Gizmodo had an item about something they spotted on Boing Boing — a test made by Kodak in 1922 with Kodachrome movie film. This is a nice follow-up to the post about color photography in Russia during the previous decade.
People liked seeing images of women, even way back then? Amazing!
This morning I was on the porch stretching out, listening to NPR, when the radio suddenly shut off. A fraction of a second later I heard a BOOM from up the street.
Writing in the Wall Street Journal last week, lawyer Cameron Stracher said,
The demise of the American runner was hastened by the success of the first running boom in the 1970s and the embrace of running as a “pastime” rather than a sport.
Stracher has some impressive finish times in races, but this attitude he’s copping won’t win him any fans. Yes, U.S. runners are pokier than they were in 1979, and that’s because they/we are a lot OLDER than they were in 1979, and there’s no next generation in their teens or twenties that’s catching the running bug. But it makes no sense to blame the recreational and/or average runners who provide the money to support all of the road races, and the running shoe industry.
A month ago I said I’d be looking for a different running shoe, and I’ve found one. It’s the Asics GT-2150.
I’m scanning through as many episodes of Alfred Hitchcock Presents as I can before Netflix pulls the series from its Watch Instantly selections tomorrow. Season three includes an installment with Dolores Hart, fresh from appearing with Elvis in Loving You, playing a seductive — and, I infer, pregnant — college coed.
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Elvis must have liked Dolores, because she was also in King Creole. What makes Dolores particularly interesting, and unusual, is that at age 25 she left Hollywood and became a nun, which she remains to this day.
If you’re like me, you’ll think this is the most interesting thing you’ve seen today. Full color photographs, not colorized, taken in Russia between 1910-15, by Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii.
Hey, wait a sec’… the Library of Congress bought those photographic plates back in ’48?? That was only a year before the Soviets had their first atomic bomb test! Some Commie sympathizer in the LoC wasted American post-war taxpayer money on Russian photos?? I’m outraged!
My LG “clamcell” phone takes mediocre photos, but this is my site as seen on tastewar’s iPhone 4. I’m very pleased with how well the WPtouch iPhone Theme 1.9.x Basic mobile phone plug-in works. It’s hard to see in the picture, but there’s an option at the bottom of the page to enable/disable it. Very nice.
