While cleaning out my digital desk I found this image from 2014 listing places in the world that I would like to visit. Six years later I have checked off six places that I have visited since then. The Chichtzen Itza on irks me because I was in Progreso this past summer but did not have time to get into the jungle.…
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Movie Poster for Highlander
Probably my favorite movie is
Highlander from 1986. When planning a trip to Scotland, I had to make sure the Eilean Donan Castle was on the agenda. To me this castle is the epitome of what a castle should be.…
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Back in 1988 I had the idea to take pictures of models that I’d built. I was new to photography and used this as an experiment. These shots were all done with a 35mm camera.
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Snow Speeder from Empire Strikes Back
Eagle from Space: 1999
With the new King Kong vs Godzilla movie coming out in a few months, I thought I would put together a list of King Kong movies to re-watch in preparation. I’ve left off the cartoon and other TV appearances. Let me know if I’ve missed any theatrical outings.
On a recent trip to Florida I took a picture of a neon sign. I made a few edits to the image and posted it on my Instagram page. A few days later I received a notification that I’d been tagged in a new post.…
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So Apple has released macOS Catalina with all sorts of new shiny features. However there is one feature/change that is going to catch users by surprise. That is the drop of support for “legacy” 32-bit applications. Any program that needs to run on macOS going forward will have to be a 64-bit application.…
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At the Arlington Museum of Art today are three current exhibitions. If you have not been downtown lately, now would be a good time.
mumentous: the upsizing of a texas tradition
home & heritage: recognizing diversity
from steer to street art: a photographic journey through the lone star state
While on my “winter vacation” I on occasion thought to point my phone out the window and capture a few seconds of video. Once home, I stitched those clips together, deleting about 90%. What was left is a waterfall laden collection of video clips.…
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When I first saw the trailer for Ad Astra, starring Brad Pitt, I was pretty sure I was in for yet another Hollywood art film set in space. I’m fine with that as long as we don’t call it science fiction.…
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Despite a lousy movie-going experience, I found the theatrical presentation of the first two episodes of the Amazon Prime series, Undone, to be quite compelling. The presentation format is primarily a rotoscoped cartoon. We’ve seen this before in A Scanner Darkly or Heavy Metal.…
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I just had a pretty lousy experience at the movie theater that did not need to be bad. If this had been my first experience at the Alamo Drafthouse, I would not come back. The reality is that a number of bad decisions collided to ruin the evening for me and many others.…
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Attempt to mount Extender
I recently moved from a crop sensor to a full frame mirrorless camera. The one thing I missed was the relative loss of zoom because my crop sensor was behaving like a 480mm is now demoted to just be a 300mm zoom, albeit much sharper.…
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Seattle has a roadway that runs along the waterfront. Since it was built the city has undergone much change over the years. Until recently the view from restaurant balconies was disturbed by the sounds of traffic whizzing by. The city decided to tear down the viaduct and move it a block east underground.…
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