Me and Sylvia at the Memorial (April 2009)

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READIN started out as a place for me to keep track of what I am reading, and to learn (slowly, slowly) how to design a web site.

There has been some mission drift here and there, but in general that's still what it is. Some of the main things I write about here are reading books, listening to (and playing) music, and watching the movies. Also I write about the work I do with my hands and with my head; and of course about bringing up Sylvia.

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🦋 Early Color

Some stunning shots of Russia and its people, from the first decade of the 20th Century, at boston.com's Big Picture. The photographer is Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii:

Prokudin-Gorskii riding on the Murmansk rail outside Petrozavodsk: 1910

The pictures were taken before the advent of color film, using three exposures through different filters -- this absolutely blows me away. The Library of Congress has more information about Prokudin-Gorskii's method.

(Also: Gizmodo has some of the very earliest color motion pictures, from 1922!)

posted evening of Thursday, August 26th, 2010
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