Monthly Archives: December 2019
To All The Bands Corporate Radio Never Played
Sci-Fi Caper (internal link), a power trio who has a chance at success with the rise of the internet. I can’t express how suffocating it was to go through the 70s and 80s with radio playlists controlling which bands got on … Continue reading
Posted in art, music, Uncategorized
Tagged broken sleep, corporate radio, garage bands, Mendota, music, playlists, rock music, Sci-Fi Caper, the west, xoxo
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An Alien Plays Chess
Chess has a point system and all players know their place in it during a game. Everything else being equal, a pawn is worth one point, a bishop three, a rook five and so on. Am I up two? Down … Continue reading
Posted in chess, Uncategorized, video
Tagged alphazero, anna rudolph, chess, chess sacrifice, chess.com, stockfish
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Modern Art Deco?
NB: All links unsponsored. No monetizing here! Modern Art Deco? In my last post I looked at some watches ascribed to modern Bauhaus design. (internal link) Which got me to thinking. Are there any watches inspired by Art Deco? A … Continue reading
Posted in art, Photography, Uncategorized, Writing by others
Tagged architecture, art deco, Bauhaus, modern art deco, new art deco, ornamentalism, style, the new modernism, watches
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Styling Today in the Bauhaus Way
NB: Links are unsponsored and developed on my own. Bauhaus design lives on. These two German watches show it off. And a third might qualify with imagination. This first is a Nomos Orion which retails for between $1,800 and $4,000 … Continue reading
Good Clip Art Goes A Long Way
While searching my paper files and folders I came across this graphic I did in the mid-1990’s. I had gone to Def Con II the previous summer and I was getting ready to go again. Dark Tangent called for poster … Continue reading
Posted in art, Uncategorized
Tagged black and white design, clip art, def con, def con III, design, graphic arts, hacking, Las Vegas
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A Hint of Sparkle in Still Photography
I’ve written on how still photography can’t capture sparkle. (internal link) Rolf Luetke comes close (external link) , though, in this slightly blurry photo of crystals showing striations. — — There are also swirls in the photo as light plays off varied crystal … Continue reading
Shun “tion” in Revising
I recently worked on this paragraph from one of our writers. Mentioning the state name repeatedly is for SEO purposes. Original “Assets and debts division is frequently a major point of contention for divorcing couples in Arkansas. As a rule, … Continue reading
A Book Contract Example
This is the contract a national guidebook publisher uses who has over 100 titles in print. It’s the contract I signed with the publisher with whom I am no longer doing business with (internal link) The publisher originally offered me … Continue reading
Drool Over Jewels Take II
Sotheby’s produces some wonderful videos which are easily accessed on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCelkSnSbxvIfjjD01uPHHbg A nice video capturing sparkling as only a moving camera can. Sparkles don’t show in still photography, they need movement. Still photos of diamonds use a special lens … Continue reading
Posted in Photography, rocks and lapidary, Uncategorized, video
Tagged diamonds, emeralds, jewels, Photography, sapphires, soethbys, still photographs
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