by Eric Hegwer on 1 January, 2010
Happy Near Year to all my blog readers. 2009 was a wonderful year, full of great things for me – I shot 33 weddings, bought a house, rescued a westie, and spent 3 weeks in Spain and France. I hope you had just as many successes!
When I opened my computer this morning, and saw that the date was 2010, Jan 1, I immediately recognized a familiar symbol 01.01.10
For those of you who aren’t nerds, geeks, or computer programmers, today translates very nicely into binary 010110. And there are a bunch of different translations of the code. What color is 010110? It’s a dark black. But according to Pantone, the official popular color for this year is turquoise – who knew?
2010 in binary is a dark color
what does 010110 equal in binary? Twenty two
0 = 25 = 0
1 = 24 = 16
0 = 23 = 0
1 = 22 = 4
1 = 21 = 2
0 = 20 = 0
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22
What does it mean for you?
by Eric Hegwer on 22 December, 2009
Every 3 months or so I get a surprise package in the mail from The Thing Quarterly. I’ve written about these presents before specifically the Chaldron Optical System, and if you are interested in signing up, here’s the website for the Thing Quarterly. This issue, Number 9, crated by Ryan Gander, was a box a bit smaller than I’m used to, but still contained something quite special. Yes, the actual box was printed backwards. Here’s what it is (in photos of course):
When I opened the Box, I was presented with what looked like a box of playing cards
And when I opened the pack, I was indeed greeted with a deck of cards, and a little leaflet
Indeed they appear to be playing cards
But when you examine the cards closely, you get something unusual indeed Two sided playing cards, with unequal denominations.
by Eric Hegwer on 8 September, 2009
When Riley gets hot, which seems to be all the time here in Texas, he lays down just like a frog
If you haven’t noticed, one of my ongoing projects with this blog is as a platform for testing different kinds of film. Each film post is tagged with the kind of camera I used and the different film, too. Today’s shot was taken with my Leica, and some Fuji Press 1600. It’s a bit grainy, but what do you expect for high speed color film. I pulled this shot 1 exposure – meaning I set my ISO for 800 instead of 1600 and then exposed normally, basically overexposing the film one stop.
There is still a ton of detail, but the other shots from this roll, which were taken indoors with no natural light were completely tungsten orange.
