@gambitsgirl
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I was screwing around with this at the end of last year I think. My son’s Lego Darth Vader alarm clock making the “force” in his trip toy glow. I got bored and wandered away
Let me set this stage a bit. It was 1992. I was a junior in college at Appalachian State, a small NC mountain school known for it’s hippies. I only had a couple of classes in the way of my degree. I didn’t do math. I didn’t do any class before 10 am. I didn’t do much really except beer bongs and water bongs. I did play mud volleyball once but that is beside the point (I saw photos but I don’t remember it).
Anyways – this is the ONLY computer in the COMMUNICATIONS AND ADVERTISING DEPT
and there were like, 10 of them.
Cameras had film and there were two flavors available to us (black and white and color – although there were tons of grades of film). Digital was not invented for the masses. You had to do the settings and focus and fstop and everything manually with math and memory (both I was totally low on). Only one kid had a laptop and I suspect he was from the future, back auditing life in 1992.
Ok – so this class I had to take was Black & white photography. 7-10 FARKING PM on THURSDAY. WTF? No clue what I was thinking. So we learned the formulas. Then we learned to wrench open the can of film and process it in the phone booth thingy and then we had to go through the space time continuum and set numbers on machines and print and burn and dodge and such by the light of amber bulb (no computers). THEN we had to mat them. Matting is composed of math and rulers and T squares and L things. And Math and cutting and exacto knives and math. Figure and cut back mat. Figure and cut front mat… then WTF – cut the hole with an exacto knife after pregaming the class. Tape photo to back of front mat and then spray adhesive something or another.
anyways to make a novel short – I can’t remember 😳 but I know I’m sober now so maybe can do it well.
