Writing, Photography, and the life lessons I learned from Street Academy
So I was cleaning up around my apartment and I found this one canister of Kodak EIR 35mm infrared film. Woah. Do you know what this is?ย It’s Kodak’s ultra-rare color infrared film.ย This stuff is like finding a Black Lotus card in a Magic: The Gathering pack. But here’s the problem.ย I don’t know…
Read MoreYesterday, I saw that one of my buddies, John Longton – we broadcast Albany Patroons games together and he’s part of the Two Buttons Deep website – posted on Facebook that he would be a fill-in host for a trivia game at the Across The Street Pub in Albany. And I thought to myself –…
Read MoreI don’t know what caused it – rock and roll / gospel musicals on Broadway, or the blending of R&B and gospel on the radio – but for a decent period of time, we had plenty of rock and roll / R&B gospel songs preaching the word of the Lord on our Top 40 radio…
Read MoreYou would have to be a really dedicated fan of early 1980’s club music to know about Garfield Fleming.ย Fleming was a former member of the legendary soul group The Delfonics, joining the group after their early 1970’s hits – but taking part in some successful tours with the group. In 1981, Fleming recorded a…
Read MoreWhen it comes to the discussion of which science fiction franchise tops all – whether it involves the Enterprise and Vulcans and Borg in Star Trek, or the Millennium Falcon and the Jedi and the Sith inย Star Wars … well, the choice is up to you.ย I love them both with rather equal fervor, and…
Read MoreEvery time around this year, around Father’s Day, depression hits me.ย I am reminded of how many of my friends are celebrating Father’s Day with their beloved fathers – or are posting memories on social media of their beloved fathers who have been called to Glory. I don’t have those memories.ย My biological father, Robert…
Read MoreToday is one of the few days that you could type out – 6/15/19 – and turn the date 180 degrees and it would still read approximately the same.ย You can do this next Tuesday as well – 6/18/19.ย After that … not so much. But here’s something you can do that doesn’t involve flipping…
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All right.ย I want to use some of my experimental film for this project.ย A quick check of my archives revealed I had four packs of Revolog boutique film – Revolog is an Austrian company who makes small batches of distressed 35mm film, that when processed provides striking colors or scratches or stripes or what…
Read MoreEvery so often, I’ll come across an online streaming radio station that will have plenty of classic oldies on it.ย And then, all of a sudden, there will be a track that I’ve never heard before – but it sounds totally awesome.ย Now if the streaming radio station doesn’t announce the title or the artist,…
Read MoreI’ve spent time working on focus stacking my macro images.ย But I’ve been inconsiderate.ย I should share my techniques with you, my blog readers, in case you want to try this on your own. So here’s my first-ever tutorial on how to use Photoshop (I have the CS6 version) to take multiple images and convert…
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