#photography #filmphotography Last Sunday's Porchfest (invented here in Ithaca) provided a perfect opportunity to put the first two serious rolls through the new camera. A friend had invited us to attend a performance by a band she belongs to that specializes […] [Original post on flx.masto.host]

#photography #filmphotography 1/ Well, I've completed my switch from 35mm to 6x6 for everyday picture-taking with the purchase of a Rollei 2.8C from B&C Photo in Elmira. Yes, it was expensive, but one advantage of dealing with a real camera store was that I […] [Original post on flx.masto.host]

#photography #filmphotography #retrobosak Page 196769b06, cont.: Riverside (1967-69) Some friends outdoors somewhere.

Every time I dip into FB to message someone, I'm flabbergasted by the amount of AI-generated imagery posing as historical fact that shows up in the feed. Today it was a piece about some WW2 underground fighter marking the wheels of rail cars for later sabotage. But the wheels on the car are […]

#photography #filmphotography #retrobosak Page 196769b06, cont.: UC Riverside (1967-69) One: The person shown is Dave Moring, Highlander business manager (I think) and later, student body president. I have no idea what's going on here. 1967 or 1968.

This article is pretty funny. The authors relate at length the corrosive effects of AI on collaborative work and note that companies are not, in fact, receiving a net benefit from AI, but then end by saying that everything will be fine if we just learn to set boundaries. This is like the […]

#photography #filmphotography #retrobosak Page 196769b06: Riverside (1968) This is the same school board election protest that I posted earlier, another few frames of which you saw yesterday. Set One. The reference in #3 is to George Wallace, the notorious […] [Original post on flx.masto.host]

#ai #llm I've updated my Cognitive Development Track proposal to address the issue of cost: https://www.ibiblio.org/bosak/pub/CogDevNotes20250917.pdf

#photography #filmphotography #retrobosak Page 196769b05, cont.: UC Riverside (1967-69) As usual in this collection, random negative strips from different times and places. One: A friend. This would have been 1967.

#photography #filmphotography #retrobosak Page 196769b05, cont.: UC Riverside (1967-69) Three students sitting in the Commons Cafeteria. Set One.

#photography #filmphotography #retrobosak Page 196769b05: Riverside County (1967-69) Uni-Camp was a summer program staffed by UCR student volunteers. At some point, I was assigned to take pictures, and I dutifully took several rolls. All were lost in the […] [Original post on flx.masto.host]

#photography #filmphotography #retrobosak Page 196769b04, cont.: UC Riverside (1967-69) One: A broken wrist.

#photography #filmphotography #retrobosak Page 196769b04, cont.: UC Riverside (1967-69) 1/ A secretarial worker is making a mimeograph stencil. Stencils consisted of a fibrous, porous backing coated with some plasticy substance that blocked ink from getting […] [Original post on flx.masto.host]

So now all of a sudden Phanpy adds "Owner flx.masto.host" to my name in a big grey box at the top of everything that I post because I rent my own instance. I don't think I like this?

#photography #filmphotography #retrobosak Page 196769b04: UC Riverside (1967-69) One: Faces around the Commons.

#photography #filmphotography #retrobosak Page 196769b03, cont.: Riverside (1967-69) One: Two random street views.

1/ In an LRB review of a new book about Erik Satie, Jonathan Coe writes that "Satie's three piano pieces changed the harmonic vocabulary of 20th century music. The major seventh chord became ubiquitous, first in jazz, then in pop music. Repetition, rather than development, became the guiding […]

#photography #filmphotography #retrobosak Page 196769b03: UC Riverside (1967-69) One: The Marxist philosopher Herbert Marcuse meets informally with the UCR Faculty Peace Committee, February 1969.

This whole Fuentes vs. Kirk thing reminds me strongly of the early dynamics of Russian Communism (Trotsky just bought it). We got Stalin out of that.

Want to know a quick cure for social inequality and resource depletion all at once? Ration stamps. Rationing works, and we already know how to do it.

#photography #filmphotography #retrobosak Page 196769b02: UC Riverside (1968-69) One: Joel Selvin, the Highlander's rock music critic. I'm surprised that I don't have more photos of him; maybe they'll turn up later. Story in alt text.

#photography #filmphotography #retrobosak Page 196769b02: UC Riverside (1967-69) Remember that in this collection (196769b), the different sets are from different rolls taken at different times during the period 1967-69. One: Sitar player Ravi Shankar. We will see more of him later.

#photography #filmphotography #retrobosak Page 196769b01: UC Riverside (1967-69) A blues or possibly jazz band, probably a pretty well-known one, but I have no record of them. Set One.

#photography #filmphotography At this point in #retrobosak, the selection of photos goes from disorganized to genuinely random. The next collection, 196769b, does not consist of entire rolls but rather of single strips, found all mixed together at the bottom of the box labeled "1967-69." They […]

#photography #filmphotography #retrobosak Roll 196769a41: Various locations (1967) Another wide-ranging roll, taken around Xmas 1967 or early 1968. One: A friend.This one's a bit puzzling; the setting appears to be on campus, but the furniture is typical of the places I lived in.

#photography #filmphotography #retrobosak Roll 196769a40: UC Riverside (1967) One: A friend, standing at a cabinet near the darkrooms.

#photography #filmphotography #retrobosak Roll 196769a40: UC Riverside (probably 1967) More construction on campus. The photos are just for the historical record.

1/ Why, with all the sound arguments to be made against astrology, do critics always offer up the weakest one as their best shot? The fact is that Western astrology has not been based on constellations for over 2000 years. In Ptolemy's classic work on the subject, the Tetrabiblos, he makes it […]

#photography #filmphotography #retrobosak Roll 196769a39: UC Riverside (1967) Lots of different stuff on this early roll. One: A member of the Highlander staff; I think her name might have been Elaine.

#photography #filmphotography #retrobosak Roll 196769a38: San Bernardino and Riverside (1968 or 1969) Two portraits taken in different places. If I had to guess, I'd say that the first one was probably taken Xmas 1968 and the second one (on the same roll) […] [Original post on flx.masto.host]

#photography #japan #travel

We all know about this, but it helps to be reminded. I already carry a spoon with me everywhere so that I don't have to use plastic utensils, but I think I'm going to start carrying a reusable coffee cup in the car, too […]

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/09/250906013448.htm "The specific symptoms most strongly linked with earlier smartphone ownership include suicidal thoughts, aggression, detachment from reality, and hallucinations."

#photography #filmphotography #retrobosak Roll 196769a37: UC Riverside (1968 or 1969) Three office portraits. One: Jeff Rummel, editor of the student newspaper.

#photography #filmphotography #retrobosak Roll 196769a36: UC Riverside (1968 or 1969) One week every year was devoted to a drunken debauch known as Scots on the Rocks. (The whole campus back then, including the names of the dorms, was built around a Scottish […] [Original post on flx.masto.host]

#photography #filmphotography #retrobosak Roll 196769a35: UC Riverside (1968) Protesting recruiters for Dow Chemical and the U.S. military, the SDS set up their own recruiters and marched across campus.

This FB account specializes in AI-generated fake photos to illustrate "historical" narratives. It has 147k followers.

#photography #filmphotography #retrobosak Roll 196769a34: San Luis Obispo (1968) A few more photos from the California Peace & Freedom Party Nominating Convention. I think this is the last of them. One: Black Panther Party leader Eldridge Cleaver, one of the Presidential candidates.

#photography #filmphotography #retrobosak Roll 196769a33: UC Riverside (1968-1969) One: A group of small-town professional photographers has assembled for a shoot at the Student Commons. The theme appears to be Guy Surrounded by Babes on Ladders. I have no idea what could have been going on here.

If anyone who came in late to this movie is wondering how the open web became opaque blobs of code, here are the details. https://wok.oblomov.eu/tecnologia/google-killing-open-web/

#photography #filmphotography #retrobosak Roll 196769a31: UC Riverside (1967-1969) People around the office. I was really into weird camera angles for a while.

#photography #filmphotography #landscape

#photography #filmphotography A short walk down Church Street in Binghamton, July 2025.

I love Moebius. One of the greats. The Airtight Garage is a favorite. https://hachyderm.io/@davefischer/115119809803530459

I thought that this was one of those facts about language that I didn't want to know (like the fact that "compose" and "composition" are unrelated), but as usual, it's explained so clearly here that I feel better about it now. https://toot.community/@yvanspijk/115119365705832397

#photography #filmphotography Catching up with more recent stuff. #retrobosak resumes on Monday. One: Ithaca scenes, June 2025.

#photography #filmphotography #nokings The June 14 No Kings rally in Ithaca, concluded. Set One.

#photography #filmphotography #nokings The June 14 No Kings rally in Ithaca, continued. Set One.

#photography #filmphotography #nokings The June 14 No Kings rally in Ithaca, continued. Set One.