Comments | beboots: ♪ Sunshine, lollipops and rainbows! ♪

beboots

♪ Sunshine, lollipops and rainbows! ♪

Apr 07, 2011 18:48

Today was a lovely day! ... Not the least of which was because I did next to no homework! (I may pay for it in stress later on, but man if it doesn't feel good right now. <3 )

The sun is shining! I feel that spring is on the way. After a long dark winter, the snow seems to be consistently melting. You get these lovely patches of crackly ice on the ( Read more... )

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mightyinkas April 8 2011, 01:27:48 UTC

Yaaaaay for really good days! It's nice when the universe cooperates, isn't it? :D

(PS - smart answer on the "cancelled ski trip" thing! As a professional educator, I approve of Emergency Movie Deployment... we always hit our kids with a lot of Pixar in the last week before summer vacation. LOL)

beboots April 8 2011, 02:06:10 UTC

Aww yeah Pixar. :3

Yeah, the universe seemed to love me today. We'll see how tomorrow works out - it's my birthday, but it's also the day of the dreaded group presentation... I'm prepared, but are the others?

feral_shrew April 9 2011, 16:48:07 UTC

Yay good news! Photo-exhaustion does happen, but people are usually cute enough about asking that it's not too bad. If in doubt, start making amusing faces (hyper-exaggerations of prim/proper, sidelong looks at some likely or unlikely candidate, focused study of some very odd aspect of modern clothing) and go back to smiling later. I was one of the Cool Counselor-Types at camp because I let kids play with animals and run around in fields and dye their hands whatever color they wanted. (Food coloring, even when kids apply directly to palms, will be gone completely in approximately 2.5 days.)

And yay for the job interviews and fun-times and France!

beboots April 9 2011, 17:10:08 UTC

Good advice! History is very serious, after all. I'm thinking that I could theoretically freeze in a frowny-face pose for a ridiculously long time, and if asked/addressed, I could mention the long waiting types for these newfound daguerrotypes, and I'm sure that it's blurred now because the exposure was only for 15 seconds, and don't you have to wait at least a minute or two? Then I could act suitably impressed by their cameras and use it as a lead-in towards discussing the history of photography. (Why did people from so much in early photographs? Because it's hard to hold a straight smile for more than ten seconds straight.)

Yay for employment! :D Huzzah!

feral_shrew April 10 2011, 02:47:19 UTC

The history of cameras is really, really cool, and holy crap the many things that they played around with-- whoever stepped from black-and-white to color photography had a very good hand with chemicals and physics. There are some amazing really early series of color photographs like http://blogs.denverpost.com/captured/2009/10/21/color-photography-from-russian-in-the-early-1900s/?source=ARK_plog

There are many, many variations and galleries. I think I lost a few hours there.

beboots April 10 2011, 03:10:55 UTC

I'm fascinated by the history of photography. It's been a thing of mine for the last few years, especially since I've been learning about the Civil War. The first use of photographs in medicine! Of course, they only have portrait photography to go off of, so you get some interesting compositions, but... ;)

Ooh - thank you for the link! Here is one for you: http://www.flickr.com/groups/150-years-old/pool/with/5097186815/
GIANT folder on flickr of high quality scans of early photographs from the 1860s and earlier.

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