site- Evolution of Photoshop

This is even more on the lifeline of Photoshop... with screenshots of splash screens, tool palettes, workspaces and such.

Feel like I'm in the Wayback Machine!

www.hongkiat.com, here.

site- The Wayback Machine

Henry, this is for you...

Every time I try to remember this site, I ask Henry. I finally decided to post it here so I could find it. Truth be told, That's why I started this blog in the first place, so somebody else (blogger) could keep track of all my miscellaneous ramblings.

Anyway, the Internet Archive is a pretty amazing tool. I first used it just as a curiosity- checking my old sites, and I found some pretty funny reminders of why you should hire a website designer... but I also found some photos that I had up, a long time ago, that I'd completely forgotten. Just in case you think you own the life of your images...

A journalist friend of mine has used it for years to check backgrounds and uncover scams. That, certainly, is where it gets interesting. I was checking into a site that, the more I looked at it, the fishier it seemed. Checked them out on the Wayback Machine, and what do you know... in 1997 the site was just about the cheesiest porn site you'd care to see, if that's what you like to see. (Does the name "Awesome 3-D" ring any bells?) Pretty much shot this guy's creds full of holes, from where I sit...

Anyway, take a look, and have some fun. The Internets has spawned, among a lot of other things, a wave of the biggest sleazeballs the world has to offer, but it's nice to know they still leave their own characteristic sleazy trail...

Oh, and by the way, there's also whois.net. Want to know who owns a site? Put the domain name into whois.com and you'll see all the public information available. If you have a domain name registered and having your address out there for all to see bothers you, you need to request, and generally pay for, a Privacy feature.

The Wayback Machine, here, and WhoIs.net, here.

history: digital Holga

OK, thanks to Christopher James, I unearthed this gem. This is a caper I pulled in 2004 or so, slapping an Imacon (now Hasselblad) digital back on a Holga body. As far as I know, and it has not been refuted, I took the very first digital Holga photograph in all the world. heh... That claim is supported by holgaholgaholga, the Yahoo Group that invited me to join them (!), and the posts can still be found on that group.

I even found the snappy ad copy I wrote for the EP Levine online store:

"The only DIGITAL HOLGA available in the WORLD!
Skillfully modified to work with any Imacon Ixpress digital back, (not included) this Digital Holga sets a new standard of creative photography. Complete with Continuous Elastomer Retaining Devices (rubber bands) to hold your Holga securely in place, and a detailed Instruction Manual, the Digital Holga is ready to unleash your vision. A Hot-Shoe adapter and a Sub-Mini to PC cable is needed to make it all work. A "Holgaroid" Viewfinder is also a helpful accessory."

Yes, we sold them. ...about 40 of them, in fact. And yes, we DID get questions about if the digital back was included, for only $50... great stuff! Apparently the stunt gained me some infamy back at the Imacon (Hasselblad) homeworld, where they still mutter my name when Holgas are mentioned.

Today, there is a little more sensible approach, to bolt (or glue, actually) a Holga lens onto a DSLR body cap, much like a "digital pinhole" body cap. Here are a couple of links:
jpmag.com
HowCast
...but there's a guy who sells them, too: here.

...and HERE is a little bit of that history! (can't believe I found it!)