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Keeping the K-tel-like life going. Was the 70s the last relatively innocent point before personal branding really took off or I am confusing personal aging with society’s march?

Is search broken or after a season and a half has there really been no mention of Succession? Anyone else digging it?

This wins for best listening chair. "John Holliday Perry started diving at a time that he called a few years B.C., Before Cousteau developed the aqualung. He built most of the submarines for the James Bond movie Thunderball, and kept a few for his own use on a private island in the Bahamas. At right is his shark hunter which he used to access a private underwater habitat in 1990. The house was about 30 ft down, and entered through an opening on the floor. He liked to spend time down there listening to Brahms, Beethoven, and Belafonte, while watching the fish swim by. RIP John, an American original."

Millions of them too.

There are a million of them, but this one may be in high res! https://www.amazon.com/Greatest-Love-Songs-Various-artists/dp/B07LFLLBJX/ref=mp_s_a_1_16?keywords=greatest+70s+love+songs&qid=1568776539&sr=8-16

Bad Merlot, a giant chocolate chip cookie and...

Can I pay an extra $5 to get Neil Young to stop talking about compression?

Bon Iver - i,i

The Sweetest Punch: The New Songs of Elvis Costello and Burt Bacharach arranged by Bill Frisell. How did I not know there was a shadow Painted by Memory? And starting Bill Frisell and Thomas Morgan's Small Town.

Rufus' Vibrate, The Best Of

Photographers take care of yourselves! Charlie Cole, Photojournalist Behind Tank Man Photo*, Dies at 64 * Also “aficionado of barbecue, bourbon and the blues.”

Ah, man.

Wonder what Apple now having a $199 Watch will do to FitBit, etc., competitors?

And another biggie, Robert Frank is dead at 94. “He believed that photojournalism oversimplified the world, mimicking, as he put it, ‘those goddamned stories with a beginning and an end.’”

Should anyone be interested in Noise: A Human History of Sound and Listening by David Hendy, the ebook is on sale for $1.99 at Amazon, Apple, Google, etc.

Thanks. I hadn’t seen that. One last link... https://archive.org/details/TheLivesOfHarryLime or http://www.oldradioworld.com/shows/Lives_of_Harry_Lime.php

Coincidentally the below was published recently. I know I’ve said it before, but The Third Man is my favorite movie-movie. https://www.theguardian.com/film/gallery/2019/sep/05/the-third-man-behind-the-scenes-film-noir-in-pictures

As an opposite to the Sigma above, love shooting with the m240, though AF would have certainly produced more keepers here. A couple shots from yesterday paired with the Voigtländer 50 f/1.5 Nokton. Basic edits in Capture One, Technical Pan (which I’m starting to really like) applied in Exposure, then tweaked in Snapseed for mobile.

More commentary please.

RIP Peter Lindbergh https://time.com/5668300/peter-lindbergh-death/ "This should be the responsibility of photographers today: to free women, and finally everyone, from the terror of youth and perfection."

You should probably always fly a kite (with key) whenever outside to be safe.

Ha. Just know it’s a plastic camera with a stacked sensor (instead of BAYER RGB like nearly every other color camera), doesn’t work well with Lightroom, Photoshop, or Capture One, and instead of a front grip for human hands has a reverse grip, because why not? So pluses and minuses.

Labor Day Weekend at Carpinteria, CA is an opportunity for some Sigma dp0/2 Quattro panoramas. Forgot how much I disliked the cameras handling and processing, but love the Foveon output. Also an emu at nearby Ostrichland, Fake Denmark, with the dp2Q processed with a Kodak Technical Pan sim in Alien Skin (recently renamed Exposure). Bonus: Hypno-E with a7III & Voigt 40 f/1.2 E and default C1 sim.