Caught in Boothbay Harbor

Boothbay Harbor
Retrieved by Pat Darnell | Feb 22, 2012 | Bryan TX

[Picture, Oil on Canvas, by Patrick Darnell]

Giant Lobster Dropped Off At Maine Aquarium - Portland News Story - WMTW Portland:

WEST BOOTHBAY HARBOR, Maine -- The Maine State Aquarium in West Boothbay Harbor says it has received a giant lobster weighing 27 pounds.
Aquarium officials said the lobster was brought in on Monday by a member of the Maine Marine Patrol.
They believe a shrimp dragger accidentally caught the lobster. Aquarium officials are still trying to figure out the exact details.
The lobster is the largest one ever brought to the aquarium.

Read more: http://www.wmtw.com/news/30516567/detail.html#ixzz1nAPkDDz5

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http://moopigpaint.blogspot.com/2009/01/blog-post.html
http://www.wmtw.com/r/30516567/detail.html

MooPig's Tech Coroner :: "Eastman Kodak's Demise"

We are now a Film-less Society
Retrieved by Pat Darnell | Dec 3, 2011 | Bryan TX

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Do you still "dial" that phone? Well then, dial "911" for a defibrillator to resuscitate Eastman Kodak ... or not. Everything I learned as a youth was film. I moved up the ladder from "Kodak Instamatic 120's" to "Kodachrome" to pushing 1000 ASA "Ektachrome." It wasn't just a hobby with me.

" ... Eastman Kodak marketed the first flexible photographic roll film in 1885, but this original "film" was actually coated on paper. After exposure, as part of the processing, the image-bearing layer was stripped from the paper base and transferred to a glass support to facilitate printing from it. ... "

As a Printing Apprentice in my twenties, I handled a 42 inch format camera as big as a room. You should have seen the bellows on that giant. In addition I was a two color film stripper, and a printing plate maker. I have been there and back -- but now there is no going back. Film is gone forever.

The business end of a slick 35mm SLR Nikon is no more. Newer color films, like Kodacolor II, had as many as 12 emulsion layers, with upwards of 20 different chemicals in each layer, and only Dwayne's Photo in Parsons, Kan., still processes it.

You can pick up a box load of "old" cameras at the swap meet for a buck-'fiddy. Those cameras and lenses that I had lusted a lifetime for, now just crab trap weights. I bought a bunch anyway, just like I still buy some books.

Due to film photography's long history of widespread use, there are now around one trillion pictures on photographic film or photographic paper in the world, enough to cover an area of around ten thousand square kilometers, 4000 square miles, about half the size of Wales.

" ... One of the reasons digital camera prints, or computer format images, can take precedence over film in the photography market is that individual users are less likely to be excessively quality-conscious -- and most photographers are amateurs who use cameras for recreation and recording of information rather than for serious photography. (LINK)... "

At the start of the 21st century, Americans were buying close to a billion rolls of film annually. This year, the total could be a mere 20 million rolls. This is just another way of saying "a 98% loss of sales in 11 years."

Photographic films, are not processed any longer in Wal-Mart, Walgreens (still a few), nor in the usual camera service places. Just try to get your film developed ... it is over.

Kodak's long fade to black - latimes.com:
" ... Once ranked among the bluest of blue chips, Kodak shares sell today at close to $1. Kodak's chairman has been denying that the company is contemplating a bankruptcy filing ... "
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"... [Kodak's]... executives couldn't foresee a future in which film had no role in image capture at all, nor come to grips with the lower profit margins or faster competitive pace of high-tech industries. At one meeting with Microsoft's Bill Gates to discuss integrating Kodak's photo CDs with Windows, Kodak Chairman Kay Whitmore fell asleep. ..."

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photographic_film
http://www2.sims.berkeley.edu/research/projects/how-much-info-2003/photo.htm
http://www.syracuse.com/news/index.ssf/2009/06/end_of_an_era_kodak_retiring_k.html
http://marty4650.blogspot.com/2011/05/will-film-be-around-much-longer.html

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"And none of them -- AGFA, Polaroid, 3M, or Konica -- stopped making film voluntarily... they all went bankrupt."

My Bucket List Revisited

As I get game and gamier, I sense the last tri-mester of my days is one that should be a revisionary era punctuated with symbolic experiences. FAQ: No. There is no terminal illness to prompt this, but the following is:

Pat Darnell's Unofficial Bucket List [though having not seen the movie yet]...
* UPDATE: * Yes, we saw the movie yesterday on DVD, and we wept!

I would like to perform an Exorcism. I want one of those exorcism gap-wrenches that Keanu Reeves has in the movie Constantine. He jumps on the torso of the victimized possessed person, and pulls out a set of coin-like chads on a key ring, makes a guess and plants the disc on the forehead of the writhing demon. That's what I'm talking about, grotesque parody.

Making a movie is one of my bucket list items. Directing, editing, and producing a flick would make my life complete.

Playing music with my kids is a major dream activity of mine. Having a jam session with my clan delights me to no end. Still, it is very hard to get all my players going in the same direction, much less having them all show up at the same time.

I would like to fall into a deep sleep and have a woman made from one of my ribs. Not for a wife or anything, just the thought of it seems likeable to me. You see it would be an exhiliarating feat. We have the technology now, probably in the near future. As the genome is further understood, things like this will happen.

I would like to have lunch with Padre Pio, though he is passed on.

To finish my manuscript finally is a major desire. Then I would like to write the sequel to "Young Frankenstein," maybe treat it like "Older Frankenstein."

One cross-country trip on I-10 with wife and last two kids, is a very attractive idea.

Bulletin: Shooting black and white negative film, processing it and burning photos is always on my mind. Last time I did this was back in the '70s' in the photo labs at college.

Teach oil on canvas to children: give lessons that take them from raw canvas to finished painting.


Entering the Grand Canyon at one end and hiking all the way to the other, is a fantasy I have.


At least one family reunion of all the kids and us.


I would like to house a horse again, not a fancy one, just one to ride and show kids how horse sense is still the best sense. Thanks again to Pribek.net for reminding me of "40 acres and a mule."
>pd/final draft/update 06.13.2008

See other Bucket Lists:
http://whitneytanner.blogspot.com/2007/11/my-bucket-list.html

and http://messageboards.ivillage.com/n/mb/message.asp?webtag=iv-prplayfeb07&msg=6872.1&ctx=0

and a review
http://www.hdfest.com/stephanie/thebucketlist_stephanie.html

{---Picture left: ...and last but not least MooPig's gratuitous sexist unrelated non-sequitor style: http://www.saunashop.co.uk/product-range/details/wooden-sauna-ladle/14/

I want to build one of these for my daughters, and Yes, it comes with Buckets.