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Somehow Mindhunter’s second season is even better than its great first. For those who haven’t seen yet, don’t judge solely by the pilot (or title). David Fincher’s explorations here are pretty interesting.

Happy belated!

I can't remember, who was asking for a professional pinhole zoom lens? https://pinhole-pro-x-18-36mm-pinhole.kckb.st/be1ca706

Ha. Finished off the second season of Big Little Lies. In my younger days I would have taken great pleasure in ripping on that awful ending. It probably wasn’t the directors fault.

In the history of the Universe Bigshot has never been perfect.

Thanks. They certainly make a heavy watch.

An Insider article titled "We hired the author of 'Black Hawk Down' and an illustrator from 'Archer' to adapt the Mueller report so you'll actually read it"

After four years with the Apple Watch, have been eyeing automatics for about a month. I'm not a watch guy and won't be collecting, but I'm from Ohio and like Panerai, so...

Santa Clara County Fair. Fujifilm X-Pro2 & XF 23f/1.4. Fun with colors and a tiny tripod.

RIP Filmmaker D. A. Pennebaker

For the Frank Lloyd Wright fans there’s an out of print pop-up book titled, you guessed it, Frank Lloyd Wright in Pop-Up, that has plenty of used copies on Amazon right now for under $10. We bought a few years back for Esmé. It’s kinda fun to have around.

If you need a good laugh...

A good high res sample.

A fun, short Ilford film...

Nova’s Building Chernobyl’s Megatomb on Netflix.

Just focus on the “fortissimo pianissimo.”

I’ll place this under “another.” Bye Slug Bug.

Sigma out with a tiny, non-Foveon, L-mount, FF, modular "fp" camera no one was expecting. Foveon version rumored to be following later.

Reading about shibal biyong. Possible HC rallying cry?

Tom Petty’s Problematic Album Southern Accents https://longreads.com/2019/07/09/tom-pettys-problematic-album-southern-accents/ And related... Broken Record Wildflowers podcast https://brokenrecordpodcast.com/episodes#/episode-7-tom-petty-and-the-creation-of-wildflowers/

Whiskypedia: A Compendium of Scotch Whisky, is on sale for $1.99 today on Kindle, Apple Books, Google Play, etc.

Just one more post, from another’s perspective. “Nicolas Winding Refn is an aesthete; his films vacuous yet gorgeous, replete with all kinds of technical bravado, sly camera movements, images that glisten, over-saturated colors, aphotic darkness, and thrumming music. He’s as philosophical as the college sophomore who just discovered Heidegger (which makes him smarter than the student who just discovered Kant, natch). But his craftsmanship! As Nietzsche said, “All of life is a dispute over taste,” and Refn (or NWR—his directorial credit reads, #ByNWR) certainly isn’t for everybody. His new Amazon show, Too Old to Die Young, is glacial and gaudy, repetitive, a shiny, neon-sodden traipse into an ugly underworld set to an anxious, irascible electronic score and digitally photographed so assiduously, so obsessively, with its slow zooms and precise pans and persnickety compositions that look like modern art installations, anyone who doesn’t nerd out over that kind of stuff will probably find the series insufferable. Characters? Plot? Politics? Hah. This is braggadocio filmmaking, stupid and sublime.”