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Happy Christmas...with Robots

Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas

Is Every Snap a Photo?

It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas!

Cold winds are howling, or could that be growling?

Learn to code-Bad career advice since 1999

Wide Angle Shoot Out on the Pentax K-3 III Monochrome

Have a Perfect Thanksgiving

A celebration to last throughout the years

Pentax Graduated Neutral Density Simulator Review

If you lost your mind you'll find it in Key West

I'm a loser, baby

Building a PC that can run AIs

The Pentax Variable ND Filter on the K-3 III Monochrome Review

If You Want It Bring It Savage

We Were Soldiers, once, & young

Take me back to the world gone away

Franklin wins on Election Day

Let's build an AI powered Virtual Newsroom

Installing the Pentax Variable ND Filter on the K-3 III Monochrome

Stretching my mouth to let those big words come right out

The Beautiful Perversity of our Government

A Pentaxian Phojo: Part 3

Ain't No Rest for the Wicked

California outlaws its own regulations

A Pentaxian Phojo: Part 2

Choose not a life of imitation

The State Of Film in 2024

A Pentaxian Phojo: Part 1

With an intellect and a savoir faire

A Requiem For a Billionaire I Knew Before He Got Rich

The Dark Side of the Moon

Born and Raised in Black and White

The End of Widespread Literacy

Flowers Close Up

We can't wait to burn it to the ground

The 2024 election is irrelevant

Tri-X and the Pentax 17

It Opened Strange Doors That We'd Never Close Again

The Tracks of My Tears

Wolfen Warm film with the Pentax 17

I can tell that we are gonna be friends

744 images. 11 rolls of film. 8 film stocks. 1 great camera

Panther Air: A slide and negative film!

Over 1,000 images: Pentax 17 is cheaper per shot than the Ricoh GRIII, Fuji Instax Mini Evo

About that time I grew up Sicilian in a resort fishing hamlet

Pentax 17 with Flic Film Aurora 800

When I look back, boy, I must have been green

The Iron Law of Cheap Tech Comes for the Camera Industry

A Perfect Pair-Ektachrome 100 and the Pentax 17

Me soul on fire feeling hot hot hot

About that time I got myself banned from the Pacific Rim

Pentax 17 1st B&W Test Roll

The Pentax 17 and Ilford HP5

Hot summer streets and the pavements are burning

Master your career destiny

I always thought I'd see you again

Unboxing the Pentax 17 film camera

You know it don't come easy

Your career is a business

Don't Fence Me In

Testing the new Uido Music AI 1.5

Send the Marines!

About that time I wandered into a riot and a revolution

I Drift Back in Time and I Find my Feet Down on Mainstreet

An update on the Black & White Scanning Project

Back in the saddle again

They ain’t makin politicians like Joe and Kinky anymore

ClearClick Film Scanner vs. Pentax Monochrome dSLR-FIGHT!!!

ClearClick Film Scanner vs. Pentax Monochrome-FIGHT!!!

Transparency is your only defense in the United States of Kayfabe

Knights in White Satin

Build Your Own AI: Configuring h2oGPT

About that time I got blackmailed into teaching at the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism. Without a degree.

Summertime, and the livin's easy

Yeah, it's a party in the U.S.A.

Vacation, had to get away

Don't let me hear you say life's Taking you nowhere

That's the story of my life Right there in black and white

Testing the ClearClick Film Scanner

Walkin' on the sidewalk, hotter than a match head

About that time I almost killed a man…with a pointed question

Pentax is sending me a 17 to review; Ask Me Anything

Pentax 17 image quality

Pentax launches 1st new film camera in decades

My magnificent Dad in his flying machine

Welcome back, my friends

Perfecting Equilibrium Live Stream; an experiment

And when I'm dreamin'

Why AIs dream of gluing cheese to your pizza

I'm walking on sunshine

Creating AI marketing collateral; Superimposing a camera viewfinder on a logo

Gone fishin' sign on my door

About that time I grew up in a resort fishing hamlet

If it keeps on rainin', levee's goin' to break

It's all guess-and-check in AI prompt world

We are confronted with a vast quantity of plastic people

Some Gave All

Hot fun in the summertime

Creating Soundtracks with Uido AI

I'm on a wavelength far from home

Payola, gatekeepers and Top40 were way worse than social media

The wood is weathered bare

Udio vs Suno-Fight! Music AI Showdown

Run for the shadows in these golden years

The New Golden Age of Black and White Photography

Look at this photograph (8 million times)

Testing the Udio Music Generation AI

One of these nights I may just jump down that rainbow way

About that time I lost an argument with an article I’d written the previous week

Even better than the real thing

Build you own AI-Virtual Grad Student V-1.0 running locally!

Use your freedom of choice

The Devolution of the United States

No Colors Anymore

Loading your own data into your personal AI

Let Your Light Shine Down

There will be no 2nd Civil War

I've been everywhere, man

Running your own AI on your desktop

The Noise of Thunder

About that time I accidentally spent all my money on lenses. And gizmos. And prints.

Everybody was dancing in the moonlight

Build Your Own AI: Virtual Graduate Student Equipment Upgrade

Here comes the sun

I just may be the lunatic you’re looking for

Now there's only love in the dark

Talented, but dumb as a box of hammers

Hello Darkness my old friend

Happy Easter!

It's the little things

Build Your Own AI: Configuring h2oGPT

It's not about the money

About that time I accidentally ended up on TV. Repeatedly!

I'm walking on sunshine

Build Your Own AI-Intro to Virtual Grad Student

Seems like years since it's been clear

While the screamers shout, America quietly works just fine

Gold Days I'll Always Treasure

Final marketing material from our AI tests

Pentax goes half-frame

Diverse Nazi stormtroopers and other stupid AI tricks

Knights in White Satin

Adobe AI tools' hit on computer performance

Goodbye, Ruby Tuesday

Books and movies suck, so why not TikTok?

Living in a home in the heart of the (Korean) country

Testing the Photoshop AI Expand Image Background tool

When the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie that's calamari

About that time I accidentally ate soba noodles and raw squid in ink broth

These are the good old days of B&W photography

Adding a brass nameplate to our steampunk Speed Graphic with Photoshop Generative Fill

February Made Me Shiver*

A New Media Compendium

Down on (Mojave) Mainstreet

Creating a graphic in a single take with Adobe Generative Fill

Changes are taking the pace I'm goin' through

The (old) media is dead; long live the (new) media

Three weeks in the Mojave drives you insane

The future's so bright, I gotta wear shades

Fight! Adobe Photoshop Generative Fill vs. Adobe Firefly

When the world changed overnight

Been through the desert

The dawning of the month of Aquarius

Creating Steampunk Camera Collateral for Feola Factory

About that time I set out for Europe and accidentally ended up in Asia-Twice

Will you meet me in the dark?

Got a gut feeling

Building a Steampunk Camera brand for Feola Factory

Death by Dirty Data: 4 dead, hundreds imprisoned

Let it snow! Let it snow! Let it snow!

Dirty Data Done Dirt Cheap

Building a Steampunk Speed Graphic Camera With Adobe Firefly

Feed AIs Enterprise Data For The Win

Here stood my dreaming tree

Back in the saddle again

Creating a Victorian photojournalist with a steampunk camera with DALL-E

Mickey Mouse falls into the public domain

Take What the Water Gave Me