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iPhoneography

blog — Tue, 12 May 2009 14:56:13 +0000

It’s official. I’m a dork. I was all excited to have the geniuses at the Apple Genius Bar fix my iPhone camera yesterday. So I hand my iPhone to the genius guy and tell him my camera doesn’t work. He looks at it, says hmmmm, and tells me he’s going to the back to take a look. Genius guy comes back a couple minutes later and says “the good news is that the iPhone still works, but there’s been some water damage causing the camera to fail.” I politely inform him that I didn’t recall the iPhone ever getting wet except for maybe some rain. He said the water line had a brownish color. Dammit! The hazards of coffee in the car caught up to me. Again. I sometimes put my iPhone in the cup holder next to the coffee. Dammit! Genius guy said I could replace the iPhone for $200. That’s a very expensive cup of coffee. So, I thanked Genius guy (who was a really cool guy) and left.

Not wanting to miss out on all of the iPhone photography fun – I decided to pull out my twice-dropped-badly-cracked original iPhone and use it as my iPhone camera. Problem solved. Here are a couple iPhone clicks from this morning.

Our shy cat Tyler covers his junk (or should I say unjunk) so he doesn’t end up as a centerfold on some kitty porn site.

Our doorbell button broke and when the wind blows it actually rings the doorbell. Go figure. Since I haven’t fixed it yet and the noise drives my son Zak crazy – he took matters into his own hands and silenced doorbell man. Good thinkin’ Zak.

If you’d like to see some good iPhoneography, check out these guys – Chase Jarvis, Sionfullana and fellow photodude Chris Ralston.

blamit blog

blog — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 17:12:48 +0000

Welcome to my new blog home. Over the last several years I’ve wandered between Blogger, WordPress and Typepad – but I was never satisfied with the design and interface restrictions. So, I made the leap to hosting my own blog powered by the tasty WordPress platform. There are a bazillion blog templates available (free + premium), and after much research and trial – I chose the Titan Theme from Jestro Themes. Theme designer Drew Strojny calls it “a refined, balanced, and exceptionally handsome WordPress theme.” I have to agree.

I’ve made several custom changes to the theme and plan to make more in the near future. I haven’t got my head around the whole RSS and twitter world yet – but hope to soon. I’m anxious to see how blamit* evolves over the next couple months.

ideas

doug — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 04:35:00 +0000

It’s been a busy couple months – so I’ve had my fair share of opportunities to come up with some creative ideas. My ratio of good to not-so-good is about 50/50. I think it gets harder as the years go by. Maybe my expectations are higher or perhaps I’m just more cynical. Who knows. The good news is that we live in a world full of inspiration. Technology gives us a front row seat to see and hear and experience gobs of creative stuff – old and new. So where do all of those tasty ideas come from? Do they drop out of thin air? Do they come from caffeine and nicotine and high fructose corn syrup? Long nights and early morning? Is there a creative fairy godmother? Or, do we all just borrow and steal and rip off ideas and find ways to make them our own?

I found this Jim Jarmusch quote on swiss miss. And then I “borrowed it.” There you go.