Category Archives: editing writing
High School Girl on Vacation
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Going Beyond Optical Code Recognition for Writers
Tremendous amounts of primary research material in newspapers, books and magazines continues to fall apart in libraries and warehouses around the world. Much of it won’t physically survive much longer. And much is still unrecognizable to the best OCR software. … Continue reading
WWG1WGA – Where We Go One We Go All
Corporate media may label QAnon as a conspiracy driven movement but certain facts are irrefutable. The military-industrial complex existed before we were born and is now an integral part of the American economy. The alliance between Big Pharma and the … Continue reading
Are Writers Made or Born? by Jack Kerouac (transcribed for the first time!)
I transcribed this article from two image files at the Writer’s Digest website. I have introduced line breaks of my own to make the text more readable online. This is a six minute read. Kerouac reserves the word “genius” (and … Continue reading
New Logo: Thomas Farley Designs
New logo from Photologo.com (external link, unsponsored) that always does a great job. Don’t be afraid to ask for revisions. This goes along with my new website which is thomasfarleydesigns.com (external link). There, you can look or buy my art … Continue reading
Pushing Pixels Into Video
I’m working on my first video private commission. I’m also accepting comments on same. Two possible openings. The music is slow and deliberately chosen. It’s the music from the opening of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid; I think many … Continue reading
Goldfield Days Coming Up
August 5, 6, and 7th. I’ll be showing at a place called The Stop on the North side of town. That building fills in the models below. Green screen video booth for free. Real people from rural America. And real … Continue reading
Remembering Michael Duffet. (Again.)
Some bot at Legacy.com is asking people to go back to guest books they have signed in the past. Perhaps add a little more. So I did. Michael was a challenging man; he did let you escape back into the … Continue reading
Fear Follows Like a Shadow
This is really odd. The green screen trade in still or static photography is well developed and has been steadily growing over the last ten years. Weddings, conventions, special events, all of them have been incorporating green screen booths as … Continue reading
Bob Dylan and T.S. Eliot
Dylan read Eliot for the most part not at school. Voluntarily, the best way to go. As I understand it, Dylan read lightly and not deeply, as he did with the Bible. It reminds me of Bono with U2, his … Continue reading