I love how the Kodak Charmera keychain camera is able to shoot so low to the ground. I think that’s actually the strongest point of the camera. Sure, it’s cute. The photos are retro-looking. Those are nice points. But the lens gets so close to the ground, it makes for fun worm’s-eye-view photos.
Today I was playing around with the camera on my desk. I photographed my Destro metal mini-figure. The background was a bit distracting with hard drives stacked on books. So I grabbed the nearest sheet of paper, which happened to be a story from the “Short Story Dispenser” from my local library.
The story, Squiggle Monster by Kristy Roser Nuttall, is quite good, I’m going to have a blog post about it soon on spudart.org—once I get back to the library and get a photo of the machine that dispenses these stories.
Actually, I have a number of to-dos related to this image
- Photograph the Short Story Dispenser at my library.
- Photograph of the Kodak Charmera shooting so low to the ground. Maybe make a blog post about it when I accumulate enough on-the-ground photos.
- Submit a story to the Short Story Dispenser.
So many things to do. I could withhold my blog posts until I get them done. But sometimes you just gotta blog. That’s exactly what this “notepad” category on my blog is for. These looser thoughts.
I go through the thousands of photos on my hard drive from the past 25 years. So many photos. So many times I’ve never written about them or published the photos. Mostly because I was waiting to do something else.
This photo of Destro could have just sat in my archives, and nobody would have ever saw it. But I figured, ok, I’ll just write something about it, and post it on Flickr. And now that it’s on Flickr, I’m expanding the story with this blog post. I’m continually amazed by Dave Winer of scripting.com, and how he can just write and post. Write and post. Do his topics repeat? Yeah. But it actually works, because you get a feel for what he stands for. And a lot of the things he stands for, I also believe in. Like, decentralized, open web technologies, and independent publishing. And so I continue to read his blog.