[Riggomatic]

More things around the house

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[Aaron28]

Tamron 90/f2.8 di...K-3ii......prissy is single frame...barney is 3 frames....x posted where relevant

[grey goat]

More things around the house

Good to see you had fun with the tractor!

And things in the house . . . I used to have a NanoVerb, but sold it after going digital. I reckon I should have photographed it first. . . . (Of course, there are a lot of other bits of sound equipment around here to lure bokeh out of. . . .)

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Ants are intriguing. I remember a study of ant pheromones, specifically the tag-along or trail pheromone. The study started with a statement along these lines: "We took one pint of frozen ants and homogenized them in a Waring blender." BTW: I taught an animal behavior course several times at the college where I worked. I one time tried to coordinate with the chairman of the psychology department to schedule the course at a time when some of the Psych students could take it. He cooperated, but when the course ran, there wasn't a single Psych major enrolled. I subsequently learned he had specifically advised students NOT to take it because he was a behaviorist, and didn't want his students hearing about animal behavior from an evolutionary biologist.

Academics can be notoriously territorial, no matter the department they're in.

By the way, Walter . . . have you ever seen the movie Phase IV? I think I'm remembering the title right. . . .

[WPRESTO]

By the way, Walter . . . have you ever seen the movie Phase IV? I think I'm remembering the title right. . . .

No. I'll check it out and see if M wants to put it into the rental list.

I've seen the movie "Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolf" and the play, which was far better. Not like any academics either I or M knew. She was also a professor, a better one than I and at a much larger institution. She won an outstanding teacher reward for "advanced" courses - - they give two such awards, one for advanced, deep-in-the-major courses and a separate one for the "service" courses that freshman take pretty much regardless of major.

[Riggomatic]

Good to see you had fun with the tractor!

And things in the house . . . I used to have a NanoVerb, but sold it after going digital. I reckon I should have photographed it first. . . . (Of course, there are a lot of other bits of sound equipment around here to lure bokeh out of. . . .)

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Academics can be notoriously territorial, no matter the department they're in.

By the way, Walter . . . have you ever seen the movie Phase IV? I think I'm remembering the title right. . . .

I wore my Nanopiano out. It stopped working last year, and I replaced with a Alesis Quadrasynth S4. I check to see if the nano works again every once in a while.

[edom31]

Macro Takumar 50/4

[grey goat]

No. I'll check it out and see if M wants to put it into the rental list.

I've seen the movie "Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolf" and the play, which was far better. Not like any academics either I or M knew. She was also a professor, a better one than I and at a much larger institution. She won an outstanding teacher reward for "advanced" courses - - they give two such awards, one for advanced, deep-in-the-major courses and a separate one for the "service" courses that freshman take pretty much regardless of major.

Phase IV is a strange sci-fi movie about . . . ants, and researchers thereof. I can't say it's all that good, but it's interesting, and definitely different! (And very different than Them!, too.)

There's a Richard Russo novel, Straight Man, that deals with the faculty in an English Dept. My M and I both found it pretty hilarious and mostly spot on. Russo knew the subject matter pretty intimately. So did Randall Jarrell, who wrote Pictures from an Institution, another comedy set in an English Dept. of a small liberal arts school. But both those novels are very different than the Albee play and the movie.

To tie all this in with this thread . . . I seem to remember a lot of bokeh in Phase IV. (That doesn't mean the cinematography was excellent, just that there was bokeh involved throughout.)

[WPRESTO]

. . I seem to remember a lot of bokeh in Phase IV. (That doesn't mean the cinematography was excellent, just that there was bokeh involved throughout.)

Two possibilities: 1) creative cinematic use of bokeh; OR 2) a way to disguise cheap sets.

[Merv-O]

Bar Fruit for Zests and Twists....

[grey goat]

Two possibilities: 1) creative cinematic use of bokeh; OR 2) a way to disguise cheap sets.

Or a third: macro-cinematography which necessarily throws the background into beloved bokeh. (Which may also accomplish possibility 2. . . .) :-)

[timb64]

KP and DA55-300WR

[zzeitg]

DA* 16-50

[Aaron28]

sometimes ya know what is being said without a word ….yashinon-dx 50/f1.7 m42..K-50...2 frames

[taks]

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[paulh]

Just a phone snap taken while walking the dog. I have no idea what this is - it's an ornamental tree/shrub growing in front of an office building. Samsung S6: