Olympus OM gear I'm thinking of returning to the universe via KEH:

• OM1
• 50mm f/1.4
• 50mm f/3.5 macro
• 85mm f/2
• 90mm f/2 macro
• 135mm f/3.5
• 500mm f/8

Torthorwald Castle and its attendant guardian!

#blackandwhitephotography #Scotland

Parkplatz

#WienLiebe #WienAnalog #BelieveInFilm #FilmIsNotDead
📷 Leica M5 🎞 KodakTMAX400🧪 Amaloco AM 74

Reminder that every one of us is a rando to someone else.

#Wisdom

it’s a single burnt nugget on stale bread wrapped in a list of all the ways you’ve disappointed your parents

35mm, Kodak Tri-X 400, Olympus OM2
processed by Photoworks SF

#35mm #baeareafilm #filmphotography #believeinfilm

Au secours! Send security with a sucker! https://sesquiotic.com/2024/04/30/succour-secure/

Has anyone set up a cooking and coding blog called Spaghetti Code yet

It was all a bit 'Mordor' this morning.

This Is How a Pen Changed the World

A render of a BiC Cristal ballpoint pen showing the innards. Look around you. Chances are, there’s a BiC Cristal ballpoint pen among your odds and ends. Since 1950, it has far outsold the Rubik’s Cube and even the iPhone, and …read more https://hackaday.com/2024/04/29/this-is-how-a-pen-changed-the-world/

Look around you. Chances are, there’s a BiC Cristal ballpoint pen among your odds and ends. Since 1950, it has far outsold the Rubik’s Cube and even the iPhone, and yet, it’s one of the most unsung and overlooked pieces of technology ever invented. And weirdly, it hasn’t had the honor of trademark erosion like Xerox or Kleenex. When you ‘flick a Bic’, you’re using a lighter.

It’s probably hard to imagine writing with a feather and a bottle of ink, but that’s what writing was limited to for hundreds of years. When fountain pens first came along, they were revolutionary, albeit expensive and leaky. In 1900, the world literacy rate stood around 20%, and exorbitantly-priced, unreliable utensils weren’t helping.

In 1888, American inventor John Loud created the first ballpoint pen. It worked well on leather and wood and the like, but absolutely shredded paper, making it almost useless.

One problem was that while the ball worked better than a nib, it had to be an absolutely perfect fit, or ink would either get stuck or leak out everywhere. Then along came Lazlo Biro, who turned instead to the ink to solve the problems of the ballpoint.

Biro’s ink was oil-based, and sat on top of the paper rather than seeping through the fibers. While gravity and pen angle had been a problem in previous designs, Biro’s ink induced capillary action in the pen, allowing it to write reliably from most angles. You’d think this is where the story ends, but no. Biro charged quite a bit for his pens, which didn’t help the whole world literacy thing.

French businessman Marcel Bich became interested in Biro’s biro and bought the patent rights for $2 million ($26M in 2024). This is where things get interesting, and when the ballpoint pen becomes incredibly cheap and ubiquitous. In addition to thicker ink, the secret is in precision-machined steel balls, which Marcel Bich was able to manufacture using Swiss watchmaking machinery. When released in 1950, the Bic Cristal cost just $2. Since this vital instrument has continued to be so affordable, world literacy is at 90% today.

When we wrote about the Cristal, we did our best to capture the essence of what about the pen makes continuous, dependable ink transmission possible, but the video below goes much further, with extremely detailed 3D models.

youtube.com/embed/Nb1PrONDHhk?…

Thanks to both [George Graves] and [Stephen Walters] for the tip!

First film photos since middle school finally arrived from the lab 🥳 Hasselblad 500c/m Tri-X 400

#Photography #BlackAndWhite #BlackAndWhitePhotography #Monochrome #hasselblad #filmphotography #analogphotography #filmisnotdead

Just sending this into the #fediverse ....

I rarely make good photos but I always enjoy taking them. #BelieveInFilm

Remember

It's #NationalSuperheroDay and I have made at least 100 superhero costumes over the past 15 years + I could share any of them, but I've had the same favorite superhero since I was 4 years old. She used to lead the Avengers, you know. Captain Marvel herself, Monica Rambeau 🖤🤍 💫
#CaptainMarvel #Photon #Spectrum #MonicaRambeau #cosplay

I have two of these on my desk for unprocessed film: one for black and white, one for color.

Both are full.

😬

Am I the only person who likes a good anorak?

Yeay! Made the cover of Spaceweather.com #comet #ponsbrooks

"Solitude is not chosen, any more than destiny is chosen. Solitude comes to us if we have within us the magic stone that attracts destiny."

Hermann Hesse on solitude, the value of hardship, and the courage to be yourself https://t.co/MWDfIb9fI7

Yo-Yo Ma performs Bach for Earth Day amidst the melting permafrost in a birch forest in Alaska. “If we find the time to truly listen, we might recognize ourselves in the melting permafrost or the fallen birch…” https://kottke.org/24/04/yo-yo-ma-performs-bach-in-alaska-for-earth-day

#fbx #alaska #esterdome

Circa 1920s Frosty I in Skagway, where he spent his summers. Frosty I was a Siberian Husky & first live mascot for the University of Washington (from 1922-30). Via Online Archive of California #alaskahistory #skagwayhistory #alaska

It's been a long time since I've been out for coffee with another human. Just two people, enjoying coffee and each other's company and talking about life, the universe, and everything.
Things sure do change.

My brothers cat.

Ink.

#art
#ink

Bloody hell. Here's about 13 minutes of integration on Comet Pons-Brooks tonight. Altitude less than 10 degrees! #comet #ponsbrooks #NewZealand

#fbx #alaska #trains

Did I tell you guys that the Nikkor S.C. 50mm f/1.4 LTM lens has a filter size of 43mm, just like the Fujifilm XF35mmF2 R WR? So now my Nikkor has a tiny lens shade, no purchase necessary.

Any female-presenting person of a certain age who's taught long enough has had students absentmindedly call them "Mom."

Today, amid a rather frenetic last-day-before- the-draft's-due class period, one of my #PhlEd seniors looked right at me and, all unconsciously, said "Alexa, how do I cite..." before he heard his own words and froze in horror.

Losing weight with diet and exercise

Losing weight from stress and apathy

The alien saucer landed in the university square. A bedraggled being emerged from the ramp, carrying a sling bag, consulting a phrasebook.

“Um. Take me … to your … plumber?”

The professor of linguistics was first to speak. “Ah, I see what’s happened. You’ve confused ‘lead’ with ‘lead’, one comes from ‘liðan’, to go forth, and one comes from ‘plumbum’, the word for the element—“

His lecture was cut short when a putrid, slimy, plunger landed squarely on his head. “I know what I mean,” said the alien.

#MicroFiction

“Shit, if only they’d have moved like that when my son was being murdered,” the father of a murdered Uvalde child tweeted above footage of Texas DPS officers in riot gear storming toward unarmed students at UT Austin. “But what do I expect….1 AR-15 keeps 376 officers at bay.”

https://www.momleft.com/p/the-kids-the-guns-are-for

No matter how bad I’m feeling, good tacos cheer me up