A few days ago my Macbook Pro wouldn’t turn on. It had been working fine. The last time I used it was a day or two before I had closed it up and set it to the side. I didn’t turn it off or anything, but now it was acting as if it had a […]
I’ve talked a lot about Minidisc on this blog over the years. My minidiscs are fun little packages of sound I still enjoy today. I have three working players and my original that is still broken. Although I believe I have discovered the problem with it. Now it’s just a matter of sourcing the right […]
I don’t think it’s good enough to be a photographer. I think you have to be a philosopher with a camera. Otherwise you’re just shooting pretty pictures no one cares about immediately after seeing them. A brutal truth hit me as I woke up this morning. Will anyone care about all my photos and videos? […]
It was nineteen ninety-seven and my then girlfriend at the time and I went to the MJR movie theater in Chesterfield Township to see this film called The Fifth Element. We had seen some advertisement that claimed it was the best science fiction movie since Star Wars or maybe it was the Star Wars for […]
I thought we were immune. At least to some degree. I had heard that in other areas of the country people no longer had video rental stores. Most of ours in the Detroit area had closed up shop. The days of Blockbuster Video, Hollywood Video, and Movie Mania are long gone. They have been for […]
Some of this is just for fun and part of it is because my son has been asking me for my Christmas list this year. Problem is, I never have any ideas. Well… not true. I do have ideas. But it’s stuff that is too expensive or too niche and has to be found in […]
I bought some Pioneer CS-G203 loudspeakers in 1992 when I was 13 years old. I think I paid $50 each for them, brand new from Montgomery Ward. I was super excited to get them. Back then my goal was to get as big of a woofer as I could afford. Which for a thirteen year […]
Picked up five Blu-rays from the dollar store because of a video I saw that tipped me off. In the video he mentioned his local store had movies like Carrie. Mine did not. But mine did have a bunch he didn’t mention. Surprisingly I’ve never see The Road Warrior, only Beyond Thunderdome back in the nineties […]
I tell myself I’m a big fan of physical media and large cameras. It’s true that I am sweet on those things. But if I’m being honest with myself, truly, I may like those things, but I barely use them. A lot of it is just living out nostalgia. I grew up with SLR film […]
I don’t think I’ve made it a secret that I generally dislike standard definition video these days. If I had the power, I would turn all standard definition (SD) video into high definition (HD) video and all SD formats into HD formats. Native HD that is, not upscaled. Talk about a nerdy superpower. But I […]