While researching for a paper on the Free Speech Movement at the University of California, Berkeley, I came across this. Ain't they speaking the truth, and not just as the UC, Berkeley, but all "Universities" now (save a few, perhaps ( Read more... )

Just snagged this on e-bay - a pair of original 1860s-1870s Darlot stereo lenses. Boo yah!


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Back on Mount Crap. Went to the library today. Came back home to pack car. Got sprayed by the little kids in the neighbourhood with a lot of 'sun kissed plumeria' body mist, then had to pay ransom to get back into house with 5 little girls blocking the door. Got back here, ate crappy dinner, though pasta sauce was somewhat tolerable. Walked ( Read more... )

So, I'm driving back up to school (shudder) along Route 9 in Freehold, passing by the Mongolian Buffet, when a cop car comes up beside me in the right lane. He then suddenly races forward, engages the bar lights, slams on the brakes as he jerks the wheel to the left, and comes to a skidding halt where he now blocks the whole road, causing everyone ( Read more... )

One of the better colourisations I've done... and it's darn creepy!


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Two weeks until the big PRAXIS II Social Studies content exam, which I absolutely need to teach here in Jersey, and the only time they're offering the test this year is... yes... Remembrance Day. Freaking. Annie and I will still do our darndest to get there, though we'll be there in the afternoon and after the parade, but hopefully we can get ( Read more... )

Crappy day yesterday spills over to a crappy day today. My one bright spot to which I was really looking foward was that they scheduled to serve potato leek soup today at the Blanton Hall dining pit. I wasn't expecting much out of it... they were probably going to burn it, like they burned both the New England clam chowder and the French onion ( Read more... )

Another test, trying to cut down on exposure times, this time shot at c. 5:55 p.m., at the NJ Transit building on the other side of Clove Rd. Even with the low light and wide open lens, 2.5 seconds was still too long. Ray's collodion recipe sure works damn fast. It looks like if I'm shooting this weekend with the Morrison wide open, I'll be ( Read more... )

First plate struck with the newly mixed chemicals, of the office building across the way, with the Morrison lens, wide open, exposure of four seconds. I think I overexposed it, plate fogged over. So note - wide open, taken in the shade on a sunny day at c. 2:50 p.m. = about a 2.5 second exposure. It's sitting in the fixer now... will scan later ( Read more... )

Finished up my little backmark for my images, thanks to Annie's awesome birthday present, a book about Daguerreotype cases, and a mixture of other typefaces from the LOC.


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