I said I was going to do it. No matter what it took or how much punishment was inflicted on me. I had a ticket for seven Star Wars movies, all in storyline order from The Phantom Menace to the new The Force Awakens, all showing at the Regal Crossgates Mall cinema in one full…
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Best of our TU Community Blogs, December 17, 2015: Ten for Thursday
Man, I wish I could make the TU Community Blogs recap scroll up the screen like the opening of a Star Wars movie. That would be kinda cool… Sorry, I have a bit of Star Wars on the brain. Hope you understand. But I wanted to make sure that before I attend today’s Star Wars…
Read MoreI passed the first round… so far…
Staying in upstate New York for as long as I have, I’ve developed a deep appreciation for the beauty and the wonder and the majesty of the Adirondack Mountains. I’ve lived in them as a child, I’ve photographed them as an adult. And now I’m going through my archives, trying to find three suitable artworks…
Read MoreThe return of Galavant! Huzzah and Tally-Ho!!
There are television shows that, for all intents and purposes, aren’t supposed to survive. These are shows that scream “I’m going to get cancelled and there’s nothing I can do about it!” And somehow, a musical comedy farce about a brave knight who tries to rescue his maiden fair – and gets caught in all…
Read More“Lazarus, it is time to boot up.”
A few months ago, I had a computer crash that crippled my custom-built computer tower- and in the resulting crash, one of my hard drives froze up. Thousands of photographs and music were trapped on that hard drive as well. I tried a few different techniques to resurrect the data, including swapping out the motherboards,…
Read MoreThe return of Speedy Gonzales?
I’m not sure how I feel about this. Part of me wants to cheer that a long-forgotten Warner Bros. cartoon character will finally get their turn in the movie spotlight. And part of me realizes that there’s a reason this character has disappeared for decades. Background. The website Nerdist has reported that Warner Bros. may…
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Above the clouds
Last Sunday, I could barely leave my house without walking into a thick, foggy weather pattern. Maybe Green Island teleported to downtown London while I slept. Well, this ought to be fun. Let’s go take some pictures in the fog. I grabbed my Leica M3 camera “Leica Green,” loaded it with a roll of high-contrast…
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What’s Japanese for “You’re so stupid”?
While working on my “salty mug” photo experiments – pouring a mixture of boiling water and Kosher salt into unglazed mugs, and watching the salt extrude through the clay cup walls – I came across an exquisite unglazed teacup. Oh man, this would look so awesome to have the salt ooze through the carved characters…
Read MoreBest of our TU Community Blogs, December 10, 2015: Ten for Thursday
Man oh man, is the snow ever going to arrive? Jeez, the last time I was this concerned about snow arriving this winter, it was because I saw a spoiler for Season 6 of Game of Thrones… That’s fine, feel free to groan at that joke. But what I don’t want you to groan about…
Read MoreChristmas cards for Sa’fyre Terry
Can I ask all of you a favor this holiday season? Just a simple favor. And it would make a little Schenectady girl’s Christmas magical. Background. In May of 2013, a horrific fire in Schenectady’s Hamilton Hill neighborhood killed Michael Terry and three of his children. A fourth child, Terry’s daughter Sa’fyre, barely survived the…
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