Photo Projects and Blog of Lee A Johnson.
If you haven’t been paying attention, which is likely given the small corner of the web I’m going to cover, you may have missed that BINGOS just hit 246 consecutive monthly uploads to CPAN 1 . This is noteworthy as it surpasses DROLSKY’s record set a while back. That’s an upload to CPAN, once a month, for over twenty years. Once a month minimum I should say, as many of the authors on the board are…
Five short essays on where we are currently at. A World of First Drafts Dreams and the Uncanny Valley Fiddlers in the Room The Last Hike Semantic Satiation of an Acronym A World of First Drafts I recently picked up a copy of “An Evening With Windham Hill” , a collection of early 1980s live performances by some of Windham Hill’s popular-at-the-time acoustic guitar players. I primarily bought the LP…
The last of a three part series on skateboarding related things from 2007. Yours truly, 2025 Travelling down the A1(M) on a recent trip through the UK we decided to stop off in Saffron Walden for lunch, as it was very close to the place I would be picking up some photographic frames. I suggested we could sit at the skatepark, since the weather was reasonable, and watch the skaters while we ate our…
Apparently the bottom is falling out of the art market, at least for those in the high-end segment 1 . That market of investors, speculators, and dealers who are working with mind-boggling prices. This isn’t surprising. The buyers in this market aren’t interested in art, they’re interested in the financial returns, and the last few years have seen more compelling investments in other areas.…
TL;DR ? It’s a quagmire, essentially. But let’s dive in. Possible strong language ahead, and copious footnotes with links to much more information below. scalper noun [ C ] US informal /ˈskæl.pər/ (UK: tout) someone who buys things, such as theatre tickets, at the usual prices and then sells them, when they are difficult to get, at much higher prices: “A scalper offered me a $20 ticket for the…
This is a sort-of transcript of a talk I gave a couple of times last year. If you’d prefer you can watch one of the recordings: GPW (Mar 2024) TPRC (June 2024) Alternatively you can read through the presentation with my notes here . This blog post goes into more detail, as I don’t have to constrain myself to a twenty minute slot. However, I know lots of people prefer to have a video or audio…
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fREW once said “As time goes by I have less and less patience for ecosystems that demand my time” and I think about this now and then. However, in my case I replace the word “ecosystems” for “anything”. There are exceptions, of course, but I’m not going to list them here as those should be obvious or self-evident 1 . Buuuuuuuut, there is an ever growing number of things being added to that list as…
A "blog post" ten years in the making? I started writing this post on my iPhone during an overnight stay on Prince Edward Island (PEI) sometime in 2015. One stop on a short road trip in Canada. The photo I uploaded to Instagram at the time confirms that was indeed exactly a decade ago 1 . Since then I’ve completed a few long-term projects, visited numerous portfolio reviews, been to several…
This is a sort-of-transcript of a talk i gave a couple of years ago , and planned to give at FOSDEM but it wasn't accepted. There is also a companion playthrough video that goes into much more detail. Note that the post was written well over a year ago, as usual it just didn't make it out of my drafts folder. Zelda is back in people’s minds again with the recent release of “Tears of the Kingdom” -…