Let me get something straight. This is not a food blog. I am just as happy eating at Jack’s Oyster House as I am eating at Gus’s Hot Dogs. I don’t put on any high-falootin’ airs or snobbery about eating local or eating independent or eating in one location or another. That being said, I’ve…
Read MoreThe Hoffman’s Playland Experiment
So I’ve been testing out this batch of old, expired GAF Aerial 70mm film for a while. The goal in using this film is to try and get some ethereal, textured imagery that can create an emotional response in what would otherwise be a drab, boring photograph. Now I have plenty of GAF Aerial film,…
Read MoreRemembering Stella
I caught the news this morning. At some point in time, I knew it would happen. That didn’t make the loss any easier to take. Stella was gone. Stella was one of many llamas at Wunsapana Farm, the Altamont-based hobby farm where llamas and other animals live in a peaceable kingdom, enjoying their days and…
Read MoreUpcoming Trask Art Show contains a Dream Window
How would you like to own a Chuck Miller-created Dream Window – and, in turn, help preserve art in Saratoga Springs? Yep, you can do both. Thanks to the Saratoga Springs Preservation Foundation. The 2014 Trask Art Show and Sale, which benefits the Spirit of Life and Spencer Trask Memorial in Saratoga Springs, will take…
Read MorePlaying Trivia at the Albany Comic-Con
I walked through the convention area, looking at the various artworks and bagged comic books and sculpted figurines and costumed characters – by the way, this year’s cosplayers represented Doctor Who, some Ghostbusters, and I think a couple of Final Fantasy characters. Of course, I’m looking around – maybe I’ll purchase something, maybe I won’t…
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Suddenly, surreal swirls stimulate something spectacular…
One of my Flickr friends, who uses the Flickr handle nano_burger, likes to experiment with film. And like me, he’s played with GAF Aerial 70mm sprocketed film – the same type of film that was used in the 1960’s and 1970’s for sky-view photography. That film is long gone, but you can still find canisters…
Read MoreGrandpa Ben
I’ve mentioned my Grandma Betty several times in this blog. My memories of Grandpa Ben – my paternal grandfather – are scant. I was born in 1963, he only knew of my existence for maybe a handful of years before he passed away. And the only memory I have of Grandpa Ben was of visiting…
Read MoreGiving more apples than necessary
As many of you know from reading my blog posts over the years, I purchased a 2006 Chevrolet Cobalt SS in November 2012. I purchased the car (which I later nicknamed “The Blackbird”) with a combination of a trade-in on my previous car (the 2005 Saturn Ion “Cardachrome”) and a bank loan. The car loan…
Read MoreK-Chuck Radio: Jim Keays and The Masters Apprentices
Jim Keays passed away today. He was the lead singer of The Masters Apprentices, one of the seminal Australian psychedelic rock and pop bands of the 1970’s. Members of the Masters helped sow the seeds for other Australian bands, including Little River Band. The Masters never made it to the United States, but that doesn’t…
Read MoreThe Toilet Cheer
I was a Boy Scout once… many, many, many years ago. I only did it for a single year, achieved the rank of Tenderfoot, then left. As much as I respect Scouting, it just wasn’t for me. I do recall the many different camping trips my troop embarked upon. They were fun moments of exploration…
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