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Chronicles of Wasted Time
Moments In Focus
Tangents

Chronicles of Wasted Time
Moments In Focus
Tangents

Bioshock: Rapture

Bioshock: Rapture

Inspired: Using AI to generate some pieces based on the book.

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@thejimmackenzie at the @indianladderfarms Renaiss

@thejimmackenzie at the @indianladderfarms Renaissance Festival.

Quick-witted, totally quirky, and thoroughly entertaining. He has jokes for absolutely everyone... just not all at the same time.

#renaissance #comedy #indianladderfarms

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When the dogs are happy.

When the dogs are happy.

Just a couple snaps from Schenectady's Art Night i

Just a couple snaps from Schenectady's Art Night in the Garden.

#artnight #rosegarden #centralpark #schenectady

#schenectadyartnight #rosegarden #centralpark #pho

#schenectadyartnight #rosegarden #centralpark #photogrpahy

#camping #fire #photogrpahy

#camping #fire #photogrpahy

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Notes from a coffee shop. #photogrpahy #streetph

Notes from a coffee shop.

#photogrpahy #streetphotography #coffeeshop

Larry says good morning!

Larry says good morning!

Doing The Lord's Work #NaturePhotography #honeybe

Doing The Lord's Work

#NaturePhotography #honeybee #flowers #purpleconeflower

#watkinsglenn #forest #staircases #hiking #NatureP

#watkinsglenn #forest #staircases #hiking #NaturePhotography

Before they were multi-story icons, the Shoemakers

Before they were multi-story icons, the Shoemakers were just shoemakers in the cramped tenements of industrial desperation.

Barnaby Shoemaker lived inside the machine. His wife, Maude, ran an industrial steam press while he tried to market scrap fabric as "artisanal insoles." Through sheer grit and massive insecurity, Barnaby eventually built his monument: a towering, salmon-pink brick cathedral of cobbling with an aggressive mint-green sign visible for miles.

Then came the pivot. Traumatized by the smell of boiling tanbark, Barnaby shifted to slumlord status, outsourcing shoe production back to the very slums he’d escaped.

The empire eventually fell to his grandson, Garrison E. Shoemaker—a deeply neurotic man who utterly despised shoes. Garrison was convinced shoelaces were tiny hibernating serpents, so he spent his days wandering dusty aisles cutting the strings off unsold inventory (including the "Shoemaker Safety Heel," which mostly just ejected the wearer’s ankle).

When the footwear empire inevitably imploded, Garrison used what was left to pivot one final time. He became an eye doctor.

Today, he rests beneath a slab of red granite that proudly bears his ultimate achievement: Dr. of Optometry. After generations of forcing the family name into footwear, the last great Shoemaker spent his life just making sure people could see where they were walking.

#photogrpahy #photoshoot #witch

#photogrpahy #photoshoot #witch

Man With Dogs Digital Water Color, glossy print $2

Man With Dogs
Digital Water Color, glossy print
$25,000, Serious inquiries only.

#surelyyoucantbeserious #dogslovers #digitalart

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Hen's Teeth #ironandwine #theegg

Hen's Teeth

#ironandwine #theegg

Life is full of difficult choices. #indianladder

Life is full of difficult choices.

#indianladderfarms
#renaissance

No Further Notices #photogrpahy #liminalspaces #s

No Further Notices
#photogrpahy
#liminalspaces
#schenectadyartnight
#schenectadyarmory

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