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FOR THE FLASHCUBE

ivan — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 23:09:24 +0000

as promised, here are some photos of the thrift store cameras that i got two weeks ago.

Argus Autronic II

Minolta Weathermatic-A

Polaroid EE100 Special

YOU SHOULD ASK MALCOLM

ivan — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 19:04:48 +0000

credit where credit’s due:

WRC: congratulations to Petter Solberg for edging out Sébastien Ogier by 1.1 seconds in the very last stage to claim second place, to Ogier for getting on the WRC podium for the second time ever, to Ken Block for giving it a good shot during his debut and to Sébastien Loeb for winning his fourth successive Rally Mexico.

Oscars: congratulations to the cast and crew of The Hurt Locker for winning a total of six academy awards last night by beating Dances with Blue Cat People for Best Sound Editing, Best Sound Mixing, Best Film Editing, Best Director and Best Picture.

ABOVE THE DUNLOP

ivan — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 17:14:49 +0000

so my brother of CornerSpeedPhoto fame is in Florida right now covering the Daytona 200 AMA superbike races this weekend. since he’s friends with a few of the racers, he’s convinced some of them to run CornerSpeedPhoto stickers on their bikes this season. for this weekend’s races, said stickers are on the Buell 1125Rs of Shawn Higbee and Paul James:

plus the Suzuki GSX-R of Skip Salenius:

I HAVE NO PIANOS

ivan — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 17:04:58 +0000

it seems that i’ve angered someone at the Avanti Owners Association International when i called the boldly styled Studebaker Avanti “kind of ugly” in yesterday’s entry. in his forum post, the offended party asserts that i must have been severely drunk that night which, in his mind, must be the only logical explanation for my gross misjudgment.

fine, but let me ask you this: isn’t alcohol supposed to make things look better rather than worse?

INTERESTING/RARE/VINTAGE CARS 028

ivan — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 17:00:48 +0000

say hello to the Studebaker Avanti, a car that i’m guessing most of you have never seen or heard of before. don’t worry, though, because i hadn’t either until i stumbled out of a Las Vegas sushi restaurant one night and found this gleaming example parked next to my Japanese econobox. seeing the Avanti shocked me in the same way that a flock of nude cyclists would shock an old Alabaman woman who’s in the middle of her very first driving lesson.

i had heard of the Studebaker name before but only in reference to the electric vehicles they were producing in the early 1900s. Studebaker was from a bygone era and therefore no longer relevant so i filed it away with the likes of the biplane and steam locomotive as an engineering stepping stone that has been thankfully left behind. little did i know that Studebaker remained active well into the ’60s, producing such bravely styled marvels as the Hawk, Lark, and the Avanti before dying a slow, agonizing death from financial exsanguination.

the Studebaker Avanti is a bit of a rarity with only 4,643 built during its 18 month production run. this explains why i had never seen one until then and why i’ll probably never see one ever again. it seems, then, that the Avanti is more of an apparition than an actual car, an elusive vestige of the American automotive industry that once was. the Avanti is an endangered species.

oh well. it’s kind of ugly anyway.

LINGONBERRY JAM FOR ALL

ivan — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 17:25:06 +0000

things that i’ve recently done that never would’ve happened 20 years ago:

THREE-DIMENSIONAL VOLUME

ivan — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 05:56:53 +0000

i came across an article today about a pair of crocodile mummies which were subjected to CT scans by a bunch of nerds at Stanford University. so here’s the question: why would the ancients go through all the trouble of mummifying crocodiles? with all the disease, warmongering and general suffering that was going around back in the day, you’d think that “mummifying the crocodile that bit Nickhotep’s nuts off” would be pretty far down on the list of things to do.

but i’ve been wrong before.

A SINGLE BLACK WHISKER

ivan — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 05:14:46 +0000

i heard a truly awful ringtone this morning as i sat in the waiting room during my mother’s doctor’s appointment. loud, obnoxious club music began blaring but instead of answering as quickly as possible out of embarrassment, the owner of the offending phone held it up and studied it like an ancient artifact for a good 20 seconds before he put it to his ear.

ONLY TWENTY-EIGHT

ivan — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 17:20:57 +0000

gah, is it March already? time is going by too fast. stop it.

FROM FAR AND WIDE

ivan — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 22:59:08 +0000

O CAAAAAAANADAAAAAAAAAAAAA :)