12.09ND.100a <3.

12.09ND.100a , originally uploaded by HillbillyXX.

Found/photographer unknown

12.09ND.099c Vintage Kodachrome DOH!

Vintage Kodachrome
found/photographer unknown

12.09ND.092b.lo

12.09ND.092b.lo, originally uploaded by HillbillyXX.

The Plywood Family

found/photographer unknown

Vintage Kodachrome Slide

IMG00017-20091125-2110.jpg

If you receive a package of pictures from me, and you suddenly get itchy...

I need help giving this new addition to the Hillbilly family a new name. Please help via xomments.
Sent via Jim's BlackBerry

Beware Of Your Local Camera Store

I hate going to the locally owned, 50 year-old camera store for a bunch of reasons. One is that no matter where you are, a locally-owned camera store is a good-old-boy clique, and if you are not a member, you get the rude treatment all the way around. Take my advice and go to Ritz.

The other reason, is that whether I like it or not, I am unable to avoid seeing a display like the one above every trip to the store, reminding me of the flourishing collapsible reflector market.

I entered the market at #2 behind the original, Flexfill in the late 80s, the premise being that one can make a "better mousetrap"- Which I did. Better materials stronger and wider spring-steel-- all but one sewing step was done with my own two little hands, as well as the marketing and sales. I also made bags for stands, tripods, and other gear, like refill-able set-weights and what-not.

Trouble was, very few people then were convinced of the idea that the things could make your pictures better, and so only a thin-layer of professionals used them-- Most of my former classmates and colleagues did-- Something that only changed in the 90s, and then blew wide-open with the advent of financially accessible digital cameras.


Enter the #3 player in about 1990(?) MADE IN KOREA. Inferior product, 1/3 cheaper, last nail in my coffin.

I now count no fewer than 7 manufacturers of this simple, now common tool.

Bitter? Nah. Just sad that I wasn't capitalized fully, or had enough help to market it, and wait it out until became a must-have tool. Just bad timing. First crack at my fully owned and operated business. Failure breeds character, btw.

I still think I have the best product name. wth is "LastoLite" ?? Pfffft.

Happy (Discovery) Birthday, Lucy (Australopithecus afarensis) 30.11.1974

Lucy (also given a second (Amharic) name: ድንቅነሽ dinqineš, "you are wonderful"[2]) is the common name of AL 288-1, the 40% complete Australopithecus afarensis skeleton discovered on November 30, 1974 by the International Afar Research Expedition (IARE; director: Maurice Taieb, co-directors: Donald Johanson and Yves Coppens) in the Awash Valley of Ethiopia's Afar Depression. Lucy is estimated to have lived 3.2 million years ago.(...)

(...)Johanson and his colleague Tim White, a Californian born paleoanthropologist, placed Australopithecus afarensis as the last ancestor common to humans and chimpanzees living from 3.9 to 3 million years ago. Although fossils closer to the chimpanzee/human common ancestor have been recovered since the early 1970s, Lucy remains a treasure among anthropologists studying human origins. The fragmentary nature of the older fossils furthermore deter confident conclusions as to the degree of bipedality or their relation to true hominines.

via: The Free Dictionary

Thank you, AL 288-1, for the huge fucking impression you made on me in 1982.

fuckyeahhominines

Melissa Farlow and Mustangs... FTW

fikifikiwiki:

findout:

Mustangs are a mythic symbol of freedom, heroism, romance, and limitless possibilities, as well as the vanishing West. Along with that fantasy, wild horses embody some of the intractable complexities and contradictions of modern American life.

In 1900, two million wild horses roamed the still largely unfenced American West. In the hundred years since, a growing human population’s expanding urbanization has eaten up much of the range. Less than 30,000 wild horses are squeezed onto public lands in ten western states.

Today, the Bureau of Land Management spends 40 million dollars annually caring for wild horses. Most visible are the gathers or roundups performed by contractors who use helicopters to drive horses into a trap to be culled. Mustangs can be adopted by the public, but much of the BLM’s funding is spent caring for the once wild horses for the rest of their lives in long-term facilities.

Melissa Farlow, photographer

Melissa Farlow and Mustangs... FTW.

The Promenade And The Trailer Park

found, (1960s), photographer unknown

I EAT YOUR KIBBLE

Raccoons are very aggressive and nearly fearless of anything. This guy had the balls to walk right on the porch with me several times after I had shooed him off. Stupid thing to do on my part, since Raccoons are one of the top carriers of Rabies in North America. Not to mention that they can tear you-up if you make them mad, or they feel confined and threatened. This was a young adult with no fear.

Take Me To The Water: Immersion Baptism In Vintage Music And Photographs 1880-1950

Take Me to the Water from Dust-to-Digital on Vimeo.

TAKE ME TO THE WATER: IMMERSION BAPTISM JIM LINDERMAN LANCE LEDBETTER LUC SANTE BOOK CD
DUST-TO-DIGITAL RELEASES TAKE ME TO THE WATER: IMMERSION BAPTISM IN VINTAGE MUSIC AND PHOTOGRAPHY 1890-1950. PHOTOGRAPHS FROM THE JIM LINDERMAN COLLECTION WITH A CD OF HISTORIC EARLY RECORDINGS. PRODUCED BY STEVEN LANCE LEDBETTER. ESSAYS BY JIM LINDERMAN, LUC SANTE. TAKE ME TO THE WATER: IMMERSION BAPTISM IN VINTAGE MUSIC AND PHOTOGRAPHY 1890-1950 DTD-13 / ONE CD / 96 PAGE HARDBACK BOOK RELEASE DATE: AVAILABLE FROM AMAZON NOW

Jim Linderman Blog Index

Dull Tool, Dim Bulb

Happy Birthday Boris/Boris Karloff Blogathon

Happy Birthday Boris Karloff

Born November 23, 1887

Boris Karloff Blogathon

via: Monster Crazy

666 POSTS.

666 POSTS.

AS OF YESTERDAY.

(MY REPUTATION IS SEALED)

I am involved in the land of a leonine and brave people, where every foot of the ground is like a wall of steel, confronting my soldier. You have brought only one son into the world, but everyone in this land can be called an Alexander.

Alexander the Great, in a letter to his mother on the insurgency he faced in Afghanistan (via newleft) (via unburyingthelead)

Deutscher Schäferhund (and friend)

A couple more pictures in this wonderful gift of dog pictures, (mostly German Shepherds from one estate), from Stacy.

Thanks, Stacy.

RIP Edward Woodward (1930-2009)

Woodward's recitation of BUTCHERED TO MAKE A DUTCHMAN'S HOLIDAY
by Harry Harbord ("The Breaker") Morant is at the very end of the clip.

Breaker Morant, (1980)

RIP,Edward Woodward (1930-2009)

11.09ND.047 Vintage Kodachrome

red border kodachrome Late 1950s
found/photographer unknown

These women were apparently school chums, sisters, etc. who traveled everywhere together, from the shenandoah Valley to Jerusalem.

This one appears to be one of the hams of the group, fishing at the lake.

Grattis, Hurrah.

Bob Marley and The Wailers- Live At The Roxy
Trenchtown Rock

Hit Me With Music...

Happy birthday, benhästen.



thanks, willard.

Flying Boats, Water Skiing Elephants and Such

If you think this is crazy, then go on over to Rick's Visual Ephemera for a great history piece on Florida's Ponce De Leon State Park, and the amazing 'Queenie' The Water Skiing Elephant. Thanks, RIck.

Found Kodachrome, Photographer unknown