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Dagnabit, this is one of the only places left where I can still use the word, "cunt", without getting cancelled. Every place else, I have to use the unisex, "asshole".

Some day I will actually get back to some woodworking, but tonight playing with Stainless Steel.

The following is in poor taste, uncalled for, and downright mean: In all seriousness, I hope Addison Mitchell McConnell Jr gets the medical attention he needs ...just as soon as he gets out of office.

I like this. A lot. Like I said in the other thread, they feel like indie-pop with a kiss of shoe-gaze.

But take two brothers and a sister struggling in the shadow of a domineering parent and follow the steps of the family business succession, but move it to a Chicago Italian beef sandwich restaurant - perfection.

And now a little color with the 907x 50c

i also agree. goodbye

^^ I like their new album Blue Rev, and I have their debut as well. My son saw them (for the second time) about a week ago in Boston. He said they put on a great show.

Alvvays - Blue Rev. I like these people! This feels like indie pop with a touch of, dare I say, shoe-gaze? How could I say no? Planning on going through their entire back catalog.

I still don't know what a 'cunt' is!

I can offer you a licensing agreement...

Going down the rabbit hole of thinking about sadly discontinued film, I stumbled on a page of someone shooting agfa ultra 50 (the most utterly ridiculous film) with a rolleiflex (the most ridiculous camera). https://www.35mmc.com/08/04/2023/rolleiflex-3-5f-and-agfa-ultra-50-taveling-in-turkey-and-pakistan-by-ibraar-hussain/

I believe ilford xp2 was the original c41 process b&w. Neither holds a candle to tmax.

It's true that black and white print film has no equals when it comes to capturing and reproducing a wide dynamic range of values. It's also true that at LEAST half the work with B&W film is in the darkroom, making prints. Ansel Adams was an undisputed master of this process. Henri Cartier-Bresson claimed to be allergic to developer chemicals and had other people do the work for him. I've never shot, developed nor printed B&W print film, so I am in no position to talk shit. So anyway, there's this fake-ass B&W film that Kodak used to make called BW400CN. It's black and white film that is developed the same way color print film is done. Meaning it's easy for scrubs who don't have access to a darkroom, and a total gamble as far as results go. Also, I have great beginner's luck followed by a roller coaster plunge. Let's come out of the gate swinging. This is one of the best shots I've ever taken and will ever take. The inside of the Edgartown lighthouse, 07/28/08 - 3:43PM. 17-40L at the wide end, Canon Rebel K2, Kodak BW400CN. This shot is lightning in a bottle. Here's the underside of that same bottle. Looking out the porthole. This photogenic little trustafarian fuck blew out my surf guitar amp, returned it to me broken, and then de-friended me on Facebook. Kodak Rebel G, Kodak BW400CN, and the mighty Meyer-Optik Orestor 135mm F/2.8 showing off why it's a "bokeh monster." My friend Alyssa's patented look of disapproval. 5/25/08 - 7:00AM at the breakfast diner. EOS Rebel K2, EF 85mm F/1.8. Kodak BW400CN. Okay, let's drop that other shoe, shall we? 02/22/09 - 5:04PM - 17-40mm @ 17mm, F/8, 1/45th. Rebel K2. Kodak BW400CN. This is an absolute nightmare. The soup nazi says "No midtones for you!" The ancestral cottage on MV, 09/15/09 - 5:34PM - 17-40L @ 17mm, F/9.5, 1/180th, Kodak BW400CN. This one is actually one of the better frames from the second two rolls. 10/04/09 - 5:25PM - 17-40L @ 17mm, F/13, 1/30th, Rebel K2, BW400CN. The lack of midtones and detail in general is appalling. I actually like the composition of the shot, even if my dumb ass had the lens hood on the wrong way. See that black bit in the upper left corner? Memento Mori. 10/06/09 - 5:43PM. Rebel K2. Kodak BW400CN. The mushroom cloud laying motherfucker of a lens that is the Canon EF 85mm F/1.2L II @ F/2, 1/2000th. I had to stop down because the poor Rebel K2 said "bro, I can't move my shutter fast enough to compensate for that much light!" Leave it to a bad BW400CN run to wreck 85L bokeh. The road where hopes for midtones go to die. 03/06/09 - 5:19PM - 17-40mm @ 24mm, F/13, 1/350th. I have a bunch more, but I've made my point. I still have one last roll of BW400CN, some 14 years later. I dunno if I can be arsed to expose it. At this point I'd rather attempt to develop Tri-X in my bathroom.

See what happens when you are not paying attention. You miss all the fun stuff, like using the word cunt™.

from my own limited experience, the loss of export sales is always 10x whatever could be saved by buying components from the country with the weaker currency. in theory RK50 pots should have dropped 50%, but they're actually up 50% from a few years ago

I remember it being pretty common. I'm really old.

säje säje 2023 https://album.link/i/1698400328 Example: I didn't know I needed this this morning. But I so did. I might be back on a jazz vocal kick..

I finished Succession. I was a bit late to the game on this one, but I have my reasons. I tried watching Season 1 back when it originally aired but I couldn't understand why people liked the show. Sure, there was wealth-porn for those that are in to that kind of thing, but the characters were so off-putting that I ended up tuning out about 3-4 episodes in. Fast forward to this year, and I decided to give the show another try given how buzzy people were talking about their final season. The critical excitement over the show served as a sort of implicit promise that if you can make it through season 1 that the journey is worth it. Now, having reached the end, I would say I enjoyed the show... but not anything more than that. This felt almost like a hate-watch as I really didn't cheer for any of the main characters. They all felt like such terrible people. Kendall had the energy to do the job but was a buzz-word loving airhead. Siobhan had the brains but over-played her hand and walked in to traps at every opportunity. Roman was just a monster. Like his dad but with none of his dad's redeeming qualities. Also as a beneficiary of of nepotism myself there was a certain amount of uncomfortableness in having that reflected back at me. Still, quality show, well acted, high production values, but not necessarily one I'd vouch for. I don't regret my time watching it but if they came out with a fifth season I am not sure I'd be excited to tune back in. The premise wore out its welcome for me sometime at the beginning of the last season.

Went to a lowrider show this weekend at the Montalvo Arts Center in Saratoga. Took a couple cameras to snap away. First up monochrome with the new to me M9M

Wayne Shorter: Zero Gravity on Prime. First episode was great.

$.11 cent 4.25x4.25 wall tiles from HD, sprayed with white paint for the Titanium Dioxide and engrave and then clean off the paint in a bowl of thinner. Sold 136 of these yesterday to neighbors at $32/set of four or $10 each. $15 in tiles, $6 in paint and then the design work.

PC4L!

stop reporting posts. if you don’t like how you’re treated here you’re free to leave.