Leap of Faith

[Rob C]

Oh well, something to do:

Rob

[Eric Myrvaagnes]

Well worth my coming back to this thread, after the photo was there.   

[Rob C]

Well worth my coming back to this thread, after the photo was there.   

Eric, there's something odd going on, either with my computer which won't login to the topics anymore, or with my IPad which does, still (I'm on it now), but seems to want to avoid making attachments. I noticed a typo in this photo's title, and had one helluva job trying to attach the corrected version.

Electronics are wonderful when they work for you, but you want to wipe them out when they take the upper hand. Sign of the future? Bring back my buggy!

Rob

[petermfiore]

Eric, there's something odd going on, either with my computer which won't login to the topics anymore, or with my IPad which does, still (I'm on it now), but seems to want to avoid making attachments. I noticed a typo in this photo's title, and had one helluva job trying to attach the corrected version.

Electronics are wonderful when they work for you, but you want to wipe them out when they take the upper hand. Sign of the future? Bring back my buggy!

Rob

Rob,
I have a stash of buggy whips hidden away for the ultimate comeback...

Peter

[Rob C]

Rob,
I have a stash of buggy whips hidden away for the ultimate comeback...

Peter

Whips are cool (no, not in that way!), but if it was not illegal and, worse, expensive, I'd settle for a stash of sub-machine guns and a pocket weapon, too. Of course, that would only be of any use in winter because I wear so many rags to keep the cold out and my own heat in, whereas in summer, no chance of hiding anything anywhere. Come to think of it, in winter, there could be the chance of forgetting between which layers the thing is.

[Eric Myrvaagnes]

And I just threw out a package of ancient darkroom printing paper. 
But I still have my Beseler 4x5 enlarger... 

[Rob C]

And I just threw out a package of ancient darkroom printing paper. 
But I still have my Beseler 4x5 enlarger... 

That will make for a very intimidating piece of home defence weaponry.

:-)

[petermfiore]

And I just threw out a package of ancient darkroom printing paper. 
But I still have my Beseler 4x5 enlarger... 

Somewhere I have a package of Kodak Velox paper 5x7 unopened...dated 1947? I know it's from the 40's after the war. It was my uncle's.

Peter

[Rob C]

Somewhere I have a package of Kodak Velox paper 5x7 unopened...dated 1947? I know it's from the 40's after the war. It was my uncle's.

Peter

You realise then Peter, that you and Eric have the basics for starting an armoury?

Have you seen the Italian (Neapolitan) series Gomorra? It shows how people can have weapons hidden anywhere, especially if there are abandoned factories around the neighbourhood. Start checking out your neck of the woods! :-)

Rob

[petermfiore]

You realise then Peter, that you and Eric have the basics for starting an armoury?

Have you seen the Italian (Neapolitan) series Gomorra? It shows how people can have weapons hidden anywhere, especially if there are abandoned factories around the neighbourhood. Start checking out your neck of the woods! :-)

Rob

If it's the Netflix series, it's on my watch list...

Peter

[Eric Myrvaagnes]

I'll have to put Gomorra on my list as well.
But first I've got to see if I can find any leftover sheets of Velite printing-out paper, from about the same era as Velox. You made contact prints using Velite by setting your paper+negative+glass sandwich out somewhere that the full sun could blast it for a half hour or so, until the image looked right, and then processing the print normally in ordinary room light.

Ah, the good old days!   

[Rob C]

I'll have to put Gomorra on my list as well.
But first I've got to see if I can find any leftover sheets of Velite printing-out paper, from about the same era as Velox. You made contact prints using Velite by setting your paper+negative+glass sandwich out somewhere that the full sun could blast it for a half hour or so, until the image looked right, and then processing the print normally in ordinary room light.

Ah, the good old days!   

I bet that's what the digital printer manufacturers were thinking about originally, then realised the money was in the ink!

Did I mention, at least a dozen times, that my A3+ HP printer lies gathering dust, and awaits a body stronger than I am today to come visiting so I can dump it (the machine)?

[Had a viewer for the apartment today, but the guy's about my own age and much less physically able, so I don't think it'll go anywhere. A positive, though (we must ever seek such things), is that it forced me to apply some polish and clean the windows over two days.]

There is always a secret plan, concerning every one of us, working out there in the ether.

[KLaban]

Whips are cool (no, not in that way!), but if it was not illegal and, worse, expensive, I'd settle for a stash of sub-machine guns and a pocket weapon, too. Of course, that would only be of any use in winter because I wear so many rags to keep the cold out and my own heat in, whereas in summer, no chance of hiding anything anywhere. Come to think of it, in winter, there could be the chance of forgetting between which layers the thing is.

Rob, you are living in Mallorca, not Naples? Perhaps watching Gomorrah isn't helping?

;-)