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The Bear season two. Episode six, Fishes, is a crazy, guest star filled, holiday flashback. Add this to your annual holiday watch. Guess this actress. All your guesses all at once. Damn, I could have made a Wanda joke. Edit: Here’s a great opinion piece - https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/24/opinion/the-bear-fx-grief.html

Not the dream team https://www.nytimes.com/live/2023/06/23/world/russia-ukraine-news?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

SR60s still put you inside the instruments?

I'm curious about the hierarchy. I don't pretend to know how these bands have aged in culture, but X really level four? Soft Cell above The Furs, OMD, and Violent Femmes? Tears for Fears above B-52s and Devo? Or are the lines themed?

I'm not saying I'd ever pay that amount for any combination of living artists, but it doesn't seem crazy to me compared to a Rolling Stone show or Taylor Swift next month in a football stadium...

If anyone is of the era, looks like a big show in November. https://www.darkerwavesfest.com

I’m neither good at landscape or square format, but when you lug the nearly five pound Zeiss 50mm Distagon, Hassy 500cm, 42307 45 Prism, and CFV II 50c back (forgot the monopod) into a park last weekend, you try. Here are my best Bon Iver album covers.

Ryo Fukui in New York

Reopening casket… https://www.dpreview.com/site-news/8298318614/dpreview-com-looks-forward-to-a-new-chapter-with-gear-patrol

Not sure where this goes, but…

Black Mirror season 6

Hope it’s a great, big one

EDIT: As promised I'm deleting the newsletter first post, but will leave the guest star Leo P here...

Certainly lots of Fuji presets out there. Now talk about a camera (that would look awfully nice next to a turntable)... https://petapixel.com/2023/06/16/you-could-own-the-custom-camera-used-to-shoot-blade-runner/

Article linked from the above - https://harpers.org/archive/2022/12/corner-club-cathedral-cocoon-audiophilia-and-its-discontents/ @Voltron OMA is mentioned.

Not an article, but a series of “newsletter” emails that will start Friday, from Craig Mod (who you may know from tech, photography, walking) on Northern Japan Jazz Kissas. He’ll then delete the list at the end of the 16 days of visits. https://craigmod.com/ridgeline/165/

So those are the rangefinder-style models, but X-T30 II would be the same sensor (and sims, etc.) in a thin SLR-style. So same photos, but a little larger. Appears to be at Best Buy. X-T3/4/5 would be larger still, but very similar. X-S20 too. And X100T and X-Pro2 would have to be bought used, but very close. All those would need a lens.

Fuji got hit from both sides at the same time - influencers from TikTok and Roger Deakins quite publicly stating he’s using for stills. Hardly anyone mentions Fuji uses the same sensor and sims across same generation cameras so E4 (minus OVF) and X-Pro3 (slightly larger), with XF23, gets you very close.

The Road was the last book I read entirely in one night. I described to pregnant Melissa how it felt to read as a soon to be father and she decided to take a look and stayed up the next night and did the same.

Cormac McCarthy is gone. https://www.cnn.com/style/article/cormac-mccarthy-author-death/index.html

#lenshood

Thanks. Didn't know about this release. Probably time to watch The Blue Angel, but until then listening to Lili Marlene (remastered) full album

Really great to hear Steve. It was last weekend, but Filoli (“Fight. Love. Live.”) in another small town, Woodside, showed the Bay Area’s levels of acceptance at their Pride fest with their first winning CIS female drag queen doing storybook hour. #doublejump

https://abcnews.go.com/US/unabomber-ted-kaczynski-found-dead-jail-cell/story?id=99984583

William F. Buckley Jr., Jack Kerouac, Lewis Yablonsky, and Ed Sanders strangely discuss "The Hippies" (with Allen Ginsberg looking confused in the audience)