I don’t know if you’ve seen this commercial yet. It shows a little girl asking her mother about if Cheerios is healthy. The mother responds that yes, the cereal is healthy. So the little girl pours a box of Cheerios on her father, who is napping on the couch. Cute. Of course, that’s not the…
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Over the past ten years, I’ve had several cell phones. And the majority of them have been BlackBerry cell phones. The one at the left is an image of my first cell phone, a BlackBerry 6750. I originally purchased this phone with the hope that it would be the perfect unit for anything I needed…
Read MoreK-Chuck Radio: Somewhere Over the Rainbow…
What a fantastic song. And to think, at one point in time, this song was almost deleted from the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz because someone thought the movie was too long. So let’s start with the version everybody knows. This version. Here’s an interesting version, this is Judy Garland performing with the Tommy…
Read MoreCohoes Falls on Memorial Day
Memorial Day weekend was a weather-related bust. Rain. Cold. I almost expected cicadas and locusts. But Monday morning was beautiful and sunny. And I needed a few morning pictures to make my day. I’ve shot the Cohoes Falls before, mostly using a Hoya ND400 neutral-density filter so that the water blends. Figured I’d shoot that…
Read MoreBest of our community TU blogs, May 30 2013: Ten For Thursday
Oh you thought I was joking last week about doing this, weren’t you? You thought that maybe I was only going to do this for a week and get bored with the idea? Silly you. Again, I continue with promoting the work of my fellow Times Union community bloggers, until that day when the Times…
Read MoreK-Chuck Radio: Familiar songs, new interpretations
I’ve had this happen on occasion. I’ll be listening to the radio, and I swear I hear what sounds like a familiar song… only to discover that yes, I know the song, I know the lyrics, but that’s NOT the person I remember singing it. And after a few moments… I’m thinking, wow. That’s an…
Read More3,000°K at the Jericho Drive-In
It’s Memorial Day evening, and I’m here at the Jericho Drive-In with my cameras and my tripod and some digital CompactFlash card chips. No, I’m not trying to get a “film it off the screen” pirate copy of The Fast and the Furious 6. For me, the Jericho Drive-In is a place where I can…
Read MoreTen minutes before they broke up.
Whether it’s experimental photography, or just plain old photography, the equipment you have in your hand can tell as much of a story as the picture itself. Case in point. On Wednesday, May 22, I was in New York City for the day. While most of my efforts were focused on an ancillary goal –…
Read MoreMachete Kills – now starring Carlos Estevez!
When I saw the original Grindhouse double-feature in 2007, I thoroughly enjoyed it. The double feature of Planet Terror (Robert Rodriguez’ film, the one with Rose McGowan wearing a machine gun for a prosthetic leg), and Death Proof (Quentin Tarantino’s ode to 1970’s car films like Vanishing Point) were fun to watch and kinda hilarious as well. Also in…
Read MoreHorsepower: equine versus 4×4
I’m still refining my slitscan technique, which means I’ve been visiting the Saratoga Casino and Raceway on a regular basis each Sunday. No, I’m not praying to the spirit of St. Dan of Patch, although if such a saint existed, I’m sure many would pray for a winning exacta. Through trial and error, I’ve found…
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