West Side Story, 2021 - ★★★½
Sunday, March 6, 2022
Dazzling and terrifically well-made. Visually stunning and occasionally breathtaking. Spielberg is a genius. And yet, and I'm not sure how this is possible, I was kind of bored.
WordPress is fine. Medium is fine. Facebook is fine. Twitter is fine. Mastodon is fine. Your self-hosted static-HTML website is fine. Instagram is fine. A typewriter in your basement is fine. Write wherever you feel like writing.
Is there something I can use to automatically unfollow and/or mute anyone whose Twitter avatar is not round?
The Kodak Retina IIIC is neat. baty.net/2022/the-…
My dad called me from Florida and told me that a friend had no need for “some old Kodak” camera. Turns out it was a Retina IIIC, which AFAIK is far and away the best camera Kodak ever made (in Germany, no less). It arrived today. So cool!
Well, I got the Focomat IIc in place, but it doesn’t quite fit. I was able to make 8x10 prints but it can’t be raised high enough to do any significant cropping. I guess I’ll have to get it right in camera, then.
Contact sheets are no longer technically necessary, but I find them to be beautiful on their own, especially with 6x6 negatives. I often make 2 prints, one for the binder and one to hang.
I woke up and went with a real blog (Hugo again) for my daily notes posts. I think I’ve turned waffling into a hobby. baty.net/2022/the-…
I found half a box of Blackwing Naturals in a drawer so of course I immediately sawed that obnoxious eraser off all of them.
I’ve been highlighting key phrases in my paper notebooks and it’s awesome. baty.net/2022/high…
If you need photos of my dog, desk, notebooks, cameras, or self… I’m your guy!
Here’s one I like from that roll of TMAX-100 in the OM-2n.
How many times a day do you think I click that Move “button” in Apple Mail thinking it’s the search field? Lots of times, that’s how many.
The OM-2n looked lonely so I loaded it up with some TMAX-100 and bolted on the flash. It’s the lovely 85mm Zuiko that keeps me coming back.
Guess Who’s not rockin' no more.
Hair and makeup didn’t arrive in time for my self-portrait session. Apparently.
I slipped the leather case off the 1960 Leica M3 and put it on the 2021 MP and it fits perfectly. I find that to be amazing. Oh, and the MP is back from Leica (warranty) repair and the sticky rewind knob works like butter again.
I’ve been buying more music lately, but streaming isn’t going anywhere. write.as/jackbaty/…
I seem to kill every single one of them.
I lost interest before completely conquering my cable management problems, but it got much better at least.
