Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I recently finished a wonderful biography on Walker Evans: Walker Evans: A Biography by Belinda Rathbone. Some critics have said that the book reads a little too matter of fact to be interesting, but that’s a perfect type of biography for a man like Walker Evans–an objective biography for an objective man. […]
Author: Shelley Powers
Door opens and a single candle appears
Who says you can’t have fun with RDF? Not the creators of this online game that’s who. The witches look at your naked body and titter. Then they see your bar of soap and take it away, muttering about scented baths and candles (Thanks to Peter Van Dijick)
But I like the box better
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. When I started this weblog three years ago, it was a continuation of my web site that I’ve had since 1995. As such, it focused primarily on technology, with an occasional aside into science or art or literature. I started with a free Manila-based weblog hosted by Userland, which was […]
Photography as Maze
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Towards the end of 2001 I started posting photos from my walks or explorations of my neighborhood, using my new digital camera. And though I was pleased at the photos of Yosemite Park, or the Embarcadero and the Golden Gate or Bay Bridges then, I am not as content with […]
My three year weblogging anniversary is on April 5th, I believe. I can’t exactly remember the day and the old weblog, an old hosted Manila weblog, has long since gone from lack of updates. But the 5th is close enough. Three years slaying dragons. Three years tilting at windmills. Three years. That’s a long time, […]
