Category Archives: Adventures

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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Rejection, again!

Posted on June 27, 2024 by Brian Lawler

Chapter 3 – To read from the beginning of this saga, please click here. The rejections came, and quickly! Both the grading and building permit applications were incomplete. The county planners asked for more complete soils engineering plans. I contacted … Continue reading →

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