To get things rolling I headed out to the state park block house in North Muskegon. I armed myself with my 30d and the Canon A-1 film camera. While you’ll get to see the digital shots right away (see below) I’m more excited about the stuff on film. The A-1 is equipped with a buttery 50mm 1.4 lens, buttery referring to the feel of the focus on it. It’s got none of that fancy auto focus business going, and you’ve gotta use your eye and coordination to work it (My coordination is getting better… I think).

Since the film I’ve got stockpiled can’t be developed at the local hour lab developer I’m faced with two options. Dig out the developer tank and reels from photo classes, or find an online outfit to handle things. While developing it myself wouldn’t be that tough, I’d still probably want to get digital with it to put online, so I’m leaning to the outsourcing option.

If you’ve got any leads on good places that will develop, scan, and mail the negatives to me let me know.

Here are some shots from today I rather enjoyed.

I’m also going to be on the lookout for some FD mount wide angle lenses to take another stab at night photography with film. If you come across anything, or your uncle has a few old lenses collecting dust, please let me know.

Word of mouth is casual, yet the active sharing of brand – positive or negative experience with a good or service. Virality is causal, yet the passive compound effect of interconnections being maxed out.

Word of mouth doesn’t scale. Virality does.

Read the rest of a great article about the difference between word of mouth and virality from Andrew Weissman’s blog.

A night shot from the archives. Look for more photography to come

His show from VanAndel Arena earlier in the year was FAR better, and maybe one of the best shows I’ve seen.

Anyway, here’s some music!

So if we just don’t take any action we will have free expanded cable through the old account?

Mary Joan.29487(Mon Aug 25 2008 17:56:51 GMT-0400 (EDT))>

Here are the local office details 700 W Broadway Ave
Muskegon, MI 49441
Phone: 800-577-2345 Mon-Fri 8:00am-5:00pm, Sat 8:30am-12:00pm

Brian_(Mon Aug 25 2008 17:57:19 GMT-0400 (EDT))>

So if we just don’t take any action we will have free expanded cable through the old account?

Mary Joan.29487(Mon Aug 25 2008 17:57:16 GMT-0400 (EDT))>

As for your order, everything is on the right track and you can consider it resolved.

Mary Joan.29487(Mon Aug 25 2008 17:57:21 GMT-0400 (EDT))>

Is there anything else I can help you with today?

Brian_(Mon Aug 25 2008 17:57:35 GMT-0400 (EDT))>

So if we just don’t take any action we will have free expanded cable through the old account?

Mary Joan.29487(Mon Aug 25 2008 17:57:59 GMT-0400 (EDT))>

There is a charges for every services.

Mary Joan.29487(Mon Aug 25 2008 17:58:01 GMT-0400 (EDT))>

Do you have other questions for me today?

Brian_(Mon Aug 25 2008 17:58:28 GMT-0400 (EDT))>

Nope that will do it… we’ll just use the current cable that is hooked up until it is disconnected.

Brian_(Mon Aug 25 2008 17:58:30 GMT-0400 (EDT))>

thank you!

Mary Joan.29487(Mon Aug 25 2008 17:58:40 GMT-0400 (EDT))>

You are welcome.

I don’t know what I’ll be doing with it, but it might be something fun.

Maybe not.

The suspense will kill you.

I picked them up day of and listed them. By the end of the auctions I had made nearly 1000 dollar in excess of my own PS3 purchase. I ended up listing my own machine as well, as the demand was insane. All told, I cleared nearly 2000 dollars in profit. I still haven’t bought a PS3 actually.

I received death threats, e-mails from people saying I was “a monster” and someone claiming I was “selling her child’s Christmas away!” Someone even went so far as to contact Ebay and claim I was selling porn. People were livid at the profit being made.

Read the rest of the story here.

In other news, I’ve finally got my house re-arranged for the winter. The bed is once again coming back into the living room due to heating issues. I’ve got this wonderful heater in the floor that dosn’t do a very good job of distributing the mass amount of heat it puts out. It’s also incredibly difficult to re-light the pilot light on it.

Here’s some pictures of the new room setup.

The TV is over where the bed was last year. Also notice the sweet speaker stands that took forever to build.

Not to fear though! Just hop over to my new Photobooth Company website.. I’ve got a blog going over there as well. Might not be as outlandish at times as this blog, but I just don’t have much free time lately.

Maybe I’ll just set up cross posting.. maybe not…

Either way check out the other site and add it to your feed if that’s that sorta thing you’re into.

And I promise that the above picture will be the last or close to last picture of a cat posted on this site.

Also really into the new Jay-Z CD American Gangster….

They hadn’t and it worked very easily on the display model. I thought it was a little funny, so I took a picture of the phone and uploaded it to flickr. The internets took over from there.

I made the front page of Digg yesterday

Was on the unofficial apple weblog

Macenstein site that published to digg

And to clear up a lot of rumors about this picture, it is not photoshopped, it is not fake, and is infact an apple store phone.

I see no issue with doing this, as the phones are meant to be played with, and I did nothing but go to a website in safari on the phone. So all the people yelling about vandalism need to quiet down.

I’m guessing that by this time tomorrow my 5 minutes of internet fame will be over.

Brought out the booth to Kelly’s going away party on Thursday night… needless to say it was a pretty big hit! I’ve got another gig lined up tomorrow night as well. Some kinda hair expo thing. Not really sure, but it should be pretty fun regardless!

Having a party? Getting Married?!
You should probably rent a Photo Booth!