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Aug 24

Thirty-five millimeter craft work

I’ve been shooting photographs on film. For the past year or so I have been talking in an offhand way about learning photography. I’d been researching digital cameras, and was building up the energy to buy and learn to use a Fujifilm X100T (real sexy). About a month ago, my…

Photography

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Thirty-five millimeter craft work
Thirty-five millimeter craft work
Photography

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May 16

May 16th, 2023

A few days ago I received a plastic bag from “Big Tree”, aka the Arbor Day Foundation, with 10 bare root trees in it. Mostly they are foot-long twigs with a little flair of root at one end. Dead-looking sticks. …

Trees

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May 16th, 2023
May 16th, 2023
Trees

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Mar 22

An elastic shorts ethical conundrum

What is our obligation to make “good faith” returns to an online behemoth? Going into last week I didn’t own a single bathing suit. This is problematic — I swim. At the neighborhood pool, at my dad’s, in my neighbor’s hot tub when they are out of town. …

Swimming

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An elastic shorts ethical conundrum
An elastic shorts ethical conundrum
Swimming

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Mar 22

I’ve been a K-and-1 Soccer Coach for Over Two Weeks

I have an extensive, multi-week background in coaching little girls’ soccer. I feel it is my duty to first-time and new coaches to impart some hard won wisdom. I can remember just what it was like, more than two weeks ago, worrying about coaching eight 5-and-6 year olds the European…

Soccer

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I’ve been a K-and-1 Soccer Coach for Over Two Weeks
I’ve been a K-and-1 Soccer Coach for Over Two Weeks
Soccer

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Outli3rs

·Apr 20, 2022

How to see what Tezos NFTs someone owns

There’s nothing quite like a little envy to really get the emotional gears grinding and the credit card pulled out. Sometimes the grass really is greener on the other side, and you want that grass. …

Nft

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How to see what Tezos NFTs someone owns
How to see what Tezos NFTs someone owns
Nft

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·Apr 6, 2022

This Week’s NFT Outliers — April 6th, 2022

Since our last newsletter, I’ve had more than 40 cups of coffee. I’m not sure if that’s healthy or not, but it’s certainly kept my eyes bloodshot and my teeth chattering. And with that energy I bring you another injection of things happening in the NFT ecosystem. FxTender — Curation on the fx(hash) platform Have you ever…

Nft

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This Week’s NFT Outliers — April 6th, 2022
This Week’s NFT Outliers — April 6th, 2022
Nft

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·Mar 30, 2022

This Week’s NFT Outliers — March 29th 2022

I’ve never gotten to create a “rule of thumb” before, but today I’m going to. I’ve been seeing these on my twitter timeline lately, and aside from the fact that they are utterly abhorrent, they also seem deeply exploitative. So, here’s my rule: Never buy an NFT discovered from a…

Nft

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This Week’s NFT Outliers — March 29th 2022
This Week’s NFT Outliers — March 29th 2022
Nft

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·Mar 24, 2022

This Week’s NFT Outliers — March 24th 2022

I could write one of these every single day with fresh content. Waiting a week to write ends up like drinking from a firehose. I had to corner co during a drive on an errand to give me “the top 3 or 4 things” happening right now. (If you’re wondering…

Nft

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This Week’s NFT Outliers — March 24th 2022
This Week’s NFT Outliers — March 24th 2022
Nft

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·Mar 17, 2022

That Outli3rs kind of feeling

We’re out here building a company in public. Meaning, instead of writing a “I started a business one year ago today, here’s how it’s going!” post, we are writing “We started a business 14 hours ago, here’s how it’s going!” posts until we’re as big an educational force as Harvard…

Nft

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That Outli3rs kind of feeling
That Outli3rs kind of feeling
Nft

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·Mar 17, 2022

This week’s NFT Outliers

You know, these NFT artwork things just don’t seem to be going away. The NFT space doesn’t seem to be collapsing in on itself like my mother told me it would. On the contrary, I feel like I’m sitting on the back of an 1,800 pound bull and they are…

Nft

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This week’s NFT Outliers
This week’s NFT Outliers
Nft

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