Testing the MT-Textile Movable Type plugin. Use Wiki-like markup in posts Things like bulleted lists are easy Here’s a link to the MT-Textile Page

Just caught up on my feeds. Is it true that there’s really nothing at all interesting going on?

Ken Rockwell’s Seven Levels of Photographers. Equipment Measurbator: Bottom Level 1 These men (and they are all men) have no interest in art or photography because they have no souls. Lacking souls they cannot express imagination or feeling, which is why their images, if they ever bother to make any, suck.

It just wouldn’t be Christmas without Jakob’s Top Ten Web Design Mistakes of 2003 (Jakob Nielsen’s Alertbox) Now shape up and stop creating those “blurry mental models!”

I’ve been looking at a ton of photos and reading the corresponding “critiques” lately, trying to figure out what makes a good photograph. It’s apparent that most people wouldn’t know a worthwhile shot if it bit them in the ass. I know that I certainly don’t. It occurs to me that comments like “I wouldn’t have cropped that elbow” or “nice use of depth of field” or “damn that’s tack sharp!

I want a Leica. Do I have to have a reason? Okay, so far the best one I can come up with is the Philadelphia Leica User Group’s The Ten Commandments of Leica Photography Thy children are ugly. Do not make us look upon them. Thou shalt not have a photograph entitled “Pop-Pop” in your Leica portfolio. Thou shalt not photograph thy dog ,nor thy cat, nor thy ass. Photographing in exotic locals does not makeith thou a great photographer.

Melvin Goes to Dinner (2003), like 1981’s My Dinner With Andre, is nothing more than a couple hours of people talking during dinner. Couldn’t stop watching it. Sex, drugs, ghosts, infidelity – just a few of the lighter topics covered.

T.M. writes: “Y’know Bry, there’s no ‘I' in ‘TEAM' . . . but let’s not forget that it starts and ends with ‘TM'” And to think you rode me for my bad pun earlier today. Sheesh.

Some of this body art is very good. And I’m not just saying that because they’re naked.

One of the things I forgot to pull off my laptop while sending it for repair was my RSS feed lists from FeedDemon. Now I’ve gotta spend so much time finding things that I’ve no time left to post anything.

Apparently, a lot of people were waiting for the opening of Apple Store Japan

So what happened was…I just bought another camera. This one is almost the exact opposite of the Digital Rebel I bought a couple months ago. This one is a 1972 Canon Canonet QL17 G-III. About $50 on eBay. It’s a film camera (obviously), it’s a rangefinder, it’s manually focused and it’s really, really cool. No histogram, no LCD preview, no zoom, no multiple auto-focus zones. Just my eye and the shutter release and not much more.