My advisor at Michigan is responsible for my foray into 16mm photography. When he learned that I was using vintage cameras, he handed me his father’s WWII Mamiya Super-16, a superb piece of subminiature photographic engineering. I found the film available through eBay seller subtimes in handmade epoxy reproduction cartridges, and a daylight developing tank […]
16 Millimeter Photography
Through the Looking Glass
It’s been awhile since I mentioned photography on this blog, yet it’s an enormously consuming passion. When I have a little time to devote to it, as I have this summer, I spend it trying out “new” (old) cameras, developing my own film, scanning the negatives, and posting them on Flickr - all of which […]
iPhone 3G
Like so many other crazed tech geeks, I went out and waited in line on the morning of July 11, 2008, to get my very own iPhone 3G. This is not my normal behavior - I’m no fangirl and I don’t actually like using a telephone much at all. What the iPhone has that I […]
Social Media
Social media is a pretty hot topic of late. In addition to the popular press and blogosphere take on the phenomenon, there’s a whole MSI degree specialization in social computing over at SI, so it seems that social media has already become something of an institution in a rather short time.
I’m not sure where I […]