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Alaska: on film

So I finally (finally) got all my rolls of film developed – including several from our trip to Alaska more than a year ago!

This first chunk is from my Holga – a medium format ‘toy camera’. I’m still learning how to use it well, but I love the rich colors that showed up [...]

Holga images from last summer

“last summer” as in 2010!

I found a roll of film recently… I keep my to-be-developed film on a shelf near the front door with my to-be-read-next books. Somehow this roll of film from summer 2010 got lost in between the books and we just re-discovered it when we were getting the film from [...]

Happy Halloween and Scary October

You may have noticed, this year we watched SIGNIFICANTLY fewer scary movies than last year. Thank goodness.

We were TOTALLY overwhelmed

2008 2009 2010

(listed in roughly the order we watched them)

The Fog – John Carpenter’s 1980 film about killer creatures that come in with the fog … It *could* be really creepy, [...]

Holga images: Andrew in Chicago

I made Andrew take a camera to Chicago with him …. so he took my Holga.

The white, plastic, kind of toy camera …. And unfortunately I haven’t really been thinking straight and the film he took was not so hot. I’m not sure the extreme blurriness of these images is Andrew’s fault.

Here [...]

some documentaries I’ve been watching

I love Netflix – I love that there are piles of movies we can watch at any time via the internet…. .

So, over the weekend I did some computer work with some movies and documentaries playing ….

I liked all of them. I loved a couple of them.

Take a look….

Rape of [...]