Also a handy skill for occasions when one might have been called upon to read an old typewriter ribbon.
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Get off my LAWN! "Grumpy Old Farts"
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Some people think that the broadsheet is page 3 of some British Newspapers.
How the Weird British Tradition of Putting Topless Women on the Third Page of Newspapers Got Started
How the Weird British Tradition of Putting Topless Women on the Third Page of Newspapers Got Started
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Underneath that story are the stories of how newspapers actually reach the street. In a literal fashion. In less enlightened times high traffic areas for newsboy sales are protected turf. Or should I say, turf that is protected. Newspaper wars are real in big cities in the USA ... His Girl Friday is not entirely fiction. This is a time when there are really no limits to obtaining a photo of the deceased ...
What I saw in American newspapering is Watergate changed everything. What used to be a blue collar profession started to attract kids who would otherwise have gone on to medical and legal degrees. There's no real difference in being the imaginary All the President's Men hero and being the imaginary medical hero like on M*A*S*H.
Also a handy skill for occasions when one might have been called upon to read an old typewriter ribbon.
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I thought it was the start of the women's section.
Similar to my old photographic world where what I saw on the groundglass (usually plastic, actually) was rotated 180º. I always loved it when someone asked if they could have a look to see the "picture/movie" I was making.
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Unless you were in Buddy Rich's band, in which case you're most likely now dead either way.
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Oh well isn't this fun, a number to ring to schedule a DXA Axial Screening
^ this, plus the usual bloodwork orders, is the outcome of today's doctor visit. Yay.
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^ this, plus the usual bloodwork orders, is the outcome of today's doctor visit. Yay.
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"Wrong is right" -Thelonious Monk
Photography or image acquisition is more popular than ever. Most today carry a camera with them at all times. Yet the art escapes many who think that selfies are the be all and end all.
On my morning walks in the woods, I see the sun coming up. The sky today had indescribable colours and shades, it's awe inspiring. The way the light baths the forest makes it different every day. The emerging flowers saying hello to the world are remarkable. Lighting changes quickly. What is literally perfect one instant is gone the next. The camera has to be ready to capture what nature is offering.
On my morning walks in the woods, I see the sun coming up. The sky today had indescribable colours and shades, it's awe inspiring. The way the light baths the forest makes it different every day. The emerging flowers saying hello to the world are remarkable. Lighting changes quickly. What is literally perfect one instant is gone the next. The camera has to be ready to capture what nature is offering.
Bone density baseline/screening is good. Lots of lovely tests to order and follow up on.
Good dietary sources of calcium and vitamin D are important. Exercise helps with bone development and maintenance. Unfortunately, with age and infirmities comes the inability to do what you normally would. It's a vicious circle.
Good dietary sources of calcium and vitamin D are important. Exercise helps with bone development and maintenance. Unfortunately, with age and infirmities comes the inability to do what you normally would. It's a vicious circle.
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Similar to my old photographic world where what I saw on the groundglass (usually plastic, actually) was rotated 180º. I always loved it when someone asked if they could have a look to see the "picture/movie" I was making.
:: unleash the kracken ::
it's a story of the camera, and that line gauge
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Cold type (my specialty
) means electronic text is imaged on film. The film is cut, waxed, and pasted up on boards printed with light blue guidelines that are invisible to the camera. The completed page goes to a flatbed camera, and the platemaking process begins.I'm at the paper to solve the very serious complaint about "something wrong with the type". As vague a clue as possible .... yeh I was talking about a line gauge the width of a broadsheet page. What I find is the boards where the type is pasted up are wrong.
The grid at the bottom of the board is one point narrower than the grid at the top of the page. There are 72 (postscript) points to the inch. The page is trapezoidal because of a printing error from whoever printed the boards the paper bought. The cameraman has always known this, it's been going on for years. He solves the problem on his end by tilting the flatbed just enough to make up for a single point — and make the page straight.
Only it makes the type look weird to people who are used to looking at type.
okay I feel a little better now
still need a lot of stiff drinks to wash that one out of the emotional grease trap
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Perfectly lovely description, Beans!
The ephemeral nature of those OMG visual moments means it's almost certain that your camera/phone is NOT at the ready. As it shouldn't be. Live in the moment!
Your description reminded me of a landing in Yosu (meaning: beautiful waters), Korea. During a 9 month period, I used to fly once weekly from Seoul to Yosu for work. Yosu is on the southern tip of the Korean peninsula. I took the first flight out of Seoul so I could get a full day of work in.
One morning, as we were on approach, we banked left into a light fog/cloud cover. As we continued to descend, the rising sun (yes, it rises in Korea as well as Japan
) lit up the clouds we were flying through in such a way that it looked like we were on the inside of a pearl, looking out at a semi-opaque pearl world.Poor description for an absolutely spellbinding moment that sadly lasted only seconds.
No photo. Just an image burned in my mind. That was 1999, and I can still 'see' it like it was this morning.
Thank you for stirring up that memory. Made my morning!
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It seems that many think that looking in the mirror is more interesting than any of that other stuff.
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Those magic moments in time are when I feel closest to God (or nature if preferred). That's what I live for each day.
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An entire generation has grown up with a camera in their face cataloging every moment. Saw a family last weekend, the mother followed the kids with a cell phone, live streaming a walk to grandparents. I wonder how far this will go. Some parents register web sites named after their child when they are born. Is the child's name chosen based on what is available? Will some have body cam digital records of their entire life? No doubt, this is experiment already underway. I recall a British tv show called Seven-Up.
:: unleash the kracken ::
it's a story of the camera, and that line gauge
:: apologies up front ::
Cold type (my specialty
I'm at the paper to solve the very serious complaint about "something wrong with the type". As vague a clue as possible .... yeh I was talking about a line gauge the width of a broadsheet page. What I find is the boards where the type is pasted up are wrong.
The grid at the bottom of the board is one point narrower than the grid at the top of the page. There are 72 (postscript) points to the inch. The page is trapezoidal because of a printing error from whoever printed the boards the paper bought. The cameraman has always known this, it's been going on for years. He solves the problem on his end by tilting the flatbed just enough to make up for a single point — and make the page straight.
Only it makes the type look weird to people who are used to looking at type.
okay I feel a little better now
still need a lot of stiff drinks to wash that one out of the biological grease trap
Blame soy based ink on newsprint. Papers don't look or feel the same. It's introduction coincided with the downfall of newspapers starting in the 1970's.
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I have yet to take a selfie in the last ten years. Don't know what I'd do with it.
I wouldn't want to break my camera.
Now I take pictures of important stuff like....guess I'll have to look at the pictures.
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