So let’s talk about:
- Do we want categories?
- What categories?
- How to we make the fair fun for low-bandwidth frogs?
- Do we set formal guidelines for photo dimensions?
- Is it possible to judge food entries fairly at a virtual fair?
- Do we want to judge entries (we do have the ability to RATE built into the system)
- Any other topics that I haven’t thought of in my confused state
I may be able to check in through a dial access connection (or hotspots) while I’m gone. But it might be next Sunday before I get back. Could someone host next Saturday’s Cafe for me?
I’ll miss you all!
Coming Soon!
By setting a date that is a month or so away, we have time to sort through what we’ve got and convert paper photographs to digital. If anyone doesn’t know how to do that, we can share tips here. I think you can have photos scanned at most places that develop film. Or you might have a friend with a scanner.
I’m thinking that we would have a main diary that holds links to the Display Diaries. That main diary would be the one we would want recommended.
And each of the display diaries would have maybe 20 photographs (with a bar linking that page to all the other pages). The photos should be at the main comment level. But comments could be made under each one.
After we reach the max size for a page would we want a poll to vote on the favorite photo for that page? Would we want a best of show? Best of various categories? Would it make sense to have pages focusing on categories of photographs — if so, what categories
Would we want to allow for slightly larger photographs just for the fair? Do we want to define any other standards for the display of the photographs?
Take a moment to let us know how interested you are!
If you have suggestions for other Froggy Fairs, please suggest it today (or tomorrow, or….)
Hello!
All 3 voters have photos to display. Yaaaay!
I haven’t decided if I’m up for playing anything this evening. So here in tribute to all the thuffering thackthophone playerth, and oboists, clarinetists, bagpipers, racketteers and other afflicted woodwind players:
And on the 13th day, Satan created reeds.
Arundo Donax, source of woodwind reeds. This plant is irrefutable proof against the claim that life was created by any sort of Intelligent Design.
“It’s not my fault–it’s the ree-ee-ee-eed!” — Lisa Simpson
I’m really getting excited!
And these (this morning’s and this one) polls are the first I’ve done. I feel so powerful!
lol! On the other hand, there is Lou Reed.
Hi all! I missed the party this morning but think the photo contest is a great idea. I hope to disply a few. Thanks, Katiebird!
Thanks boran! I know that Saturday is a slow day to make the announcement — but I think I can copy the announcement into comments for each cafe through the month.
I hope we can help people who don’t have digital cameras convert to digital if they’re interested.
I think the photo fair is a wonderful concept, and will be a great hit, as well a contribution for this community.
KUDOS for the idea, and pursuing it ; )
I’m looking forward to it.
peace all
Thanks, once it came to me, I couldn’t get it out of my mind. I can’t wait, but I’m hoping that holding it a month from now will give everyone who wants time to figure out how to participate.
Someone asked if we could have other fairs — and I think that would be a great idea also.
“I have photos to display” — in the hopes I actually will. 🙂
How’s everyone doing tonight? No bad sunburns, I hope? (Sending healing energy and virtual Bactine to Mr. SJCT; read the story in the other Cafe!). Had a relatively uneventful day in the Scribe household — mainly getting stuff put away that needed to be put away. I left the bed unmade in the hopes of having clean sheets to put upon it…but those hopes are rapidly fading; I’m a little ticked off at the spouse (laundry is supposed to be his job!)
Some awesome diaries out there tonight — Scribe’s latest is terrific (makes me almost ashamed to bear the name as part of my moniker), and Shirl, darling, yours is super; we need our elders to remember the past and pass it on to the next generation so we never forget where we came from and why we can never, ever go back.
‘Nuff for now…
Oh, I hope you do! (Now I’m working my way through your list…)
Looking forward to it!!!
I like the idea of categories. It would be cool to see a couple political categories (war, peace…). I bet people here would come up with some really great photos…
I also like the categories they come up with at Photo Friday.
Ohhh, like photos from the pre-war anti-war rallies….
I want to try to capture is some of the “art in public places” — there is a lot in this area (required under various and sundry “suburban beautification” zoning rules). If I can ever get the spouse back to work (keeping my fingers crossed for next week), I can actually get out and do some serious playing with the new camera; I’ve hardly taken any shots, which really bugs me. Double bonus: I’ll probably get in a lot of walking for the assorted shots.
Planning to attend a 3-hour workshop session at the Apple Store in SF; Mondays is Digital Photography Day up there, and they have three workshops I’m definitely interested in: Digital Photography, iPhoto, and Photoshop Elements. If I learn anything interesting, I’ll pass it on Monday evening in the Cafe. 🙂
Those classes sound fun. And I love to take photos of art in public places also. We’ll have to think of some way to gather appropriate categories. Polls aren’t really good for that.
. We’ll have to think of some way to gather appropriate categories.
Well, maybe just a diary where people can post their ideas, and we’ll see what shakes out? Or even just right here…
I’d like to set the categories ASAP, so we can all start taking pictures for this!
Here’s a not-too-well-thought-out suggestion: War, Peace, Nature, Friends, Anything Goes.
The latter being anything that doesn’t fit the other categories (whatever we come up with…), so we don’t limit people.
Thoughts? Are others thinking the same, or am I way off base?
Hey guys, I’m new… I work in TV and light a spliff and brush my teeth before i eat my frosted flakes.
Welcome — not so sure about the “lighting a spliff” (I’m incredibly allergic to smoke in most forms except barbecue), but if you stand downwind I think I can handle it. Sounds like you’ve got weird hours…
Hi Ronald, let me welcome you to Boomans and the FRB. So tell us a little about you if you don’t mind, old tradition on site you know!
What’s a spliff?
A spliff is the Jamaican word for a marijuana cigarette.
So saying that I work in TV and smoke spliffs in the morning isn’t enough?
Hmmm… Ok, I’m an animator for television, I dig cats… My favorite breakfast food is scrapple, I can’t live without my iPod.
And I hope the knicks can win a couple more games this year.
As for politicians I like Bernie Sanders… And not many more.
=)
Just scratching the surface of mine — mainly use it when riding transit (radio reception sucks on most transit vehicles) and when working out. Enjoying it immensely though; been spending most of this evening adding the artwork for the CDs I owned that I added to iTunes over the past several years (the songs I purchased through iTunes Music Store come with the album art), and doing some editing on my classical selections to add composers to the titles so I can read them in the iPod when the song is playing. Hey, I’ve got to do something while waiting for the sheets to dry so I can sleep on clean sheets tonight…
That’s 3 of us (another better late than never comment from me!) who want to know
It’s called wake and bake :O) A favorite, former pastime of my own.
Welcome Ronald
Ooh, yeah! All right!
We’re jammin’:
I wanna jam it wid you.
We’re jammin’, jammin’,
And I hope you like jammin’, too.
Ain’t no rules, ain’t no vow, we can do it anyhow:
I’n’I will see you through,
‘Cos everyday we pay the price with a little sacrifice,
Jammin’ till the jam is through.
We’re jammin’ –
To think that jammin’ was a thing of the past;
We’re jammin’,
And I hope this jam is gonna last.
No bullet can stop us now, we neither beg nor we won’t bow;
Neither can be bought nor sold.
We all defend the right; Jah – Jah children must unite:
Your life is worth much more than gold.
We’re jammin’ (jammin’, jammin’, jammin’)
And we’re jammin’ in the name of the Lord;
We’re jammin’ (jammin’, jammin’, jammin’),
We’re jammin’ right straight from Yah.
Yeh! Holy Mount Zion;
Holy Mount Zion:
Jah sitteth in Mount Zion
And rules all creation.
Yeah, we’re – we’re jammin’ (wotcha-wa),
Wotcha-wa-wa-wa, we’re jammin’ (wotcha-wa),
See, I wanna jam it wid you
We’re jammin’ (jammin’, jammin’, jammin’)
I’m jammed: I hope you’re jammin’, too.
Jam’s about my pride and truth I cannot hide
To keep you satisfied.
True love that now exist is the love I can’t resist,
So jam by my side.
We’re Jammin’ (jammin’, jammin’, jammin’), yeah-eah-eah!
I wanna jam it wid you.
We’re jammin’, we’re jammin’, we’re jammin’, we’re jammin’,
We’re jammin’, we’re jammin’, we’re jammin’, we’re jammin’;
Hope you like jammin’, too.
We’re jammin’, we’re jammin’ (jammin’),
We’re jammin’, we’re jammin’ (jammin’).
I wanna (I wanna jam it wid you) – I wanna –
I wanna jam wid you now.
Jammin’, jammin’ (hope you like jammin’ too).
Eh-eh! I hope you like jammin’, I hope you like jammin’,
‘Cause (I wanna jam it wid you). I wanna … wid you.
I like – I hope you – I hope you like jammin’, too.
I wanna jam it;
I wanna jam it
Bob Marley
Jammin’
I’m trying to figure out what this photo fair is all about. I like Suskind’s vision of jammin. Do we really need categories at all, or can we just have like a ‘show and tell?’
Is it gonna be a competition like at the county fair where we bring our baked goods and compete for the blue ribbon? Because I’m no photographer, but I guarantee my sweet potato pie will knock you out.
Mornin’ all.
Looking forward to the photo event, thankful that we bought a 2nd phone line for the computer. (We’re too low budget for DSL, and too rural for cable access.) I hope the pages and displays are set up for consideration of us download-impaired.
Our weather has entered a spell of theoretically pure sunny days, but anywhere near water they’re well-tempered with patchy mist and fog in the morning hours, and light haze all day along the ground and water level. We went garage sale-ing yesterday and it was one of the prettiest mornings I ever spent anywhere any time.
Check out the shoreline across the bay at right. Underneath the thickest cloud is the brightest sunlight. Sun, shadow or mist can turn up most anywhere, and it never has to make sense.