Boy, this mess with Rocky Mountain Film Lab gets stickier and stickier as the days go by. Our story so far – I found a roll of 127 Kodacolor-X film in a 1960’s Kodak camera, a camera that was on sale in a New Hampshire antique store. I bought the camera, and planned on having…
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10 Saturday Morning Cartoons that strayed far from their source material
Back in ancient times, when Saturday morning cartoons were simple escapist fantasy, where you could plop your butt down in front of the Zenith on a Saturday morning and watch television until either your eyes melted or the sugar rush of those three bowls of Cocoa Krispies wore off, you could get a nice four-or-five…
Read MoreCountermanding The Revisionist History of the Albany City School District
I didn’t think I could get more angry about the Albany City School District and its complete excision of the history of the Street Academy / Harriet Gibbons High School. From the school’s annexation into the District in 1974, until its conversion into a 9th grade academy in 2005, the Albany City School District treated…
Read MoreDave Matthews and Lil Jon recording together? YES!!
Yeah, sorta. See, there’s this little thing in popular music called the duet. And in many cases, if the artists aren’t in the same studio together, sometimes the producer can create a duet where none existed. This has been accomplished in the past, most notably in pop songs like the 1978 ballad “You Don’t Bring…
Read MoreDavid Paterson won’t stop me from getting this photo
I love to take photographs of “star trails,” long exposures that show the stars in motion against a stable background. My first experiment with star trails was a few months ago, when I was doing a photographic essay of the Tomhannock Reservoir. Not bad for a first try. The light leaks at the bottom of…
Read MoreHanging my artwork at Schenectady Art Night
Sunday afternoon. I’ve loaded the car with ten polar panorama photographs, all blown up to 12″ x 12″ foam-boarded images. I picked up some “foam-board” hooks from Arlene’s Art Supply, and off I go to the 440 Art Gallery in Schenectady. It’s Hanging Day. The artists that are part of the June 2010 art show…
Read MoreThe Cane
It’s May of 1985. After four years of hard work, self-sacrifice, struggle and battle, including dealing with several overwhelming family issues that threatened to derail my education, I can finally walk across the podium at my college commencement, accept my diploma from Hamilton College president Martin J. Caravano, and receive a special gift that every…
Read MoreGo Vuvuzela Crazy!!
They’re coming. You know it won’t be long. You know you’ll see them at Yankee Stadium. You’ll see them at Cowboys Stadium. You may even see them at Joe Bruno Stadium. It’s the vuvuzela. No, I’m not doing a blog post about personal body jewelry. The vuvuzela is the the plastic horn that you heard…
Read MoreRemembering the 1991 Professional Soccer Championship in Albany
One of the players on the Skidmarks, a trivia team I play against at Elbo Room, is a huge soccer fan. He loves the English squad Arsenal, and he is hoping that when Thierry Henry plays for the New York Red Bulls, he can be in the stadium cheering it on. He also has been…
Read MoreElbo Room 2010 Trivia Tournament FINALS
It did not start out as a good day. I had spent the last 48 hours hacking and wheezing, my body violently battling a 24-hour cold that wanted to stay an extra day. At about 445pm, I got a text message from my trivia teammate Jeremy that they might be late for the Elbo Room…
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