(Photo by John Fraim) A Romance of the Shallows Joseph Conrad (1918) Peace Piece / Bill Evans ____________________ In the full Author’s Note to The Rescue, Conrad mentions the novels written between 1898 and 1918. His greatest novels and short stories. Little wonder one couldt say The Rescue was put on the old creative backburner. […]
World and Figures are all AI / 2 Hours of Relaxing Retro Sci-Fi Jazz / By Ai Fascinating My cousin David Berry was one of the original people to work with George Lucas in LA and then up at his office in San Rafael. David worked on many scenes in Star War and then won […]
A GoPro Max 360 Was the Camera / Patrick Cullis the Hiker and Videographer / Angel’s Landing in 2025) As an ower of two GoPros (the Black 12 and 13 I believe) I’ve never seen any GoPro shots that equal what’s on the above video by Boulder, Colorado meteriologist Patrick Cullis. His spectacular work has […]
First Person View (FPV) Drone Ride with Nurk – 2018 I was amazed when I first saw this video and first learned of First Person View Drones. I posted a comment on Midnight Oil on this. In two years I bought my first drone, a Mavic Air 2 around 2020. Haven’t flown my drone for […]
3rd Countess of Salisbury Lacock Abbey / Founded in 1229 by Ela, Countess of Salisbury – A Nunnery of the Augustinian Order _______________ (Note: Scroll to bottom and tap play Medieval music before reading) At age 9, her uncle had her kidnapped and locked in a foreign fortress to steal her inheritance. A knight found […]
Miles Davis / In A Silent Way _________________________ It was the early year of Covid and Steph and I had been living in New Albany, Ohio for five years since moving back here from California. Both of us had been bouncing back and forth between Ohio and California all our lives. I had just purchased […]
Video for Cecile Savant’s Oh Snap! (2025) “I can totally relate to these lyrics. I heard this on the local radio and put this on my huge YouTube playlist, haven’t heard this in a couple months. I’m studying math right now, cramming two weeks into 24 hrs. This came on the shuffle, and my mouth […]
My DJI Mavic Air 2 Drone / April 2020 / The Beginning of Covid “and those two small sensors on the front of the drone: like two small black eyes” Red Clay / Freddie Hubbard _________________________________ So good to get the Mavic up and running again. But hard not to compare this “toy” revival to […]
Early Morning, East of Versailles, Ohio / Photo by Richard Yost – Editing by John Fraim Reborn / Colin Stetson (From the movie Hereditary) _____________________________ John Fraim What could be more iconic than American railroad tracks. The tracks above fade into the eastern horizon. Towards Columbus, Ohio where my friend Rich took this photo while […]
A Revolution in New Media? We’re All Hollywood Stars … Or at least, decent cinematographers. Beautiful 4K Video Instantly In A Silent Way / Miles Davis _________________________ One of my grand memories is my Los Angeles childhood is my father taking movies of our family at all those special events of a year. He had […]
