a couple posts from my little after christmas jaunt… there’ll be a couple posts like this. good times, relaxing and recharging. I’m gonna have to do another trip soon. Maybe St Louis again; I met a guy in egypt that works up there… and i do know a couple people there too. hrm. I do like to travel.
So this was a long stop motion video that I think they were going to set to music and have a video; and at then end they knocked it all down. This rings all sorts of bells for me as a critic and artist; it’s collaborative, impermanent, made for reproduction… things I like, more or less. But standing there, looking at it, most of it sucked; right as it was about to go somewhere interesting one or more of the parties involved would fuck it up. Come to think of it though, that’ll probably look pretty good on video.
christmas night, doin’ it right. I may have been a little obnoxious in front of my friend’s wife (wife and friend in the first pic). It was the DNR talking, I swear. Anyway, yeah, onward and upward.
I just spent the last hour putting the finishing touches on a repair that I started way back when. Unfortunately, there’s nothing physically wrong with the lens; I had it in many pieces, far enough into the guts to find any physical defect, and there were none. So, I don’t know what’s wrong with the lens. It works fine in manual focus, and I’m tempted to sell it on ebay as such. then again, having a backup 50 is never a bad idea. Photo evidence (sorry for the crappy phone pic):
Up next: photos. seriously.
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