When I ordered that Don Hertzfeldt DVD, I signed up for something of a package of things; an art print and a chunk of 35mm film. I can mount and frame the picture, but a chunk of film requires some special handling. I need to build a backlight of some sort, but what type…. Now, [...]
Read more →If only for the time it takes to take a picture and steal your damn cookies… This, along with the opportunity to meet Lou Ferrigno and Brent Spiner, is among the top reasons people attend Atlanta’s DragonCon. There was a great selection of panels too, with Michael Shermer (“Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, [...]
Read more →Spammer extortion now… at least it’s a new angle… hello , my name is Richard and I know you get a lot of spammy comments , I can help you with this problem . I know a lot of spammers and I will ask them not to post on your site. It will reduce the [...]
Read more →Welcome to the Atlanta Marriott Marquis, where politeness and hospitality runs to the shower as well. Even the shower is polite to the point of not wanting to offend with water that’s too hot or under too much pressure. Instead, the water politely requests that the dirt and soap kindly vacate your body, bless your [...]
Read more →As if I really need an excuse to go into a camera shop, I came up with an idea for a series of Dragon*Con photos that might be fun. I hold no expectations of the photos being exactly artistic or anything, but they should be fun. Some equipment was required; a circular polarizing filter to [...]
Read more →Can’t we all just get along? Badger badger badger badger phone!
Read more →Apparently everything will be okay. I received an email yesterday that Don Hertzfeldt’s latest short film would be available in October, and they were opening up the pre-sales August 10th at noon Pacific. I happened to wake up at 4:00pm local time (working night shift), which would mean it was noon on the west coast. [...]
Read more →The upcoming “definitive” set of 5 DVDs (also available as a 4 disc set or a 2 disc set in some bizarre experiment to see how many people will buy all of them?) of Blade Runner finally gives us something that Ridley Scott has said would never happen. We get voice over. Yes, it’s a [...]
Read more →DSCN8935.JPG I’m just toying with the Flock browser that incorporates things like Flickr media streams, social account tools for Flickr, Photobucket, YouTube, blogs of all sorts, del.icio.us, etc. Even has a posting client for WordPress and the like. Trouble is that the posting client on the admin page of my site is pretty decent, so [...]
Read more →Reminds me a bit of the Museum of Jurassic Technology, but in HTML… Steampunk, Ancient Ones, beat generation, religious propaganda, audio plays, drugs, piracy, insanity, and films you should see but likely couldn’t without the Internet. I’ve barely begun to scratch the surface at Greylodge, but the first thing I stumbled on was worth a [...]
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