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hirezStrange things, extended families. There your are, bobbling along in a friend-shaped cocoon of mutual understanding and good fellowship, when suddenly and disturbingly you bounce off people you're related to because peer-group normal isn't family-normal and the bastards are staring at you like you've three heads.
Small Brother's conversation revolves around the amount of work he's doing, how much money he's banked in the last week and what kind of Range Rover (a 4.6HSE, apparently) he's buying his wife. I'm pleased that they're doing well. I mean, if you're going to be related to someone who does high-end in car tech-toys, it might as well be one of the best in the country. It's just that the disconnect that I used to feel, and that I had come to think recently was just me being over-precious and wanting to make my teens sound a little more anguished than they really were (I am the only Peelite in the village, etc), came back with a bit of a wallop.
Coupled with that, I discover that the LOMO factory has given up making LC-As (or have they?), the 'Lomographic society' is a mob of Viennese marketing students and Proper Photographers hate them with a passion. And that one used to be able to pick up s/h LC-As for $15 if you went and got one yourself from shops in what we used to call Eastern Europe, but only after I'd paid $more_than_that for one off Ebay.
Well, we'll see what happens when the thing arrives. On one hand, Sturgeon's Law applies. On the other, so do Groucho Marx rules. On the third: http://www.lomohomes.com/hirez (The ActionSampler animator is a Splendid Toy)
I tend to think that because I'm printing out one or more images per reel, something interesting is happening. I think it would be somewhat intereresting to vaguely subvert the FIM thing, but that would be wandering into areas that I'm... Less than comfortable with.
Small Brother's conversation revolves around the amount of work he's doing, how much money he's banked in the last week and what kind of Range Rover (a 4.6HSE, apparently) he's buying his wife. I'm pleased that they're doing well. I mean, if you're going to be related to someone who does high-end in car tech-toys, it might as well be one of the best in the country. It's just that the disconnect that I used to feel, and that I had come to think recently was just me being over-precious and wanting to make my teens sound a little more anguished than they really were (I am the only Peelite in the village, etc), came back with a bit of a wallop.
Coupled with that, I discover that the LOMO factory has given up making LC-As (or have they?), the 'Lomographic society' is a mob of Viennese marketing students and Proper Photographers hate them with a passion. And that one used to be able to pick up s/h LC-As for $15 if you went and got one yourself from shops in what we used to call Eastern Europe, but only after I'd paid $more_than_that for one off Ebay.
Well, we'll see what happens when the thing arrives. On one hand, Sturgeon's Law applies. On the other, so do Groucho Marx rules. On the third: http://www.lomohomes.com/hirez (The ActionSampler animator is a Splendid Toy)
I tend to think that because I'm printing out one or more images per reel, something interesting is happening. I think it would be somewhat intereresting to vaguely subvert the FIM thing, but that would be wandering into areas that I'm... Less than comfortable with.
