Category Archives: Adventures

The pleasure of getting a final inspection

Posted on May 27, 2026 by Brian Lawler

Building a building is a complicated and lengthy process. I have been experiencing this experience full-time for the past half year. And, before that I was experiencing the experience of getting a building permit, and before that I was experiencing … Continue reading →

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Acting is easy!

Posted on April 19, 2026 by Brian Lawler

Introduction: The photos in this post were all taken by my wife, Ashala, on 70mm Ektachrome 64 film with a Hasselblad ELM camera. Those photos were stored away in my “archive” in a binder from 1981 until recently when I … Continue reading →

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…and then there was pincushion distortion

Posted on February 26, 2026 by Brian Lawler

This is another in a chain of posts related to my effort to digitize my film library. Please click here to read the first in this series. In the RF-series lens collection made by Canon, there is only one true … Continue reading →

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Making digital images on the camera stand

Posted on January 25, 2026 by Brian Lawler

This is the third in a series of posts about digitizing film. To start at the beginning, please click here. My camera stand project is now set up and running. I am using my Canon R5 camera and my Laowa … Continue reading →

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It took 20 years to get all that in there…
and just a few days to get it all out for storage.

Posted on January 12, 2026 by Brian Lawler

14 months ago I announced with pride that I had received a building permit for a new shop to be built on my friends’ property here in San Luis Obispo County. It had taken about two years to get that … Continue reading →

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Failing to profile a direct-to-garment T shirt press

Posted on June 5, 2025 by Brian Lawler

At Printing United last year I visited the Aeoon Technologies booth, where I met Austin Thom who runs a business in Oregon printing digital images on T shirts with one of these machines. I was dazzled by the quality of … Continue reading →

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My giraffe in a jacket – more AI madness

Posted on February 12, 2025 by Brian Lawler

I’ve been experimenting with AI, and having considerable success. In previous blogs I wrote about my tremendous success with ChatGPT, with which I was able to convert printed text into editable text for a book I was trying to re-publish … Continue reading →

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I’m holding a building permit in my hand!

Posted on October 21, 2024 by Brian Lawler

This is the latest in my posts about building a new show building. Click here to go to the beginning of the story. After straightening out the issue of the Scenic Highway and Railroad Code, I was required to sign … Continue reading →

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Adventures with Artificial Intelligence images

Posted on October 13, 2024 by Brian Lawler

I have had considerable success with Artificial Intelligence tools. Most of my success has been inside Adobe Bridge and Photoshop, but I also have had tremendous success with Chat GPT for publishing a catalog from an out-of-print booklet. Click here … Continue reading →

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Permit approved and rescinded!

Posted on October 11, 2024 by Brian Lawler

This is one of a series of posts about building a new shop building. To read the first of these posts, please click here. Each has links to the next. The Grading permit corrections document arrived the next week. That … Continue reading →

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