Walking downtown along the Adams Avenue main drag, then back across the EOU campus to return home.
rDay Seven-Hundred-Ninety-Eight
Month: May 2017
rDay Seven-Hundred-Ninety-Seven
Walking around on the other side of the tracks, then returning home to wander around the backyard …
Familiar Faces, Afterword/Sequel
BIL Jeff follows up on this photo posted yesterday of his niece and grandson and assigns photographic credit to — Chika!
Eating Dirt?
Soil bacteria may have health benefits, according to research discussed in this Quartz article. Born and raised on an Iowa farm, this is heartening news to me…
Familiar Faces
BIL Jeff sends along a photograph (did he take it?) of Lisle and another familiar face.
rDay Seven-Hundred-Ninety-Four/Five
Bill Adds More Motion to Things
Bill sends me his first cut at a rework of a still photo I took of him and his then-wife in 1974 or 75. This was probably at Point Vicente or somewhere south of L.A. And, yes, the wind was actually blowing fiercely that day. Click on through to Bill’s FB page to see the thing the way it is intended to be seen, if you see no animation here.
Brittany Howard Does Killer Diller
(Okay, since this is the only one of my websites that halfway works right now, everything has to go here. )
Alabama Shakes’ lead woman, Brittany Howard, collaborates with Jack White and the rest of her crew on a 1940s blues classic as part of the new PBS “American Epic” series.
If you love Brittany and the Alabama Shakes as much as I do, you will want to seek out everything and anything they have done. Start with, say, YouTube.
Searchable Log of All Conversation and Knowledge
Around twenty years ago, my UCLA colleague and IT staffer, Jim O., and I tried our hand at writing software that would facilitate team effort and communications. We eventually abandoned the project for a number of reasons, but I continued to watch developments in the industry and marketplace for this category, and experimented with a variety of such solutions as they became available over the years.
Now, arguably the hottest product in that field would be Slack (or SLACK, as it is really an acronym for “Searchable Log of All Conversation and Knowledge”). Many may not know about that acronym or that the software could be used as a tool that could affect your privacy. Read more here in this Quartz report.
Bill Plays With Fire
Perhaps you recall my old since-1970s artist friend Bill (most recently mentioned here). For the last couple of days we have been discussing ways to animate small portions of still photographs. Tonight, Bill posts this experiment on his Facebook page, using an old photo from the time he lived in Paris: