, ECN-2 development. #BelieveInFilm
Raindrop Another one from February. Nikon F3HP, Kosmo Foto Agent Shadow, Rodinal 1:50. #BelieveInFilm
This cartoon really encapsulates why so many of the people who call for "small government" are very comfortable with authoritarianism.
My dad was in Harrisburg for a job interview the day it happened.
Bevacqua’s I’ve been passing this place for years. Yesterday, I stopped and took a picture. This is from the first try using my new Smartflex 3445 camera. So far, I’m impressed with the camera. The lens I’m a little less enamored of. There’s […] [Original post on pixelfed.thereisnocat.com]
“Trump’s pretense to ownership of public goods and public spaces isn’t some quirk to be ignored or waited out — “there goes our Donald!” — but a direct expression of his autocratic ambitions and despotic cast of mind.”
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A MAGA Warrior Is Rifling Through Your Mortgage Paperwork talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/a-mag...
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Hemmingway Would Drink Here... Or not. Also, The Art of Pizza. Leica R4, Lomography Metropolis, ECN-2 development. #BelieveInFilm
I think this is exactly right: Stephen Miller went on Fox News to go radio Rwanda on Dems. But I also think Miller can be made to look extreme. In reality, a huge number of right wingers hate him (and think his policies are doing real damage). They're just also terrified of him.
Maybe it’s because I grew up in Detroit watching Canadian television, but I have no trouble hearing, and even making, the distinctive dipthong sound.
Yes, I agree with all the liberals jacked right now about Newsom. He is showing other Dems how to fight Trump, which is priceless But... ...cozying up to AI billionaires, a flop on homelessness, his transgender betrayal, he's still a loser for '28 My new column www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...
Love these. I do this every time I drive to Florida, bypassing the Interstates.
Beach The beach at Marineland, seen from the boardwalk. Hasselblad 500cm, FPP Color 125, ECN-2 development. #BelieveInFilm
Typically for a stereo camera of that era, the photos would be printed side by side and place into a viewer. You would hold the viewer up to your face, which has a separation partition that ensures you see one of the images with each eye. Your brains puts them back together as stereo.
I guess we'll have to start sneaking into Canada in order to get healthcare in the future
Raindrop I had a roll of raindrops I shot back in February shortly before my mom died. I didn’t post any of them at that time for reasons. I looked at them yesterday and there are some good ones in there. Here’s one of them. Nikon F3HP, Kosmo Foto […] [Original post on pixelfed.thereisnocat.com]
Apparently there is a guy named Ron Miller who has been painting the iconically styled Detroit brick storefront signs since 1978 and I need people to understand that this one man is worth more to us culturally than 10,000,000,000 pieces of AI slop and more to the community than every ICE agent ever.
one sign that the “unitary executive” is less the restoration of an older constitutional order and more the imposition of a radical new one is that allowing the president to act untethered from most legal or congressional limits has largely just served to plunge the country into disorder
/me sighs….
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I look forward to these memos being used as evidence in the New Nuremberg trials.
I guess they didn’t get enough buyers of their junk packages. I bought one.
How is this not murder?
Exactly. The first back is perfect if you’re using it to proof shots the way professionals used to use Polaroid backs on the Hasselblad because you can switch easily. This version is more for people who shoot instant as a final product and want the shot without the compromise of the black border.
The Instax back came with film loaded in it. I’ve shot four pictures. It appears to work well.
The NONS back is interesting. You shift the viewfinder position upward with an adapter they provide. You also have to screw on a diopter to the lens in order to restore infinity focus. That’s how the get it to have no black border with this version. If you take off the diopter, your lens is a macro.
I’ve had it for about two hours. 🤣 First impression is positive. I have several Graflex SLRs, the camera that “inspired” this camera, so I’m quite familiar with the basics of how it works. It meets my expectations so far.
The Smartflex is a 4x5 camera, not medium format like the Hasselblad. The back that’s on it now is a Lomograflok back that Smartflex modified to make the film plate flatter; Lomography’s standards didn’t meet their high expectations. I’ll also use standard 4x5 backs and Grafmatic backs.
Here it is next to my Hasselblad 500cm (with the new NONS Instax Square back attached). That should give you an idea of scale.
This (finally) arrived. It actually exists.
I'm still seeing news stories which suggest the US govt purchased a 10% stake in intel. But that's simply not true. They're pointing to money that was already appropriated as part of the CHIPs bill and other programs. Intel gave Trump 10% purely as a result of threats.
Hotel Not your average Holiday Inn. Seen in Jacksonville Beach. Leica R4, Lomography Metropolis, ECN-2 development. #BelieveInFilm
Dolphin I’ve taken this photo several times now. The boardwalk at Marineland south of St. Augustine has these dolphin cutouts, and I always like to use them as a frame. Hasselblad 500cm, FPP Color 125, ECN-2 development. #BelieveInFilm
Murderers.
New from me: Safety Not Guaranteed: The Myth of Data Anonymization. Think your data’s safe because it’s been anonymized? Think again. It can be deanonymized. And AI may be helping. Friend link follows: stribs.medium.com/safety-not-g...
The gift link didn’t work last time. Hopefully it does this time… www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
Raindrop More from Erin’s recent visit to our shores. Nikon F3HP, Kodak 5222 (Double-XX), Rodinal 1:50. #BelieveInFilm
Dew Drops (With apologies to Ralph Brandi) X-T2 + Nokton 35/1.2 #Photography 2/2
Dew Drops (With apologies to Ralph Brandi) X-T2 + Nokton 35/1.2 #Photography 1/2
New song on Current Earworm. Very few people who follow me on social media will know this song, and most of the ones who do played on it. currentearworm.com/videos/log-m...
Seeing this thread by my friend Greg makes me wish I lived in the city and could vote for Mamdani instead of out in one of the most Republican suburbs in the greater metropolitan area in a neighborhood that voted for Trump 2:1.
That’s a beautiful looking camera.
I didn’t subscribe to the NYT because they’ve shown themselves incapable of standing up to right wing lies numerous times over the years, but I did subscribe to the Washington Post. I dropped that when they chased out everyone worth reading and subscribed to the Inquirer for exactly the same reason.
On this week’s @onthemedia.bsky.social with @brookegladstone.bsky.social & @micahloewinger.bsky.social, a history of VOA and how it’s been politicized. Plus, hear why Russia, China, and Iran are celebrating. Listen to the podcast by @wnyc.org Studios 👂
Read this. Will Bunch is one of the few at large mainstream media outlets calling balls and strikes as they are, and not with a fascist-tilted strike zone.
Going to a tiki restaurant for dinner. Wearing my Ukrainian Hawaiian shirt because it’s Ukraine Independence Day.
Jekyll Brewing The sign in the window of this place is an eviction notice. I looked them up later. The main brewery is up near Atlanta, and they shut down about a month before I shot this. Sounds like a classic case of overextension. Looks like it […] [Original post on pixelfed.thereisnocat.com]
I’ve read the Plokhy book on this list; don’t remember if I read Marci Shore’s. Eight more books I need to get….
Hollywood Arcade FUN! Hasselblad 500cm, Shanghai GP3 100 (220), Rodinal 1:50. #BelieveInFilm
"Runoff". Ondu 6x6 pinhole camera. Image made on the north coast of Prince Edward Island, Canada. #pinholecamera #filmphotography #pei
"If it were true that Ukraine belongs to Russia in the 2020s because a Russian dictator knows a legend about a Viking in the 860s... millions of people who actually live there would have no voice in their own identity: no choice but to accept the executions, the torture, the kidnapping of children."
Raindrop More from Erin’s recent visit this week. Nikon F3HP, Kodak 5222 (Double-XX), Rodinal 1:50. #BelieveInFilm
Love this article about Knoll Associates, one of the companies that brought the Bauhaus aesthetic to America and made mid-century modern furniture so fascinating. share.inquirer.com/P5b2o9
It takes a historian to debunk fake history, and few know the real history of Ukraine and medieval Kyivan Rus better than Timothy Snyder. Certainly Vladimir Putin doesn’t actually know history no matter what he claims.
This is horrible. Attacks on the humanities are another way to destroy our future. Now is when we need the humanities the most.
Reminds me that I need to order some.
O-KU I just liked the lines of this restaurant in Jacksonville Beach. Leica R4, Lomography Metropolis, ECN-2 development. #BelieveInFilm
Need more info about this.
You don't see the fascism? You're soaking in it!
You’ve been dancing around this topic for a couple of weeks now. I look forward to your eventual write up about the camera.
Oh hey, happy birthday to you!
Fudge Kitchen Every shore town in southern New Jersey has at least one Fudge Kitchen. This one is in Ocean City. Hasselblad 500cm, Shanghai GP3 100 (220), Rodinal 1:50. #BelieveInFilm
