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note-book

there’s only so much bunion one heel can take . [MD: For a long time, I only made photographs, and dabbled in the moving image. I didn’t really start to write until after editing Mother Reader [2001], at which point I wanted to take a break from photography and focus on writing and video. My most recent photographs are black and white images of chickens, horses and dogs taken with my late-1960s…

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Hyperphotrio

Dog Whistles woven into the fabric. UA == a clothing store for the Ubermensch. Uber Alles and a salute from the Right Hand of Idaho. In other words, for those at the back of the bus: the wild right wears a hat as safe, silent signal of membership. […now viewed as Nazi propaganda and offensive to modern-day Germans. Germans have drawn parallels between their national anthem and the motto of…

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Kodak Who?

This and that. After the flumox comes the fluff. And, the facts. Something about what they do: who do they hire. How much do they pay. What do those people do. The digested version: Kodak Alaris pays more than Eastman Kodak. Their jobs require automation control knowledge. Kodak Alaris,aka Moments, is all about Thermal Media. That is the estimated growth area. Your photographic Moment on a mug,…

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woodshed

continued from: https://webionaire.com/2022/10/25/further-afield/ years ago. Gatherings of the skilled increases the skill of those at the table. If, and only if… a person’s awareness increases beyond the elements of the work, the components. The gathering is the difference. Sometimes, it provides enough affirmation, supporting you as you gain the skills outside your studio. 1975, “If I can…

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bookmark: Paloma

items noted�� Paloma Dooley.  (b. 1993, New York, NY) lives and works in Los Angeles. a BA in photography from Bard College. In 2016, she completed a monthlong residency at the Vermont Studio Center. recently completed a four-month residency at Quinn Emanuel Artists in Residence. She is a recipient of a 2024 Puffin Foundation Artist Grant. About is brief, unlike her image making method. “I was…

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Read The Text

everyone wants to be relevant none more so than the amateur  who has never been relevant never noticed in their field never noticed in their craft … they fight over the small opinions, the scraps. Where does the fight in the scrapyard arrive? The know it all’s that do little make the biggest mistakes. Your first action reveals your past ability. not even an imaginative mea culpa  Chuck:…

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In No Particular Order

We work to do something else… unless work is filling. Filling more than time and the bank. That isn’t what most of the worker space does. Most work, even Silicon-Soft-Tech work, is done for money. No more, no less. The draftee in America’s war — make the cut. Join the club. Coders for sidewalk repair. First they come for you neighbor … —The National Park Service announced Monday that the statue…

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pigment from the wooeshed

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Discourses on Art

Book by age, or by contents. How do you choose the text for your table? Mine is filled and emptied by whim; by wandering among the stacks. Like a sleepwalker without slippers. Old books are kept not maintained. They become overlaid with marks upon readings. Reynolds is an old text without many current readers. I never spend more than a frew minutes with it, although it draws me in enough times…

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Studio Table: Jul 30 '25

Book links… quicknotes of the incoming stack. Keeping myself moving in more than one direction. “A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.” thomas Mann. [Mike Csikszentmihalyi called the flow state. In flow, you realize your fullest creative potential. You lose track of time. You’re not distracted by little things around you. Flow is like a drug. Once…

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Tom Lehrer died , at 97.

Thomas Andrew Lehrer (/ˈlɛərər/; April 9, 1928 – July 26, 2025) was an American musician, singer-songwriter, satirist, and mathematician, who later taught mathematics and musical theater In 2020 Lehrer publicly revealed that he had been assigned to the NSA; since the mere fact of the NSA’s existence was classified at the time, Lehrer found himself in the position of implicitly using nuclear…

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White Collar is

Is the new white power . It makes nothing but money Friction free economy produces nothing but more power to the white collar. Gone is the wet collar worker. and politics produces the ivory collar scholar . no new knowledge just an addition to division.between The pitch and the bitchThe pitch not a pit .getting funded or fondled .it's tech only because there's data a data store and marketing…

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Blogs Are Dead

yep. As a vehicle carrying you to fame; not dead for why they began. Awareness of your world. They started as a “log” — journal based commitment. First, a homepage before the net was “e” and “ramp” … WEBLOG, the word arose in 1997; prior to that written pages were widespread with links to other pages. Some people were gathering those links into categories. We long to shorten words: chop off the…

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Index Prints

The idea print. Collecting visuals. Stages of the darkroom process. Beyond the wild guess. Looking more than once, while looking at more than one. Building the comparative response. This index is from the librarians, not the linguists. /’ that it contains so much contradictory information that a verbal message is needed to fix its meaning ‘/  The key point of this post is using “jigs” as aid to…

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Sun Dye Service

From my prior post: “CVI, Color Vision Imaging laboratory, Manhattan, 1981. Guy Stricherz (b. 1948) graduated from western Washington University in 1974. He went to New York city in 1977 to work for Frank Tartaro who was one of a dozen masterful printers. Even at that time the process was falling out of use. It had peaked by 1980. Irene Malli (b. 1964) graduated from Cooper Union; after…

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Own Up. w0rd stuff

Language adjuncts. Crutches for smaller thoughts. Add this. Pad that.stuffers and fillers for your ‘own’ meanderings. when your ideas are flat , you have to stuff them he rise of the 'own' word.A bumper crop of bumper words .Words between . in attempt to clarify your inclusion. your noun.The obsessive possessive casepadding, stuff9ng the sentence. upping the word countsalesman sidetone . canter…

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photrio Fish Tales

on the pier, among the peers… fishing from the banister. never made a living by fishing; not even by teaching fishing. although they tell stories, enlarged with each pinochio, of what they know, what they maybe considered doing. maps of their exploits assuring you they list the reefs and quicksand hazards. all in effort to have a following. to reassure themself they hadn’t wasted … so…