I've been spending a lot of time at home with Casey and Snowball since SB had his surgeries and needs to be fed through his tube every two hours. I've determined that music should be part of his recovery strategy. Here's what the kitty is listening to.
By the way, I have amazing friends. Joe, Andrew, Christian. Thank you for your help in caring for my buddy.
Cleaning the basement for a wave of much loved visitors recently, I ran across the Polaroid OneStep closeup camera my mom bought the year before she died. By that time, digital still cams were beginning to find their way into the lives of the hobbyists. As a late-model Polaroid instant, it takes 600 and compatible film, seems mostly sturdy, and has few options for tweaking.
I decided to pick up some instant film for the upcoming holiday-time parties. I ordered:
600 instant
779 instant (which is supposed to achieve better color reproduction)
something else. It's a write-on film, and I ordered it because it is has a matte finish.
The camera is on when the flash cover is open. It is powered by a battery inside of the film cartridges, The focus is adjusted by sliding a plastic macro lens in front of the lens and viewfinder, giving you macro (flower) and distant (tree). I think the flash is always on, but there is what looks to be an exposure adjustment that slides toward the white arrow or the black arrow. Guests and I ran through 20 shots of the standard 600 at a party hosted at the residence for people from high school.
The greatest things about the instant film are the tangible product after the photo, the anticipation of gradual development, and the nostalgia.
The biggest reason the instant film isn't cool presents itself when someone says,"you're gonna send those to us, right?" (*correction, the actual least cool part is the battery waste from every cartridge).
...."Uh. Yeah". At least I get the satisfaction of chemical development here. Look for an update when I try out the other films.
The Acumen Consulting holiday party was held last night at Bar Italia in the Central West End.
The food was delicious, the drinks were tasty, and I brought my new cam to try it out in a new environment. After the party, Jessica, George and myself went over to George's place to visit with some more good people.
It's time to make the website special. This should be a place where anyone interested in information, marketing, internet technologies, working hard, psych, or being good to the world & each other can find something to make them smile. These people should be interested in coming back. This is the goal.
I spent the day with my friend Joe, cooking and relaxing outside on the deck. Everything was able to be summarized in the course of Jamiroquai's new single, "Turn Me Loose".
