"Out of context"
People at the tower of Pisa taken out of their intended context
People at the tower of Pisa taken out of their intended context
As seen from the Everglades to the west of Miami
So glad a colleague at work pointed me to what Goldfinger were up to - making the most of social isolation in times of Covid-19! This video, “Here in your bedroom”, is a nostalgia trip. https://www.facebook.com/goldfingermusic/videos/231918244594308 Will this still be available in 10 years? God knows, but I might go check out what some other great bands have been doing online during this time.
I recently got my music bug again, and with my recent trip to Australia was able to bring back my original Gameboy. Combining the two, I thought I’d check out what music-making capabilities the Gameboy had. The most popular software was “Little sound DJ” (https://www.littlesounddj.com/). I purchased the full version of that, and while I could run that on an emulator, I wanted to run it on the real deal. To do this, I purchased a Gameboy flashing cartridge, “Flash BOY” ( https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/223590080458). This came with few instructions however. I was able to plug it into my laptop’s USB and see that it displayed as a FTDI device, but would need drivers. I installed some from here: https://www.ftdichip.com/Drivers/VCP.htm but after more googling for flashing software, found that this also provided some drivers: https://sourceforge.net/projects/gbcf/ ...
I set up a Raspberry Pi photo viewer at work to display photos from members of the photo club. Members were instructed to put their photos on a Google Drive location (accessible only within the company VPN) and then the viewer would sync down the photos at a predetermined schedule. To get access to Google Drive, I used rclone. To display I used ‘feh’, which was also used to put text indicating the name of the photo. ...
Testing out a tripod shot of my new 200mm - 500mm telephoto lens with 2x magnification on 1.5 DX crop (~ 1500 mm equivalent)
Liftoff! Up up and away! Returning twin boosters