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Here’s a short set of photos from an infiltration of an abandoned winery in the heart of Sonoma wine country, masterminded by greenkozi. What happened here? Surely they were printing money with fine wines for the rich and famous, until something went dreadfully wrong! Some say the place is haunted. I know for [...]

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I have some friends that love to take pics of stray shopping carts in compromising positions. I have other friends that chronicle the free sofas that pop up on our city streets. The curiosities of an urban civilization in decline make for morbid, yet wonderous, fascination. This is for all of them.
On a Friday, while [...]

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I read this ad for a LEICA C LUX 1,and I see in my mind’s eye a photographer who married for money. She’s borderline illiterate, yet worships him completely. Therefore she must be hideous and thanking her lucky stars someone will put up with her. The mother keeps kicking down the expensive gifts to remind [...]

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Play while you watch: “Dead Cities” - Future Sound of London
greenkozi plotted some glorious exploration today. we infiltrated this abandoned naval base and took over full operation, with the help of the manual that some lackadaisical admiral had carelessly left laying about. Here are some highlights. Full set’s on Flickr. Koz’ll be posting soon, I’m [...]

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Forty-one days later, my phone rings as I step off a Bart train, Fruitvale station. It’s the default ringtone. I’ve never changed it.
Me: Hello this is Michael.
Female Voice: Hello this is Fujicolor Labs
Me: Yes?
Female Voice: We do processing for Rite-Aid
Me: Yes??
Female Voice: We have some pictures here. Can you identify them?
Me: Yes! They were black [...]

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Since no one believes my tales of battling Hedgetea in the ’70s, here is a video from one of our fights in Morocco in 1977. It’s very shaky, the grain is atrocious, and my transfer from Super 8 to digital was hurried. Hedgetea is in his signature “white warrior” costume, I am in black.

Our [...]

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The Impossible Project is a company that looks like its going to try to manufacture instant film for classic polaroid cameras. Important note: They are doing “integral” type film, not the pack film. That is to say they will not be producing pull-apart type film. So this isn’t the coolest news ever. But, it is [...]

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I recently ran across a Greasemonkey script for Flickr that adds a handy gadget to Flickr photo pages that lets you change the background color for the photo. The change happens instantly on mouseover, and it also removes all other visual elements from the page.
The script is by Rafal Smyka and has been around [...]

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Play song “Ridin’ Dirty” - Chamillionaire
They see my Rollei
They hatin’
Patrollin’ and tryin’ a catch me shootin’ dirty!
I picked up this old beat up Rollei on Craigslist. The seller listed it as a 3.5F but after checking out Rolleiclub, I’m pretty sure it’s an Automat from around 1949.. It also has a shutter that seems to [...]

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Play this song: “Ser O Parecer” - RBD
Thanks to the wonders of Google Image Search and the popularity of Mexican television, my behind-the-scenes photo of pop group RBD just passed the twenty-thousand views mark.  It’s easily my most popular photograph ever.
It dated to a couple years ago when I was with Yahoo! Music. I [...]

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