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Three Persimmons, 2008.All the pixels, none of the seeds, at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/2207576183#photography

@deviantollam @20002ist A lot of them seem to still be clinging to this belief that they are an elite priesthood entrusted with safeguarding secret knowledge. They'd be so much more productive if they acknowledged the existence of the real world.

Ravenswood Generating Station ("Big Allis"), Queens, NY, 2024.All the pixels, delivered in phase with the power grid, at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/53732990785#photography

Rotary Converter, IRT Subway, Substation 13, Midtown Manhattan, NYC, 2017.All the pixels, but do not touch, at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/32992380451#photography

Cathedral of Learning, University of Pittsburgh, 2023.Highly educated pixels at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/52977939495#photography

@mattblaze Do you have strong feelings about doing this kind of shift-alignment in post? I love this kind of composition, but I love four thousand dollar lenses less.

445 Tenth Avenue, NYC, 2024All the pixels, neatly arranged in a grid, at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/53997928594#photography

Now getting yelled at for "defending Marjorie Taylor Greene".Sorry, but that's just a wildly bad faith, or completely illiterate, interpretation of anything I've written or said, here or anywhere.Just blocking these people. Not worth my time.

These (de-electrified) catenary wires were captured with a Sinar P camera and a 240mm lens on Polaroid 55 film (scanned) along the former Pennsylvania Railroad's "high line" in west Philadelphia near the university.This abstract composition references a 1936 painting, "Electrification", by precisionist artist Ralston Crawford; see https://hirshhorn.si.edu//collection/artwork/?edanUrl=edanmdm:hmsg_72.75

Oh, no, Rob and Michelle Reiner. A horrible end to a weekend of one horror after another.

Got Thai takeout from a new place and ordered it at the default spicy level. I am pleased to report that my sinuses are now very clear.

Utterly wild story about a nuclear generator lost atop a Himalayan mountain by the CIA 60 years ago. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/12/13/world/asia/cia-nuclear-device-himalayas-nanda-devi.html?unlocked_article_code=1.8k8.jOUn.daSfdUlyfo3e [Gift Link]

Shortwave "Discone" Antenna, AT&T High Seas Transmitter Site, Ocean Gate, NJ, 2009.All the pixels, with operators available to assist you, at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/4141766569#photography

https://theonion.com/study-finds-80-of-americans-lack-social-connections-to-pull-off-heist/

The rapid decline in recent years of local content on the mediumwave bands has considerably reduced the romantic mystery of tuning around and seeing what you find. It's mostly now a sterile mix of mass-produced, syndicated right wing talk, sports, and so on. But there are still a handful of stubbornly local stations producing their own programming.

They really do seem to be trying to kill us. House defense bill adds a provision to allow military aircraft to disable their civilian transponders (a basic anti-collision safeguard) when flying around DC. (You know, the place where a military helicopter collided with a civilian airplane in January.)https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/us/politics/ntsb-defense-bill-dca-crash.html?unlocked_article_code=1.708.pw0N.fc-mutEibonA

Obsolete secret infrastructure like CARTWHEEL tower, only revealed decades later, intrigues me not just for its scale and design, but also for the obvious question it gives rise to. If this stuff effectively managed to stay unnoticed for decades, what newer secrets are hiding under our noses today?

This was a three second exposure (with about 10 stops of neutral density). The sun was behind the clouds and just above the center of the frame; the lens required careful flagging to avoid glare.The rendering of water, especially in the sea, differs greatly with exposure. 30 seconds looks quite different from 3 seconds, which is just as different from 1/30 sec, which is different from 1/1000 sec. About 1/30 sec renders roughly the way our vision does; anything else requires a camera to see.

I'm just imagining what the reaction would have been if Obama had suggested renaming NFL football. They would have had to put him in witness protection.

FAA "BRIJJ" Station, Foster City, CA, 2024.All the pixels, cleared for landing, at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/54128020212#photography