Christopher

@twopoint718.bsky.social

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On the World Wide Web since the late 1900’s. I appreciate a good groove. Trans rights are human rights. ☮️ 📷 https://www.flickr.com/photos/twopoint718/ Will often post renewable energy/solar ♻️☀️, electrification stuff.

EPA AirNow app for Madison WI showing “416 AQI, Hazardous, Wildfires in WI”
A blue and black plastic 35mm film camera.
The cast of the magic school bus. Arnold asks Miss Frizzle where they are. Outside the bus are demons from the game Doom. Miss frizzle responds (now wearing the Doomguy armor) “Suit up Arnold” handing him a helmet.
A box of Film Photography Project “Mummy” 4”x5” sheet film. There’s a film holder next to it.
A single page zine (folded into a booklet). It has yellow paper and green ink.
A field of utility-sized solar panels tilted up to catch lower-angled winter sun.
A black Trek ebike sitting in a driveway.
The "oof" meme with a dial pointing to a "large" oof size. A man makes a pained "oof" expression alongside it.
A dog bed placed in the kitchen with a note on it that reads: “chef’s table”
A fake ad from Aramco: “The sun will explode eventually. Where will your precious solar power be then?” A smiling woman lifts a young child in a field of wildflowers.
The Sony 300 disc cd changer sitting on a bookshelf hooked up to a Sonos streaming speaker. Disc 8, track 3 is displayed.
A black dog with grey in his beard rests his head on the arm of a couch. His eyes are closed, snoozing.
A Sony 300 CD disc changer/player
A book “Think Like a Street Photographer” by Matt Stuart and a Pee Wee postcard from a friend.
Brightly pink & green colored risograph zine. The cover illustration depicts a facial recognition app being used on a woman.
The Adobe PostScript 3 logo: stylized pages being turned over a red rectangle.
A black dog laying on her belly looking at the camera. She has a little white patch under her chin. Her head is cocked slightly.
A box of Kodak p3200 T-Max film. Photo from wikipedia.
A vintage Delorean Motor Company styled like the time machine from “Back to the Future.”
A textbook labeled: “Solar Electric Handbook: Photovoltaic Fundamentals and Applications”
A roll of Kodak Vision3 500T color negative 35mm cinema film. This kind is respooled by Film Photography Project.
The “sickos” meme, where my little black dog is lurking on just the other side of a door. He’s framed by one of the glass panels just right and superimposed text labels him ‘Sickos’
A blend of three photos that fade into one another because of a double exposure/failure to fully advance the film between shots. The first is a campus building (Bascom Hall), the next the storefront of "Pasture and Plenty", and the last some apartment buildings.
A Canon Typestar 110 electronic typewriter. It has a page of text from a paper that I’m writing on “renewable aviation.”
A wooden box camera about 6 inches wide and 4 tall. There’s a circular opening in the front where a metal pinhole plate will go (probably brass shim stock). There are round wooden knobs on the top to advance and rewind the 120 format film.
the previous posts line drawing cut out of a 1/8 inch thick plywood. some parts are removed and some needed a little slicing with an xacto knife
A technical drawing of various box (camera) parts that are to be cut from a single 12" by 12" sheet of plywood. There are tabs around the edges so that the flat parts can fit together into a roughly rectangular shape.
A woman smiling as she’s about to scratch a square on an “Eel Facts” scratch-off advent calendar.
A tank made out of LEGO bricks but with US Postal Service livery.
A 3D image showing a CAD design for a boxy pinhole camera made out of 1/8" flat plywood.
A lacquered wood and brass pinhole camera with the lid removed to show an empty spool of 120 size film.
A clinic bed labeled “Ritter by Midmark”
Looking out a third story window to see many solar panels on a flat roof.
A light-tight canister sitting in a stainless steel sink holding a roll of film. Behind it are three measuring cylinders of developer, stop bath, and fixer.
A Pentax 17 film camera sitting on a table.
A dilapidated bus sitting among many small metal sculptures. "Tommy Bartlett's" is written in fading paint on the front.
A sparkling French Lemonade, mango flavor. It is an inviting peach color.
A small white and gray dog popping out of a backpack dog carrier. The owner is smiling and holding his arms wide.
The Kool-Aid Man (CGI?) is standing outside a large nondescript office building. He’s giving his trademark thumbs up/“cowabunga” hand gesture.
Mocha (dog) looking out the window with her tongue slightly out. She’s intently looking for rabbits.
A waterfall with a longish 1/4th of a second exposure blurring the water into wispy threads somewhat. There's a small sign that reads "Keep our fish healthy. No coins please"
A large format (4x5 inches) film camera. It is set up on a tripod at a local park overlooking Lake Mendota. There is a small bench and a large tree by the lakeshore.
3 photographic contact sheets. A page of negatives are laid out directly on top of a sheet of photo paper and then exposed. This yields thumbnail images (actual size of negatives) on a full 8x10 page. About 35 images are made for a roll of 35mm film. On the right is a contact sheet of medium format (6cm square) negatives.
The side of a garage in late afternoon. Soft shadows of a tree fall on the wooden siding. There's a single darkened window next to a row of hooks. There's a bumble bee house hanging from one of the hooks.
A white brick garage with red trim and a prominent red roll up door. It either looks closed for business, or out of business.
A Canon Rebel 2000 film SLR camera, a roll of Fujifilm Acros 100 B&W film, and an orange contrast filter.
Text: As the Times noted recently, chefs like Cleghorn have taken the basic idea and run with it. And now, the idea of a crunch-filled hexagonal package has now been reconfigured, reimagined, and rebr… Fast-food standard. [highlighted text] Like communism, the idea of the Crunchwrap is beautiful and wonderful, the chef Fernando Strohmeyer says. "It all depends on how you use it."
Highlighted passage: “[David Bowie]…lived on a diet of red peppers, milk, and hard drugs” Full Text: In later years, Bowie called the mid-1970s "the darkest days of my life" due to "astronomical" usage of cocaine and amphetamines. 111 For much of 2275, he was obsessed with Satanic symbols, remained awake for days at a time, and lived on a diet of red peppers, milk, and hard drugs.!"' In subsequent interviews, he blamed his erratic behaviour and fascination with Nazi Germany and the occult during his Thin White Duke period on drug-induced paranoia and depression, and claimed that his mental state was such that he could not remember the late- 1975 recording sessions for Station to Station.
A photo of the lake shoreline near the Monona Terrace. There are tall trees by the water and a paved path off to the left. Taken during a bike rest stop.
Elrond meme: “I was there 3000 years ago”
A black and white photo of a sunny morning with two lawn chairs facing across a table with an umbrella. You can see the notch in the 4x5 film in the upper right corner
An SP-445 development tank for 4x5 film. Next to it is a box of FPP Mummy 400 ISO sheet film.
David Byrne in his signature Big Suit, but the image is styled like “The Bourne Ultimatum” movie poster.
A small white Japanese Kei truck (Japanese mini truck) with red underlined lettering saying “legalize it!” superimposed.
A color photo of a farm with a grain silo & tree framing it.
A helicopter hovering and shooting a missile. Opening from the show “Airwolf”