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Assistant

Almost done with the second notebook in this cover, it’s my daily tasks book. Acts like my assistant. I place 5 post it notes per page where each post it is a single day.

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rare photography

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tattoo short

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the guide

I talk about the documentary Genius Of Photography often on how it changed my life, but one that is right behind it, is the documentary William Eggleston In The Real World. If you are living the art life, you will love it. click here to order it on Amazon

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leica q2 in a college town

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the best revenge is the work

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back to the future 40th anniversary

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whoops

I was told when mentioning yesterday’s blog post that it wasn’t visible, after looking into it I realized I published the post on a wrong page…. and I also did so with a post from last week! Just wanted to update, since I’m posting daily and those were not available on the blog.

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i got a new tattoo

new tattoo for the 20th anniversary of bsmitty.com

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in the real world

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the shining polaroids

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how to get rich 16 times

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dream photographer

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52,000 gig desk drives

I finally organized my desk drives in a way where I can easily connect to my archives and video files. I have somewhat of a Frankenstein setup for editing, my editing setup is a maxed out m3 MacBook Pro that I connect to a 27 inch monitor when I’m at the desk. Now, with this setup I have only have two things to plug in that are stationary. Before I had dongles everywhere and would have one drive plugged in at a time due to the dongles not having enough power. The hub that has the drives plugged in is a powered hub that has to be plugged into an outlet which makes this setup possible.

Maybe I’ll make a full Frankenstein setup video in the future

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the art life from the young to the elderly

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40

“I guess I am saddened, not by Microsoft’s success. I have no problem with their success. They’ve earned their success for the most part. I have a problem with the fact that they just make really third-rate products. Their products have no spirit to them. Their products have no spirit or enlightenment about them. They are very pedestrian. And the sad part is that most customers don’t have a lot of that spirit either. But the way that we’re going to ratchet up our species is to take the best and to spread it around to everybody, so that everybody grows up with better things and starts to understand the subtlety of these better things. And Microsoft’s just… It’s McDonald’s.”

- Steve Jobs, age 40.

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Web 1.0 - daily blogging is back!

With social media, content is at the mercy of algorithms and platform rules, advertising and “suggestions” poison these apps.

social media posts are almost immediately forgotten, and with blogging.. there is a sense of legacy, where it is building something that lasts, something to revisit.

You are not being forced to see unwanted content decided by the social platforms. Here, you are in a world outside of algorithms.

welcome to the art life.