http://b.ookee.com The People's Republic of ... Mon, 30 Apr 2007 03:59:02 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I finally found some free time to wander over to Union Terminal to check out the Titanic: Artifact Exhibition that's been there for a while. Too many times I've set out to take in exhibits like this only to find that they'd left the day before... so I was pretty ... http://b.ookee.com/2007/04/29/titanic-exhibition/ For those curious about the Eldridge's textbook, below is a sample of what it looks like. The Fraktur font makes for slow reading, but his stream of consciousness writing keeps me intrigued. To make things easier on anyone trying to read the text, the section pictured reads as follows. His heart sank ... http://b.ookee.com/2007/03/04/more-on-the-eldridge-text/ Since it was a long weekend, I thought I'd try digging through my piles of junk and find some photos for a friend. Unfortunately I couldn't find the photos I was looking for, but I came across a few other things I'd forgotten about. Some of those I've since scanned ... http://b.ookee.com/2007/01/15/odd-what-you-stumble-across/ I'd been posting things to Flickr for a while and not really thinking a whole lot of it. The other day I was contacted by someone looking to use one of my shots in small show in London. Pretty cool. The photo, below, is a bike lot in Narita, Japan, ... http://b.ookee.com/2006/10/14/nice-surprise/ I was quite looking forward to the Black Dahlia since I enjoyed LA Confidential a great deal. I haven't watched LA Confidential since it came out so I wonder if my impressions of it would change based on the Black Dahlia. Much of what happened in the Black Dahlia reminded ... http://b.ookee.com/2006/09/30/black-dahlia/ A couple days ago I caught Hollywoodland which I'd been curious to see. I never really knew much about George Reeves' death, or life for that matter. This was a nice look at both, very well done. I'd forgotten that the film was even being released, having been caught up ... http://b.ookee.com/2006/09/08/hollywoodland/ Shoes and I were chatting the other day and she mentioned that she'd never been to the ocean the entire time she'd been in North Carolina. While mildly surprising, it's not terribly so given she's on the far side of the state. We talked about making a trip out to ... http://b.ookee.com/2006/08/20/destination-ocean/ After untold ages of living death, the PRB is slowly returning to life. Or is this a state of undeath. I'll leave that debate to ZADL. Suffice to say that words and content will be returning for all to ignore. http://b.ookee.com/2006/08/14/relaunched-and-redone/