Mystery Carving- HMD?
This carving in a boulder downstream from the large shale waterfall at Tryon Park is a mystery. There is no ‘logical’ reason that the letters ‘HWD’ would be carved upon a random rock in an accessible area of the park.
The area around the boulder is prone to erosion, especailly over years / decades. Tryon was originally settled by Native Americans, people have been in these woods for hundreds of years.
Tweet Today?
Can I Tweet Ronald McDonald, or the Burger King?
I hope so, communicating directly with these great guys will bring me closer to them.
I’ll learn so much about how they really feel about burgers and fries, and maybe we’ll become friends!
Ronald isn't tweeting - yet
No tweets from the King of Burgers either...
The current big thing of course is Twitter. It’s not the next big thing; it’s already too old for that. Not everyone is tweeting yet, but sometime soon; Mom and Grandma. Will it be _ over _ then? Passed by the next thing, the next way to get more ‘friends?’
I appreciate the technical hybridizations that have lead to the growing popularity of Twitter, take existing inexpensive infrastructure and turn it into to something ‘new’. Another one of those ideas that work so well it’s a wonder someone didn’t do it before…
Although I must say the lamest of the lame [Fail Whale ha ha] are those that take an existing web log /page / site and use it as a dump for their tweets of the week. All these tweet dumps do for me is let me know how piffling your tweets are when viewed without the hot heat of instantaneousness.
I feel so sorry for the celebrity obsessed!
I say to the tweeters, tweet all you want, just don’t think it will last. As with all technologies, hopefully Twitter will land and survive as a tool for those who need it, not as a tool that everyone must have. The functionality of twitter to spread information is not unique; it’s just the latest technology that the gatekeepers’ of information haven’t quite figured out yet. ‘Twittering the Revolution!’ Is still feasible, as the censors / politicos are slower to adapt to these tech changes, these are the powers that believe in the gun and the tank, first and foremost, while the power of information distribution is one step ahead.
How we got to Twitter
How we got to Twitter Backwards Machine:
- Facebook Walls
- MySpace (and others) online community building
- Blackberry, iphone, Cell phone availability and text messaging
- Laptops w/ wireless
- Desktops with wired connection
- ‘The Internets’
- Blogs, Pages, Message Boards
- Back to PRINT? Xeroxed Zines?
- The Community Bulletin Board Posters?
- Graffiti?
- Town Criers? Traveling Storytellers?
- The Church?
Does Rick Warren Tweet? As of today, you can’t tweet with Ronald or The King, but Rick is there for you. The Pope isn’t tweeting.. yet…
Wall at Cataract Falls
Wall of a Mill.
Burnt
Check out this burned stump, washed here, dumped here, who knows? Although it does seem the outside of the wood was burned, not internally.
Lost? Not really..
This deer trail leads up a ‘canyon’ near Turkey Run Park in West-central Indiana. I found myself ‘off the map’ last week, needed to get back to civilization quick. Instead of backracking (45 min. trip), I strapped my gear on tight and walked up this muddy deer trail. The campers whose site I emerged in were surprised.
Foam from Flooding
Flood level waters in Indiana two weeks ago create this large segment of foam. What’s in it? My guess fertilizers, cow manure and phosphates.
Traveling to Indiana
I’ll be off line for a few days as I travel to Indiana to visit Family.
There is a slight chance I may post content from the road, but doubtful as I’m going to be in some remote areas that do not even have cell phone service.
Look for some new photographs made in the great midwest next week!
Obsolescence Now…
Shooting film surprises some people; understandably, in these digital days. I have been making photographs for a few years now with an old film camera, a Minolta Autocord. This is a medium format, twin lens reflex camera, and creates an image 2 1/4 x 2 1/4 inches in size. Built probably in the 1960’s.
Processing and scanning (to 50Mb!) of the film was done locally by a lab that just went out of business. I reseached other places to get the same services with no luck, unless I was willing to pay, get this: 300 percent more, per roll of 12! Unaffordable.
So the Autocord will be put on the bench for awhile, the demand is for the digital.