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Notices by St John's Evil Twin (stjohn@mulligrubs.me), page 17
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@djr The book is a sensational read — I was sequestered in a tropical paradise and yet I couldn't put it down. What's weirding you out about the movie? Is it James Franco? It's always James Franco.
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@multijanet Saluton! Mia koro ĝojas kiel eksplodanta zepelino kiam mi trovos aliajn Esperantistojn en la federacio.
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@ajroach42 Biographies are tricky, and what makes or breaks them isn't the subject — it's the author. I read a bio of the ideal subject (one of my favorite musicians, eccentrics, and wits, Vivian Stanshall) called "Ginger Geezer", and it was so bloody dull my wrists practically slit themselves. On the other hand there's a magnificent bio of Tiny Tim by Harry Stein that would be hard to outdo because Stein was working directly with Tiny and his associates, and was a fascinating writer to boot. Both were ideal subjects — tricky, elusive, colorful personalities — and yet one plods while the other sings.
Unfortunately it's hard to tell the good writers from the bad before you read them. Just pick some people you want to learn more about and the good biographies will be obvious in hindsight.
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Leica M3 / Ilford Delta 3200
#photography #filmphotography #SanFrancisco
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@ajroach42 I've had real problems finding an IM program that I can host myself, does video chats, and that I can convince other people to use. Let me know if you find anything worthwhile.
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@ajroach42 Yeah, it is the Kino box — it's kind of pricey, but thoroughly worth it IMHO. Many of the films are very fragmentary, even after conservation and restoration, and it's sad to see an otherwise good film marred by obvious loss and damage. Still, I'm grateful for what people have managed to save too.
Link us to your podcast when it's up — I'd love to hear the discussion.
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@ajroach42 It's excellent. I watched it last year when I got the "Pioneers of African-American Cinema" boxed set, and it was my favorite film of the lot. Micheaux's films aren't difficult to watch, per se, but they are super intense. I had to take a break between Micheaux films to watch a damn comedy or something, because it's hard to deal with that amount of emotional tension.
What I found pleasantly surprising was the amount of subtlety in "Within Our Gates". It's not just white people being shits (which, to be fair, they largely were). There are good white characters and bad ones, and there are good black characters and bad ones too. Micheaux wasn't grinding an axe, he was commenting on a complex society where good and bad are mixed together.
I'd love to hear your thoughts when you get to see it. Are you watching the version with music by DJ Spooky? That guy's amazing. I've heard some people complain about his scores, but I thought his score for "Gates" really brought he movie home.
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@alanz That'd be a way better name for it than ReCAPTCHA. It's got a nice hint of something sinister.
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@neil It is Google. They used to use the answers for a relatively good cause (character recognition for the huge corpus of old books they'd scanned and made available online for free). But these days they get you to identify street signs, cars, and house numbers, because they're getting you to do unpaid work for them on their self-driving car and street-view projects.
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@bouncinglime Do they have anything similar in your corner of the world? There's always Christmas panto :P
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It's oodles of fun, and it's so immersive it's like being on another planet. I can't recommend it enough, even if you only go once and decide it's not your cup of tea.
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The day after Thanksgiving some mates and I visited the Dickens Fair. I really wanted to shoot a few rolls of film, but it's fairly dimly lit inside the Cow Palace so I brought 3200 ISO film. Grainy as all get-out, but at the same time I kind of like the gritty, grungy look.
https://mulligrubs.me/photos/stjohn/image/19eb7adda40fc2592b4e936d2fcb66d3
https://mulligrubs.me/photos/stjohn/image/e02042868e3afab5b084286544c89d9c
https://mulligrubs.me/photos/stjohn/image/9b6630e3cdfe5881504812ef98dcec6e
https://mulligrubs.me/photos/stjohn/image/a785048060b687b65037d806b86c4bae
#photography #filmphotography
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@gdorn The best I've found is Rainloop. It's a bit basic in many respects, but it's also the sleekest self-hosted webmail I've found. Many of the other solutions are laughably archaic.
If you're looking for as Google-y an experience as possible you could also jack up Mailpile as a webmail client, but it's not entirely designed for that.
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I'm reversing it and you're reversing it back. We're *confusing* the polarity of the neutron flow!
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#sevendaysevenwbpic
Sept jours. Sept photos en noir et blanc de votre vie. Pas de gens. Pas d’explications.
Seven days. Seven black and white pictures of your life. No people. No explanation.
Jour 6 / Day 6 https://wk3.org/uploads/images/303338b0f18ed6c7c93c.jpg.
#photo #photographie #photography #maphoto #mywork #NB #BW #CC #BY-NC-SA 4.0
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@brennen I went through a bunch of them some years ago, but wound up with Mutt just because Thunderbird and Evolution were so, so buggy, and everything else seemed very half-arsed. Since then, though, I've found a fairly minimal graphical client called Geary and I've always been impressed with it.
If you're looking for tag-based mail, Mailpile is probably the closest thing that gives you a Gmail-like experience, but every time I've tried to run it it's felt very alpha. It's been that way for literally four years now.
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