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In today's cynical photography-related news... https://petapixel.com/2023/04/04/gen-z-discovers-modern-digital-cameras-are-better-than-iphones/

Congrats Finland

RIP Seymour Stein, founder of Sire Records and discoverer of Talking Heads, Ramones, Madonna, etc. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-65160979 Additional names that Stein would sign to Sire included the Pretenders, The Cure, Depeche Mode, Seal, The Smiths, Echo & The Bunnymen, Ice-T, Dinosaur Jr., Ministry, k.d. lang, Madness, Wilco, Aphex Twin, etc. https://rockandrollglobe.com/remembrance/music-industry-titan-seymour-stein-gone-at-80/

^ Many plays of that one. Cat Clyde's Down Rounder ex.

Starting Great Expectations (BBC/FX/Hulu). So far, so good. They're making it easy to never have to read the novel.

#moongirlsforever Not that I'm regular visitor to AARP TV... yet, but how did I miss Dinner with Don?

Yummy. Edit: Just came out of a meeting where we discussed buying two. Send to remote talent. Try not to drop.

Giving it a try. Doing the annual switch from Qobuz to Apple Music for a month and seeing if it will take this time (with added classical organization).

Nice camera and thanks for the link. DPReview is being archived https://old.reddit.com/r/photography/comments/11ya4fa/dpreview_is_being_archived_by_the_archive_team/

Hope you feel better soon Shelly from both things. We all have been wiped out with something, likely a cold, this week also. Coming out the other side and joining you also on Zorn/Harris, though less elegantly at Internet Archive. Doesn't seem to be on the normal streaming services. https://archive.org/details/john-zorn-2020-songs-for-petra Also we need to get "For now, I have music" on t-shirts.

Anyone watching the new season of Perry Mason? Doesn’t seem many are talking about it.

A few phone snaps from a photo fair today. Showing a rare example of will power I came home with -1 cameras. These are held three times a year in Newark, CA, but also show up once in year in Portland (coming September), if anyone up there is interested. The 2.7MP Nikon D1, originally $10K in today’s dollars, that I picked up for $40 here last show, were going for $75 today. #digicamtrend

Unfortunately, it's training those eyes for that look. Next stop AI.

Of course days after I bought the Hasselblad 907x 50C for waist level shooting. Coming 4/20 (maybe).

Criterion discs 50% off for the next 15 hours. https://www.criterion.com/shop/browse/list

Big news. DPReview.com to close. The only hobby site I had a longer relationship with than ones on headphones. https://www.dpreview.com/news/5901145460/dpreview-com-to-close

Hope it's an exciting/relaxing day.

Farmer Wants a Wife, the American version (Hulu). "Real stories" between "big city" "girls" and "real, authentic" "farmers" (cowboys, close enough) "trying" to "find" "true love." Hopefully I have all those quotation marks correct. You know how geographically hodge-podgy all this is up front when they introduce Oklahoma with John Denver and "Almost heaven, West Virginia" (see cowboys). Yet, unless I'm getting way too soft, you still kinda feel sympathy for all the participants (except the host and I'm sure evil producers).

Too soon?

Isolde Lasoen's Oh Dear ex.

Get ready for the real thing...

I definitely thought that was vaporware.