A Word on Distorted Imagery

Distortions are about perception, creating reality. It's about the discrepancies between a still image, that image while in motion, how that image changes through that motion, and how that image's movement is captured within another still image. It's separating what something is into what it appears to be and how everyone can see something different or everyone can be fooled into seeing something which isn't. It is a view of the perception of time as it affects reality. Time marches as the consciousness picks up bits and impressions of what is happening. Sometimes the perceptions are fairly clear, sometimes they are horribly muddled, and sometimes what you think you saw never really happened.

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It appears that sometime in the last few months some newer models of DSLRs came out which really nicely suit my needs (read that as I didn't really want to get one with anything less than around a 12 megapixel sensor) with a not so exorbitant price (I'm looking at you Hasselblad...I love the idea of a medium format digital camera, but $20k - $40k for the camera...holy crap we could use some competition from other manufacturers.) And having noticed my older camera having a few occasional technical glitches, and having really quite wanted a DSLR for a while now, I finally went and got one. It's just a natural fit/attachment for my hands and leaves me wondering how I managed to do without one for so long now. So many new features to play with and I'm beside myself with being able to store away custom white balances for use whenever I want to input one. It's also about time I got myself a digital camera that has a rechargable lithium ion battery pack (as opposed to horrible usage of AA batteries that are limited to lousy NiMH rechargable batteries...good for some things, but not everything.) And speaking of the battery pack, it lasts for a very impressive length of time (200+ photos, many using the LCD instead of the viewfinder and the battery is metering at around half charged still.)

So now I'm just waiting for a couple more accesories to arrive. I've popped in a 512 mb memory card that I had laying around, and of course that's inadequate. So I'm waiting on a 4 GB high speed card, an extra battery, and a remote shutter switch. I was considering picking up an AC adapter for the camera, but between the wonderful battery life on the camera and the seemingly excessive cost of an AC adapter, it really didn't seem worth it or necessary.

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A Word on Distorted Imagery

Distortions are about perception, creating reality. It's about the discrepancies between a still image, that image while in motion, how that image changes through that motion, and how that image's movement is captured within another still image. It's separating what something is into what it appears to be and how everyone can see something different or everyone can be fooled into seeing something which isn't. It is a view of the perception of time as it affects reality. Time marches as the consciousness picks up bits and impressions of what is happening. Sometimes the perceptions are fairly clear, sometimes they are horribly muddled, and sometimes what you think you saw never really happened.

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My camera's getting old. How old? I'm not really sure...several years...can't really place a specific number. All I know is that I've had a few oddities occur while using it now. There are have been a few times in which the camera has shut down when the auto focus attempts to focus (how fortunate that I tend to not use auto focus.) And then there have been a couple of instances on one day in which the CCD appeared to have only capture half of the image (an interlaced appearance) while the other half of the image was blank. Well, actually it just so happens that the biggest issue with the loss of image data was also centered in a less than normal shoot for me in which I was utilizing lighting and subject matter (photos as a bit of a study) that I do not normally utilize:



I made pizza sauce this morning. It's been quite a while since I've made pizza sauce and the last time I made it I attempted to use puree instead of fresh tomatoes for it (it didn't come out well...ingredients are measured out per specific amount of fresh tomatoes.) Making sauce made me realize something...I'd like a pressure canner. So that's another device to be added onto my list of things that I want to get at some point. It keeps good company with things such as a paper shredder, a deli slicer, and a griddle. I think I may just take a look around and get a pressure canner in the near future though.

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A Word on Distorted Imagery

Distortions are about perception, creating reality. It's about the discrepancies between a still image, that image while in motion, how that image changes through that motion, and how that image's movement is captured within another still image. It's separating what something is into what it appears to be and how everyone can see something different or everyone can be fooled into seeing something which isn't. It is a view of the perception of time as it affects reality. Time marches as the consciousness picks up bits and impressions of what is happening. Sometimes the perceptions are fairly clear, sometimes they are horribly muddled, and sometimes what you think you saw never really happened.

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There's work, there's the upgrading of the laptop, and there's the helping someone move. Haven't had much time to myself over the past week or so. The laptop upgrades...yeah, it's only a few months old. But there are some things that I would have liked to upgrade when I had gotten it except the price for the inborn upgrade seemed excessive. 2GB RAM and 160 GB hard drive would have cost upwards of another $400 and I've done that on my own for well under half that and it was definitely worth doing and gave me a wonderful excuse to figure out how to take just about everything on my laptop apart. ...I like taking things apart.

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A Word on Distorted Imagery

Distortions are about perception, creating reality. It's about the discrepancies between a still image, that image while in motion, how that image changes through that motion, and how that image's movement is captured within another still image. It's separating what something is into what it appears to be and how everyone can see something different or everyone can be fooled into seeing something which isn't. It is a view of the perception of time as it affects reality. Time marches as the consciousness picks up bits and impressions of what is happening. Sometimes the perceptions are fairly clear, sometimes they are horribly muddled, and sometimes what you think you saw never really happened.

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129 new deviations to look through

...this might take a while...

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A Word on Distorted Imagery

Distortions are about perception, creating reality. It's about the discrepancies between a still image, that image while in motion, how that image changes through that motion, and how that image's movement is captured within another still image. It's separating what something is into what it appears to be and how everyone can see something different or everyone can be fooled into seeing something which isn't. It is a view of the perception of time as it affects reality. Time marches as the consciousness picks up bits and impressions of what is happening. Sometimes the perceptions are fairly clear, sometimes they are horribly muddled, and sometimes what you think you saw never really happened.

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Online pharmacies really are something else. Nevermind those shady ones that offer "cheap super viagra" in endless streams of spam. Seems like every sixth or seventh day I get a new email from a legit one. "Our records show that you no longer have any refills left on your prescription, would you like for us to contact your doctor for you and get more?" What the fuck. If I really wanted you to keep filling my scripts, I would have likely kept sending in new slips with refills. Or if nothing else, I would have responded "yes, please contact my doctor" to one of the first several emails asking. There's a certain point in which "customer retention" becomes "fucking obnoxious." But let's also consider what my script is for. There are essentially two (maybe a third) possibilities which would keep me from having you refill them. One, the sensible one here, I've been getting my refills taken care of else where. As the case would be, a small local pharmacy that I started going to again after picking up new medical insurance. Two, I'm no longer taking my meds and likely have already had a heart attack or stroke from it because I ran out of medication purchased from you two months ago now. In which, I'm not gonna be around to click little linkies in emails people. And the third choice is actually the same as the second. Only I didn't necessarily have a heart attack but I became damned tired of seeing llamas while driving. But this prescription hasn't been making me hallucinate. That was one from several years ago that made me see llamas and other animals that are not native to my habitat, and so I stopped taking it. Which probably worked out quite well as this stuff seems to work better and causes me to experience fewer side effects.

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