Adventures with Dr. Lady Cutie Troublemaker

Life is in flux BIG TIME these days. I want to keep in touch with all of my peeps. The Internet is this beautiful thing. I can move to a brand new city and still stay in easy, near-daily contact with the people I love. When I feel connected to the people in my life that matter, I am unstoppable!

Flickr + TiVo = Unbelievably Cool Mashup

By Abby at 9:01 pm on Wednesday, July 12, 2006

Seriously GoodWow! I’m in heaven! The connectivity/interactivity/mashupability staggers the imagination. Is this the future?! I can see my Flickr pictures on TV. I can see my Flickr Favorites as a slideshow. I can watch a slideshow of my favorite tags, my favorite people’s pictures, my groups… I can barely stand it! And I thought listening to podcasts from my TiVo through the stereo was cool. This is bliss! This is almost as satisfying as a correct bagel on a sunny day! It wasn’t even that hard to set up. 😀

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Project Runway 3

By Abby at 7:24 pm on Wednesday, July 12, 2006

Oh boy. Oh boy. OH BOY!!!! Project Runway Season 3 premieres TONIGHT! WAHOO! I freakin’ LOVE this show. I’ve been watching from the beginning of Season 1, and it’s so very enjoyable! I really recommend you check it out. My friend Sara and her co-podcaster Rob talk this week on How Much Do We Love about one of my favorite parts of Project Runway, Tim Gunn’s podcast. I went to look today, and the new link isn’t up yet, but as soon as they publish it, I’ll post it here. Check out Project Runway. Check out How Much Do We Love… Check out Tim Gunn’s podcast.

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Thinking of Mumbai

By Abby at 7:44 am on Wednesday, July 12, 2006

Thinking of my Indian friends and their families. I don’t like this. It’s way too familiar.

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Loving Lomo

By Abby at 5:54 pm on Tuesday, July 11, 2006

Long-Abandoned Pizza Factory, Memphis, TN

I’ve been loving the look of lomo for a while now, but I’ve only recently delved into creating my own faux lomo. What is lomo?

When you take a picture using a camera produced by the Austrian company Lomographische AG, it’s called "lomography." The term originated because of cameras that were made by a Russian Optics company called LOMO PLC. Their cameras had an unusual lens which produced lots of distortion at the edges of the image while keeping the center sharp… Lomography emphasizes casual, snapshot photography. Accidents such as over-saturated colors, lens artifacts, and exposure defects are rehabilitated to produce swirly, abstract effects. The lens effect can be partially emulated in photo-editing programs, such as Gimp or Photoshop. The Lomography motto of "don’t think, just shoot" presumes spontaneity, close-ups and ubiquity, while deemphasizing formal technique. Typical Lomography cameras are deliberately low-fidelity. The following are the company’s 10 Rules of Lomography:

  1. Take your LOMO everywhere you go & whenever you go.
  2. Use it anytime — day or night.
  3. Lomography is not an interference in your life, but a part of it.
  4. Shoot from the hip.
  5. Approach the objects of your lomographic desire as close as possible.
  6. Don’t think.
  7. Be fast.
  8. You don’t have to know beforehand what you’ve captured on film.
  9. You don’t have to know afterwards, either.
  10. Don’t worry about the rules.

Lomo photographs are usually high contrast, with unusual saturation and color. Real lomo photographs use the technique of "cross processing" in which film intended for developing in slide chemistry (E-6) is processed in photographic negative chemistry (C-41), and vice-versa.

– from Lomography on Wikipedia

I was already following these rules (or lack thereof). They jibe with my way of thinking about photography. And now I’m starting to use Photoshop CS2, The Gimp, and PXN8 to create these fake lomo camera effects. I guess the effort in post-processing doesn’t capture the lomo ideal, but it’s a start.

The picture I’m sharing above has only been up on Flickr for one day, and it’s already been favorited 4 times! I’m breathing new life into my old photographs and having a fine time doing it.

The official Lomo site

Flickr Groups: LOMO, Faux Lomo, Lomolike, Lomo Fakers League

My Fake Lomo Images on Flicker

 

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Big Dig Takes JP Woman’s Life

By Abby at 2:16 pm on Tuesday, July 11, 2006

Did you know that the victim of that Big Dig collapse was from JP?

Milena Delvalle, 38, of Boston’s Jamaica Plain section, was pronounced dead at the scene. Angel Delvalle, 46, managed to crawl out a window of their crushed car with less than a foot of clearance and suffered minor injuries, according to State Police.

Their car was partially crushed under at least four ceiling panels, each weighing 3 tons. The vehicle was in the left lane, giving the driver’s side more protection as panels came to rest also on a left-side service walkway that is elevated several feet above the road.

Milena Delvalle was a native of Costa Rica, and the two were newlyweds. They were on the way to the airport to pick up his brother and sister in law, who had been vacationing in his native Puerto Rico.

I’ve always really hated sitting under overpasses or getting stuck in tunnels, but that was supposed to be an IRRATIONAL fear, not a real one.



Update: The husband who survived (Angel Delvalle) works in the meat department of Hi-Lo Foods. “He is a great guy, great guy. He is quiet, comes in every day. Everyone likes the guy, very friendly,” said store manager Bill Jordan.

the hi-lo

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