The Arts: Photography

i just filed away a lot of photos, negs, and chromes from when i used to play photographer. there are a lot of photos i'd completely forgot about, and i probably lost about an hour's time just looking at these newly recovered memories.

it kind of makes me think.

Dreamwidth: No Ads

although Dreamwidth doesn't have all of the features Livejournal has (i'm sure
it will at some point, if they stick around/don't sell to someone who then sells
to Russians/&c.), one of the things i really like is that they don't put adverts
on their free accounts.  ads aren't a problem for me, since i'm incredibly rich,
and have solid gold paid accounts like poor people have collection notices, but
the Dreamwidth account is currently not paid (i'm waiting for a certain
planetary alignment), and it's nice not seeing adverts all over it.  this must
be what the opposite of what all you non-paidees (as we call you in the
business) complain about feels like.  it's like sleeping in gold dust.

Communities: Pan-Weirdism

during a conversation with a writer i converse with, we came up with the idea of
starting a community/utopia of sorts for our brand of hoohah.  something that
doesn't just encompass the writing aspect, but takes it to a level of
pan-weirdism.  we're tired of seeking out other people who do what we do, and
having to visit 18 different sites just to find out what everyone's doing.

thus, we've created http://panweirdism.dreamwidth.org/, so that we can hopefully
round some of these cretins up and keep them contained in our digital snares. 
Pan-Weirdism is for anyone who makes anything considered "weird" by the rest of
the public.  post your stuff, talk about your stuff, talk about other people's
stuff, have sex together, eat toast with a friend on the other side of the
world, decide things, ask questions, &c., and wotever else you might be inclined
to do.

we plan on keeping things pure, so no posting about the angst of your
existential crisis in the form of bad poetries, and no bad monkeycheese, and no
pictures of Goku's penis in Naruto's mouth unless it's made with really vibrant
colours.  i'm sure there's probably more to say, but for now that's it.

Fortean Times: Charlie Chaplin Cell-Phone Clip

have you guys seen this?

http://www.thestar.com/entertainment/movies/article/881824--time-travelling-alien-mystery-woman-in-chaplin-movie-clip?bn=1

Fortean Times II: 1940's Guy

there's also this semi-interesting guy:

http://gizmodo.com/5519660/time-traveler-captured-in-museum-photograph

are there totally normal explanations to these two pieces?  probably.  but
there's also something strange about them.  as usual, you can make a case for
either argument...