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The photo is . love shadows . by .serena.

Serena practices artography, and I think that her excellent web site, serenaboggs.com is the best place to learn about that.  Be sure to click the “donate life” link and think a moment or two about organ donation.

More about the topic at organdonor.gov, Donate Life America and Wikipedia’s entry for Organ donation.

It’s something I suspect that many mean to address but never get around to.

I’m still in “clean out the draft post closet” mode and thought that this video of the Mermaid wetsuit was sufficiently interesting. Still don’t know why there’s no Merman suit though…

Seems like I have a lot of “draft” posts that never see the light of what passes for day on these internets because I can’t find the time to work them out. One of these was this feature from NPR about the Library of Congress’s new Audio-Visual Campus. It’s an interesting look at what our national library is doing to preserve and rescan media. They play a bit from a Count Basie album released only in Europe and offer a listen to the very short Joe Louis/Max Schmelling bout.

More at digitalpreservation.gov.

“Why does flickr go down so much?” I wondered to The Google. None less than net luminary Tim O’Reilly answered my call with a database war story that revealed the tip of the brobdingnagian iceberg that lies under shiny-smooth, folksonomical web apps like flickr and YouTube that sort and sift stuff according what many people say about it.

A link on the right led to A rare post about the music industry that isn’t depressing that told me about Jill Sobule and Jill’s Next Record. She’s funding it through fan patronage, something I’ve been hearing more and more of lately. Her levels of support are pretty funny so I clicked off to jillsobule.com to learn more about her.

On her blog was a post titled Web Surfing, Roger Clemens, and Judy Garland where she mapped out the circuitous turnings that attention can take. Somewhere in between reading what she had to say and listening to her music, I found a link to Cinnamon Girl: Women Artists Cover Neil Young, which I of course bought.

The photo is Jill Sobule by binkmeisterrick who writes:

While waiting early for the show to start, Jill and her road manager (?)pulled up in a van and came in through the front door. She let me take her picture (bless her heart, I think she had just woken up) and noticed the Holga. “Aren’t they fun?” she said. She didn’t think the flash on the flash models did much, though.

Shortly after taking this picture, the back popped off the Holga. Can you tell? I was so worried that the only two pictures I cared about on this roll were lost. As luck would have it, she and Billy were the only two that really came out.

He says he’s fascinated by photography, particularly black & white.