This is truly an oldie. I made this for a class project when I was maybe 15-17.

My camera at the time was a Miranda G with a 50mm lens.

I also had a little home darkroom kit that I would set up in a bathroom in my parents' house.

Fun fact about the Miranda is that it had NO light meter. You either had to have an external light meter or trust your instincts for dead reckoning.

The location was a little cave my brother and I had dug in the side of a bank by our driveway.

I used an assortment of GI Joes who by this time were missing enough parts to look like they had been through an actual war.

These were the old GI Joes that were 12 inches (30 cm) tall.

The part of Heracles was played by Bulletman who had chrome arms and helmet. I removed the helmet and painted the arms to match his flesh tone. At least in black and white they matched. His schtick was that he could be launched headfirst at enemy structures and smash through them with his helmet and metal arms.

“I ain't got time for traumatic brain injury,” should have been his motto.

Fun fact, my brother badly broke his leg jumping off the couch over the little string you would slide Bulletman down.

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I'm shopping for a standing desk converter to sit on my existing desk. While shopping I found some odd images on the company's website. I do not own the images, but use them for purposes of parody.

This was a text exchange with my sister who is accustomed to my lunacy.

Here is the text from the image.

Image is of a woman sitting on an exercise bike with her feet folded under her on the bike's seat, a coffee cup cradled in her hands and for some reason a book balanced on her head. All while sitting in front of a standing desk.

This is a woman who needs to go back to the office.

My sister: LOL

Her weekly status reports chronicle her descent into madness.

She constantly talks about her pets on the zoom calls, but she has no pets.

Her therapist is a squirrel.

She told her boss she is balancing the books today.

My shopping for a standing desk converter has become a writing prompt.

The second image is of a different woman smiling as she stares at the monitor on her standing desk. She is standing in front of her standing desk. The clock behind her says 5:30.

Her coworker has a better grasp of the concept of the standing desk.

Important fact: it is 5:30 am and she is not in a zoom call.

She’s just damned happy to be back in the office.

Which is decorated in mid century penitentiary.