Surely I’m not the only one who finds that a turkey dinner is far more tasty as leftovers than it ever was when originally served.
We had the standard turkey for Christmas dinner at my in-laws house this year and even though it was great, it was when I made the leftovers into San Francisco style* holiday-burritos that it really shone.
* All of the ingredients jammed inside the tortilla.
You may have seen a grey bio-diesel bus chugging around the Bay Area filled with people having a great time dancing to great music and wondered “what the hell is that, and how do I get on?”
Wonder no longer – Transported SF is hands down the most fun dance party San Francisco has to offer. With an open floor plan, seating for 40 and a sound system that can blast beats inside or out the party rolls with you as the crew takes you on three hour journey to places in and around the city.
So get on the trolley… er bus!
P.S. You can also rent out the buses for private parties.
A great post here about someone who tried to make a last go of shooting 35mm film. It didn’t work out too well. Oh well. Film is dead – long live film?
I have long ignored the technological battles and ideological warfare between film purists and digital zealots. Use what you’ve got and use it to get a little better each time. Accept that digital photography is supplanting film the same way that ball point pens trumped fountain pens and move on with life.
If you like film so much – keep shooting it! There will always be a place for film and it will never (never!) go away entirely. People still do calligraphy with fountain pens (or even quills!). To me the technology is secondary anyway – the only thing that really matters is where you point your camera and when you trip the shutter. A great story is a great story whether typed on an old Smith Corona, scratched out in pencil or carved into runes.
The film vs. digital smackdown reminds me a lot of the sturm und drang in motion picture editing over the arrival of computer based non-linear editors. There was lot of moaning about weird visceral connections to the medium and the need to “feel” the film. Ok – so the process is different now – what you’ve lost in feeling you’ve gained in speed of iteration in never misplacing trimmed frames. Is one process better than the other? I think not – they’re two different processes, and so it is with film versus digital photography. Film is great and digital is great, and they’re both great for different reasons.
But to me, the thing that is really great is photography itself – to capture and record light in a precise enough matter that another person who wasn’t there can experience it too is nothing short of miraculous.
While much remains shrouded in mystery, other things have been revealed.
Racing Cross in Golden Gate Park
Here’s me racing in the third race of the Bay Area Super Prestige Cyclo-cross Series. Judging by the look of determination and lack of pain this is probably early in the race and before I ended up crashing twice on the hill of lamentation.*
* The site of many a fellow rider’s troubles that day.
Yeesh – many is the day I wish I had actually gotten some schooling in coding web pages. However, progress has been made, things have been learned and some modicum of success was achieved.
Huzzah!