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Lomography: Remembering the 70s with a Ricoh Kr-5
I just got back the first set of photos from my “newest old camera”, a Ricoh Kr-5 dating from around 1975. Â It’s a thing of beauty, especially when I think of the cameras I personally owned in the late 1970s and the 1980s. Â It was a steal on eBay, coming with a “1970s brown” nylon
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Check out Namibia’s ‘Shishani’
One of Namibia’s rising young talents needs your help! Namibian musicians have a hard time “breaking out” – primarily as a result of Namibia’s small population – just over two million, around the same size as the city of Houston! Â Namibia also has one of the biggest income disparities in the world, which means that
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Um…is that an accent I hear?
Ever come across a North American accent you couldn’t quite place? Â Well now, there’s an easy chart to figure it out. Â Someone has gone to the trouble of mapping it all out, using things like, do they pronounce “pin” and “pen” the same way… Â It includes audio samples to help better understand the accent descriptions.
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Found memories…and a lost roll of film
Here’s a fun mystery to try and solve. For my (recent) birthday, my kids went down to Otto’s, the local “junk and curiosities” dealer and picked out for me the newest additions to my growing vintage camera collection. Â In addition, my youngest was excited to have found an original box for the Agfa Billy Compur
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Build Your Own Plant Host Drone
I recently posted about drones and how they’re being used. Here’s a much more humble drone – one that simply moves plants around your house to take advantage of changing sunlight. For the cost of $10-$15 (and a bit of know-how, which is of course priceless) you too can own one of these. Find the