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Motown Night at El Ranchito

Les — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 19:49:18 +0000

Hager Ranch

Les — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 00:41:35 +0000

Spent an all too brief visit at The Hager Ranch, San Saba, TX. Flickr link here.

Ft Worth Ave Work Prints Show

Les — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 16:41:29 +0000

A bunch of local shooters have been photographing Ft. Worth Ave. attempting to create a record of every block. There are great plans afoot for this corridor and a need to capture it as it is now was realised. We hope to do it again in 10 years, 20 years etc etc. It should be a fun night.

Here some blurb…

Haley Henman Gallery hosts a two-day exhibit ‘Work Prints’ Commerce Street Bridge to Westmoreland Road; a Time Capsule. It will feature the work of 20 local photographers who each focused on different properties – assigned by lottery – on Fort Worth Ave. Photographers include Les Hall, Kenda North, Howard Milner, Scott Jenke, Charles Reed, Joshua King, John O’Donnell, Ken Smith, Adam Fish, Kent Barker, Dan Piassick, Jeff Baker, Richard Doherty, Manuel Pacina, Larry Travis, Scott Keith, Robin Sachs, Eva Gordon, Mari Hidalgo, and David Lyles.

The opening reception is Fri., Feb. 26 from 6:30 p.m. to 9 p.m.; the exhibit will be open for viewing that Friday and Sat. the 27th. There will be a Mexican corn, nachos & hot dog carts parked out front as well as appetizers from Buena Vista restaurant inside along with wine water & soft drinks. A list of delicious local eateries will be available at the door for further exploration of this unique area of Dallas.

Photo by Eva Gordon

Haley Henman Gallery
2335 Hardwick St.
Dallas, TX 75208
(214) 749-1277

Make Perfectly Cooked Sous Vide Steaks On the Cheap

Les — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 17:23:58 +0000

Make Perfectly Cooked Sous Vide Steaks On the Cheap

This Is What Happens When You Move To NOLA

Les — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 22:21:32 +0000

My pal Robert. Fat Tuesday 2010, New Orleans.

Ask the Pilot – Salon.com

Les — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 13:53:31 +0000

Wonderful writing by Patrick Smith on Salon.com. Gives us an insight into the emotions & fears of an airline pilot. I love this behind the scenes stuff…

Though perhaps that’s a good thing as well. We’re all afraid of flying on some level, and is that not perfectly healthy? And the pilot’s job, in essence, is the management of contingency. Fires, explosions, physics gone bad, all the nasty scenarios the simulator instructors love — they’re all there, coiled behind the instrument panel, waiting to spring in a game of comfortable, though never perfect, odds. And the pilot’s role is to spring right back. Do pilots worry about crashing? Of course. As a matter of practicality, they have to. It’s in their best interest, and yours too.

via Ask the Pilot – Salon.com.

Ferrari-owners dream garage grinds neighbors gears – latimes.com

Les — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 13:10:13 +0000

Ferrari-owners dream garage grinds neighbors gears – latimes.com.

Gigapixel Image of Mission Motel, Dallas.

Les — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 02:34:01 +0000

Click to see it in all the pixelocity….

Mission Motel, Ft. Worth Avenue

Les — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 23:01:39 +0000

A bunch of Dallas photographers have been taking pictures of all the buildings on Ft. Worth Ave. One day it will all be different and the Association wants a record. I had pretty crap buildings on my stretch so I took some time today to shoot the Mission Motel, which is awesome.

I shot it using a pano-rig and made four rows of 19 images totaling 76 images. The file is a TIFF of 1.5GB. If it was printed at 300DPI it would be 12′ x 3′. Here the whole image – shrunk of course and a 100% crop of a detail area just to the right of the cedar.

IE 6 Just Go To Hell

Les — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 19:10:44 +0000

I would say all web designers hate MS IE6. It simply isn’t compliant with standards and people spend a lot of time fart-arsing around trying to make their sites look right in IE6. I personally am getting where I just say “Too bad – upgrade. Get a real browser like Firefox.”

Google has taken a stand here and hopefully this is the start of the end for this piece of shit. Email I got today….

Dear Google Apps admin,

In order to continue to improve our products and deliver more sophisticated features and performance, we are harnessing some of the latest improvements in web browser technology. This includes faster JavaScript processing and new standards like HTML5. As a result, over the course of 2010, we will be phasing out support for Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 as well as other older browsers that are not supported by their own manufacturers.

We plan to begin phasing out support of these older browsers on the Google Docs suite and the Google Sites editor on March 1, 2010. After that point, certain functionality within these applications may have higher latency and may not work correctly in these older browsers. Later in 2010, we will start to phase out support for these browsers for Google Mail and Google Calendar.

Google Apps will continue to support Internet Explorer 7.0 and above, Firefox 3.0 and above, Google Chrome 4.0 and above, and Safari 3.0 and above.

Starting this week, users on these older browsers will see a message in Google Docs and the Google Sites editor explaining this change and asking them to upgrade their browser. We will also alert you again closer to March 1 to remind you of this change.

In 2009, the Google Apps team delivered more than 100 improvements to enhance your product experience. We are aiming to beat that in 2010 and continue to deliver the best and most innovative collaboration products for businesses.

Thank you for your continued support!

Sincerely,

The Google Apps team