Sarcasm and Ham

Threadless Tee

technowizard12 — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 06:42:15 +0000

Hi all,

I’ve designed a new tee over on Threadless. Vote to get it printed, and I would get enough to be able to afford CS5!

“Genius. Arthur Genius.” “Well, all right then Geniusarthurgenius…”

technowizard12 — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 06:38:27 +0000

I had a brilliant ADHD inspired stroke of genius. Wow, I just realized how laudatory that last sentence was. Anyway, what if we could make a library system out of the personal libraries that everybody has at home, or that teachers have in their classrooms or offices? Wouldn't it expand the potential for finding resources and just plain old books for reading? I want to create a distributed library system all networked with one system. Each personal library would be one library in the system, searchable by itself. The whole system would also be able to be searched. The software used would be Evergreen, an open source system designed to handle a massive amount of libraries. Good idea?
-Simon

Posted via email from Simon Orr

Buntato

technowizard12 — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 04:56:42 +0000

Taken with my Gakkenflex at the Ferry Building Farmers' Market

-Simon

Posted via email from Simon Orr

Announcing My New Social Media Adventures (and various other things)

technowizard12 — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 05:07:22 +0000

Hello humans, terminals, and amorphous multi-lined spiders which exist solely within the internet,

Whee! Where to begin. So a photographer I admire added me as a contact on Flickr. After many deep breaths, I reciprocated and went to look at his profile. From there, my day grew incredibly short incredibly quickly. I noticed that he had a flavors.me address. I clicked on it, and it looked awesome. Being the normal young denizen of the internet that I am, I signed up for one. http://flavors.me/simonorr . I was adding services, when I scratched my chin and said, “hmm. Posterous?”. Posterous turned out to be a blogging service which you email stuff to post it. http://simonorr.posterous.com/ .

Now onto other things. I got a new Gakkenflex TLR, which is yet to be named. I should really finish my endeavors to create a page for each of my cameras. I think I will do that tonight (if I remember and/or don’t get distracted). Pictures are up on flickr and posterous.

I started a new photography project at http://aryaboudaie.info/simonorrstudio/thalia Which resides on my new website, Simon Orr Studio (the url is broken thanks to GoDaddy’s terrible customer service) http://aryaboudaie.info/simonorrstudio/ .

That’s all. I’m taking off my cardigan and putting on my shoes now.

Z0mGI3 PIGZ!

technowizard12 — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 06:57:41 +0000

Back from the grave, it’s SARCASM AND HAM! 0H N03Z!

A Novel Proposal

technowizard12 — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 06:21:47 +0000

Hello Internet (and Bubbles),

I’m thinking of starting a magazine of amazing photographs from interesting people called 23. It would feature pictures from two or three different people each issue, along with a biography of the person. I’m not sure it’ll take. What do you guys think? Would you submit? Here, I’ll do my first ever poll!

I made a logo!

technowizard12 — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 06:11:55 +0000

Hello Internet,

I made a logo for the blog!

My LC-A+ has a name!

technowizard12 — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 05:46:14 +0000

Hello Internet,

The council of Elven Elders (one of my best friends and I) has henceforth named my LC-A+. He is named (drum roll) Harold. I know, it’s not a Russian name, it’s just that Nikola didn’t sound as good. I’ve also scanned the prints of some of the best shots of my first roll. Now, they look a bit cloudy (because Walgreens only prints glossy), so I’ll upload the negs once I’ve scanned them. For now, enjoy the slightly cloudy first roll from Harold!

Oh, lomography fairy. You’re too good to me.

technowizard12 — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 02:52:34 +0000

Hello internet,

I was walking through San Francisco the other day, waiting to get my hair done. I walked into my favorite store, browsed a bit, then left to go to my appointment. I then went to the Ferry Building, ate lunch, walked around a bit, then went back to the store to buy something. I decided, after all, not to buy the thing I wanted to, and instead walked to the back of the store. Suddenly (cue dramatic, latent music) I saw a table at the back of the store, labeled, “sale.” I walked up to it. (swell in music) I browsed, book, book, book (gasp, music ceases) an LC-A+ (music stabs, then becomes happy). My dream camera. What I’ve been lusting after since I first discovered Lomography. I grabbed it, greedily, then frantically searched for the price. $100! That’s 2/5th the price it normally is! Oh, happy day! Needless to day, I bought it (conveniently, I had the cash on me) and went home happily. Tomorrow, I’m going to get my first roll processed. We’ll see how the pictures come out!

Coming Soon: Paulie!

technowizard12 — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 23:07:13 +0000

See that? That’s the prototype of Paulie, a frame for your Polaroid pictures (well, at least those 3.5 x 4.25 inches. Hopefully he’ll have some siblings that hold different types of Polaroids). I’m almost done with him, I just have to add some little embellishments here and there (some dirt, maybe a finger smudge) and he’ll be up in no time at all. I’ve almost completed him, and in only two days! Being bored during Finals sure is conducive to paper toy design.