As we live in the future, I can show you this "photo" taken on my computer, sent to the internet via the wi-fi access at my hotel. No flying cars, or lazer guns, or robot butlers. But this is fresh. Fresh in the way that had you told me, when I was 11, that I could do something like this, I would've nodded my head. Because nineteen years ago? Laptops were $50,000, and digital photos were voodoo.
More to come, because I can.
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Don't worry, I won't make a habit of this, my dedication to the Great Polaroid is still absolute, but I've recently gotten, as birthday presents(October 23rd, still time to send gifts), an iPhone and a Mamiya c330. I'm thinking it'd be just plain rude not to use these gifts, and towards that end, I'll using them both to take photos. Expanding my arsenal, as it were.
And when you're on the top of a giant rock formation, and your polaroid 250 is malfunctioning and you've packed your polaroid 680 too deep in your bag, beneath the gummi bears, even, sometimes you've got to rely on your Jesus Phone to capture the moment.
And, frankly, I'm rather impressed. Expect not a lot, but occasional shots from this super sweet phone. camera. email device. IS THERE ANYTHING IT CAN'T DO?
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You have to get here early, that's the thing. By nine a.m., families have already sent their scouts to scoop up the few tables the park provides. There's always parties on the weekends, so the only way to get a table for yourself is to beat the others to the punch.
I got here at 10 one year, and it was all taken up.
So this year, like the last and the one before that, I arrived at 730, bag full of things intended to keep me busy until the bbq starts. At 1pm. For some reason the laptop isn't playing dvds, and the chess program drains the battery something fierce, so it's a bit of Flickr, a bit of reading, maybe take a few pictures of trees while I wait. Feel free to stop by. I'm the guy with the big black bag full of cameras.
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Polaroids and madness to follow.
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We rented four rooms at the Madonna Inn this weekend, picked a crack team to go and shoot the shit out of it. Costumes, cameras, fencing gear, reflectors, thousands of dollars in studio lights, folks from both Northern and Southern California.
And a wooden pony.
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