Monthly Archives: February 2005

Repair the Vote

Friday, February 25th, 2005

From MoveOn PAC:

Doubt about the integrity of the electoral process undermines our democracy. To restore confidence in our vote, sign this petition to Congress demanding immediate electoral reform. Our goal is to deliver 200,000 signatures to Senators and Representatives when they return from their Presidents’ Day recess. Our petition is:

“Congress must support electoral reforms such as guaranteeing paper receipts for electronic voting machines, providing remedies for long lines, and prohibiting partisan election officials.”

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SF Photobooth

Friday, February 25th, 2005
My über-geek pal Wrybread has set up a photobooth in his San Francisco digs. It uses two laptops and a Canon Powershot camera to capture strips of four photos, then print and immediately upload them to the web. Some of the images are NSFW. The above is from the photobooth’s debut at a sushi/sake/karaoke party.

Archived photos

Photobooth Innards

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Central Park in the Snow

Thursday, February 24th, 2005
Click here for a page of photos of Central Park, Monday morning in the Snow.It’s snowing again tonight. I imagine it will be still be pretty sloppy on Sunday when the gates are scheduled to be taken down. That should be an interesting story, that I guess the GammaBlaBlog will cover. Though according to this story in The Villager Christo will sue you if you try to sell your photos of “The Gates” or even use his copyrighted term “The Gates” Sheesh! What a tool! What a way to turn around any good feeling we had for this project which essentially draped his orange plastic shower curtains over 23 miles of our precious Central Park.

Click here to see a larger version of this two-photo pano shot from Belvedere Castle.

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The Gates in the Snow

Tuesday, February 22nd, 2005

I went out pre-dawn Monday morning to get some photos in Central Park before the snow was trampled. I’m in the middle of editing the many photos. This one was taken hand-held, lit solely by the street lamps. I was happy it came out so clearly. Past attempts to do anything like this with my cheap camera have come out a blurry mess.
Somewhere near 80th Street on the west side of the park.

Update 2/24 click here for the photos.

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