My weekend started by stumbling upon this. According to Google Translate, what we are looking at here are called salladsskjutare.

They haven't rusted completely away. I spotted this one in Canada (Dawson City) in '23.

I lied. Now that my favorite waiting area is open again, I no longer hit up 757 Market.

@dsilbizzy.bsky.social Hey, is there someone on here that is the keeper of train ephemera? I recently got this old Alco booklet in good condition. If it's not the sort of thing everyone already has, I would happily scan to share. Especially someone who has a digital library for this sort of thing.

I lied. Now that my favorite waiting area is open again, I no longer hit up 757 Market.

Getting in just under the wire with some May photos of the Octopus Tree. It's just about at its annual fullest, minus a few limbs that are dying back due to beetles. It pretty much hides the whole house from many angles this time of year.

Here's a few more, all from a recent trip to Venice. The #AvGeek in me calls the Alitalia sign my favorite.

I love finding old mosaic ads and signs. Wish we saw more of them but I don't think most businesses are thinking that long term these days.

Before someone says "You absolute fool, you utter naif, that will never happen," my response is that it sure as shit won't happen if we don't speak it into existence

I went "shopping" in my mom's basement and find myself standing on a slippery slope. My questions for the #believeinfilm crowd are: -What's the best way for someone who likes to over complicate things to dip a toe here without doing so? -Should I even bother until I am set up to do my own scans?*

I went "shopping" in my mom's basement and find myself standing on a slippery slope. My questions for the #believeinfilm crowd are: -What's the best way for someone who likes to over complicate things to dip a toe here without doing so? -Should I even bother until I am set up to do my own scans?*

Look at me! I have a cob! Have you ever had a cob? Probably not. Having a cob makes me super cool, BTW.

Well, made it home and never took a shot that approaches artistic, but got a fun video of this stretch where we were clearly following in another plane's path. I'm assuming the view out front of splitting the contrails would have been cooler.

Saw a real life caricature of part two this weekend: 1) Driver delayed by people in crosswalk yells at them. 2) They gesture at the walk sign. 3) Driver responds "YEAH, IT'S A WALK SIGN! WHO CARES!? I HAVE A FUCKING CAR!"

Well, made it home and never took a shot that approaches artistic, but got a fun video of this stretch where we were clearly following in another plane's path. I'm assuming the view out front of splitting the contrails would have been cooler.

Traveling today and haven't had any opportunities for fun photos (No. It's not because I'm too hung over to try. Who told you that?) So, here's one from a few months back.

Landing Lights

@reckless.bsky.social are there no Vergecast episodes this week or is the feed into Pocket Casts broken?

Travel nerds I need your help. After over a decade of avoiding connections in ORD, today that streak ends. Need to know - can I make it to tortas and what's my order if I do Landing at G, departing from L. Have about 90 minutes starting around 19:00.

Same camera, same roll of film, very different vibes. Both of these capture the real feel of the day. But if I had edited a digital file to these looks, I would have said - no, that's too much - and backed off.

Crow fry.

Crow fry.

Hey, Fogo, what do you like to do when you find something gross?

I'm going to just have to start carrying a ferry window around with me so that I can have a guide to get my horizons level.

Got a couple rolls of film developed and some perennial questions were raised by the results: - Where the hell was that? - Will I ever learn to hold the camera level consistently? (It would somehow be less frustrating if every shot came back off kilter the same way - but its usually about half.)

Views from backyard beers tonight.

Here's one I didn't see coming. Washington is no longer going to issue fishing licenses on waterproof paper because of the oil situation. (They were pushing people to app based licensing, but this is a bummer for those of use that don't like to bring our phones out with us).

Here's one I didn't see coming. Washington is no longer going to issue fishing licenses on waterproof paper because of the oil situation. (They were pushing people to app based licensing, but this is a bummer for those of use that don't like to bring our phones out with us).

I have started this project a few times and failed to keep it up. If you stumble across this thread and notice it hasn't been updated for four weeks or more, feel free to give me a gentle kick in the pants. I probably need it.

Our "octopus tree" is dying. By some accounts it's already on borrowed time. While it's not going away immediately, I've set a goal to take photos of it at least once a month to have a record of its many moods. Here's a few recent ones.

Very much looking forward to the posts from the for person to hand one of these over at hotel check-in in, let's say Copenhagen, and are shocked that the desk clerk treats it/them with scorn.

Played around shooting through the perforated railings at the ferry terminal the other day. Fun, but couldn't quite get the result I wanted. May try again if I find myself back there with a longer lens.

If the numbers were a date, the sign is wrong.

If the numbers were a date, the sign is wrong.

The thing about Burlington is, a few decades back Bernie Sanders was mayor. So how could it not be the scariest and/or worse city in America. This is a real thing that people believe. And say versions of out loud. In public.

This one is a pretty much a fixture on this corner.

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His reference to a gondola had me thinking about how I spent a couple weeks skiing in Europe and stayed in three towns, skied at six areas and didn't need a car to get to any of them and how awesome it was and how I can't do it at home. I saw two train stations colocated with lift stations.

Funicular! On a bridge!

Can websites get drunk? I think Kayak is drunk.

Funicular! On a bridge!

No fooling, this building looked cool in real life.

No fooling, this building looked cool in real life.

I don't have the sort of collection that would allow me to compete with @airlineflyer.net and @photojdl.bsky.social below, but I stumbled across this print while looking for something else today and thought it had to be shared here.

Kissmobile. #weirdcarbs

Kissmobile. #weirdcarbs

I don't have the sort of collection that would allow me to compete with @airlineflyer.net and @photojdl.bsky.social below, but I stumbled across this print while looking for something else today and thought it had to be shared here.

From now on, this is the only way I will travel

Oh. This just reminded me of the one thing about my experience flying Transavia a few weeks back that was super cool — paper inflight magazine in every seat. Not being a reader of Dutch, I could get the most out of only a few pages, but I still flipped through the whole thing.