I still remember the first time I played trivia at Brown’s Brewing. It was a Wednesday night, and the place was packed tighter than a sardine can. The host of the trivia game was a young man named Ryan West. And his rapport with the trivia teams was amazing. Ryan had the game well-organized. There…
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The return of the Starbury?
It was about ten years ago, when the local Steve and Barry’s clothing store in Colonie Center offered a brand new product. It was an NBA-quality basketball sneaker line, underwritten and promoted by New York Knicks star Stephon Marbury. The shoes – known as “Starburys” – retailed for about $15/pair. Think about that for a…
Read MoreIt passed at 10:45 a.m. on Sunday morning…
And I was there to capture it. See? Background. It’s Sunday morning. The Adirondack Mountains are blooming with the changes in foliage. For the past year or so, I’ve photographed the Hadley Parabolic “Bow” Bridge, and my experiments became the basis for the picture Parabola: From Hadley to Corinth. But even with my efforts in…
Read MoreGoodbye Schenectady’s Coca-Cola ghost sign…
Last August, I drove by a building on 412 Broadway in Schenectady – only to see hazard tape surrounding it. Construction crews coming in and out of the facility. I really hope it isn’t what I think it could be… but then again, I won’t know if I don’t ask. Hey, there’s a hardhat construction…
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If you have a few moments today and you have plenty of tissues nearby… You need to watch this short film. It’s called “Ripple,” and it just caught me emotionally. So I want to share it with you, my loyal blog readers. Enjoy.
Read MoreRaskolnikov and the Falls
For the better part of a year, I’ve shot pictures with my Krasnogorsk FT-2 ultrawide panoramic camera (the camera I’ve nicknamed “Raskolnikov”, which either means the protagonist in Crime and Punishment, or the barnyard expletive uttered by Boris Badenov in the Rocky and Bullwinkle cartoons). I’ve had some successes, some non-successes, but I haven’t given…
Read MoreK-Chuck Radio: I need some sweet Sunshine Pop
There’s something special about “sunshine pop” – the music that just makes you feel good, it has an amazingly catchy melody, and the lyrics can be about anything – childhood games, allusions to history, wry lyrics with a dulcet hint of happiness. So even though this weekend we must deal with rain and storms and…
Read MoreBest of our TU Community Blogs, October 1, 2015: Ten For Thursday
It is a sad day here at the Times Union blog page. We are losing one of our own. Rev. Alan Rudnick has relocated to shepherd a new flock in Central New York – and with that, he has reluctantly announced that he is leaving the TU blog page. Trust me, I’ve tried to woo…
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A night of (combined) copper
Last Sunday night, I had a blast photographing the blood moon eclipse. Probably drove all my Facebook friends nuts by talking about it so much. Near the end of the night, with the clouds oozing over the horizon, I had to put a stop to the photography – I couldn’t get a decent shot of…
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Instamatic finality… possibly…
One last try to get 25-year-old Kodak Instamatic film to work in this art project. Fingers crossed. Hope it works.
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