🟠ส้ม

 

🚆รถไฟ

 

Sông Sài Gòn

 

Avengers Assemble

 

Don't worry, be __.

 

Rolex Galilean Binoculars

What is the point of owning something and not taking it apart?

These Opera Glasses use simple concave lenses for magnification, while modern Prism Binoculars use convex lenses as well as prisms for image correction.

Based on the 1608 invention of the spyglass, often attributed to Hans Lippershey, Galileo Galilei is recognized for creating the first functional astronomical telescope. The convex objective lens and concave eyepiece create an upright image, and allow for magnification of about 3x - 30x.

It took another 100 years for Venetian optician Domenico Selva to create a connecting bridge mechanism sometime in 1730. 

After another 100 years, the first binocular opera glasses appeared in Vienna in 1823. Finally 2-years later in Paris, Pierre Lemiere improved on the original design by creating the center focus wheel; which allowed the focusing of both eyes together. 

About 200 years later Rolex became the exclusive timepiece and a principal partner of the Opéra National de Paris in 2014. As part of this partnership, Rolex gave out these opera glasses to Rolex brand ambassadors. 

One fun note: The first wrist watch was delivered in 1812 by Abraham-Louis Breguet. Meaning the wristwatch predates Pierre Lemiere's Opera Glasses by over a decade.

ครูด

 

[insert name]

Take a place. 

Photographic it. Over, over, over, over, over, over, over. Again & again.

Now pretend that you think you picture captured moment something originally totally new.

Maybe. Likely. No.

 

Progress ~ Gentrification

Did your city invent it, or just recently experience it?
 

Its @~manual ⚙️

 

God Speed Artemis II

 

wOrld、4 ever、 IN

 

เบลอว่ารักแถบ

 

Smartphone Camera

 

Left or 右手?

 

Smoke & Breeze

Sometime around 2012 the ubiquity of smartphones produced a sentiment: "oh you took that on a smartphone". The comment betrayed a distain for the often poor quality and shear quantity of photos now being taken, uploaded, and shared. 

This blog greatly benefited from me having a camera in my pocket. Much of the content here from 2013 onward came from a smartphone camera; but until recently not all. 

An overseas traveler in 2007 often connected to a slow internet connection, and wrote a group email to family and friends. The world of 22 years ago is not one Traveling Man Joe longs for. It was disconnected and frankly far more expensive. Connecting with overseas family and friends meant buying phone cards. The free, live, real-time video calls of today were a sci-fi dream. 

But, that is why I've been taking the camera out less and less. If only to try and still capture and share only the that which still catches me with~by surprise.  

Choped Huat ~ 发

 

Koala

 

Australian Emu

 

Kookaburra

 

Long-billed Corella

 

Common brushtail possum

 

Eastern Grey Kangaroo

 

Vacation

 

Pub Legends: Blue Hole Skinny Dip

Lake Gambier has dropped by 4.5 meters since 2000. Making late night dives into the lake all but impossible. With that said, some older residents do have stories.

I'm, on Vacation

Black Swan, Event

Before sometime in 1697, swans from a European perspective could only be white; until they weren't.

On, Vacation

 

Finally, on vacation

 

SALT

Step out in the 40C heat onto a sea of salt. Strange soft sponge. For far as the eye can see. 

 

Tyre & Wheel Service

 No wildlife destroyed the rent-a-car on this trip; in-spite of conspiring to do so.

You"re still early

Enter the Expat, decades after a quinquennium of years。

Roommate

 

Grinch Maccas

 

🐼 MART