I had to make a piece of metal work for a part that had failed and started to think about doing other stuff. And then I thought about when I was a kid I really wanted to bash the crap out of something and be encouraged rather than get in trouble for it and at the same time make something good. So, with a hammer, a furnace and some steel and not much time I made this.

A little steel Irish harp. Well, OK, it's a prototype. Maybe my kids could make something better.

Sometimes it's nice just watching light. 

There is a feel there and a moment; it's quick and if you don't catch it, well, it's gone. Sometimes you get what you felt. Sometimes you're too slow on the trigger. This is a pic of a past moment. This is why I should keep my camera in my left pocket.

Where the heck do you get film for an old movie camera?

I love printed spelling errors. This one laid me out on the floor with laughter.

My eldest boy wanted pics of dinosaurs. So I got out the markers and whacked away. (Dinosaurs wouldn't be close to grass for a couple million years so it's a bit of a Jurassic extension.)

I like roadprints. Kinda fun while being both instructive and silly. I took these pics while out and about today. Walking, while being threatened by cars. 

There is a chimney at the hospital that is a really nice piece of industrial art. It actually has curved bricks!

And if you have any idea what it takes to make bricks that's a lot of steam.

I wonder if the bricks at the top are different than the ones at the base. 

There isn't any way I'd ever consider climbing that ladder with a broken arm but I'm still very curious.

I watched Star Wars, Tron, Pretty in Pink, and Strange Brew here.

If I really gave a pull at the world, could I bring back a theatre. A real theatre?

But it's a lump of bricks with a leaky roof and some serious basement problems.

It would be seriously stupid to even think about that, would't it? Would't it?

I was going to put this up with a tongue-in-cheek attitude but it probably wouldn't be a good idea.

Anyway, I took a pic of these aliens trying to attack me today.

Really it's the back of my chair and a Jenga tower played by the sun against the wall. The top of the couch is what you see below.

Looks kinda scary, doesn't it? Well, I thought it was.

I made the camera take a reference point that was a white-hot exposure point and close to the range of exposure; just stopped it down a couple f-stops. Same stuff I learned in high-school. Just a different platform.

Damn... maybe I could teach this stuff.

I normally don't go for this kind of stuff. I don't like to demean or yada yada. But sometimes it's done well. Sometimes it's done so well that you just can't help yourself.

The gravy is the stories behind the characters. 

I've been sorta pointed at doctoring my photos. It just isn't so. I understand my camera and how it works.

For deep-saturation shots I use a tripod (that I got at a yard sale for $5) and a long exposure. Quick stuff looks quick because it's just that

As noted I have an Olympus FE-20. It ain't fancy; cost me about $100. But it is a tool that can be used better than just taking it out of the box and whacking away.

It's a cheap camera with a really nice software footprint. All I do is talk to it and configure a few things to make it do what I want.

It's surprisingly smart.

I laughed myself silly over this because I imagine James Earl Jones' voice.

Man, I love living in a bi-lingual country. Especially when I come across stuff like this

I thought this was pretty funny. But maybe that's just me.

Man, if I could just have one of those chairs I'd be a happy guy.