Archive for January 15th, 2012

Fun “fact” of the day.

Sunday, January 15th, 2012

On my way to breakfast with some friends, we got into a discussion of whether you could get butter from goat’s milk. (I had thought that I’d read elsewhere that goat milk was too low in fat to get butter from. It turns out that not only was I mistaken, but you can purchase goat butter from Amazon (the shipping charges will eat you alive, though), along with raw goat milk cheddar cheese (ditto).)

This led me to the Wikipedia article on goats, which notes:

Goats readily revert to the wild (become feral) if given the opportunity. The only domestic animal known to return to feral life as swiftly is the cat.

Somehow, I am less than shocked by this.

Nice, bright colors.

Sunday, January 15th, 2012

I wanted to throw up a link to Zander Robin’s “Kodachrome 2010” documentary on Vimeo, but I felt like I should watch it first.

After watching it…well, there’s some interesting stuff in it about the chemistry involved in processing Kodachrome, and quite a few lovely images, but I really wish there was more to it. At less than 10 minutes, it seems like it is just the beginning of the story of Dwayne’s Photo and the final days of Kodachrome. I know it might have been a tough sell on the festival circuit, but I, for one, would have paid money to see a 90 minute version of this, or to download it from iTunes.

In any case, here’s “Kodachrome 2010” if you want to watch for yourself.

KODACHROME 2010 from Xander Robin on Vimeo.

(Hattip: PetaPixel.)